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  • Complete Mystery Pulp Collection

    by Norbert Davis ...
    Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsHolocaust House (1940)Doan & Carstairs SeriesThe Mouse in the Mountain (1943)Sally's in the Alley (1943)Oh, Murderer Mine (1946)Something for the Sweeper (1937)Doan & Carstairs Series-appy, hard-boiled stories featuring Doan--a short, chubby little detective--and Carstairs, his Great Dane. Carstairs is so big that Doan only half ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Detecting Canada

    Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film

    Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose ...
    Series Book 16 - Film and Media Studies
    The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka.Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • F.B.A.I. La collana di corallo

    by daniele billitteri ...
    Una collana di corallo che scompare da una boutique di Palermo. Un semplice furto di un oggetto banalmente prezioso?A Palermo mai nulla è come sembra e per venire a capo del furto ci vuole uno che venga proprio dal ventre della città, uno che ne conosca tutti gli anfratti, sia quelli urbani che quelli dell'"anima": Franco Butera Amato, titolare della FBAI, infimo investigatore privato attorno al ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Golden Age of Murder

    by Martin Edwards ...
    Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first ... Read more

    $5.59 USD

  • The Annotated Big Sleep

    by Raymond Chandler ...
    The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep helped to define a genre. Today it remains ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • The Getaway Car

    A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany

    by Donald E. Westlake ...
    "This is a book for everyone, anyone who likes mystery novels or good writing or wit and passion and intelligence."— The New York TimesOver the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including two long-running series starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. With The Getaway Car, we get our first glimpse of another side of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hitchcock's Diegetic Imagination

    Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt, and Hitchcock's Mise-en-Scene

    by Donna Kornhaber ...
    The author considers the collaboration between Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and examines the influence of Wilder's theories of theatrical abstraction and cinematic realism on Hitchcock's developing sense of mise-en-scene. Wilder helped Hitchcock employ mise-en-scene as a vital tool of suspense, thus producing a thriller that turned as much on details of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Come scrivere un giallo di successo

    Le 5 mosse vincenti

    by Massimo Siviero ...
    Massimo Siviero vi invita a seguire i suoi consigli. Ma come si scrive un giallo? Come si comincia? Che cosa si deve e non si deve raccontare? E dove prendere la materia prima da plasmare con la vostra immaginazione? L’idea, il pensatoio, l’incipit, i personaggi. Meglio la prima o la terza persona? Punteggiatura, pause, modulazione del ritmo, schema narrativo. Climax e colpo di scena. E siamo solo ... Read more

    $4.26 USD

  • Talking About Detective Fiction

    by P. D. James ...
    In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.“An avid book-length essay on the roots, ethics and methods of the detective story . . . Her opinions are often surprising and determinedly ... Read more

    $5.69 USD

  • Deciphering the Lost Symbol

    Freemasons, Myths and the Mysteries of Washington, D.C.

    by Christopher I Hodapp ...
    Discover the secretive brotherhood behind Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol in this unauthorized companion book by the author of Solomon's Builders.Freemason influence on the founding of Washington, D.C., is evident throughout the city's buildings, statues and monuments—but it's written in coded symbols that few people understand. Dan Brown's thriller sends symbologist detective Robert Langdon through ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Lincoln Lawyer

    A Mysterious Profile

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Series series Mysterious Profiles
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author tells the origin story of LA defense attorney Mickey Haller.In this concise, absorbing account, Michael Connelly reveals the work—and the strokes of luck—that contributed to his creation of the character Mickey Haller, the subject of multiple bestselling novels as well as the hit Netflix series. He reveals the lawyers, both fictional and real-life, who ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jeremy Brett - Playing a Part

    by Maureen Whittaker ...
    "Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show that, too. It's difficult for me to say what I may have given to the image of Holmes. Faithful to Conan Doyle's text, certainly. Also, I've ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Lord Peter Views the Body

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Dorothy L. Sayers ...
    In "Lord Peter Views the Body," Dorothy L. Sayers presents a collection of twelve captivating short stories featuring the astute and charming Lord Peter Wimsey. Each tale showcases his unparalleled detective skills as he navigates through a series of perplexing mysteries, from eerie disappearances to baffling murders. Sayers masterfully blends wit, intellect, and suspense, creating a rich tapestry ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • From Holmes to Sherlock

    The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon

    by Mattias Boström ...
    Translated by Michael Gallagher ...
    "If you love Sherlock Holmes, you'll love this book…the best account of Baker Street mania ever written."—Michael Dirda, The Washington PostWinner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction workEdgar Award finalist for best critical/biographical workAnthony Award finalist for best critical/nonfiction workEveryone knows Sherlock Holmes. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Complete Western Romance Mystery Anthologies of Grace Livingston Hill

    by Grace Livingston Hill ...
    ContentsThe Man of the Desert (1914)Lo, Michael! (1913)The War Romance of the Salvation Army (1919)The Witness (1917)Exit Betty (1919)The City of Fire (1922)The Girl from Montana (1922)The Search (1919)Marcia Schuyler (1908)Dawn of the Morning (1911)The Mystery of Mary (1910)Cloudy Jewel (1920)The Enchanted Barn (1918)A Voice in the Wilderness (1916)The Man of the Desert (1914)A... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Grand Tour

    Around the World with the Queen of Mystery

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. In this fascinating travelogue of the prolific author's yearlong trip around the British Empire in 1922, Christie provides the clues to the origins of the plots and locales of some of her bestselling mystery novels. Containing never-before-published letters and photos from her travels, and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The World of Raymond Chandler

    In His Own Words

    by Raymond Chandler ...
    Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in—and around—his novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler’s life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day, editor of The Letters of Noël Coward (“There is much to dazzle here in just the way we expect . . . the book ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • Complete African Sanders Mystery Thriller Anthologies of Edgar Wallace

    by Edgar Wallace ...
    English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.He was known during his lifetime for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, The Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character. He is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated + FREE audiobook link + Active TOC)

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes

    by Philip Tallon, David Baggett ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Essays about the famed fictional detective and the mysteries of life: "Both elegantly erudite and consistently entertaining" (E. J. Wagner, Edgar Award–winning author of The Science of Sherlock Holmes).Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective has stood as a unique figure for more than a century with his reliance on logical rigor, his analytic precision, and his disregard of social mores. A true classic, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

    The Complete Illustrated Novels of Sherlock Holmes NO 3

    by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...
    Series Book 3 - SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE COLLECTION : Grasshopper books
    SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLESBYARTHUR CONAN DOYLESir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) was a Scottish physician and writer known around the world for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes, which all but created the literary field of crime fiction and made the name Sherlock Holmes synonymous with detectives. Aside from the Sherlock Holmes stories, he was a prolific writer whose ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Murder at the Abbey

    A murder mystery in the bestselling Exham-on-Sea series

    by Frances Evesham ...
    Series Book 8 - The Exham-on-Sea Murder Mysteries
    The Brand NEW instalment in the bestselling Exham-on-Sea series.An unsolved murder echoes down the corridors of Cleeve Abbey for years.The Exham-on-Sea’s History Society's annual summer picnic comes to an abrupt end when human bones are discovered in Washford River, beside historic Cleeve Abbey.Thrilled to find evidence of a possible centuries-old murder mystery, the members of the society ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles of Agatha Christie

    by Agatha Christie ...
    The novel is set in England during World War I at Styles Court, an Essex country manor (also the setting of Curtain, Poirot's last case). Upon her husband's death, the wealthy widow, Emily Cavendish, inherited a life estate in Styles as well as the outright inheritance of the larger part of the late Mr. Cavendish's income. Mrs. Cavendish became Mrs. Inglethorp upon her recent remarriage to a much ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Sacred Well Murders

    by Susan Rowland ...
    A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a sacrifice at a sacred well. They discover that those who fail to individuate their gods become possessed by them.For the so ... Read more

    $9.99 USD