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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s (Vintage Crime/Blck Lizard Orig) Best Price: $15.73 Nostalgic escapism at its finest... With all of the chaos of the modern world, it is nice to... | Poirot Investigates: Eleven Complete Mysteries Best Price: $16.62 This is a great audiobook that contains several mindboggling mysteries! David Suchet is the best... | The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (The Best American Series (TM)) Best Price: $0.71 The Best American Mystery Stories series is always one of the year's highlights and the 2007... | Candy Cane Murder Best Price: $10.01 Under normal circumstances, this book would probably warrant a 1-star review, but I'm feeling in... | A Gladiator Dies Only Once: The Further Investigations of Gordianus the Finder (Novels of Ancient Rome) Best Price: $4.89 I have read every book so far on Gordianus the Finder and I love everyone. I am not usually a... |
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The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Kurt Wallander Mystery) Best Price: $17.79 The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of... | Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) Best Price: $24.79 What I consider one of the greatest descriptive writers in the Western cannon, Chandler can... | Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters (Library of America) Best Price: $19.63 After reading his earlyworks you can see how Chandler used his previous stories and ideas to... | Gaslight Grimoire: Dark Tales of Sherlock Holmes Best Price: $11.53 The fabled tin dispatch box of Dr. John H. Watson opens to reveal eleven all new tales of... | Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / Nightmare ... / I Married a Dead Man (Library of America) Best Price: $18.48 Before reading this handsome, well-made volume of six crime novels, I tended to consider 'noir'... |
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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (The Best American Series) Best Price: $3.75 Recently, I used this anthology in an introduction to mystery/suspense course. The extraordinary... | Twisted: The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver Best Price: $1.99 The short story format isn't very popular these days, with the exception of contributions to... | Naked Came the Manatee Best Price: $1.99 I had a lot of fun reading this mess of a book, but if you are looking for a 'normal' novel then... | New Orleans Noir (Akashic Noir) Best Price: $6.19 It is fitting the great Julie Smith was chosen as editor and post-Katrina story contributor for... | A Triple Shot of Spenser (Spenser Mysteries) Best Price: $6.22 In Pastime, Paul Giacomin comes to Spenser asking for help in tracking down his mother, who has... |
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The Plot Thickens Best Price: $3.64 This was basically a writing exercise compiled into a book of short stories: each story had to... | An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries: A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts (China Bayles Mystery) Best Price: $5.14 "An Unthymely Death, and other Garden Mysteries" by Susan Wittig Albert has ten of the... | Quitters, Inc. Best Price: $4.76 Ever tried to quit smoking? Did you fall off the wagon or gain weight when you did? Well Stephen... | The Mysterious West Best Price: $3.94 Instead of throwing this item in with Hillerman's works, Amazon should have clearly highlighted... | Bark M For Murder Best Price: $3.95 I enjoy reading a book that has mulitple short stories in it & J.A. Jance is top notch. |
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Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers Best Price: $12.47 There's nothing wrong with short story collections. If it weren't for "Thriller," an... | An Ensuing Evil and Others: Fourteen Historical Mysteries (Mysteries of Ancient Ireland featuring Sister Fidelma of Cashel) Best Price: $2.81 As usual, Peter Tremayne's stories are "entertaining" and enthralling. Even though I... | Rapid Fire (Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries, Book 2) Best Price: $2.20 I enjoyed the first book in this mystery series featuring search-and-rescue dogs, Smoky Mountain... | Nero Wolfe:: The Archie Goodwin Files Best Price: $17.95 This effort is actually better than its predecessor, "The Nero Wolfe Files."
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Sugarplums and Scandal Best Price: $3.26 A combination of fast reading short stories by popular authors. All revolve around a Chrstmas... | The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (Mammoth Book of) Best Price: $2.75 I really enjoyed this book. One of the hazards of short story collections, particularly if you... | The Return of the Black Widowers Best Price: $1.99 Back in 1990 on a rainy night (or maybe it wasn't) I happened across a book in a bookstore... | The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $2.00 C.J. Box, Jeffery Deaver, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, R.T.... | Sideways In Crime Best Price: $7.98 When I saw this book on the shelf at my local shop, I had to pick it up. Mystery and... |
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Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror! Best Price: $8.03 I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The lead-off story, "A Study in Emerald" by Neil... | The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction Best Price: $13.99 I'm using this book for a Detective Literature class. It covers the three genres of detective... | Rumpole Misbehaves: A Novel (Rumpole Novels) Best Price: $2.62 This is the latest of a long-running series written by British author and lawyer John Mortimer... | Crimes And Mathdemeanors Best Price: $12.90 Leith Hathout has written a recreational math book for all ages. I have many math and... | Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America) Best Price: $19.88 The stories in the book should each be taken singularly. The writing itself is pure nostalgia. ... |
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A Good Hanging Best Price: $3.95 I enjoyed this book, as I have all of Ian Rankin's John Rebus writings to date. These are short... | Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals, and the Chase Best Price: $12.49 With 2 very good stories (by Michael Connelly and Edward D. Hoch), three excellent ones (by John... | The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense Best Price: $11.20 While agreeing with fans of Joyce Carol Oates that her prose and general writing style are... | Deadly Housewives Best Price: $3.95 I have listened to many audio books and I must say that this is absolutely the worst. If I can... | Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy Best Price: $21.07 As with most anthologies, it's a grab bag. Some of the stories were good mysteries. Only a... |
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Los Angeles Noir (Akashic Noir) Best Price: $3.74 I love anthologies, mysteries, and noir, so when you put them all together, I find it hard to... | The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights Best Price: $2.25 Faye Kellerman's early novels were decent though nothing spectacular, with their main virtue... | Baltimore Noir Best Price: $5.99 I read a fair amount of crime novels, and lately I've been reading a bit about Baltimore, so I... | The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Other Stories Best Price: $12.46 Agatha Christie is the "QUEEN" of mystery as far as I'm concerned . She ROCKS !!!... | The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $14.30 (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth... |
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Crime Stories and Other Writings (Library of America) Best Price: $21.24 Dashiel Hammett, along with Raymond Chandler, reinvented the detective genre in the 1930's and... | The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories Best Price: $8.87 The scene: a sleeping car on the North-Western express, somewhere between Preston and Carlisle. ... | The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) Best Price: $11.20 Edited by George Pelecanos, best-selling author and writer for the hit HBO series The Wire, this... | Sinister Shorts Best Price: $4.00 Quite a departure from the Nina Riley series. Some stories border on fantasy, but very... | Drop-Dead Blonde: 6 Best Price: $3.95 I really liked the DROP-DEAD BLONDE anthology, which I bought for the short story by Victoria... |
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From Crime to Crime: Mind-Boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder Best Price: $12.47 "From Crime to Crime" is in the Sherlock Holmes school of crime fiction -- when... | Brooklyn Noir Best Price: $4.94 I can't rememember the last time I enjoyed a book like this! The stories make you go 180, the... | The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits: 24 Murder Mysteries from the Age of Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (Mammoth Book) Best Price: $7.75 Here's a Reader's Advisory tip you can take to the bank: Whenever you come across a new... | Transgressions: Ten Brand-New Novellas Best Price: $0.01 Transgressions provides readers with the opportunity to sample ten different offerings from... | The Lincoln Rhyme Collection Best Price: $10.64 I bought this collection on audio CD to listen in my car as I drive to and from work, and I have... |
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Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen & Landau Lost Classics) Best Price: $12.00 This new Lost Classics edition is one of the best. The long forgoten Stuart Palmer deserves to... | | | | |