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 Ring for Tomb Service (Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries)Best Price: $42.19 Finally, the most recent installment of Kate Kingsbury's "Pennyfoot Hotel" series is... |  The Labors of Hercules (Hercule Poirot)Best Price: $3.26 These are the shorter Poirot stories and they don't disappoint. As if in tribute to the... |  The Smoke (Jethro Mysteries)Best Price: $2.92 You might think that on the surface this is a 'man's' book. Nothing could be further from the... |  Death at the Opera: (Death in the Wet)Best Price: $8.80 Charged with the mission of capturing mystery writers from the Golden Age, the Rue Morgue Press... |  Leave the Grave GreenBest Price: $2.73 The drowning, under suspicious circumstances, of the son-in-law of prominent conductor Sir... |
 Winter of Discontent (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 9)Best Price: $4.93 Once again Jeanne M. Dams has written a wonderful installment to her Dorothy Martin series. I... |  A Little DeathBest Price: $2.85 This is a great book, well written, well plotted, in the tradition of the great british... |  Eight Great Sherlock Holmes Stories (Dover Large Print Classics)Best Price: $7.68 These richly atmospheric tales from Victorian London trace the continuing adventures of an... |  Death to Go/an Inspector Bill Slider MysteryBest Price: $58.87 Finding a finger in a packet of chips leads Shepherd's Bush Inspector, Bill Slider, and his side... |  Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Plot (Victorian Mystery)Best Price: $48.26 This is a very entertaining mystery set in England. It is a good type of book to keep your... |
 Sherlock in Love: A NovelBest Price: $3.95 I love both Sena Jeter Naslund's other work, namely Ahab's Wife, and Arthur Conan Doyle's... |  The Crooked Hinge (Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)Best Price: $8.94 |  Fire When Ready (WWII Manor House Mystery Series)Best Price: $0.73 I liked this much better than Berried Alive. I was happy to see Earl return but it was a pretty... |  The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Vol 2 (Complete Classics)Best Price: $17.16 Case Book of Sherlock Holmes / 0-425-04822-5 This collection contains the following short... |  Last Rites: The 10th Charles Resnick Mystery (A Charles Resnick Mystery)Best Price: $10.17 The not-so-grand finale in the Charlie Resnick series certainly exhibits the signs of Harvey's... |
 Wolves of SavernakeBest Price: $11.39 This book is the first in Marston's Domesday series. It is set in England 20 years after... |  Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey MysteryBest Price: $18.24 "Clouds of Witness" was a very delightful book! In both the mystery and the... |  The Labours of Hercules: 12 Hercule Poirot MysteriesBest Price: $19.04 The 12 labors is a fun audio presentation. I think it is a creative and illuminating book that... |  The Trouble with Harriet (Ellie Haskell Mysteries)Best Price: $18.72 This is a fine little British cozy with some escapades in Germany on the side. I was drawn in... |  Murder in My Backyard (Stephen Ramsay Mysteries)A good, solid English style mystery, the kind that is getting harder and harder to find. I... |
 Death of a Colonial (Sir John Fielding)Best Price: $1.79 One of Mr. Alexander's talents is bringing his historical period to life, and he does this... |  Living Proof: The 7th Charles Resnick Mystery (A Charles Resnick Mystery)Best Price: $10.17 "Harvey's seventh procedural is smartly paced, slyly humorous, unsentimental about police... |  Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy : A Sheila Malory MysteryBest Price: $4.99 There's a classic piece of advice to would-be authors that goes: "Start out by writing... |  The Lammas Feast (A Roger the Chapman Medieval Mystery)Its a good story with some interesting characters. Your vocabulary will grow, given the... |  The Cross-Legged KnightBest Price: $2.13 Excellent addition to her medieval series which is very evocative of the era and place, to me.... |
 Blitz (Inspector Brant Series)Best Price: $3.93 After years of reading George Pelecanos, James Lee Burke, John Harvery, George V. Higgins,... |  Good Night, Mr. Holmes: An Irene Adler Novel (Irene Adler)Best Price: $4.02 This book is among the genre of books with female leads who can only be strong by putting down... |  The Tale of Hill Top Farm: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix PotterBest Price: $5.95 An historical yet fictional cozy mystery account of Beatrix Potter's life. After purchasing a... |  The Hackman Blues (Bloodlines)Best Price: $15.00 Read any interview by the amazingly talented Ken Bruen and you'll discover that he has plenty of... |  Consequences of SinBest Price: $1.43 This book came highly recommended and, to my delight, went far beyond my expectations. Lovers of... |
 Service of All the DeadBest Price: $28.86 Came across the audio version at the library and listened in the car. It was fun hearing Kevin... | Consequences of Sin Best Price: $1.43 This book came highly recommended and, to my delight, went far beyond my expectations. Lovers of... |  Landscape of Lies (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)Best Price: $5.16 Landscape of Lies is one of the best-crafted thrillers I've read in many years. The characters,... |  Bluffing Mr. Churchill (Frederick Troy Novels)Best Price: $3.25 This is my first read of the "Inspector Troy" series which I gather has many fans. ... |  The Sin within Her Smile: A Lovejoy MysteryBest Price: $62.59 Lovejoy novels are sometimes difficult to read because of the British slang and obscure language... |
 Death on the Holy Mountain (Lord Francis Powerscourt)Best Price: $12.39 Anxiously awaiting the next installment of the Lord Francis Powerscourt series, I pre-ordered... |  Die with MeBest Price: $13.94 I read Die With Me just after finishing Peter Robinson's newest mystery. Mr. Robinson writes so... |  Best British Mysteries 3 (2006)Best Price: $5.71 I ordered this thinking I would receive a collection of very good British mysteries--my passion!... |  A Pawn for a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's CourtBest Price: $34.99 The prologue starts with the impending wedding of Ursula to an unknown person. What follows is... |  Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $7.82 I suppose I should look embarrassed to be reviewing Victorian sensationalist novels, but. . .I'm... |
 Evan Help Us (Constable Evans Mystery)I have enjoyed ALL of Rhys Bowen's murder mysteries. I write this review of the Constable Evans... |  Rebecca's TaleBest Price: $1.83 Need I say more. Don't waste your money. I couldn't even get through it and I had just... |  The Hound of the BaskervillesBest Price: $14.31 Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound... |  Parker Pyne InvestigatesBest Price: $3.26 "Parker Pyne Investigates" is the same book/set of short stories as "Mr. Parker... |  China GovernessBest Price: $4.50 Sadly, this is one of the last books of the Campion series; I'm going to really miss these books... |
 The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother CadfaelThis is my second foray into the Brother Cadfael Mystery series and this book did nothing to... |  Quiller Balalaika (Otto Penzler Books)Best Price: $34.44 The final installment of the long running Quiller series, finished just before the death of... |  Sparkling Cyanide (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)Best Price: $2.20 Young and beautiful Rosemary Barton died while dining at a fine restaurant. Her death was... |  Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt: And Other TalesBest Price: $1.74 This book contains six Sherlock Holmes short stories. They are all "okay", as I am a... |  Taken at the Flood: A Hercule Poirot MysteryBest Price: $10.47 Quite good. Entertaining. Solid Agatha, and that's saying something.... |
 The Mad Monk of Gidleigh (Knights Templar)Best Price: $4.38 I have read all previous books in this series, and find this to be the least laudable. It is as... |  Come and Go: A Ghostly ComedyBest Price: $6.95 The team of Manning Coles has written three books Brief Candles, Happy Returns and Come and... |  Brief CandlesBest Price: $59.38 This book, and the other two Manning Coles ghost stories, were favorites in my family as long as... |  That Way Murder Lies: A Mitchell and Markby Mystery (Meredith and Markby Mysteries)Best Price: $7.67 The most interesting thing about this book is the very natural and realistic relationships... |  Shooting Elvis (DI Charlie Priest Mystery) (DI Charlie Priest Mystery)Best Price: $7.65 I really like the writing of Stuart Pawson. My first exposure was Over the Edge and that... |
 The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.50 The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a captivating set of over 20 stories of the 56... |  The RottweilerBest Price: $1.89 Ruth Rendell is one of my favorite British authors. She has the capability to make readers care... |  The Dead Secret (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $2.43 I found this book to be a beautiful, well-written distraction - a great... |  And Then There Were None (The Christie Collection) |  The Crocodile BirdBest Price: $1.56 This book reminded me somewhat of Shirley Jackson's classic novel of madness and isolation... |
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