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Author: Anthony Horowitz Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062645242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 534
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Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery! "A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book of the Year | Esquire Best Book of the Year From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
Author: Anthony Horowitz Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062645242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 534
Book Description
Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery! "A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book of the Year | Esquire Best Book of the Year From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
Author: Mary Kruger Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation ISBN: 9781575662299 Category : New York (N.Y.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Several valuable paintings have been stolen from the prestigious Manhattan Museum of Art, and the museum's curator--who may have witnessed the crime--has been murdered. Now, as detectives Matt and Brooke Devlin sort through an elegant gallery of suspects, contradictory evidence, and concealed motives, they find themselves being framed by a calculating killer poised to conclude their investigation with a deadly finishing stroke.
Author: David Morrell Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1444755706 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 573
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An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder. Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work. In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are linked by secrets long buried, but never forgotten.
Author: Rose Pressey Publisher: Kensington ISBN: 1496721616 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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Haunted art is in the eye of the beholder . . . Artist Celeste Cabot welcomes the chance to show her paintings at a craft fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where she and her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, can park her vintage Shasta trailer and sell her creations, too. Unfortunately, her sales take a hit when a customer returns a painting, claiming it’s haunted. When a fellow vendor discovers images hidden in Celeste’s artwork—and a ghost pays her a late-night visit—she’s shocked to realize she has psychic abilities. After the grumpy manager of the craft fair is found with a knife in his neck, Celeste’s brushes with the paranormal may help fill in the picture—and make sure the wrong person doesn’t get framed . . . Praise for Rose Pressey and the Haunted Vintage Mysteries “Rose Pressey’s books are fun!” —Janet Evanovich “Chock full of ghosts, cats possessed by spirits, a handsome police officer boyfriend, and tips on the afterlife and vintage shopping.” —Kirkus Reviews “An appealing protagonist who is as sweet as a Southern accent.” —Library Journal “A sheer delight.” —Kate Carlisle
Author: Nancy Martin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101614056 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 413
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Society columnist Nora Blackbird is thrust into the world of celebrity tabloid gossip when a billionaire buys the farm…. Nora’s assigned to write a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel. But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered. And now her boss wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed Starr before the cops do. But solving this murder won’t be easy with a family as colorful as Nora’s. Mick, her sort-of husband, is associating with unsavory characters from his past. Her sister Libby is transforming into a stage mom for her diabolical twins. And Emma, the youngest Blackbird, is mysteriously kicked out of the house by Mick. Nora’s home life may be hogging the spotlight, but there’s also a matter of Starr’s missing pig, which just might be the key to solving this mystery and the way Nora can bring home the bacon….
Author: Robert Thorogood Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1728250536 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 360
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2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN AWARD "An absolute joy to read. Funny, entertaining, and beautifully written." —B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One's hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow. Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don't believe her story. It's an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can't be left for dead like that. Judith investigates and picks up a crew of sidekicks: Suzie the dogwalker and Becks the vicar's wife. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. When another body turns up, they realize they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape... Robert Thorogood, has turned the Christie-mystery on its head with this ever-so-sly cozy perfect for readers who love Richard Osmond's Thursday Murder Club and An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good. "Lightweight but no-nonsense and genuinely brainy"—Kirkus Reviews "Damn right funny and heartwarming...great fun"—Crime Time "I love Robert Thorogood's writing."—Peter James, international bestselling author
Author: Kevin Birmingham Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 069818288X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story—and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment to craft an enduring classic. The germ of Crime and Punishment came from the sensational story of Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s. Lacenaire was a glamorous egoist who embodied the instincts that lie beneath nihilism, a western-influenced philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries. Dostoevsky began creating a Russian incarnation of Lacenaire, a character who could demonstrate the errors of radical politics and ideas. His name would be Raskolnikov. Lacenaire shaped Raskolnikov in profound ways, but the deeper insight, as Birmingham shows, is that Raskolnikov began to merge with Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky was determined to tell a murder story from the murderer's perspective, but his character couldn't be a monster. No. The murderer would be chilling because he wants so desperately to be good. The writing consumed Dostoevsky. As his debts and the predatory terms of his contract caught up with him, he hired a stenographer to dictate the final chapters in time. Anna Grigorievna became Dostoevsky's first reader and chief critic and changed the way he wrote forever. By the time Dostoevsky finished his great novel, he had fallen in love. Dostoevsky's great subject was self-consciousness. Crime and Punishment advanced a revolution in artistic thinking and began the greatest phase of Dostoevsky's career. The Sinner and the Saint now gives us the thrilling and definitive story of that triumph.
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 11368
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E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) His Last Bow (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie) The Man in the Brown Suit (Agatha Christie) The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace) That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green) The Wisdom of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Incredulity of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Man Who Was Thursday (G. K. Chesterton) The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart) Max Carrados (Ernest Bramah) The King in Yellow (Robert William Chambers) The Great Impersonation (E. Phillips Oppenheim) The Middle Temple Murder (J. S. Fletcher) The Beetle (Richard Marsh) The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas) The Hollow Needle (Maurice Leblanc) The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Gaston Leroux) Monsieur Lecoq (Émile Gaboriau) The Jewel of Seven Stars (Bram Stoker) In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (William Hope Hodgson) The Horla (Guy de Maupassant) Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley) The Red House Mystery (A. A. Milne) The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Sax Rohmer) The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers) The Amateur Cracksman (E. W. Hornung) The House Without a Key (Earl Derr Biggers) The Benson Murder Case (S. S. Van Dine)
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