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1) His Last Bow
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Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes(1917) is an outstanding collection of some of the later stories and most dramatic exploits of Detective Holmes and Dr. Watson. These stories were composed between 1908 and 1917, with the exception of the infamous tale "The Cardboard Box", which was written in 1893. Six of these adventures were initially published The Strand magazine, and the final titular story was published...
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 6
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It has been three years since Sherlock Holmes fell to his death after a showdown with his brilliant enemy Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Believing his friend to be dead, Doctor John Watson has moved on with his life. That is, until he discovers Sherlock Holmes alive and in disguise one afternoon in a London shop. A whole new series of adventures awaits Holmes and Watson, and the consulting detective must use the science of deduction to solve new mysteries,...
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The writer of several hundred stories and novels, English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his writing career in 1879. While he introduced the world to his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in the 1887 novel "A Study in Scarlet", it would not be until the 1891 publication of "A Scandal in Bohemia" that his illustrative career in writing would truly begin. With this Sherlock Holmes short story, the imagination of the reading public was instantly...
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 4
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"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry
"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré
"Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs...
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"The Incredulity of Father Brown" is a 1926 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centres around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, an amateur detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries. The stories include: "The Resurrection of Father Brown", "The Arrow of Heaven", "The Oracle of the Dog", "The Miracle of...
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LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: Mark Dalton isn't sure if he finds trouble or if trouble finds him. But ever since his wife traded him in for a prettier model, and he traded in his Private Eye business for a Peterbilt, it seems to be everywhere he goes. In this collection of loosely interwoven who-dunnits, Edo van Belkom introduces Mark Dalton, Trucker Detective. Whether he's scooping up pretty hitchhikers with secrets, getting back goods stolen right out from...
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Extrait: "En publiant ces croquis tirés de dossiers innombrables, j'insiste tout naturellement davantage sur les succès de Holmes que sur ses échecs. Ne croyez pas que je le fasse dans l'intérêt de sa réputation: c'était en effet dans les cas o toutes ses ressources paraissaient épuisées qu'il déployait une énergie et une vivacité d'esprit absolument admirables."
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Extrait: "Il était neuf heures du soir le 2 août (le plus terrible des mois d'août de l'histoire mondiale). On aurait pu croire que déjà la malédiction divine pesait lourdement sur un monde dégénéré, car un silence impressionnant ainsi qu'un sentiment d'expectative planaient dans l'air suffocant, immobile."
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A day of fun at a zombie walk turns to real horror when a college student suddenly drops dead. Razor suspects murder and enlists the aid of his friend and PI partner, Morton Edge, to find a killer.
Razor and Edge peel away layers of lies and conspiracy to a shocking conclusion.
A new Razor and Edge mystery.
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Meet Ryan Parish PI and find out what happens when he takes on a case for his girlfriend's friend, Rosie.
Ryan Parish PI is engaged to find Rosie's missing son, Wilson. According to Rosie, Wilson failed to return from spending a week with his father, Rosie's ex. What seems like a straight forward case, soon goes off the rails and leaves Ryan wondering if anything Rosie told him is, in fact, true.
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The first volume of The Count Whorton Collection, brilliantly written and illustrated by Michael D. Davis, harks back to the slick days of Nick and Nora Charles while set in a skeevy modern world. His tales of a fascinating wayward detective, his courtesan lady friend and a host of colorful characters remain unpredictable, and in that, Davis has reanimated the detective genre in his unique way. The fans are already awaiting volume two.
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Ninette Victory's "Mysteries of the Soul" takes readers on an intense journey into the shadows of the human mind. A sequence of horrific killings strikes the city, and Detective James Sullivan, a veteran detective troubled by his past, is dragged into a terrifying inquiry.A web of deceit and secrets threatens to unravel the very fabric of reality as Sullivan and his crew race against the clock to apprehend the elusive culprit. The suspense builds...
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Razor discovers his partner, Morton Edge, has accepted a case to hide a key witness to a murder at their headquarters (Edge's parents basement). And he is none too happy about it. Especially when the witness is a wise ass talking parrot.
Sometimes having a partner in the private investigator business has its unique challenges.
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The Thinking Machine (1907) is a short story collection by Jacques Futrelle. Published at the height of his career as a leading popular detective and science fiction writer, The Thinking Machine collects stories that originally appeared in such publications as The Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American. Celebrated for his brisk storytelling and mastery of suspense, Jacques Futrelle was lost at sea on April 15, 1912, while returning from Europe...
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America's smartest sleuth solves his most puzzling cases yet Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen may look and sound like an egghead scientist-because he is one-but there is no detective in the world villains fear more. With the help of his friend and sidekick, newspaper reporter Hutchison Hatch, the criminologist known as "The Thinking Machine" applies cold, hard logic to the most bizarre of mysteries-and always finds the solution. In this comprehensive...
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Brilliant detective Mycroft Holmes-Sherlock's older brother-tackles cases beyond life and death in this reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery series. When London grows stifling, Mycroft Holmes and his assistant, Sydney Silchester, flee to the English countryside. They rent a charming little house whose sprawling garden boasts a pond, trees, sculpture-and an irresistible mystery. When a dead man is found in the backyard, sitting...
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These early works by Arthur Conan Doyle were originally published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and we are now republishing them with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Sherlock Holmes series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's...
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