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The novel that introduced the world to its deadliest villain In the Burmese rainforest, an arrow steeped in the venom of the hamadryad snake, the deadliest reptile of the East, strikes colonial police commissioner Nayland Smith. His only hope is to immediately cauterize the wound using a sharp knife, a match, and a broken cartridge. For three delirious days, he lies on the forest floor, too weak to move. When the fever finally breaks, he walks out...
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Man vs Machine... It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes is settling back into life as a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street, when he and Watson learn of strange goings-on amidst the dreaming spires of Oxford. A Professor Quantock has built a wondrous computational device, which he claims is capable of analytical thought to rival the cleverest men alive. Naturally Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge. He and Watson travel to Oxford, where...
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Murder, mystery, and solving crime-the foundations of detective fiction. Featuring a foreword by USA Today bestselling author, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, This volume from the Father of Detective Fiction contains The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The purloined Letter, three stories featuring Poe's sentinel character, C. Auguste Dupin.
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America's Sherlock Holmes makes his thrilling debut in this classic volume of mind-boggling mysteries. Craig Kennedy is a Columbia University chemistry professor by day and New York's premier sleuth by night. With the help of his roommate and partner in detection, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, Kennedy uses his mastery of technology to solve the most puzzling of mysteries. In "The Deadly Tube," he investigates a case of murder by X-ray, and in...
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