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10 best books like Canto for a Gypsy (Martin Cruz Smith): The Saint In New York, Let's Put the Future Behind Us, The Singing Detective, Pearls are a Nuisance, The Cape Cod Mystery, Midnight Plus One (Crime Masterworks), Selected Novels and Short Stories, Arthur and the Lost Diary, Schism, The Best American Mystery Stories 2004

The Saint In New York
AuthorLeslie Charteris
ISBN0460022636
In a few weeks time my family & I will be on holiday in New York, so what better way to get in the mood than by reading one of my favourite novels featuring the famous Simon Templar.
This may be the fourth (or fifth ?) time I've read this book & it's as enjoyable as ever. Charteris wrote this way back...
Let's Put the Future Behind Us
AuthorJack Womack
Former bureaucrat Max Borodin is one of Moscow's most successful businessmen. He strolls through the wreckage of today's Russia with ease - convincing people to do his bidding, providing its citizens (both friends and clients) with the luxury goods they covet, and generally leading a prosperous...
The Singing Detective
AuthorDennis Potter
ISBN0571145906
I remember when this was first shown on television – I remember the effect it had on me. That television could be like that! Here was something that proved television could be something more than mindless drivel. Of course, I was wrong – and The Singing Detective was just the exception that proves...
Pearls are a Nuisance
AuthorRaymond Chandler
ISBN0140108998
'"Damn You, Eichelberger!" I said, and hit him with all my strength on the side of the jaw. He shook his head and his eyes seemed annoyed.'
Walter Gage is hired by his fiancee to find Mrs Penruddock's stolen pink pearls. His investigations need to be discreet because it would be embarrassing if word...
The Cape Cod Mystery
AuthorPhoebe Atwood Taylor
ISBN0881500461
1931, #1 Asey Mayo, with Miss Prudence Whitsby, Cape Cod
nasty author gets his head bashed in - well, he *did* seem to enjoy making enemies, so there's lots of suspects, including several of Miss Prudence's visitors - and friends; classic small-town cosy mystery, three-and-one-half stars.

When...
Midnight Plus One (Crime Masterworks)
AuthorGavin Lyall
ISBN0752867172
Midnight Plus One is considered to be one of Gavin Lyall's best novels and one of the few still in print (at least according to my Internet research). Published in 1965 it is a classic "Euro-thriller" that is part travelogue and part shopping catalog. The action sequences take us across France and Switzerland...
Selected Novels and Short Stories
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393080137
Patricia Highsmith's dark talents, obsessive interest in love and murder, and macabre sensibility produced some of the most influential and deeply unsettling fiction of the twentieth century. For the reader uninitiated in the deadly world of her canon, this collection offers the first serious...
Arthur and the Lost Diary
AuthorMarc Brown
ISBN0316115371
Summary: This book is about Sue Ellen and her diary. While Sue Ellen was in the library, she lost her library and was fearful that somebody took it. All of her friends find out that the diary is gone and wonder what is so private about it. They instantly think it is because Sue Ellen wrote about them so they...
Schism
AuthorBill Granger
ISBN0450049027

After twenty years in the Cambodian jungle, Father Leo Tunney has staggered out--with a secret of global importance.
What does Father Leo Tunney know?
Washington, Moscow, Vatican City and an international bank want to find out--at any cost.
So does a cool, clever U.S. agent: Deveraux--code...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2004
AuthorNelson DeMille
ISBN0618329676
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Intercom Conspiracy
AuthorEric Ambler
ISBN0006146457
Charles Latimer is back.

Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to unlikely hero, academic and novelist Charles Latimer in The Mask of Dimitrios, Latimer returns in The Intercom Conspiracy.

Now a bestselling author promoting a new book, Latimer steps in to help Theodore...
The Bunny Years: The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs: The Women Who Worked as Bunnies and Where They Are Now
AuthorKathryn Leigh Scott
ISBN0938817175
Nostalgic easy, name dropping read. It was a fair and accurate detailing from the mouths of the women who lived and/or worked within Playboy clubs as Playboy Bunnies. Most of the stories are from the original groups in New York and Chicago during the mid-1960's. The costuming methods, rules and training...
Shaman Pass
AuthorStan Jones
ISBN1569474133
Once known as Eskimos, the Inupiat people of Alaska and Canada have a place in our American myth. The Nathan Active series of mysteries explore these First Nations Americans who are synonymous with toughness and endurance. These traits are present both physically and psychologically in this fast...
Red Chameleon
AuthorStuart M. Kaminsky
ISBN0804104654
A Hunter
The violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past. But as his search narrows toward one feared and elusive man, the trail winds back to the most unexpected and dangerous place for...
The Boy Who Ate Fear Street
AuthorR.L. Stine
ISBN0671001833
He just keeps eating, and eating, and eating... Sam Kinny used to be a picky eater. He hated to try new foods.

But not anymore. Now he eats everything he sees.

Paste to pepper. Dishwashing soap, and dog food, and dirt.

"Everything."

Sam wonders: can it be because of...
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
AuthorJohn Mortimer
Ever bake or cook a lot more of something than you should have just because once you got started you realized how awesome that thing is? I once cooked and ate a pound of bacon by myself. It was awesome and it nearly killed me...but mostly it was awesome.

Rumpole and the Age of Miracles was so enjoyable...
Dead Low Tide
AuthorBret Lott
ISBN1400063752
In this long-awaited sequel to The Hunt Club, set in the swampy South Carolina Lowcountry, New York Times bestselling author Bret Lott returns with a literary page-turner about murder and family secrets. Though Dead Low Tide continues the story of Huger Dillard, this haunting work of fiction brilliantly...
Black Butterflies
AuthorJohn Shirley
ISBN0843948442
finally finished this one; ugh what a chore. it was just sitting on my Unfinished shelf, staring me down, and finally i couldn't take it anymore.

Shirley knows how to construct a story, that can't be denied. he has interesting themes, can set a tone immediately, and his characters are diverse...
Stamping Butterflies
AuthorJon Courtenay Grimwood
ISBN0553383779
From acclaimed author Jon Courtenay Grimwood comes an exotic new novel that defies expectation at every turn. A mystery, a thriller, and a cutting-edge sci-fi adventure all in one, Stamping Butterflies bends time, genre, and consciousness itself to tell the spellbinding story of two worlds, three...
The Seduction of Peter S.
AuthorLawrence Sanders
ISBN0425124622
3.5 Stars. Lawrence Sanders must have had the confidence to write this after establishing a career of more mainstream novels and genre structure because this is a plotless series of vignettes held together by the character piece of Peter, a failed actor who fights to succeed at the best role yet, that...
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