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10 best books like Detective Stories (Philip Pullman): English Country House Murders, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, The Case That Time Forgot, Green Manor I: Assassins and Gentlemen, Death by Drowning: A Short Story (Miss Marple), Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt, The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me, Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green And Other Stories / The Wide Net and Other Stories, Dead as a Scone

English Country House Murders
AuthorThomas Godfrey
ISBN0892963557
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey...
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN1402711018
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
The Case That Time Forgot
AuthorTracy Barrett
ISBN0805080465
Xander’s classmate Karim tells him about a famous amulet carved in the shape of Thoth, the Egyptian god of time. It was thought to be so powerful that it could turn back time one day every hundred years. And that day is in a week!

The amulet disappeared from a London museum years ago. Xena and...
Green Manor I: Assassins and Gentlemen
AuthorFabien Vehlmann
ISBN1905460538
Do you know the comic book, which force the reader to plan for further reading?
do you know the comic book, which revolves in the mind of reader for rest of the day?
do you know the comic book, which has 6-7 page short stories but still have content, which will make readers to feel its too much of stuff...
Death by Drowning: A Short Story (Miss Marple)
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0062298143
Este es el último de los trece problemas de Miss Marple, e incluye la única investigación de todo el libro que vemos desarrollarse en paralelo a la narración en lugar de recibirla en diferido. Es el salto de Miss Marple, de las tibias salas de estar de la campiña británica, al mundo real en el que tiene...
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt
AuthorDonald J. Sobol
ISBN0553156500
Suspects who are identical twins...



A leaking tent...



Magical worm pills...



A zebra's portrait...



And a sheet of toilet paper from Spain that's been swiped!



These are just some of the ten brain-twisting...
The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
AuthorRobert Westall
ISBN0374471193
4.5 stars!

Originally published back in 1991, the title novella is one creepy story about a steeplejack working on the towers and steeple of Muncaster Cathedral. This edition also contains the story "Brangwyn Gardens", which is entirely new to American audiences.

Joe Clarke wondered...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
AuthorAlfred Hitchcock
ISBN0394412311
Collection of scary and macabre fiction from a variety of genres. It includes the entire text of John Wyndham's novel of alien invasion, Out of the Deeps, and 24 short stories by American or British authors, all written in the 20th century. Authors represented include T. H. White, Donald E. Westlake,...
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green And Other Stories / The Wide Net and Other Stories
AuthorEudora Welty
ISBN0679600027
Eudora Welty's subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. 'I've stayed in one place, ' she says, and 'it's become the source of the information that stirs my imagination'. Her distinctive voice and wry observations are...
Dead as a Scone
AuthorRon Benrey
Murder is afoot is the sedate English town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the crime may be brewing in a tea pot!

Nigel Owen is having a rotten year. Downsized from a cushy management job at an insurance company in London, he is forced to accept a temporary post as managing director of the Royal Tunbridge...
Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
AuthorE.A. Wallis Budge
ISBN0486213943
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The Mask of Red Death
AuthorHarold Schechter
ISBN0449007227
Suspense, intrigue, atmosphere, and vivid historical detail combine into a thrilling ride through nineteenth-century New York City in The Mask of Red Death. Harold Schechter delivers both a wonderfully accurate portrait of a city in turmoil and an irresistibly appealing depiction of his amateur...
Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph
AuthorAnn M. Martin
Claudia's new passion for photography has her snapping pictures everywhere - at BSC meetings, at breakfast, and all over Stoneybrook. One afternoon she uses up a whole roll of film on the Stoneybrook Bank, just because she likes the way it looks.Then the Baby-sitters learn that the bank has been robbed....
USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series
AuthorJohnny Temple
ISBN1617751847
Contributors include: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Jeffery Deaver, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu,...
One Night Stands and Lost Weekends
AuthorLawrence Block
In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller—and years before his first Edgar Award—a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine....
Los Angeles Noir
AuthorDenise Hamilton
ISBN1933354224
Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley, and Denise Hamilton.

Denise Hamilton...
Eleven
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange unspoken urges, whose cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of Highsmith's previous novels.
Contains:
-The Snail-Watcher
-The Birds Poised to Fly
-The...
The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo
AuthorJean Craighead George
Vanished?

Liza Poole lives with her mother in one of the last balanced ecosystems in North America -- the Gumbo Limbo Hammock deep within the lush kingdom of the Florida Everglades. Some may think it strange to live outdoors, but Liza feels lucky to live it strange to live outdoors, but Liza feels...
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