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2001. Vintage Books
Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition.
304 pages ; 21 cm.
1996. Carroll & Graf Publishers
First Carroll and Graf edition.
214 pages ; 21 cm
1939. A.A. Knopf
281 pages ; 20 cm
[2004] ImPress
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel, "one of the masterpieces of the genre" (The New York Times Book Review).
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios,...
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios,...
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MYSTERY CAIN
1989. Vintage Books
116 pages ; 21 cm.
On Shelf
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MYSTERY CAIN
1994. First Edition Library :
Otto Penzler Books facsimile edition.
187 pages ; 20 cm
1978. Vintage Books
120 pages ; 18 cm
[1946] Grosset & Dunlap
187 pages ; 23 cm
1995. Thorndike Press
168 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution—a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision...
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 1
Formats:
2020. William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Second William Morrow Paperback edition.
xv, 258 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm.
2012. William Morrow
First William Morrow trade paperback [edition].
xvii, 247 pages ; 21 cm
[2016] William Morrow
Fully restored edition.
xvii, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
2019. Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
First Vintage Books edition.
212 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
On Shelf
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY CHRISTIE POIROT 1
2014. Center Point Large Print
Center Point Large Print edition.
316 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
On Shelf
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY CHRISTIE POIROT 1
Description
"It's tempting to say that Agatha Christie is a genius and let it go at that, but the world's had plenty of geniuses. Agatha Christie is something special."-Lawrence Block, New York Times bestselling author In this official and fully restored edition, Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now featuring a "missing chapter" and exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily...
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1998. Penguin
528 pages ; 20 cm.
[1992] Knopf
xlvi, 473 pages ; 22 cm.
2001. Modern Library
Modern Library paperback edition.
xxvi, 496 pages ; 21 cm.
[2009] Signet Classics
561 pages ; 18 cm
[1944] Doubleday, Doran
444 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
1984. New American Library
482 pages ; 18 cm
2002. Dover Publications
xi, 415 pages ; 21 cm
1999. Oxford University Press
xx, 552 pages ; 17 cm.
[1991?] Amereon House
xiv, 472 pages ; 23 cm
[2002] Signet Classic
498 pages ; 18 cm
1985. Bantam Books
xvi, 426 pages ; 22 cm.
1999. Oxford University Press
lviii, 502 pages ; 20 cm.
1988. Franklin Library
494 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
2018. Macmillan Collector's Library
xiii, 676 pages ; 16 cm
[between 1980 and 1989?] Amereon House
449 pages ; 22 cm
1993. Barnes & Noble Books
472 pages ; 22 cm
[2010] Tantor Audio
Library edition.
15 audio discs (18 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2010. Tantor Media
Unabridged.
15 audio discs (18 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2010] Tantor Media
Unabridged.
15 audio discs (18.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 companion eBook.
eBook
Description
The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realize that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though,...
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NOVEL DICKENS
2002. Penguin Books
xliii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
On Shelf
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NOVEL DICKENS
[1980] Pantheon Books
First American edition.
xv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
1987. Oxford University Press
xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
2004. Everyman
284 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
1961. New American Library
281 pages ; 18 cm
[1988] Franklin Library
204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
1972. Clarendon Press
lvii, 269 pages : 19 leaves, illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
[1940?] Walter J. Black
335 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
[2009] Oxford University Press
xxiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
1991. Oxford University Press
xii, 278 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
1966. Amereon House
256 pages ; 23 cm
2006. Alcazar Audioworks
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (approximately 75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eBook
2010. Kennebec Large Print
573 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Introduces an array of characters, from the sinister to the comic, and moves to a haunting climax in an atmospheric murder mystery that features the seemingly benevolent John Jasper, a secret opium addict, and his relationship with his newly engaged nephew, Edwin Drood.
6) Mr. Majestyk
Author
[1995] Recorded Books
4 audio discs (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
On Shelf
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY LEONARD
2002. Wheeler Pub
208 pages (large print)
On Shelf
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY LEONARD
Description
A classic crime novel, Mr. Majestyk is vintage Elmore Leonard-an edgy, dark, fiendishly compelling tale of a quiet man making a whole lot of noise. When a war veteran Arizona farmer loses everything, ruined by the local mob, he decides to fight back in this masterful crime fiction thriller-early proof that Leonard not only belongs in the company of John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert B. Parker and the other great names in American...
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On Shelf
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NOVEL LEROUX
[1988] Dorset Press
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
On Shelf
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NOVEL LEROUX
2012. Penguin Books
liii, 314 pages ; 20 cm.
1987. Harper Perennial Library
vi, 360 pages ; 18 cm
2002. Modern Library
Modern Library paperback edition.
xxiii, 286 pages ; 20 cm
[2017]. Penguin Workshop
298 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
[2020] Poisoned Pen Press
283 pages ; 22 cm.
1993. Barnes & Noble
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
[1992] Barnes & Noble
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
[1987] New American Libarary
xv, 271 pages ; 18 cm
2012. Oxford University Press
xxvi, 294 pages ; 20 cm.
1986. Warner Books
Warner Books edition.
264 pages ; 18 cm
[2004] Ann Arbor Media Group
226 pages ; 23 cm
2004. Collectors' Library
311 pages ; 17 cm
[2016] Macmillan Collector's Library
311 pages ; 16 cm
2007. Barnes & Noble Books
xxix, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
2010. New American Library
xvi, 271 pages ; 18 cm
1990. Bantam Books
Bantam Classic edition.
274 pages ; 18 cm
1988. Mysterious Press
245 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
1977. Buccaneer Books
357 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
[2008] Baronet Books
240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
1995. Wordsworth Editions
201 pages ; 20 cm.
2012. Vintage Books
307 pages ; 20 cm.
2004. Dover Publications
vi, 206 pages ; 21 cm.
[1990] Easton Press
Collectors edition.
360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
[2006] Borders Classics
222 pages ; 22 cm
[2018] Word Cloud Classics/Canterbury Classics
231 pages ; 20 cm
[1988] Books on Tape
Library edition.
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[1988] Recorded Books
8 audio discs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2004. Blackstone Audiobooks
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2006, c1998] Tantor
7 audio discs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2005 Blackstone Publishing
Unabridged
OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
eBook
1988. Isis Large Print
384 unnumbered pages (large print) ; 22 cm
2002. G.K. Hall
371 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
[2006, c2003] Sound Room Publishers
1 audio media player (9 hrs.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm + 1 set of earphones +1 AAA battery
Description
Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great...
8) Murders In The Rue Morgue And The Purloined Letter
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Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 8
2014. Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
First Bourbon Street Books edition.
354 pages ; 21 cm
1993. HarperPerennial
First HarperPerennial edition.
344 pages ; 21 cm
1995. HarperPaperbacks
356 pages ; 18 cm
[1933] Harper & Row
344 pages ; 20 cm
2006. BBC Audiobooks
2 audio discs (approximately 2 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2002] Borders :
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
[2006] BBC Audiobooks America
2 audio discs (2 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eBook
1980. G.K. Hall
546 pages (large print); 24 cm
Description
Back in print and now available in trade paperback, Dorothy L. Sayers' classic tale of murder and scandal at a chic London advertising agency, featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey. When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate. Before his tragic demise, the victim had tried to warn Mr. Pym, the firm's owner, about some...
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[1983] St. Martin's Press
437 pages ; 21 cm
2000. Gramercy Books
437 pages ; 24 cm
[1958] St. Martin's Press
437 pages ; 22 cm
Description
First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the successful and now classic Otto Preminger film. It is is not only the most popular courtroom drama in American fiction, but one of the most popular novels of our time.
A gripping tale of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial, Anatomy of a Murder is unmatched