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The Maltese Falcon

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Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client's sister by tailing the sister's companion. Spade's partner Miles Archer takes on the assignment, and quickly both Archer and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the m

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Return of the Maltese Falcon

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THE GREATEST PRIVATE EYE OF ALL TIME RETURNS TO FINISH THE JOB

Legendary mystery writer Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel about detective Sam Spade: The Maltese Falcon, the most famous private eye story ever told. But the case was never really

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The Shanghai Factor

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An unnamed spy is dispatched to Shanghai to aid a shadowy U.S. agency known only as HQ. There he meets a mysterious woman named Mei and begins a torrid affair that threatens to expose him to Chinese intelligence, the notorious Guoanbu. As danger w

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The Hunt for Red October

 

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The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy - a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan - nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Gre

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Bodies from the Library

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By: Tony Medawar , Agatha Christie , Georgette Heyer , A. A. Milne , NIcholas Blake , Christianna Brand , Philip Bretherton

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of tales by masters of the Golden Age of De

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The Monogram Murders

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Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice wi

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The Christmas Pig by J.K. Rowling

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One boy and his toy are about to change everything....

Jack loves his childhood toy Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens - DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for

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Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula

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Book 1 of 3: The Supernatural Casefiles of Sherlock Holmes

 

From the Supernatural Case Files of Sherlock Holmes, London's most beloved detective encounters his most deadly foe, and the results will be unlike any Sherlock Holmes adventure before i

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Slumdog Millionaire

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Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel, the inspiration for the award-winning film, opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all 12 questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Bil

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Halcyon Years

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A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Sp

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Dying of the Light

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In this unforgettable space opera, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin presents a chilling vision of eternal night—a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are often int

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The Reformatory

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*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award *

“You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the par

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Halcyon Years

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A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Sp

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Plain Murder

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At the Universal Advertising Agency in London a murder is being planned.

Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set

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Ghosts from the Library

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A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills

It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us

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Safe Enough And Other Stories

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Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected

For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reac

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Lee Child - Deep Down

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In “Deep Down,” Reacher is a young Army officer summoned to Washington, D.C. by Military Intelligence to go undercover during a congressional investigation into a new sniper rifle program. Sensitive information from closed hearings is being leaked

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