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Mystery & Detective.

From the gaslit logic of Sherlock Holmes to the quiet paradoxes of Father Brown, these are the stories that shaped detective fiction. Meet gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin, ponder De Quincey's opium-edged mysteries, and unravel The Moonstone's legendary curse. A shelf for purists and curious newcomers alike.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc's dazzling debut collection introducing Arsène Lupin, the charming master thief who robs the rich, outwits the police, and turns every crime into a performance.

$9.50

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

London’s foggy alleyways conceal crimes only Sherlock Holmes can unravel.

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.

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The problem of Cell 13

The problem of Cell 13

Jacques Futrelle's classic detective tale, in which the brilliant Professor Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, wagers he can escape a locked prison cell using only his intellect.

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The Plymouth Express Affair

The Plymouth Express Affair

A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

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Unnatural death

Unnatural death

Dorothy L.

$8.50

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

A Victorian-American tale of deception and detection, in which a young woman betrayed by those she trusted is drawn into a world of disguise, pursuit and hard-won justice.

$8.50

The secret of Father Brown

The secret of Father Brown

A later collection of Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, framed by the priest's own account of his method.

$8.50

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Dorothy L.

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The Big Four

The Big Four

Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer's pulp thriller unleashes the criminal mastermind Dr.

$9.50

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

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The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit

A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked-room mystery follows Joseph Rouletabille into an impossible crime, a country-house labyrinth, and a duel of reason against deception.

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The Murder on the Links

The Murder on the Links

Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha

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The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery

A practical joke at a country house ends in death, and the irrepressible Bundle Brimble finds herself chasing a secret society through 1920s England in one of Agatha Christie's bre

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The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery

A country-house murder, a locked-room puzzle and an amateur sleuth with a sharp eye and a lighter touch: A.A.

$9.50

Poirot Investigates

Poirot Investigates

Eleven brisk cases showcase Hercule Poirot's little grey cells at their sharpest, narrated by the loyal Captain Hastings, in Agatha Christie's first and much-loved collection of th

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Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Victorian bestseller, in which a beautiful, seemingly angelic young wife guards a dangerous secret, and a determined amateur sleuth sets out to

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His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes

A late gathering of Sherlock Holmes cases by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from cryptic country mysteries to wartime espionage, closing with the great detective's most sombre and mem

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The Valley of Fear

The Valley of Fear

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The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary

Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

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The wisdom of Father Brown

The wisdom of Father Brown

The second collection of G.K.

$9.50

The innocence of Father Brown

The innocence of Father Brown

The first collection of G.K.

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines

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The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Four

The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.

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The Secret of Chimneys

The Secret of Chimneys

A casual errand draws a footloose adventurer into murder, blackmail and international intrigue at a grand English country house, in one of Agatha Christie's most sparkling early th

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The world's greatest detective is back from the dead and back on the trail.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

A superb Sherlock Holmes collection featuring some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable investigations and character moments.

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The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

The novel that lit the fuse.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins invented the modern thriller with this tale of a night-time encounter, a stolen inheritance, and two women whose lives are dangerously entangled.

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The Moonstone

The Moonstone

A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from an English country house, and everyone becomes a suspect.

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