Poets and Murder
By: Robert van Gulik
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A.D. 668 Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that c…
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3.74
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of h… read more
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2. The Case Is Closed (Miss Silver, #2)
By: Patricia Wentworth
3.86
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his u… read more
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3. Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
By: George MacDonald Fraser
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780006511250 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, … read more
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"It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking."-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
"We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down."-George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
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4. Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
3.76
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melros… read more
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"But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, "He was very philosophical about it"? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something."-Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)
"The drive rose sharply to the left of the steps to a circle of flat ground where her maroon Buick was parked under an umbrella pine. It looked preposterous, stretched out on its white-walled tyres ag…"-Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)
5. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
By: Ellis Peters
4.08
Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more
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"Perhaps thought really is prayer."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
6. Treasure Hunt (Commissario Montalbano, #16)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The sixteenth irresistible mystery in the New York Times bestselling Montalbano series. A hail of … read more
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7. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
By: Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
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8. Cancer Ward
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3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Poets and Murder
By: Robert van Gulik
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A.D. 668 Master detective Judge Dee sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers that c… read more
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4.25
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
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3.63
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad and art historian Jonathan Argyll have charmed mystery … read more
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12. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
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13. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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14. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
By: Ellis Peters
4.39
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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15. Where There's a Will (Nero Wolfe, #8)
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3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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16. The House on the Borderland
By: William Hope Hodgson
5.00
Format: 32 pages,
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17. The Long Ships
By: Frans G. Bengtsson , Michael Meyer
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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18. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)
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4.53
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)
By: Lavie Tidhar
4.02
Format: 32 pages, ebook
No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more
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20. The Highgate Cemetery Murder (Tate and Bell Mystery, #1)
By: Irina Shapiro
4.35
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in H… read more
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21. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.98
Format: 32 pages, ebook
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22. Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2)
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.89
Format: 32 pages, ebook
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23. Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre (Judge Dee, #3)
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.97
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Judge Dee returns to solve a new case involving a Parisian party gone wrong. But this time? Everyon… read more
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24. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.89
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more
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25. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.97
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more
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"Mind the cat."-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
26. Happiness Battle
By: Joo Youngha
3.87
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Sepasang suami istri ditemukan dalam kondisi mengenaskan di Apartemen High Prestige supermewah di G… read more
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27. Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript (Judge Dee, #5)
By: Lavie Tidhar
4.12
Format: 39 pages, ebook
Judge Dee must himself stand trial before his fellow vampires for the loss of a valuable manuscript… read more
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28. Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #4)
By: Lavie Tidhar
3.83
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Paris is burning and Judge Dee and Jonathan are on the run. To guarantee their safety, they join a … read more
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29. Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7)
By: Lavie Tidhar
4.10
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Unknown forces attempt to stop Judge Dee and Jonathan from transporting a mysterious and possibly d… read more
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30. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.62
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more
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31. The Poisoned Bride and other Judge Dee Mysteries
By: Robert von Gulik
4.40
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
Judge Dee, detective extraordinaire and hero of this 18th century Chinese novel, was a real magistr… read more
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