Mystery Books
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The Alpine Traitor (An Emma Lord Mystery)Emma Lord is shocked to hear that the Advocate is embroiled in a ruthless takeover bid. Soon, battle lines are drawn and war is de
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The Beauties of Burns: Consisting of Selections from His Poems and LettersThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pag
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The Last Precinct: Scarpetta (Book 11)The new era of Scarpetta begins…In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Corn
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Total Recall (V. I. Warshawski)The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. “V.I. Warshawski rules
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See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)It’s A.D. 76 during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman “informer,” has achieved much in his
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan Novels)"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic an
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Dreamland LakeWhen two thirteen-year-olds discover a dead man, a chain of events begins that involves several kinds of death.
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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