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  The Only One

  Dark Descent / The Star Queen / Sacrilege

  by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant, Susan Squires

  FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts--warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies--but whose passions burned like dying stars. They had but one purpose: to find those women who fulfilled them, completed them, and made them rage with a fire both holy and profane. They... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 33

  Third Girl

  by Agatha Christie

  Everything about the young girl strikes Poirot as odd--from her confession to a murder she didn't commit to her disappearance. What's her secret? Poirot suspects that it's going to be a killer.
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  They Came to Baghdad

  by Agatha Christie

  Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret agent in her hotel room.... (more)
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  The Melting Season

  by Celeste Conway

  Giselle is a cultured ballet student, the daughter of the famous ballerina Marina Parke-Vanova and the late dance historian Grigori Vanov. On her first-ever trip to "Westchest-ah", as her mother's deranged boyfriend Blitz calls it, she meets the most beautiful boy she's ever seen. Will introduces Giselle to the world beyond Manhattan, and for the first time, makes her feel comfortable outside her perfectly... (more)
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  Surprise! Surprise!

  by Agatha Christie

  A collection of short stories featuring her famous sleuths - Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Harley Quin and Mr. Parker Pyne.
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  Amazing Real-Life Coincidences

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  Miss Seeton Goes to Bat (Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton)

  by Hamilton Crane

  A sketch she makes at a cricket match reveals to Miss Seeton vital clues to a series of burglaries that has upset the town of Plummergen.
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 37

  Curtain

  Poirot's Last Case

  by Agatha Christie

  After a year apart Hercule Poirot, now crippled with arthritis, is reunited with his old companion Captain Hastings, who has since become a widower. When they receive a letter from Styles Court, the place where they solved their first murder together, it seems like fate and they readily accept. However, after the great detective brands one of the seemingly harmless guests, whom he will only identify as 'X', a... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 35

  Elephants Can Remember

  by Agatha Christie

  This book signals the return of Christie's two greatest creations: Mrs. Ariadne Oliver and Hercule Poirot, as this matchless pair follow a twisting trail of guilt and terror to a shocking crime committed long ago and a diabolical plot that now threatens to destroy a beautiful young girl's happiness.
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  Murder after Hours

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  Hercule Poirot: Book 20

  Sad Cypress

  by Agatha Christie

  Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows...
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 5

  A Murder Is Announced

  by Agatha Christie

  The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When... (more)
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  Witness for the Prosecution

  by Agatha Christie

  The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1948. The story The Second Gong features Hercule Poirot, the only character in the stories who appears in any other of Christie's works.Each story, has also appeared in either of the UK collections The Hound of Death, The Listerdale Mystery or... (more)
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  D'Artagnan Romances: Book 1

  The Three Musketeers

  by Alexandre Dumas, père

  This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his Queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.
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  Jurassic Park: Book 1

  Jurassic Park

  by Michael Crichton

  On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But, as always, there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's... (more)
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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 3

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  The deerstalker, the violin, the dedication to truth and justice - this is Sherlock Holmes. Even after more than a hundred years, Holmes is still THE fictional detective - because he is the hero who'll come to the rescue of victims who have nowhere else to turn. " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed... (more)
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 13

  Sleeping Murder

  by Agatha Christie

  Gwenda and Giles Reed, a newly married young couple believe that they have found the perfect house in the little seaside town of Dillmouth. But after moving in Gwenda quickly starts experiencing uncanny flashes of awareness. Events come to a head during a performance of the Duchess of Malfi when she suddenly experiences a chilling vision of a young woman who had been strangled. But is it truly a vision or a... (more)
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  Ordeal by Innocence

  by Agatha Christie

  Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother. To make matters worse, he died in prison. But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch, and would certainly kill again to remain in the shadows. Shaded in the moral... (more)
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  Endless Night

  by Agatha Christie

  Michael Rogers' dream is to have a wonderful house in the country-and a beautiful woman he can live 'happy ever after' with. With marriage to gorgeous and fabulously wealthy Ellie, the purchase of Gipsy's Acre and the opportunity to build his wonderful house, the dream seemingly turns to reality for Michael. But does Gipsy's Acre harbour a dark past?
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  Tommy and Tuppence: Book 1

  The Secret Adversary

  by Agatha Christie

  It is just after WWI and Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money. With jobs thin on the ground, Tommy and Tuppence decide to form a partnership and hire themselves out as "young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere." When their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, puts both of them in mortal danger, they have to use all their ingenuity and cunning to save not... (more)