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Christie, Agatha.  The Mousetrap & Other Plays.  822 Chr

A collection of eight plays written by Agatha Christie including Ten Little Indians, The Mousetrap, and Witness for the Prosecution. 

10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre. 822.008 Ten   Agatha Christie, William Archibald, and George M. Cohan are among the authors represented in this collection of thrillers.

 

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Ball, John.  In the Heat of the Night.  Fic Bal

An African-American detective from California must prove he did not commit murder in a racially tense community.

 

Barr, Nevada.  Anna Pigeon SeriesFic Bar 

This series centers around Anna Pigeon who works for the National Park Service.  Each book takes place at a national park where Anna must solve a suspenseful mystery.

  Firestorm

  Blind descent: an Anna Pigeon mystery

 

Bradbury, Ray.  Death is a Lonely Business.  FIC BRA

In California in 1949, a young writer and a detective believe a number of deaths associated with an amusement park were murders. Suddenly the killer begins stalking them.

 

Braun, Lilian Jackson.  The Cat Who… Series.  FIC BRA 

Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats get tangled up in solving these mysteries and meet some interesting characters along the way.

  The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

  The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

  The Cat Who Turned On and Off

  The Cat Who Saw Red.

  The Cat Who Played Brahms.

  The Cat Who Played Post Office

  The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare

  The Cat Who Sniffed Glue

 

Brown, Dan.  Deception Point.  Fic Bro

White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is thrust into a life-or-death situation when she travels to the Arctic to investigate the discovery of a rare meteorite that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, and finds instead evidence of scientific trickery.

 

Burke, James Lee.  Dixie City Jam.  PB M Bur

The search for a forgotten Nazi submarine sunk off the coast of New Orleans puts detective Dave Robicheaux and his family in serious danger.

 

Christie, Agatha.  Hercule Poirot Novels.  Fic Chr 

Hercule Poirot is a Belgian detective and Agatha Christie’s most famous character.

  Curtain and The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

  The Murder on the Links

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

  The Big Four

  Peril at End House

  Lord Edgware Dies

  Murder on the Orient Express.

  Murder in Three Acts

  Death in the Clouds

  Cards on the Table

  Poirot Loses a Client

  Death on the Nile

  Sad Cypress.

  The Patriotic Murders

  Hickory Dickory Death

  Dead Man's Folly.

  Cat among the Pigeons

  Third Girl

  Hallowe'en Party

  Curtain

 

Christie, Agatha.  Miss Marple Novels.  FIC CHR

Miss Marple is an elderly woman who is also an amateur detective.

  They Do It with Mirrors

  A Caribbean Mystery.

  Nemesis.

  Sleeping Murder & The Murder at the Vicarage. 

 

Christie, Agatha.  Tommy and Tuppence Novels. Fic Chr

Tommy Beresford and Prudence Cowley who are always in the search for adventure and money, find solving mysteries to be quiet exciting.

  By the Pricking of my Thumbs

 

Christie, Agatha.  Other Novels and Collections FIC CHR

  The Man in the Brown Suit

  The Secret of Chimneys

  Easy To Kill

  And Then There Were None.

  Towards Zero

  Remembered Death

  They Came to Baghdad

  Ordeal by Innocence

  The Pale Horse

  Passenger to Frankfurt.

  Masterpieces of Murder

  Murder on Board: Including The Mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. Mcgillicuddy Saw! [And] Death in the Air.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  All Through the Night.  Fic Cla 

During the course of playing Santa Claus, Wily Meehan hears from the very last child in line not a request for a new toy, but a plea that Santa prevent a crime which the child's stepfather is planning to commit.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  Before I Say Good-Bye.  Fic Cla 

After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  The Christmas Thief.  Fic Cla

Alvirah Meehan teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly, and they get in the middle of a case involving a beatiful eight-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  The Cradle Will Fall.  Fic Cla

Katie, a young prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, begins investigating a possible suicide and uncovers a hidden medical conspiracy.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  I'll Be Seeing You: A Novel.  Fic Cla

Meghan Collins, a television news reporter, is covering a story in the emergency room of a large metropolitan hospital when a young woman is rushed in, victim of a stabbing. A chain of discovery begins that exposes the secret lives of the people closest to her.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  Let Me Call You Sweetheart.  Fic Cla

Prosecutor Kerry McGrath puts her life and that of her daughter in peril when she reopens the case of the "Sweetheart Murder" after noticing that a plastic surgeon has been giving other women the victim's face.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  Moonlight Becomes You.  Fic Cla 

Maggie Holloway investigates deaths at Latham Manor when a prospective resident dies there under mysterious circumstances.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  Weep No More, My Lady.  Fic Cla 

Elizabeth Lange is haunted by the tragic death of her sister Leila, who plunged from the balcony of her New York penthouse under mysterious circumstances. While visiting the Cypress Point Spa, Elizabeth decides to find out exactly what happened.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  A Cry in the Night.  Fic Cla

Jenny's only hope for happiness lies in unraveling the truth about the past, a truth that is hidden in the great house which has become her prison.

 

Coben, Harlan.  Tell No One: A Novel.  Fic Cob 

Eight years after the disappearance of his wife--presumed dead--Dr. David Beck receives an email message containing hints that Elizabeth is alive, prompting him to leave everyone he knows and trusts to chase after that possibility. Little does he know he is being hunted.

 

Cooney, Caroline B.  The Terrorist.  Fic Coo 

Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.

 

Cormier, Robert.  The Rag and Bone Shop: A Novel.  Fic Cor

Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

 

Crichton, Michael.  Rising Sun.  Fic Cri 

An investigation into the death of a beautiful young woman in a new Japanese conglomerate leads through a maze of industrial intrigue in which American technology is the prize.

 

D'Amato, Barbara.  Authorized Personnel Only.  Fic Dam

Chicago cop Suze Figueroa spends her workday tracking down an elusive serial killer, not realizing she is harboring a dangerous intruder in her own home.

 

D'Amato, Barbara.  Help Me Please.  PB M DAm 

The Deputy Chief of Detectives of the Chicago Police Department must find a three-year-old girl who has been kidnapped and is featured on a web site.

 

D'Amato, Barbara.  Killer.app.  PB M DAm

A Chicago cop suspects a mega-corporation may be involved in the accident that put her sister, who works there and had discovered a secret database, in a coma.

 

Davis, Lindsey.  A Body in the Bathhouse.  Fic Dav

In Rome, A.D. 75, a private investigator uncovers a bizarre murder mystery while digging up the floor of his bathhouse for renovations.

 

DeMille, Nelson.  Plum Island.  PB M DeM 

NYPD detective John Corey, convalescing from multiple gunshot wounds in the Long Island township of Southold, gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to consult with local police on the murder of two biologists who worked at Plum Island, an off-shore animal disease research site.

Also try:

  The Lion's Game

 

Dexter, Colin.  The Way through the Woods.  Fic Dex

When a young girl disappears on a hot summer's day just north of Oxford, Inspector Morse insists she has been murdered. The case remains unsolved, then an anonymous letter appears in the London Times and Morse reopens the investigation.

 

Doyle, Arthur Conan.  The Hound of the Baskervilles.  FIC DOY

Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.

 

Doyle, Arthur Conan.  A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four.  FIC DOY

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, investigate the murder of an American and his private secretary in A Study in Scarlet. Then Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate a series of strange happenings that seem to be related to the disappearance of a man ten years earlier who had come to visit his daughter in London after a long sojourn in India in The Sign of Four.

 

Duncan, Lois.  Don't Look Behind You.  FIC DUN 

Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

 

Duncan, Lois.  I Know What You Did Last Summer.  FIC DUN

Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

 

Duncan, Lois.  Killing Mr. Griffin.  FIC DUN

A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?.

 

Duncan, Lois.  Locked in Time.  FIC DUN  

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

 

Duncan, Lois.  They Never Came Home.  FIC DUN 

When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him two thousand dollars. The boy's sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.

 

Duncan, Lois.  The Third Eye.  FIC DUN  

High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police locate missing children.

 

Fforde, Jasper.  The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime.  Fic Ffo

Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division of the Reading police force, teams up with his new partner Mary Mary to investigate the suspicious death of Humpty Dumpty, an ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist who was found shattered to death in a bad part of town.

Also try:

  The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime

 

Fforde, Jasper.  The Eyre Affair: A Novel.  Fic Ffo 

In a surreal version of Great Britain, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, investigates the kidnapping of Jane Eyre.

Also try:

  Thursday Next in Lost in a good book: a novel.

  Thursday Next in The Well of Lost Plots : A Novel.

  Thursday Next in Something Rotten : A Novel.

 

Flinn, Alex.  Nothing to Lose.  Fic Fli 

A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.

 

Francis, Dick.  Whip Hand.  FIC FRA

Sid Halley, now a private investigator with a bionic hand, finds himself uncovering corruption in the racing world.

 

Friedman, Philip.  Grand Jury: A Novel.  FIC FRI

Susan Linwood and David Clark are both called to sit on the grand jury where they hear evidence against an elderly Chinese couple who are accused of trafficking in heroin, but there is something not right about the proof and the two jurors find themselves in the midst of an investigation of high-level corruption.

 

Gardner, Erle Stanley.  The Perry Mason Casebook: The Case of the Sulky Girl; The Case of the Careless Kitten; The Case of the Fiery Fingers.  Fic Gar 

 

George, Elizabeth.  Payment in Blood.  PB M Geo 

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers become enmeshed in an emotional drama when they set out to investigate the murder of playwright Joy Sinclair who was killed while working at an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands.

 

Gorman, Ed.  The Day the Music Died: A Mystery.  Fic Gor

A private investigator must solve a series of murders in 1958 in Black River Falls, Iowa around the time of Buddy Holly's fatal plane crash.

 

Grafton, Sue.  Kinsey Millhone Mystery Series. Fic Gra

Kinsey Milhone is a private investigator in the small California town of Santa Teresa.

  "A" Is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery

  "K" Is for Killer.

  "M" Is for Malice

  “N” Is for Noose

 

Grisham, John.  The Firm.  Fic

A Harvard law graduate finds that the tax firm he is employed by is not what it seems when the FBI approaches him to become an informant.

 

Grisham, John.  The Pelican Brief.  Fic Gri 

A bright young law student and an investigative reporter go underground when trying to expose a cover-up about the killings of two Supreme Court Justices.

 

Guy, Rosa.  The Disappearance.  FIC GUY

The disappearance of the seven-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn family casts suspicion on a juvenile offender from Harlem who has recently come to live with them.

 

Hammett, Dashiell.  The Maltese Falcon.  Fic Ham 

In San Francisco in 1928, Sam Spade searches for a priceless statuette. He finds himself torn between loyalty to his murdered partner and an opportunity for personal gain.

 

Hammett, Dashiell.  Dashiell Hammett: five complete novels. Fic Ham  

Includes Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man.

 

Highsmith, Patricia.  The Talented Mr. Ripley.  Fic Hig

Seductive psychopath Tom Ripley begins a life of illusion, intrigue, and danger when he takes over the identity of a young American he meets in Italy.

 

Hillerman, Tony.  Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn Mysteries. Fic Hil 

Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn are on the Navajo Police force.  They investigate crimes which incorporate Navajo customs and rites.

  Dance Hall of the Dead

  Listening Woman.

  People of Darkness

  The Dark Wind

  The Ghostway

  A Thief of Time

  Talking God

  Coyote Waits

 

Hilton, James.  Lost Horizon.  Fic Hil 

Welcome to Shangri-La, high in the distant reaches of the Tibetan mountains where a group of worldly men and women have stumbled upon a land of mystery and matchless beauty, where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world. And a great secret is kept hidden.

 

Hilton, John Buxton.  The Hobbema Prospect.  FIC HIL

Inspector Simon Kenworthy investigates an intriguing kidnapping case: the same people abduct the same person twice, twenty years apart.

 

Kienzle, William X.  Eminence.  Fic Kienzle

From their Spartan quarters in downtown Detroit four religious brothers and a priest peform miracles. As the throng comes to them, so do accusations of embezzlement and torture. Father Koesler is finally called to crack a case that mingles sacred and profane and murder.

 

King, Laurie R.  Mary Russell Series. Fic Kin

  The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or, On the Segregation of the Queen

  A Monstrous Regiment of Women

  A Letter of Mary

  The Moor.

  O Jerusalem: A Mary Russell Novel.

  Justice Hall: A Mary Russell Novel

  The Game: A Mary Russell Novel

  Locked Rooms: A Mary Russell Novel

  The Language of Bees: A Mary Russell Novel.

 

                      

Koontz, Dean R.  The Good Guy.  Fic Koo

Tim Carier, a low-profile stonemason with a mysterious past, is drawn into a life-and-death drama when he is mistaken for a hit man and feels compelled to warn the intended victim and try to save her life.

 

L'Engle, Madeleine.  Dragons in the Waters.  FIC LEN

A thirteen-year-old boy's trip to Venezuela with his cousin culminates in murder and the discovery of an unexpected bond with an Indian tribe, dating from the days of Simon Bolivar.

 

Lieberman, Herbert H.  Sandman, Sleep.  Fic Lie

In 2070 an elusive billionaire has isolated a protein that renews the capacity of aging cells to reproduce themselves almost indefinitely.

 

Marsh, Ngaio.  Death of a Fool.  FIC MAR 

An inspector from Scotland Yard investigates the death of a dancer during the annual South Mardian Sword Dance.

 

Meyer, Nicholas.  The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir Of John H. Watson, M.D.  Fic Mey

Sherlock Holmes is on the case when a month of strange happenings occur in the West End in March 1895 involving some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries.

 

Murphy, Jim.  Death Run.  FIC MUR 

An incident in a park leads to an accidental death, but a police detective wonders if it was an accident -- or murder.

 

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  A Candidate for Murder.  FIC NIX

Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.

 

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore.  FIC NIX

A teenage girl is kidnapped, but when freed, is accused of masterminding the scheme to extort money from her wealthy grandmother.

 

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Nobody's There.  Fic Nix

Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired up by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.

 

Osborne, Charles.  Spider's Web.  Fic Osb 

Presents a novelized version of Agatha Christie's 1954 play about Clarissa, a woman who discovers an unidentified dead man in her drawing room shortly before her husband is due home with an important foreign politician, and persuades her houseguests to help her hide the body until she can figure out who he is and why he is in her house.

 

O'Shaughnessy, Perri.  Acts of Malice.  PB F Osh 

When Nina Reilly agrees to defend Jim Strong after he is accused of killing his brother, Nina is sure that Jim is innocent, but when she begins to hear the horrible things Jim's family is saying about him and the District Attorney's star witnesses are murdered, Nina begins to wonder if her client is hiding a deadly secret.

 

Paretsky, Sara.    V. I. Warshawski Series. Fic Par

  Indemnity Only

  Blood Shot.

 

Peters, Elizabeth.  Summer of the Dragon.  FIC PET

D. J. Abbot's reservations about going to work for a man who dabbles in the occult are justified by events that occur soon after she takes the job.

 

Pullman, Philip.  The Ruby in the Smoke.  FIC PUL

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

 

Randall, Rona.  Watchman's Stone.  FIC RAN

A hasty marriage puts an independent young Scots woman into the midst of a dangerous scheme involving murder and deceit and she is not sure which of her new relations she has to fear.

 

Roosevelt, Elliott.  Murder in the Rose Garden.  Fic Roo

A blackmailer is found dead in the White House rose garden and Mrs. Roosevelt soon finds that many men had a motive to kill this society matron.

Also try:

  Murder in the Blue Room

 

Sandford, John.  Shadow Prey.  FIC

Lucas Davenport investigates murders in Minneapolis, Manhattan, and Oklahoma City in which all of the victims had their throats slashed with an Indian ceremonial knife.

 

Schwandt, Stephen.  The Last Goodie.  FIC SCH 

Haunted by the still unsolved abduction of his babysitter twelve years before, high-school senior and track star, Marty Oliver, stumbles on a new lead in the case and finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure.

 

Stewart, Mary.  Wildfire at Midnight.  FIC STE   

Gianetti escapes from her failing marriage and goes to the Isle of Skye to relax unaware that there is a madman killing people in an ancient pagan manner.

Also try:

  Thunder on the Right

  This Rough Magic

  Touch Not The Cat

 

Strieber, Whitley.  Billy.  FIC STR 

A healthy, well-adjusted twelve-year-old boy is taken from his Iowan home in the middle of the night by a psychopath and is held prisoner in a secret black room.

 

Tey, Josephine.  The Daughter of Time.  FIC TEY 

Alan Grant, an injured policeman currently hospitalized and bored, searches for the truth behind the belief that Richard III murdered the Little Princes in the Tower.

 

Truman, Margaret.  Capital Crimes Series. Fic Tru  

Each mystery takes place at a different landmark in or around Washington D.C.  Reoccurring characters include Mackensie Smith, Annabel Reed, and Max Pauling.

  Murder on Embassy Row: A Novel

  Murder at the Watergate

  Murder at the Library of Congress

  Murder at Ford's Theatre

 

Turow, Scott.  The Burden of Proof.  FIC TUR   

A leading defense attorney in a Midwestern city, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, returns home from a business trip to find his wife has committed suicide.

 

Turow, Scott.  Presumed Innocent.  Fic Tur 

The county's chief deputy prosecutor is asked to investigate the rape and murder of one of his colleagues a former lover.

 

Voigt, Cynthia.  The Callender Papers.  FIC VOI

In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.

 

Voigt, Cynthia.  The Vandemark Mummy.  FIC VOI  

When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.

 

Wells, Rosemary.  When no one was looking.  FIC WEL

A tragic chain of events threatens a 14-year-old girl's promising tennis career.

 

Wells, Rosemary.  The Man in the Woods.  Fic Wel

Fourteen-year-old Helen investigates what she considers the false arrest of a classmate and is nearly killed herself as her findings lead her into big-money drug dealings.

 

Whitney, Phyllis A.  Hunter's Green.  FIC WHI  

After a three-year separation from her husband Justin, Eve North returns to Athmore, England to win him back. She acknowledges the mistakes of the past--she has changed. Athmore, too, has changed. The dark trees in the topiary garden are cut into the forms of chessmen. Eve moves through the life-size chessboard knowing that evil awaits.

 

Whitney, Phyllis A.  Spindrift.  FIC WHI 

Christy Moreland returns to her family's estate to learn the truth about her father's mysterious death.

 

Whitney, Phyllis A.  The Winter People.  FIC WHI

When Dina marries Glen Chandler, she is unaware about High Towers, the cold Victorian estate nor that he has a twin sister, Glynis, who is cold as ice.

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SHORT STORIES


Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense.  SC Alf 

Collects crime and suspense stories from "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" by Donald E. Westlake, Evan Hunter, Sara Paretsky, Ed McBain, and thirty others.

 

Bradbury, Ray.  A Memory of Murder.  SC BR

A collection of fifteen mysteries by Ray Bradbury.

 

Christie, Agatha.  The Golden Ball and Other Stories. SC Chr

Contains fifteen short mystery stories by Agatha Christie, including the title work in which the St. Vincents are offered the use of a splendid mansion, complete with servants, but suspect there must be some strings attached.

 

Christie, Agatha.  Hercule Poirot's Casebook.  SC CHR

Contains the complete collection of fifty stories about Hercule Poirot.

 

Christie, Agatha.  Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.  SC CHR

Contains all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.

 

Christie, Agatha.  The Mysterious Mr. Quin.  SC Chr

A New Year's Eve gathering at Royston, formerly the home of the late Derek Capel, is enlivened by the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Quin who appears at the door just after the stroke of midnight and challenges the guests to a debate over who or what really caused Capel's death.

 

Christie, Agatha.  Poirot Investigates.  SC Chr

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves fourteen baffling mysteries.

 

Clark, Mary Higgins.  My Gal Sunday.  SC Cla

Contains four mystery stories featuring the sleuth team of Henry Parker Britland IV, a wealthy former president, and his young wife, Sunday, a newly elected Congresswoman.

 

Doyle, Arthur Conan.  The return of Sherlock Holmes.  SC Doy

A collection of short stories in which Sherlock Holmes defies death and goes on to solve mysteries with his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson.

 

Doyle, Arthur Conan.  Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories.  SC Doy 

Presents all 56 short stories and 4 novels featuring Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes.

 

The Drugged Cornet and Other Mystery Stories.  SC Dru 

Presents a collection of fifteen short stories by authors such as Allan Campbell McLean, Dorothy L. Sayers, G. K. Chesterton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ngaio Marsh, John Verney and Joan Aiken.

 

Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes.  SC Mur

A collection of short mystery stories by various authors featuring Sherlock Holmes, plus three articles about the Sherlock Holmes character.

 

A New Omnibus of Crime.  SC New 

A collection of short crime and mystery fiction by various authors that the editors feel represent the best of the genre.

 

Poe, Edgar Allan.  Tales of Mystery and Terror. SC POE

A collection of thirteen mystery and horror tales written by the American author, poet, and critic.

 

Sayers, Dorothy L.  Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories.  SC Say 

Collects Dorothy Sayers's twenty-one Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, including "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag," "The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head," and "The Necklace of Pearls."

 

A Treasury of Great Mysteries.  SC Tre

A collection of novels, novelettes, and short stories by Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Garner, Ellery Queen, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rex Stout, Daphne du Maurier, and other great mystery writers.

 

Created by Mr. Andrusyk, March 29, 2007. Revised February 8, 2010.

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