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81) Midnight
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A pleasant walk along the coast on Folly Beach, South Carolina, thrusts retiree Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler into investigating a death that police are convinced was an unfortunate accident. Their resolve to continue sticking their noses where according to the police they have no business being was strengthened when a second person dies-the second death of a member of the small crew building a beachfront home. With no connection between...
82) Untidy Murder
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When a magazine editor falls from his window, the case lands in the laps of Mr. and Mrs. North The body hits the pavement at 12:25 p.m., but Dorian Hunt doesn't know a thing about it. She has come to the offices of Esprit magazine to deliver some sketches, and she has a meeting with the art director, Paul Wilming. When his secretary opens the door, Wilming isn't in his office. He's not anywhere on the floor. But there's a cigarette burning in the...
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Mr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman Miss Amelia Gipson doesn't tolerate foolishness. She doubts she's ever made a mistake, and it's unlikely she would change anything about her life-even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she's dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn't muck around when delivering...
84) Adrift
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There were numerous better ways for retiree Chris Landrum to begin his day than to listen to a traumatized friend Virgil DeBonnet telling him how he found a body with a knife sticking out his back and floating in a small boat less than a half mile from Chris's cottage. Landrum's day on Folly Beach, the small barrier island in the shadows of Charleston, South Carolina, turns even darker when Virgil convinces him and his best friend and self-anointed...
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Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
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Amateur sleuth, Professor Bevyn Jones receives a invitation to a mystery weekend in cottage country. He barely has time to breathe the country air when a certain "Ladybug" sends him a text message to meet at the boathouse. A minute later, he finds himself in the middle of a real whodunit.He joins forces with Detective Watson, dressed as Miss Scarlett, Chief Murphy and Detective Roy.Another dead body turns up in an abandoned room as the number of suspects...
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Bedford Green finds that Newport's rich and powerful work hard, play hard, and die easy Gossip columnist, gallery owner, amateur sleuth-Bedford Green has been a lot of things, but he's never been respectable. So on a blistering hot afternoon in 1925, the impeccably dressed man-about-town is shocked to receive an invitation from the Vanderbilts requesting he spend a few days in their cottage at Newport. By "cottage," of course, the Vanderbilts mean...
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Mr. and Mrs. North attempt to solve the case of a New Year's Eve murder Freddie Haven has just crossed the Brooklyn Bridge when she sees a man she believes to be her fiancé, Sen. Bruce Kirkhill, on the sidewalk, walking alone through one of Manhattan's vilest slums. It seems impossible that the shabby figure is actually Bruce, and Freddie tries to put the sight out of her mind. She prepares herself for her father's New Year's Eve party, and waits...
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Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
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Mrs. North must protect her aunt from being poisoned-whether she likes it or not Pamela North has never worried about making sense. When she has a thought, she expresses it, and if no one in the room knows what she's talking about, it's no trouble to her. While Mrs. North's unique style of thought can make her a challenging conversational partner, it also makes her one of the finest amateur sleuths in New York City. But no matter how sharp her wit,...
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Mrs. North comes to the aid of a young boy accused of murdering his beloved Cleo Harper is nineteen, and pretty enough to catch any boy's eye. But when the police find her, there's a gash in her throat and blood on her clothes. Cleo's been dead for just a few minutes. She'd been eating lunch in a coffee shop when she was stabbed in the neck, and all the evidence paints Franklin Martinelli as the killer. Every kid in the neighborhood knew he loved...
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The beloved author of the Rachel Murdock Mysteries introduces an amateur sleuth who knows murder is never academic-especially when it comes to love.
Professor Pennyfeather is on his way to the desert town of Superstition to help a former student, now an army man. Tick Burrell is a charming troublemaker who's got himself in a bit of a bind. He's due to inherit a fortune when he marries, but until then, his aunt, Martha Andler, holds the purse strings...
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Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
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Children's book author Lyon Wentworth fights to protect a Vietnam veteran accused of a grisly crime in this chilling psychological thriller. They find her by the river, naked, cold-and dead. Police chief Rocco Herbert recognizes her as the checkout girl at the Murphysville supermarket, an ordinary citizen of the easygoing Connecticut suburb whose death was anything but easy. In one hand, she clutches a First Cavalry Division shoulder patch, the kind...
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When it's curtains for a theater director, Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen takes center stage in this locked room mystery from the author of Nine Times Nine. Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy,...
96) Nine Times Nine
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Sister Ursula mysteries volume 1
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Sister Ursula, a Los Angeles nun who makes a habit of sleuthing, tackles a locked room murder in this mystery classic.
Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness...
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Children's book author Lyon Wentworth and his wife, Bea, investigate a murder from the vantage of a hot-air balloon in this charming seaside thriller. For Lyon Wentworth's birthday, his wife, Bea, gives him something spectacular: a custom wicker basket made to fit his prized hot-air balloon. In return, Lyon gives Bea what she wants more than anything else: a promise to end his career as an amateur sleuth and stop risking his neck to solve impossible...
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A murder on a quiet street in Albuquerque leads a psychic amateur sleuth and her FBI agent husband into an investigation of stolen government secrets.
Trouble always seems to find Harrie McKinsey. From the darkness that haunts her dreams at night, to the morning she discovers a toddler sitting in the flower bed on her front porch, covered in blood. A search for the little girl's parents leads Harrie and her husband, FBI agent DJ Scott, into...
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Criminology student Kaitlynn Dahl faces her toughest exam yet: solve a murder or become the next victim!
Still grieving the loss of a dear friend, Kaitlynn seeks refuge in the thrilling world of crime solving, and when she's offered the chance to take part in a murder mystery dinner hosted by her professor in a grand Victorian mansion, she jumps at the distraction. But what begins as a game of Clue soon turns into a deadly reality.
As the lights...
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Three adventurous friends acquire a coastal hotel in an old pirate town. Toby, his partner Daniel, and his best friend Carla begin to experience strange occurrences. Daniel's psychic friend Maria tries to connect with the spirits but is blocked for some reason. The resort begins to grow with the acquisition of several more attractions, which are constantly being observed by a stranger lurking in the dunes. Toby, the focal point of the spirits, is...