Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters
10 best books like Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters (Raymond Chandler): The Bride Thief, The Dangerous Lord, Secrets of the Night, With This Ring, Gallows View, Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man, Island Flame, Wicked Widow, Pale Moon Rider, Crime Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jacquie D'Alessandro |
| ISBN | 0440237122 |
HAS ENGLAND’S MOST INFAMOUS BRIDE THIEF FINALLY MET HIS MATCH?
At six-and-twenty, Samantha Briggeham knew her marital prospects were fading by the season and she was pleased by the thought. She had no intention of being betrothed–especially against her will–to a man she did not love....
| Author | Sabrina Jeffries |
| ISBN | 0380809273 |
To prevent a dear friend from wedding Ian Lennard, the notorious Viscount St. Clair, Felicity Taylor reveals his shady past in her anonymous London gossip column. But the dauntless miss never imagined St. Clair's rage, for the dangerous rake is now short a bride and desperately needs an heir. Threatened...
| Author | Jo Beverley |
| ISBN | 0451211588 |
When her elderly husband's inability to sire an heir threatens everyone she cares for, young Rosamunde Overton is forced is forced into a daring deceit at a scandalous masquerade. But then her nerve fails and she flees, ready to give up all hope ... until she rescues an injured nobleman who just might...
| Author | Amanda Quick |
| ISBN | 0553574094 |
Leo Drake, the "Mad Monk of Monkcrest," is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance. The freethinking authoress of "horrid novels," Beatrice is searching for the Forbidden Rings...
| Author | Peter Robinson |
| ISBN | 0380714000 |
"A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently...
Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 1883011671 |
Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novel
In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel.
The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume,...
| Author | Karen Robards |
| ISBN | 0440221072 |
Bestselling, award-winning author Karen Robards brings to life two extraordinary characters--an aristocratic beauty and a notorious pirate--in a love story that sizzles with passionate adventure and unbridled desire. . . .
Lady Catherine Aldley was en route to London when pirates attacked...
| Author | Amanda Quick |
| ISBN | 0553574116 |
Madeline Deveridge is aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But she has a far more pressing problem than her reputation as the Wicked Widow. It's impossible to believe that her late husband is haunting her and her aunt,...
| Author | Marsha Canham |
| ISBN | 0440222591 |
He lived by night--the dark, dangerous highwayman who stole her heart....
"It was a fine night for treachery, dark with a pale moon rising...."
Like a wraith he appeared in the Coventry night, the notorious highwayman called Captain Starlight. Renée d'Anton watched, breathless,...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 1931082006 |
In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American...
The author of the New York Times bestseller Garden of Lies returns to Victorian London in an all-new novel of deadly obsession.
Calista Langley operates an exclusive “introduction” agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone...
| Author | Francis Iles |
| ISBN | 0752864785 |
On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annual, much-anticipated tennis party at the Bickleighs, although not everyone has much enthusiasm for the game. The tennis party exists for other reasons - and charmingly mannered infidelity is now the most popular...
Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
| Author | Margalit Fox |
| ISBN | 0399589457 |
In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder.
One of USA Today's "Five new books you won't want to miss!"
"Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like...
| Author | Peter Robinson |
| ISBN | 0330491644 |
A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no-one is willing to talk. Banks's frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that his latest case may be connected...
Washburn County Deputy Amber Monroe is following in the footsteps of her sister, Jade. She devours everything she can during her detective training in hopes of being promoted soon.
Living in small-town USA has its advantages, like a sense of security, and disadvantages, like being close...
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
| Author | Michael Sims |
| ISBN | 1632860392 |
As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training...
| Author | Liz Carlyle |
| ISBN | 1416510605 |
Cecilia Lorimer has hidden her loneliness by devoting herself to a charity mission for London's poorest women. But when a dashing Lord Delacourt takes control, she feels an uncharacteristic urge to flee. Just six years earlier, Delacourt had proved himself to be an immoral rake, nearly ruining her...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0061145394 |
It's all a grand adventure when English Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet—despite a long-standing family rule...
