Mystery Books
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China Bayles' Book of Days
Readers of the China Bayles mystery novels are familiar with the usefulness and wonder of the many herbs the amateur sleuth s
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Hocus Croakus: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery (Bed-And-Breakfast Mysteries)
With major renovations going on at Seattle′s favourite B\′9126B, Mary Daheim moves Judith, Renie and the rest of the unforg
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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport)
Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before— but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparab
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Total Control
Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a
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Tied Up in Tinsel
A Christmas pageant turns unholy.Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint
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32 Cadillacs
32 Cadillacs is the fourth novel in Joe Gores' delightful series about the San Francisco private eye firm Dan Kearny Associates. T
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Mystery Movies
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Lost - The Complete First Season
From J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, comes the action-packed adventure that became a worldwide television event. Strand
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Devil's Advocate
One part "The Firm" and one part "Rosemary's Baby," this supernatural suspenser features a rousing turn by Al Pacino as the charis
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The Bone Collector
Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie. A paralyzed forensics expert and a rookie policewoman team up to nab a serial killer. 1999/colo
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Cube
DVD. Feature film. Rated R.
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The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
Winner of two 1995 Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Original Screenplay, this masterful, atmospheric film noir enraptured audie
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Mystery Authors
Ngaio Marsh biography
Dame Ngaio Marsh , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director.
Internationally she is best known for her 32 detective novels published between 1934 and 1982. Along with Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, she has been classed as one of the four original "Queens of Crime"—female British crime writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s.
All her novels feature British CID detective Roderick Alleyn. Several novels feature Marsh's other loves, the theatre and painting. A number are set around theatrical productions (Enter a Murderer, Vintage Murder, Overture to Death, Opening Night, Death at the Dolphin, and Light Thickens), and two others about actors off stage (Final Curtain and False Scent). Her short story "'I Can Find My Way Out" is also set around a theatrical production and is the earlier "Jupiter case" referred to in Opening Night. Alleyn marries a painter, Agatha Troy, whom he meets during an investigation (Artists in Crime), and who features in several later novels.
Most of the novels are set in England, but four are set in New Zealand, with Alleyn either on secondment to the New Zealand police (Vintage Murder, Colour Scheme, and Died in the Wool), or on holiday (Photo Finish); Surfeit of Lampreys begins in New Zealand but continues in London.
Information source: wikipedia