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Bloody Instructions

Suave barrister-detective Antony Maitland searches for the real killer after Joseph Dowling, London's leading actor, is found with the motive, opportunity, and murder weapon in the death of a powerful solicitorRead more

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The Convivial Codfish

Sarah Kelling and new husband Max Bittersohn are called in by Jeremy Kelling when his Great Chain of the Convivial Cod vanishes. The emblem represents his great achievement, the office of Exalted Chowderhead over the Annual Scrooge Day revels of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish. When...Read more

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The Curse of the Giant Hogweed

Professor Peter Shandy, Balaclava College's best amateur sleuth, takes on a pest threatening to wipe Britain's lovely hedgerows. With colleagues Dan Stott and Timothy Ames, he leaves the groves of academe for fancy fieldword in the heart of Wales. Never in their...Read more

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The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile

Very little astounds Peter McGarr, the head of the Irish police's elite murder squad. But on this chilly, foul night when he is called to the sumptuous home of Brian Herrick, McGarr is astonished by what he sees. Sprawled over a table lies Brian Herrick, keeper of Dublin's famous Marsh's...Read more

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The Death of Love

Paddy Power, a banker and major Irish politician, is found dead in his countryside resort. Did he swallow the wrong heart medicine? Or did one of the four people closest to him commit a terrible crime? McGarr is drawn into a complex web of professional jealousies and romantic misalliances...Read more

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Death to Go

A severed finger found in a portion of french fries leads Detective Inspector Bill Slider on a hunt for a murderer, an investigation thwarted by the disappearance of several key witnesses.Read more

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Death Watch

A motor lodge fire and the body of a middle-aged businessman bring London's Detective Inspector Bill Slider to the scene. Slider's superiors hope for a ruling of anything but murder, until Slider uncovers a possible link between this death and a 20-year-old homicide.Read more

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A Dismal Thing to Do

Janet Rhys is driving through the backwoods of Canada when she sees the truck ahead of her lose control, smash into a snow bank, and flip sideways, completely blocking the road. Springing to action, she darts into a nearby barn, searching for something to use to rescue the person trapped...Read more

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The Documents in the Case

The brilliant murderer of a fungi expert has the best minds in London baffled, until a series of letters is unearthed by the dead man's son.Read more

The Family Vault

She has rubies in her teeth, a crimson skirt, and not a shred of skin on her bones. She’s burlesque queen Ruby Redd, missing these past thirty years, and Sarah Kelling has just discovered her sprawled grotesquely in the family vault.

Sarah’s nightmare has just begun. As her...Read more

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The Grub-And-Stakers House a Haunt

When the ghost of murdered mule driver Hiram Jellaby appears in the kitchen of widow Zilla Trott's house, Sergeant McVicar investigates the century-old crime.Read more

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The Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Bee

The Grub-and-Stakers, a gardening club in small town Ontario, receive a bequest to run The Aralia Polyphema Architrave Museum. But someone pushes their new curator off the roof. Dittany Henbit Monk and her Western-writer husband first solve an important clue - a bride quilt embroidered with...Read more

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The Loo Sanction

The scene is London, where Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing another "sanction" -- a top-secret political assassination -- in a nerve-wracking web involving dirty dealings among high-ranking British government officials and a British counterespionage group. Once again Hemlock'...Read more

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The Luck Runs Out

Professor Peter Shandy is in trouble up to the eyeballs again. With the Annual Competition of the Balaclava County Draft Horse Association coming up, some saboteur has reversed all the horseshoes nailed to the stable doors of Balaclava Agricultural College as good luck charms. Shandy...Read more

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A Pint of Murder

VEGETABLES CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!

Old Agatha Treadway baked her own bread, canned her own vegetables---and died of botulism in her very own kitchen. Accident, says Dr. Druffitt. Murder, says neighbor Janet Wadman. And says it again when she finds the doctor dead, too...Read more

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A Season for Murder

After several years abroad with the British Foreign Service, Meredith Mitchell settles in Pook's Common and soon finds herself solving the riddle of her neighbor's death.Read more

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Sleepyhead

His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate...

Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skillful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear, and feel; she is aware of...Read more

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Snow Angels

Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the darkest time of the year in Lapland, above the Arctic Circle. The unrelenting darkness and extreme cold cause everyone to go just a little bit insane, whether or not they’ve just killed someone…

A beautiful Somalian refugee-turned-actress is...Read more

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Something The Cat Dragged In

Herbert Ungley wouldn't have been caught dead without his toupée. When a cat dragged it in, landlady Betsy Lomax knew something was amiss. She knew to call Professor Peter Shandy, whose success at sleuthing had surpassed his fame as 'Father of the world-renowned...Read more

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Wrack and Rune

In the sleepy hamlet of Lumpkins Corners, Professor Peter Shandy's reputation as an amateur sleuth was almost as well known as his success in developing a new strain of rutabaga. So when violent and exceedingly unpleasant death visited Horsefall Farm, the third phone call - after the police...Read more

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