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10 best books like The Puzzle of the Silver Persian (Stuart Palmer): The Book of Happenstance, Rock Bottom, Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography, Tahoe Blowup, The Herring Seller's Apprentice, Reversion, Poor Poor Ophelia, Boston Blackie, The Case of the Constant Suicides, The Case of the Buried Clock

The Book of Happenstance
AuthorIngrid Winterbach
A middle-aged lexicographer, Helena Verbloem, travels alone to Durban to assist in the creation of a dictionary of Afrikaans words that have fallen out of use. Shortly after her arrival, her apartment is burglarized, and her collection of precious shells, shells that she had been collecting for a...
Rock Bottom
AuthorSarah Andrews
Rivers, oceans, streams, lakes—it doesn't matter what shape it takes, Em Hansen is terrified of the water. She hasn't shared her phobia with her new husband, Fritz, and when his best friend, Tiny, organizes a month-long, private, white-water rafting trip through the Grand Canyon as a wedding gift,...
Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography
AuthorTom Williams
ISBN1845135261
A major new biography of the writer who, more than any other, has defined modern crime fiction What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters...
Tahoe Blowup
AuthorTodd Borg
Owen McKenna has moved to the Tahoe area after a life changing event that occurred when he was a policeman in a populated California city. This is the second book in the series. A forest fire starts below his cabin and a body is found. Notes start arriving from the arsonist who tells what the results of the...
The Herring Seller's Apprentice
AuthorL.C. Tyler
ISBN0230529658
Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle, a diminutive but determined individual who claims to enjoy neither the company of writers nor literature...
Reversion
AuthorAmy Rogers
ISBN1940419018
Rabies kills. Can it also cure?

Tessa Price, PhD, knows what it’s like to lose a child to a genetic disease. To spare another mother this pain, she invents a radical new gene therapy that might save the life of seven-year-old Gunnar Sigrunsson. Unable to get regulatory approval to treat Gunnar...
Poor Poor Ophelia
AuthorCarolyn Weston
ISBN1941298494
THE BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER THAT BECAME THE HIT TV SERIES
"THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO"

It’s the turbulent 1970s, a time of social upheaval. The generation gap has never seemed so wide and perilous, especially for veteran Santa Monica homicide detective Al Krug and his new partner, university-educated...
Boston Blackie
AuthorJack Boyle
Boston Blackie is a man who has been on both sides of the law. As originally created by author Jack Boyle, he was a safecracker, a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television, the detective Boston Blackie...
The Case of the Constant Suicides
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
ISBN0060810165
Having lost all his money in hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes, old Angus Campbell has nothing to leave his heirs but the proceeds of his life insurance policies. After he falls to his death from a locked bedchamber in the tower of Shira Castle in the Scottish Highlands, his family gather. They are...
The Case of the Buried Clock
AuthorErle Stanley Gardner
ISBN0671755226
When the evidence on the murder of an embezzler points to the victim's wife, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason for help. It's up to the legendary legal eagle to unravel the case's most baffling mystery--a buried clock at the scene of the crime. But as time runs short, the ticking of the clock...
Killer's Wedge
AuthorEd McBain
Her game was death -
and her name was Virginia Dodge. She was out to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she didn't care if she has to kill all the boys in the 87th Precinct to do it.

So Virginia, armed with gun and bottle of nitroglycerin, spent a quiet afternoon in the precinct house,...
Home Sweet Homicide
AuthorCraig Rice
ISBN0915230534
All “hash-e-lul squared” breaks out when a mystery writer’s three kids try to solve a murder.

That’s “hell” in the King Tut alphabet used by the three Carstairs children, Dinah, April and Archie, who feel that life will be a lot better if their overworked widowed mystery-writing...
The Last Confession: A Crime Novel
AuthorSolomon Jones
ISBN0312580207
Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960?s South Philly, Detective Mike Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals. That skill served him well during his thirty-one years in homicide. But it never stopped the nightmares. The screams in the sanctuary still...
The Boy Who Shoots Crows
AuthorRandall Silvis
A riveting new psychological thriller from a "a masterful storyteller" (New York Times Book Review). Yesterday, a local boy went missing in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Transplanted painter Charlotte Dunleavy was used to seeing him go into the woods, rifle in hand, to shoot at crows. Suffering...
The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Eugene Vidocq, Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
AuthorJames Morton
ISBN0091887968
Eugene Vidocq was born in France in 1775 and his life spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the 1848 revolutions. When Vidocq himself published his memoirs they were an overnight bestseller — a European publishing sensation. He was the Morse, the Guv'nor, the James Bond of his day.

A...
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...
The Yom Kippur Murder
AuthorLee Harris
ISBN0449147630
This is a cute murder mystery. A woman, Chris, who had been a nun for 15 years leaves the convent and befriends some older people in an apartment complex in New York City. When one of them is found murdered, she resolves to figure out what happened.
Meanwhile she has met a man she thinks she cares about,...
Triple Shot
AuthorSandra Balzo
ISBN0727880799
The new Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery - There’s a chill in the Wisconsin air, and it's a shot in the arm – a triple espresso shot – to Uncommon Grounds, the Brookhills coffeehouse owned by Maggy Thorsen and real estate maven Sarah Kingston. Their new autumn drink is a huge success. But two...
The Hand of Fu-Manchu
AuthorSax Rohmer
ISBN0857686054
Dr Fu-Manchu is back once again! His very existence seemingly proves him immune from natural laws, a deathless incarnation of evil! Brand new editions of the world-famous novels featuring one of the most iconic characters of the 20th Century, standing alongside Sherlock Holmes and James Bond.

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