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Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang nig ...Show more
Murder in the Mill-Race by E.C.R. Lorac
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction. Never make trouble in the village is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about ...Show more
Murder in the Museum by John Rowland
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are aroused ...Show more
Mystery in the Channel (#7 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics
The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer's crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck... Two bodies later, with ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 - and True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey; Paul Giles (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by JANE AUSTEN
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: very good
In nineteenth century England, clever, high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet is pursued by a suitor who she finds snobby and contemptuous.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library | Reading Level: good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACE This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes s most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from t ...Show more
The Cairo Trilogy (comprising Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street) by Naguib Mahfouz
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Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of Th ...Show more
The Cheltenham Square Murder by John Bude
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderAn absorbing head-scratcher. --BooklistIn the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual de ...Show more
The Cornish Coast Murder - A British Library Crime Classic by John Bude; Martin Russ Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - b ...Show more
The Hog's Back Mystery (#10 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
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Category: Bargains | Series: British Library Crime Classics
Several local residents have disappeared in suspicious circumstances at the Hog's Back ridge in Surrey. When a doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, Inspector French deduces murder, but there are no bodies. Can he eventually prove his theory and show that murder has been comm ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Carlisle (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become riva ...Show more