Mystery & Detective - Short Stories

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Double Sin and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

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Published: Jun 2012

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Story...

Agatha Christie

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

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Published: Apr 2011

Mystery Writers of America Presents I...

Jeffery Deaver

Nuclear brinksmanship. Psychological warfare. Spies, double agents, femme fatales, and dead drops. The Cold War--a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possib...

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Published: Apr 2014

Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science'For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian soci...

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Published: May 2014

Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss present their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures. The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In t...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Daily Sherlock Holmes: A Year of ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

“Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said Stamford, introducing us.“How are you?” he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive....

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Published: Oct 2019

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Car...

Arthur Conan Doyle

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The wh...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

Arthur Conan Doyle

Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on-in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Red-Headed League - Lego - The Ad...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherloc...

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Published: May 2014

Hollywood Nocturnes

James Ellroy

Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The ...

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Published: Jun 2007

Undeath and the Detective

Jess Faraday

When is a ghost not a ghost? Why would a vampire hire a vampire hunter to solve the murder of a fellow bloodsucker? If a werewolf is attacked in wolf form, is it assault or animal abuse? Is it murder if the victim is already dead? Nin...

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Published: Oct 2012

Mystery & Fantasy Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Four mysterious and fantastic tales from America's premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The collection includes "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the short story that served as the basis for the 2008 film starring Brad ...

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Published: Oct 2015

Mississippi Noir

Tom Franklin

"In these stories, from Biloxi to Hattiesburg, from Jackson to Oxford, the various crimes of the heart or doomed deeds of fractured households are carried out in real Mississippi locales . . . Are a devilishly wrought introductio...

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Published: Aug 2016

Jemima Shore's First Case: And Other ...

Antonia Fraser

A gourmet collection of Antonia Fraser's short stories of suspense and mystery. There are five Jemima Shore tales, including her first case, which took place when she was fifteen and still at her convent school, the school featured la...

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Published: May 1987

Montana Noir

James Grady

Eric Heidle's "Ace in the Hole" nominated for a 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story!A Parade magazine pick, included in "Books We Love" section"What could be a more unlikely breeding ground for noir fiction than Montana, whose wide...

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Published: Sep 2017

Sherlock Holmes in America: 14 Origin...

Martin H. Greenberg

The world’s greatest sleuth makes his American debut in this groundbreaking collection of never-before-published mystery stories set in the US. The world’s greatest detective and his loyal sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first t...

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Published: May 2019

Take-Out: And Other Tales of Culinary...

Rob Hart

Rob Hart has firmly established himself as one of the best crime writers of his generation with his acclaimed Ash McKenna series, and in TAKE-OUT Hart has collected 16 stories of culinary crime and noir that will have you savoring eve...

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Published: Jan 2019

Florida Happens: Tales of Mystery, Ma...

Greg Herren

When it comes to Florida, no crime is too unusual and no criminal too peculiar to be impossible. Florida is the one state where fiction has to catch up to the headlines, and the contributors to FLORIDA HAPPENS: Tales of Murder, Mayhem...

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Published: Sep 2018

A Darker Shade of Sweden

John-Henri Holmberg

Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing with his critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, readers around the world have devoured fiction by ...

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Published: Dec 2014

Providence Noir

Ann Hood

"John Searles's 'The Pig' combines a touching examination of pathos and mystery. Robert Leuci's 'The Vengeance Taker' is a powerful and ultimately creepy story of earned revenge. LaShonda Katrice Barnett's 'Waltz Me Once Again' i...

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Published: Jun 2015

Beirut Noir

Iman Humaydan

"Humaydan writes in her introduction to this haunting anthology that 'all of the stories are somehow framed by the Lebanese civil war, which lasted from approximately 1974 until 1990....' The crimes in this Akashic noir volume ar...

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Published: Jun 2015

Black is the Night: Stories inspired ...

Maxim Jakubowski

A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window' that inspired Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K....

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Published: Oct 2023

Daggers Drawn

Maxim Jakubowski

Edgy, twisted and disturbing, the first Crime Writers’ Association Daggers Award retrospective anthology featuring 19 visceral and thrilling stories. Featuring bestselling authors Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, ...

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Published: Aug 2022

Murder Through the Ages: A Bumper Ant...

Maxim Jakubowski

With a wide array of talent, such as Kate Ellis, author of the West County Murder Mysteries, Peter Tremayne, author of A Mystery of Ancient Ireland series, Ian Morson, author of theWilliam Falconer Medieval Mystery books and Dead Lett...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Book of Extraordinary New Sherloc...

Maxim Jakubowski

Holmes and Watson Return in These New Detective Fiction Stories “Sometimes a brief zap of great writing is just what you’re in the mood for or have time for. That’s when anthologies like his are ideal....intellect...

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Published: Nov 2020

Atlanta Noir

Tayari Jones

"Atlanta has its share, maybe more than its share, of prosperity. But wealth is no safeguard against peril...Creepy as well as dark, grim in outlook...Hints of the supernatural may make these tales...appealing to lovers of ghost ...

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Published: Aug 2017

Tel Aviv Noir (Akashic Noir)

Etgar Keret

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood o...

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Published: Oct 2014

Heart Fever

Bob Van Laerhoven

After his much-acclaimed short story collection Dangerous Obsessions, which had war as a common background, Belgian/Flemish author Van Laerhoven surprises again with five stories that shed a piercing light on our most self-destructive...

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Published: Jan 2018

Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales ...

M. D. Lake

Book by Minnesota Crime Wave

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Published: Sep 2005

Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno ...

Martin Limon

Twenty years ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring Sergeant George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold ...

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Published: May 2014
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