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The Seven Dials Mystery
by Agatha Christie
An aristocrat's disappearance leads a group of sleuths to unravel the secrets of a mysterious group.
In the last days of renting the estate Chimneys, Sir Oswald and Lady Coote host a party including Gerry Wade, Jimmy Thesiger, Ronny Devereux, Bill Eversleigh and Rupert "Pongo" Bateman, Sir Oswald's ... (Wikipedia)
The Man in the Brown Suit
by Agatha Christie
A young woman's thrilling adventure of espionage and intrigue, uncovering a deadly secret.
Nadina, a dancer in Paris, receives a visit from Count Sergius Paulovitch. Both are in the service of "the Colonel", an international agent provocateur and criminal. "The Colonel" is retiring, ... (Wikipedia)
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
A mysterious adventure to uncover a secret society, prevent a world war, and solve a murder.
In the Prologue, a man quietly gives important papers to a young American woman, as she is more likely to survive the sinking RMS, Lusitania, in May 1915. In 1919 London, demobilised soldier Tommy ... (Wikipedia)
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
A murder mystery novel combining romance and suspense as a woman is accused of poisoning her lover.
The novel opens with mystery author Harriet Vane on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and free love . Publicly professing to ... (Wikipedia)
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A masterful detective unravels a mysterious crime and its hidden motives.
In 1881, Doctor John Watson has returned to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War . He visits the Criterion Restaurant and runs into an old friend named Stamford, who had been a dresser ... (Wikipedia)
Crocodile on the Sandbank
by Elizabeth Peters
An intrepid female archaeologist uses her wits to solve a mysterious murder in the Nile Valley.
Amelia Peabody is left a wealthy orphan after the death of her studious father, who has left her everything in his will because she is the only one of his children who shared his interests, namely ... (Wikipedia)
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
Detective investigates the mystery of King Richard III, uncovering the truth behind his reputation.
Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (a character who also appears in five other novels by the same author) is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an ... (Wikipedia)
A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster
A young woman's exploration of love, morality, and societal norms in Edwardian England.
The novel is set in the early 1900s as upper-middle-class English women are beginning to lead more independent, adventurous lives. In the first part, Miss Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her ... (Wikipedia)
Germinal
by Émile Zola
Depicts the harsh conditions of miners in 19th century France, a story of hope and revolution.
The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in, L'Assommoir, (1877), and originally to have been the central character in Zola's "murder on the trains" thriller, La Bête ... (Wikipedia)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
by Joan Aiken
Two cousins fight against their evil governess and her accomplices in a Victorian England filled with wolves and danger.
The story is set at Willoughby Chase, the grand but remote home of Sir Willoughby and Lady Green and their daughter Bonnie. Due to Lady Green's ill health, Bonnie's parents are taking a holiday in ... (Wikipedia)
Time's Convert
by Deborah Harkness
A story of love, transformation, and the complexities of immortality. A vampire and a witch navigate their new lives together.
From the #1, New York Times, bestselling author of, A Discovery of Witches, comes a novel about what it takes to become a vampire. , , On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de ... (Goodreads)
The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters
A thrilling mystery set in ancient Egypt, where a daring sleuth uncovers a deadly secret.
The Emersons are at home in England, aching to return to Egypt, but finding no excuse to return until Lady Baskerville asks them to finish the excavation started by her husband, who died mysteriously ... (Wikipedia)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey investigates a mysterious death at a prestigious London club.
On the afternoon of 10 November, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is called to the deathbed of his estranged sister, Lady Dormer, and learns that under the terms of her will he stands to inherit most ... (Wikipedia)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A thrilling detective story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate a mysterious murder on the moor.
Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon . The death was attributed ... (Wikipedia)
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
by Jasper Fforde
A zany and thrilling detective story set in a world of fantasy and fairytales.
Literature detective Thursday Next, who has the ability to travel between the RealWorld and the BookWorld, disappears before stopping a genre war. Her BookWorld counterpart, Thursday Next, receives a ... (Wikipedia)
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
A satirical tale of a young man's trials and tribulations of greed, deception, and redemption.
Martin Chuzzlewit has been raised by his grandfather and namesake. Years before Martin senior took the precaution of raising an orphaned girl, Mary Graham, to be his companion and nursemaid, with the ... (Wikipedia)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection of mysteries solved by the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes.
A study in scarlet – The sign of four -- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The ... (Goodreads)
Hornet Flight
by Ken Follett
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, a young man risks his life to fly vital information to England. A thrilling tale of espionage and bravery.
Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North ... (Goodreads)
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
by Alan Bradley
Amateur detective Flavia de Luce investigates mysterious murder in an English village.
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet ... (Goodreads)
Have Space Suit—Will Travel
by Robert A. Heinlein
An adventurous teenager embarks on a thrilling space mission to save the future of the human race.
The novel is set in the near future, when the Earth has established a few small scientific bases on the Moon. Clifford "Kip" Russell, enters an advertising jingle writing contest, hoping to win an ... (Wikipedia)
Frederica
by Georgette Heyer
Frederica Merriville and her siblings navigate the London marriage market with the help of the charming Lord Alverstoke.
Frederica Merriville has long been in charge of her younger siblings. Since her parents' death, she has taken it upon herself to make sure that her beautiful sister Charis is well married, believing ... (Wikipedia)
A Great Deliverance
by Elizabeth George
A detective investigates a murder in the countryside, uncovering secrets in a rural community.
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in ... (Goodreads)
Busman's Honeymoon
by Dorothy L. Sayers
A newly married couple must put their honeymoon on pause to solve a murder mystery.
After an engagement of some months following the events at the end of, Gaudy Night, , Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry. They plan to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in ... (Wikipedia)
The Boys from Brazil
by Ira Levin
An international thriller involving a sinister plot to clone Hitler and create a Fourth Reich.
Yakov Liebermann is a Nazi hunter (loosely based on Simon Wiesenthal ) who runs a center in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity, perpetrated during the Holocaust . The waning interest of ... (Wikipedia)
Heartstone
by C.J. Sansom
An historical mystery set in 1540s England, exploring the power of secrets and loyalty.
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. He is ... (Goodreads)
The Shape of Water
by Andrea Camilleri
A Sicilian detective investigates a mysterious murder, revealing secrets of the past.
The Shape of Water, is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site ... (Goodreads)
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
An eccentric literary detective, in an alternate 1985, uses time-travel to save kidnapped characters from classic novels.
In a parallel universe , England and Imperial Russia have fought the Crimean War for more than a century; England still has a parliamentary government, although heavily influenced by the Goliath ... (Wikipedia)
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell
A charming portrait of a rural town and the lives of its eccentric inhabitants.
Mary Smith and her friends live in Cranford, a town predominantly inhabited by women. The return of a long-lost brother named Peter is the most dramatic event to occur over the course of the sixteen ... (Goodreads)
How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn
A Welsh family struggles with the destruction of their ancestral home and a changing way of life.
The novel is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria . It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys , through the eyes of one of the sons, ... (Wikipedia)
Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
A young woman's unraveling of dark secrets in a remote and mysterious Cornish inn.
Mary Yellan, 23 years old, was brought up on a farm in Helford . After her mother's death, Mary goes to live with her only surviving relative: her mother's sister, Patience Merlyn, in a coaching inn ... (Wikipedia)
