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An auto-mechanic and former car thief gets an opportunity from an unlikely source.
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In 1843 London, legendary--some say notorious--thief-taker Vicar Brekonridge encounters Athelney Cribbins, a law clerk and surreptitious sin-eater, who has a curious story to tell about a possible murder.
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Harley is doing community service and trying to be a Good Boy. Then two bank robbers on the run break in and take a classmate hostage. What's a guy with a nose ring gonna do?
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Amelia, a 17-year old, heads South for spring break on a Greyhound bus and is lured into the world of crime in the Cleveland bus station.
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A private eye’s search for a young girl’s stolen dog leads him to a shack at the edge of a swamp, where things are not as they appear, and where survival depends on determining who is friend, and who is foe.
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Fancy Mike was murdered last week on my watch. I was tasked to find out what happened. This was a job for a younger buck.
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Zen master who can move through solid substances cons bank robbers.
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Sherlock Holmes faces his strangest case yet. A gang of foreigners whose agenda is unclear leads Holmes and Watson on a desperate search of the infamous London docks!
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, at the request of Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard, investigate the murder of one woman and the apparent abduction (or has she, too, been murdered?) of another.
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Sherlock, Mycroft and John square off as they share a meal.
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Sherlock Holmes is drawn out of retirement by his most notable client yet—his brother Mycroft—to find a missing jeweled crown that disappeared from the Diogenes Club, an artifact that is not only valuable but holds the key to world peace!
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A Sherlock Holmes essay examining Point Of View.
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Jules Pfennig, former champion weasel warden and next door neighbor of Sherlock Holmes, recounts his first case.
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the mysterious disappearance of a number of elderly men from boarding houses and homes for paupers. Holmes’s confrontation with “The Grim Reaper” nearly costs him his life.
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Retired layabout Junior Calandrillo is convinced he has hit the lottery. Buster Muller, the town's former police chief, is convinced Junior is the target of a scam.
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A teen boy and a stranger suspect his step-father of a series of murders. It will require the boy's nerdy obsession with Westerns to uncover the truth ...
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Jules Pfennig, erstwhile detective and next door neighbor to Sherlock Holmes, is drawn into a plot to murder an already dead woman.
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A misanthrope tries to protect his property from a rapacious developer.
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A failed comedian needs money for his family. He goes out on Halloween to do his own trick or treating. Scores big only to find out he's been tricked.
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Vermont DJ Jaye Jordan takes a page from Edgar Allen Poe and flushes out a murderer with a song when her priest friend is put in an ethical bind.
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Two bitter brothers squabble over their family's past and the long ago disappearance of a housemaid.
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A cozy mystery version of an old fairy tale told from a new perspective.
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Amanda is very close to her anarchic grandmother, Bev. When Bev realizes she has only a few months to live, Amanda suggests a shocking prank they can play on the rest of the family. But what lengths will Amanda go to make the joke work?
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Stories of loyalty are nothing new. But it's still frightening what a mother will do.
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An arsonist-for-hire is burning down vacant homes in a 1970s Chicago slum for a crooked landlord, who pockets insurance checks. Dapp, the landlord’s assistant, exposes the scheme to the fire department. But is Dapp really trying to stop the fir
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When Dubois can find no other free room on a stormy night in Odessa, he must lodge at a shadowed rooming house where few last the night.
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A letter arrives for the Archivist, espousing the virtues of the incredible collection in intricate and alarmingly intimate detail.
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A noir story investigating a murder scene as two partners become increasingly suspicious of one another.
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One of three men at a dinner at Winston Churchill's wartime retreat is a Nazi spy. But which one?
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A ghost story with a spell-binding twist.
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A bootlegger in 1940s Appalachia runs moonshine to support his young orphan cousin, but the appearance of a strange and dangerous criminal known as the Dead Man threatens to destroy everything and unearth an old secret.
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Greta of Greta's Green Clean is asked to investigate after a body is found in the dumpster of a trailer court.
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On her honeymoon, her husband keeps delaying their departure for business while asking her to trust him. But as the days pass, the second Madame Toussaint wonders how well she knows her husband.
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Charlie's team loses the softball championship game thanks to constant bad calls by the umpire. When that umpire is beaten to death with Charlie's baseball bat, Charlie realizes he'll have to clear his name without the help of the cops.
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A young woman in a Gulf country stops an assassination of a foreign leader. By doing so she saves her family's honor and safeguards her own prospects.
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In a city where it's tough even for the rats, one pulls off such a notable heist, the architect of the robbery becomes a dubious celebrity.
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Outlawy Blackheart Bart's three sons arrive in Dustville intent on killing the sheriff they accuse of killing their father. They kidnap the local schoolmarm to force the sheriff to a shootout with each of them. Love and justice triumph.
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In the haunting echoes of the Boomtown Rats' song, trouble ensues.
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Mystery novelist Lily Fontaine's most avid fan suspects that the author did not write her latest novel. Her conclusion -- Ms. Fontaine must have been murdered by her husband who is now impersonating his late wife in print.
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When her best friend from childhood, Chloe Ambrose Odeon, is murdered, P.I. Helen McCorkendale promises Chloe's daughter she'll find the killer.
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DI Williamson and DC Page begin an investigation to find an entrepreneur who vanished without trace after visiting Carson’s Gymnasium.
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A self-ordained preacher, Samuel Harris, ministers to the lost and suffering, those not on the path of righteousness. His charge is to save those souls and deliver them to salvation, be they criminal or otherwise.
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A bad man is on the run, lost deep in the maze of Florida swamps and back roads. Unfortunately for him, whatever he's running from is nowhere near as bad as what he's about to run in to.
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A pair of home invaders learn that things don't always work out for the best.
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Freelance mailman Mercury Carter finds himself in Toronto on a feel-good mission delivering an elderly woman's once-lost locket, when an alarming comment by the woman about her health leads him down a dark path of rescue.
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Victoria Huptmann and her Border collie Maximillian spend winters driving Words on Wheels from RV park to RV park along the Texas coast, selling new and used books to Snowbirds escaping Midwestern winters. Then one of her customers is murdered.
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A package stolen off a doorstep in a small town keeps trading hands as a group of criminals try to track it down.
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Set at a Cajun State University: “Most of what we university police officers handle aren’t serious matters, then again, when I was NOPD, we got our share of ‘barking dog’ and ‘cat in a tree’ calls. But no baby cows chasing co-eds.”
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Holmes and Watson investigate a popular school teacher who turned to armed robbery.
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Sugar mamas, black widows, and dishes best served cold.
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Kevin tell his dinner party guests about hypnogogia, a form of hallucination. One guest may be a little too interested ...
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Sheriff Claire Williams is attending a funeral and is shocked when the coffin is accidentally dropped and pops open. There is a second body in with the deceased! She believes a crime was committed – possibly a murder - and sets out to prove it.
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The murder of an artist is serious, but not calamitous--unless a relative of the new Doge is a suspect.
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Danny and Jackson are trying out a new con scheme called Raising Money, which involves raising the denominations on existing currency. Ones turn into tens and tens turn into hundreds. All they need is a believer with extra cash.
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What do revenge, murder, and horticulture all have in common? Former NIA agent, Simon Biggs, is about to find out when he enters The Conservatory.
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A young woman, apparently on a voyage of self-discovery, discovers the guilty party.
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For Josh Zuckerman, coming home for Passover is always a challenge, mostly because of his mother. This year was no different from other years---except this year, his mother has orchestrated an Exodus of her own.
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Two sisters stumble over a dead body and uncover an old family secret which puts them in peril of their lives.
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They say clothes make the man. What they don't say is that some clothes can make the man invisible, giving him the kind of power no tuxedo or ermine-trimmed cloak could ever achieve.
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A double cross over diamonds between a fence, a corrupt police detective and a house breaker.
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Fifteen years ago, Luke walked away from working as an enforcer for Freddie Bouca. But now Bouca is back and threatening to kill Luke’s wife if he doesn’t do Bouca one little favour…
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Washed-up pulp fictioneer Archie Echols harbors a decades-long grudge against silent film vamp Tam Hinkle. With nothing to lose, Archie packs up his Colt Walker .44 revolver and decides to pay Tam a visit.
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A courier loses a case of cut diamonds and has no memory of the theft.
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A satirical noir tying together a missing pastor, a saloon sold in tax delinquency, and the second uranium rush in Utah. It's style resembles that of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 or Inherent Vice. I
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The outlaw Gentleman Bert is proud of his reputation as a cold blooded killer. When he is brought to justice for killing a man in a stagecoach robbery, his reputation lives on after his death, thanks to a helpful entrepreneur.
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A private investigator in Post WWII Jersey City can’t accept the loss of his girlfriend. The gangster that stole her while he was overseas hires him to find her because she has gone missing.
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A head of security at a casino takes an unlikely winner to his office to explain a murderous pattern he has been tracking.
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A man decides to separate a Jeopardy! mega-winner from her cash but can't decide whether murder is the answer or the question.
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When a widow and her young son are held hostage by a bank robber, they both know their chances for survival aren't good. What they don't know is that the thieves are only part of their problem.
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He got out of town quick, but now he's back with revenge on his mind.
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Exigent circumstances persuade a fiercely independent private investigator to accept temporary employment with a big agency. Rather than become a team player, he puts his deductive skills to work in his own best interests and those of a mysterious c
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What to do and what to say when your not quite sure what happened.
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Phillipe, who lives alone in the Canadian wilderness, must come to terms with the violence of his past as he helps a man mauled by a bear.
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A tragedy in three acts: In which an ex-fighter is recruited to rescue a damsel, then discovers he's been deceived, and finally exacts his horrible revenge, all in the comfort of a neighborhood drinking establishment.
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A boy discovers that his family's sudden move to a rural community may have been to escape the mobsters who employed his father as an accountant. When a hit man disguised as a priest visits, the boy acts to save his family.
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A man’s search for his missing brother leads him to a seedy rural diner, a femme fatale, and a cemetery at night, where not all the dead bodies have headstones to mark their graves, and there’s always room for more.
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A small town mindboggler that finally ends with the artful murderer unintentionally exposed.
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A high school English teacher, caught stealing school funds, murders his accuser, then disposes of the body in a clever way, but things go horribly wrong.
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After hiring a man to kill his wife, things are finally looking up for David Rosten, but after a police detective pays him a visit one quiet morning, the retiree soon finds himself on the business end of a bizarre double-cross.
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Blake had a perfect life until a financial audit threatens to expose his embezzlement. Murder is his best solution, but it doesn't turn out the way he hoped.
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A young woman goes undercover to find her sister-gone-missing at a weight-loss retreat.
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A bed-bound shamus attempts to solve the disappearance of an heiress in this classic noir.
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Movie industry, jealously, lookalikes, and one private detective caught up in it all in this classic noir with a twist. .
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Conrad was ordered to take charge of a homicide on his first shift as a detective, for a crime scene that made no sense. And just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, he met his new partner.
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A dream interpreter makes his fortune conning clients out of their life savings, that is, until he becomes the victim.
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In this comic mystery, Tate and his friend Fred's night goes from bad to much worse, while searching for Tate's stolen Great Dane, Clarence.
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George has his hands full with his old harridan of an Aunt Georgina her dog, Pookie Poo. He's finally had enough.
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South Dakota. 1966. When twelve-year-old Virginia is farmed out to work for the Schultzes for the summer, her nasty habit collides with Mr. Schultz's secret.
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"Me and Suzy planned out everything, except that no caper follows the plan."
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When a peculiar man is observed at the scene of several seemingly unrelated deaths, a jaded New York City police detective must uncover the dark connection between the stranger and the fatalities.
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Set in the early 1950s, a bitter travelling vacuum salesman is attempting to try and sell the device to homes around central California. Though he fails at selling any, he discovers that his demonstrations are inadvertently sucking up a surprise.
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A detective investigating the missing Von Radium tiara gets smacked on the head a few too many times to make any sense of things.
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When Grannie Forbes falls face first into the Christmas pudding, no one in the family is particularly sorry, but soon the questions begin. Did someone take a hand to ensure that this was her last Noel?
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Private investigator Alonzo Probe is feeling pretty good on the eve of 1975. He’s had a financially lucrative first year as a full-time investigator. Driving home from his latest job, he spots a former lover fighting with a man.
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The holiday season is a wonderful time, but there's always someone who has to go and ruin everyone else's fun ...
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Professor Moriarty convinces detective and next door neighbor to Sherlock Holmes to steal a precious jewel. Moriarty has an even more sinister goal in mind.
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Danny Bluestone, a young Northern Ranger, is on a pilot project in Fort Frances. A local politician asks him to check out a break-in at a nearby ice fishing hut. He agrees and heads off with a new recruit on a fatal mission.
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PI Barry Pool passes on a job from a would-be client he finds smug and arrogant. When the guy dies in a hit-and-run, Pool is curious, and learns that his dislike for him was widely shared, including by his wife, who may have had him knocked off.
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This is not a gothic novel. The house is sunny and beautiful. The newlyweds are in love. Everything is perfect.
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Ace detective and next door neighbor to Sherlock Holmes, Jules Pfennig, is recruited to investigate his most baffling case yet—the mystery behind a miraculous church bell.
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When the fellow members of the Strawberries Club ask Barnie Brewster for help covering their crimes, a new potentially profitable sideline is born.
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During an annual ice fishing trip, an elderly ice fisher finds out who her friends are...and aren't.
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This is a story inspired by the subversive power of women. It ends violently (so that is a trigger warning) but speaks of the injustices women have been suffering in a world, a history, largely created and controlled by men.
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A meeting of actors who portrayed Sherlock Holmes are visited by Caesar's sister.
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How a modern coin could be lodged within a six-hundred-year-old skeleton discovered in the Tower of London is a puzzle that taxes even the wits of Sherlock Holmes!
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Imagine a world where everybody is a character in a story written by somebody in another universe, a story that was not widely read. A Mad Hatter hires Shlomo Schwartz, the Kosher Detective, to clear his friend, Alice, accused of murder.
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Sherlock Holmes investigates a threat to a young Basil Rathbone and his family, a threat that traces back to their time in South Africa.
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When a plucky assistant manager discovers a dead body at her Halloween-themed discount store, she investigates her coworkers and patrons in a race to stop the body count from rising further.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must discover the whereabouts of a stolen jade Buddha in order to prove the innocence of a man falsely accused of its theft.
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When a young man seeks revenge by playing the Headless Horseman in a small town's theatrical horse-riding tour, he stumbles upon a conspiracy more dangerous than his. Are superstitions to blame, or do the answers lie closer to home?
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This is a classic cozy dying message murder mystery. Our amateur detective will bring the suspects together, unravel the clues , and expose the killer.
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An understudy is a hopeless failure at murder. Until ...
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Two young fatherless brothers play mystery games in a deserted shack until one dies. The remaining boy continues his sleuthing by purchasing a hunting knife at auction with potential deadly consequences, until a huge dog appears to befriend him.
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Sherlock Holmes, late in his life, is hired by Harry Houdini. Written imagining Conan Doyle writing with an axe to grind against Houdini!
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The Chief Of Police in small-town America reluctantly investigates the tragic death of the pitcher who struck the town’s hero out?
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Few things are more annoying than when your spouse pulls all the blankets off you during a cold night. A cross between Joe Friday and Jacques Clouseau, pompous Detective Percale investigates the brazen theft of bedding from a bumbling victim.
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Being the next door neighbor to Sherlock Holmes has some difficulties: especially when you're a detective wanting to steal his clients.
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A teenage girl in Classical Athens (5th century BC) solves a crime, and saves a life.
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Combat medic Charlie Krill is in rehab, for just about everything. But he's sober now, and not about to let anyone take advantage of him.
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A neighbor's slip-and-fall lawsuit disrupts a ten year-old boy's idyllic summer vacations of baseball and fun with his best friend. When the neighbor is killed by electrocution, the boy's father comes under suspicion of murder.
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No one could understand why anyone would want to kill Bruce Finnerman with an explosive package. Then when it was discovered that the hit was a bizarre accident, investigation led to the confirmation that truth is stranger than murder.
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The Devil in Sister Jones is a satirical story of a possession and an exorcism, or is that really what happens?
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A woman moves into an apartment building and people start to die.
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Chicago, July 1977: Two pool sharks, Meredith and Darren, think they'll score easy money when they walk into a bar and challenge two young men to doubles. But nothing is as it appears in this hustle . . .
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The Ortega brothers got far more than they bargained for when a Seminole cowboy came to the tiny Mexican hamlet of Matalo, claiming he wanted to buy cattle.
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Dutch Miller, tired of his life as a for-hire felon and retired in a small town on the Missouri/Iowa border, makes a simple mistake that sets in motion his undoing.
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A Victorian woman artist is commissioned to paint the portrait of an up-and-coming Member of Parliament by his colleagues. Unknown to her subjects, the artist is not only a talented portraitist but a uniquely successful assassin.
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A hitman has only one chance to get into a medical study that might save his life: solve the murder of the son of the doctor in charge.
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West Texas reporter Brianna Yamato investigates the death of a high school thespian. The dead girl seemed ordinary, but the drama in her real life was greater than anything on stage.
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The richest man in the city is dead in mysterious circumstances and dead crooks are buying up real estate - and somebody doesn't want anyone digging into why.
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A beautiful young trophy wife uses poison to choose between wealth and love.
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Driving a cold northern highway in an effort to reach her daughter who is in labor, Cass comes across a young woman running from her abusive boyfriend.
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Lady Winthrope is hosting the latest society dinner, and her beleaguered cook, Alice, has to feed surprise guests and still find time to sneak away to see her son--until the Home Secretary keels over dead before the marzipan tower is even served.
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Peg and Joe Donavon--such a sweet couple--moved in next door to Sarah Fernandes and proceeded to wreck her life by performing unsolicited favors. And as all the world knows, no good deed goes unpunished.
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A couple buy a house amid a crime scene
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A cuckold concrete contractor dumps concrete onto his neighbor's model railroad -- a criminal act that uncovers two serial killers.
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A somewhat-satirical story critiquing contemporary organizing/activism spaces, about a young woman seeking strange revenge and perhaps self worth after being harassed.
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When two out-of-town Toronto cops stop for dinner in an Italian bistro, they don't count on being witness to murder! Hijinks ensue when it turns out reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo and her kooky cousin Nico are at the next table.
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The proofreader at a headstone company investigates the death of a client.
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A NYC corpse actress is taken hostage with her old boyfriend and taps in to her roots to save herself and find she can play the role of perpetrator.
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When a post-depression era private investigator takes on a hush-hush job in a high-rise hotel, he has to deal with misdeeds on the upper floors. Do those count as high crimes?
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At first, the break-in at Dr. Kulkarni's veterinary clinic looks like another salvo in Dr. K's war with local pet snatchers. But the missing dog is a celebrity, and the kidnappers' identity and motivations are not what anyone would think.
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Richard is living in denial as a fraud, making a living as a motivational speaker and professional coach. He has inherited his dead father's house and the secrets that come with it. Though he tries to hide it, the truth gets dug up, literally.
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Newlyweds encounter an unexpected and terribly annoying neighbor that requires some creative handling.
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A gig driver delivers a surprising solution to a home invasion robbery and displays her talents for deduction.
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When a Slip-and-Fall Guy tries his grift in the wrong family-themed restaurant, he becomes a very unwitting pawn in a battle between gangsters and feds.
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Albert Seaton, an Australian visitor to London, checks in to the eccentric Palladium Club in Mayfair, using his reciprocal privileges from his own private club in Sydney. He's in England on business, and the business includes a sniper rifle.
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Harry is feeling a sense of urgency to identify the perpetrator in a recent murder case, but a shortage of suspects is proving to make it a difficult process.
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A small-town newspaperman struggles with the realization a deceased friend might have been be a long-sought-after serial killer.
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A brilliant British private detective is forced back into solving mysteries.
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Beneath the toes, the sand. Beneath the sand, who knows? Detectorist Mitch Mitchell combs the sand, biding his time, looking for lost treasures. When a helpless friend of his gets arrested for murder, he investigates.
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All this poor homicide detective wants is a little time off and a quiet place to fish, but dead people just keep screwing with him.
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The bank heist is way off plan. Easton, the crew's fourth man and a died-in-the-wool bright sider, refuses to let a police stand-off get him down.
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Tim Chadwick is a former cop just barely keeping a handle on his alcoholism. When a fellow barfly asks him for help recovering stolen property, it leads to encounter with the local gang and their fearsome enforcer.
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Somebody is killing old ladies who write haiku. Is it a poetry hater, or someone with a personal grudge? DS Vicky Wright and her sidekick, DC Miller, have to work out the clues in seventeen syllables.
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In the near future a detective tries to save a girl from death, who is already legally dead.
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Life on the New York City streets is hard for Gus. When he gets a chance to make a quick buck, he takes it--only to find that nothing for him is ever easy.
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Winston Stonecroft is murdered under impossible circumstances that dictate no one could have done it, yet someone in his house must have.
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A little old lady loses her cool after her caregiver abandons her and takes a joy ride in her vintage Mustang. How far will the elderly woman go to exact revenge?
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Each year when the river freezes, the abandoned, bridgeless island fort is linked to the rest of the city, once again. And something lurking within the ruins is free to hunt and sate its hunger.
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A dying Bostonian orders his kin dug up and reburied. Cemetery superintendent Sumner Bascomb can't help wondering why.
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Ignoring warnings that a hurricane is rapidly approaching, two thieves set out in a boat to pull off a heist on a remote island.
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A daffodil struggles to understand the nature of love.
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In the far future, professional thief and grifter Rali Ribhu seeks to unravel the mystery of a killer who seems to be targeting his relatives. He must team up with his sister Ypstall, an investigator regarded as the black sheep of the family.
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The crew of a mining ship falls short of a safety inspector's standards.
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A hitman learns the art behind the kiss of death from a virtuoso.
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Two newspaper reporters on assignment in the 1890s stumble onto a much bigger and more complicated story.
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An eccentric old millionaire bequeaths his fortune to anyone who can rise to a seemingly impossible challenge: kill him, prove it, and avoid being prosecuted.
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An unfaithful wife with an unscrupulous lover believes she has committed the perfect crime.
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Alex is an unlicensed private eye and fixer for the denizens of LA's infamous early 80s punk scene. When a friend's sister goes missing several days after being violently attack, Alex and his righthand man Rad comb the LA underground for her.
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When a coworker's found dead in her mother's Samosa cafe in Sherman Oaks, Saira wonders if someone too close for comfort could be responsible.
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A retired police detective wants to solve the one real mystery he ever ran into. A used bookshop, some diaries and the patrons who disappeared without a trace.
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Competition between childhood friends can be fun. But when the same friend wins time after time, the fun of it can fade ...
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Careful who you trust with the stash.
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Being a private eye in this town is a dog's life.
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A giant man who collects for a loan shark wakes up one morning and discovers he has somehow grown breasts and, to quote Seinfeld, they are spectacular.
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A man disappears off the West Coast of Ireland while on a solo fishing trip. He is presumed dead. The family are looking forward to spending the inheritance but is everything as it seems?
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Shane Decker and two of his criminal cohorts sit in a darkened van parked in the dead space between streetlights, watching a large Victorian property and waiting for the moment they can break in and rob the place. But there's a surprise in store.
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Death rewrites the script when a group of actors rehearse before opening night.
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Pulling off a crime is tough anywhere. In a small town it can be downright dangerous.
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When a bored family man and his adventurous pal find buried treasure, they try to sell it only to find themselves pitted against a criminal crew set on ripping them off. Can the two friends come away with something to show for their efforts?
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Anyone would be impressed by Paul Moore's luxurious home. Only Paul knows that it was built with dirty money, and only Paul understands how dirty he'll have to get to keep it.
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Some people just aren't meant for each other.
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The small and remote settlement of Big Rock is in trouble. Its sheriff is dead, the town is ruled by two merciless killers, and there are no more heroes left in the West.
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To save a friend, Robert Doverman must find out who has gone to the trouble to counterfeit five-dollar bills, and how it all connects to a dead dancer with a fake name.
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Six ghostly women have vowed to avenge their deaths, but the arrival of a living comrade complicates the execution of their carefully laid plan.
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Rick and Maggie are forced in a new direction, but it involves killing people.
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A rural letter carrier solves a murder by taking notice of the mail he delivers.
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The quirky detective had run through all the standard questions. The vehicle's make and colour, the driver's description, the victim of the hit and run... But he had missed one very important question: Did you recognise the driver?
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Not much crime at Cajun State University until someone steals the big Christmas tree from campus. Retired New Orleans police detective Hunter Bourget, now a university cop has to find that tree (and who stole it).
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A woman doubts her reality as certain foods, which help with her chronic condition, keep vanishing from the fridge.
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Jason Brockman has money troubles and no time to solve them. When he stumbles across the perfect extortion opportunity, what else is he supposed to do but take it? Of course, it's never that simple and there's always a problem you can't foresee...
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Even the best plans get tripped up.
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A policeman in a small Minnesota town investigates the death of a woman he'd known---and loved---when he was a child.
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Veronika convinces her young fiancé, Bert, that every Hungarian girl must have a present on Hungarian Christmas.
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Casey Baxter seems to have a knack for finding dead bodies, and when she finds another - lying stabbed in the automated warehouse where she works - it’s the start of a very peculiar day...
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Wearing the Santa suit to Drake's Bar and Grill had been a joke. But after that night officer Paul Drazdzinski wouldn't laugh for years.
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To solve the murder of a Mafia boss at Christmastime, Detective Charlie Collins joins forces with a female detective who has plenty of mob connections. The twisted holiday traditions of local wiseguys lead them down a dark road decorated with death.
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Freelance mailman Mercury Carter travels to Des Moines, Iowa, to deliver a top-secret formula to an epidemiologist that could save thousands of lives, only to encounter people intent on intercepting the information—by force if necessary.
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Gopher Hartman was an old-school private eye, or maybe a dropout. An independent thinker, he tended to go his own way in an effort to live up to his name.
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Drug dealers are disappearing in south Florida. It could be an unusually tidy turf war or something else. FBI agent Travis Tredman suspects the latter when a half-eaten dealer shows up in the Big Cypress.
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When a housekeeper discovers a body impaled on a broken vodka bottle by the Aral Sea, an entire town falls under suspicion.
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When her husband Joey calmly announces that he wants to kill his brother, Fran realises her life is about to change forever. And Joey claims his plan is perfect. But as for the details of that plan - Fran doesn’t want to know...
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A last-minute heist allows common burglar Ricky the chance to live out his dream of joining the elegant world of art theft, but he soon discovers it is not as easy as it first seems.
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Daisy Belle is always happy to help and she doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty. When her buddy, Ray Gage, is arrested for murder, Daisy will stop at nothing to prove his innocence.
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Owning a home isn't for the fainthearted, even when the weather is fine. When disaster strikes, though, desperate times call for desperate measures....
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Herman Starkey, famous author, has been murdered. Watson looked up to him. Did Starkey deserve admiration? Can Watson help Sherlock Holmes to find the killer?
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A scream in the night echoes along London's fog-shrouded streets, and soon detective Benedict Keller is on the scene to discover a deadman and a mysterious chest.
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Baffled by the case of a murder suspect positively identified as the killer in London, but who can prove he was hundreds of miles away at the same time, Scotland Yard turns to the only man who could possibly solve the puzzle: Sherlock Holmes.
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Playing the world's most famous detectives is an amusing way for Holmes and Watson to earn a living, until the wrong killer calls their bluff.
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Orson and his mother love historic Hampton, but this haunted carousel ride brings up one too many memories. Is that the Headless Horseman pursuing them, or Orson's own demons? Capture is inevitable on this carousel ride to hell.
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Minutes from defeating Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Fall, Sherlock Holmes realizes that he is being hunted, escapes into the high Swiss Alps. His journey to freedom also allows him to save a boy who is the key to international peace.
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When a derelict in a stolen boat washes up on a tiny uncharted island, he finds that its only other resident seems vaguely familiar . . .
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson help a soon-to-be-famous salesman with his at-risk position at a Savile Row clothiers.
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When is Sherlock Holmes not Sherlock Holmes? A young accountant gets roped into a game which turns out not to be all that elementary.
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Drawing inspiration from a story by Edgar Allan Poe, a frustrated writer plans to exact a terrible revenge against a friend who he believes has betrayed him. But who is the avenger, and who the avenged?
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When a family-owned costume and novelty shop in Seattle hires Tamsin and her boss to restore their wax sculpture display by Halloween, Tamsin knows they'll have to scramble. When murder happens in the museum, they get more than they bargained for.
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Dr. Watson, while still grieving Holmes is asked to investigate an impossible murder in a locked room.
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A Sherlock Holmes essay examining facial features in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle series of stories.
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When drifter Luke Grayson is attacked by thugs in a small Southern town, he's rescued by a female worker at a nearby cotton plantation--but he soon discovers that his mysterious benefactor has plans that will change both their lives.
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A disgraced ex-detective, a seaside flophouse, a favor for a friend...
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In Hilo, Hawaii, criminal defense attorney Agnes Rodrigues finds murder at her front door.
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Mrs. Bullock, neighborhood busybody, knows where the bodies are buried.
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A traffic cop bites off more than he can chew when he stumbles upon a deadly scene in the Grand Canyon.
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Never underestimate an old lady. And don’t turn your back on her either.
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People sometimes play games with themselves, but these games may be misleading.
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Pat Tierney is uneasy when her friend, Stéphane, agrees to give a stranger a lift on their return from an out-of-town job fair. An hour later, Pat wishes she'd voiced her objections.
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Suzi, a pole dancer, loses her job. She's been duped and manipulated but will take a shot at reclaiming her dignity.
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One's a magician, the other a strongman in a Russian circus long ago. They have one shared interest: the magician's wife.
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Massive flooding disinters bodies from a small town's cemeteries. In the wake of this horrific event, someone is leaving a trail of new bodies, and the local sheriff must race to figure out who--or what--is to blame.
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Falling in love with a woman who’s “too good to be true” sometimes comes with risks far greater than heartbreak.
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A library assistant intercedes when her supervisor tries to cheat the facility out of its due.
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The US Secret Service has a zero-fail mission. But what happens when an agent does fail?
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The story of an alien explorer who comes with a warning, only to find Earth's inhabitants are too paralyzed with fear to talk to her.
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Who killed a rapacious groom at Saratoga Race Course? Could it have been the stallion he cared for?
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Harold French is not a pervert, just a man with a rash. It's comical, really, all just a big misunderstanding, and Harold can prove it.
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After killing her mob-enforcer husband, Christina calls her father for help. Her old-fashion dad uses a modern technology to extract revenge and keep mob boss Joey Lemons off her trail.
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Although highly unlikely to attempt a cartwheel, for fear of spilling the contents of her purse, Molly Sullivan refuses to be sidelined at a cheerleading camp. Her sleuthing skills are front and center.
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In August 1945, when a body is discovered following a pogrom in the Main Market Square in Krakow, Ania Bielecka befriends the daughter of the victim. She vows to help the girl find the identity of the murderer, no matter what.
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Did Officer Timmy Kim fall down a well? And what's with the muffins? P.I. Phillip Prince investigates.
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A neighbor with secrets and an eye for crime helps a young couple navigate strains imposed by a corrupt boss and personal tragedy. Is he hiding something--or suppressing it?
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Tom Terrific thought he hit a deer on his drive home from the Breeze By Bar & BBQ. But his old friend Detective Grissolm had a different idea.
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Danny Thomas thinks he’s made a new friend. When the friend turns out to be a reclusive celebrity, and presents a unique business opportunity, Danny is intrigued. However, is the deal too good to be true?
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A private eye tries to leave a wartime incident forgotten in the past... but his conscious and the military police won't let him.
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Recent high school graduate Dennis Renford's parents want him to get a job, and he knows just which job he wants. Elias Smithfield has been entertaining tourists for fifty years and Dennis will do anything to ensure he gets to be his replacement
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New York private eye Eddie Shane has a secret. He is actually Captain Courage, a superhero. And, now, he has a problem. Two other superheroes have died mysteriously in the last week, including his close friend Blade Mistress. Eddie might be next.
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From the light in the hallway, John Connelly saw a pork chop hand inch through the attached shards of glass in the window frame of the door and reach for the doorknob and the lock.
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People like to feel as if they're in control of their own destinies ... but that's not always the reality. ...
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Will and Wayne are losers looking for a big score. What they get is big alright, but not exactly a score.
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A fan of murder mystery dinner theaters stars in her own murder game.
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A side-trip into rural Florida turns deadly.
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Caleb Hunter escaped from prison with ten days left to serve and then turned himself in the next day. Everyone thought it pretty damn stupid. But Hunter had a plan, and it wasn’t stupid.
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When a print of a legendary, long-lost motion picture produced by a genuine Hollywood maverick is discovered, it's a film-buff's dream, at least until an attempted screening results in murder. What could be in the old movie that is worth killing for?
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Be wary of Lucy One-Way, who fears anything left-handed: she even avoids making left turns. At Furr's Cafeteria, where she works the line, she keeps her phobia controlled—until a tour bus full of hungry New Orleans Saints fans overwhelms the buffet.
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Sometimes Trigger is the story of a dog, and of the lengths even men in society's underbelly will go to preserve their own sense of honor in the world, as skewed as both might be.
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Riddle: When is a door not a door? Answer: When it’s ajar. In his checkered career private eye Tony Atti has committed his share of blunders, but entering a house with its door ajar might prove his last.
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When an Inuit man must accompany his disabled father on his yearly trip out to sea, the quixotic quest becomes a confrontation with dark secrets from the past.
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A convicted drunk driver celebrates the end of his forced sobriety by hiring an unusual driving service.
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An undertaker turns up dead in his own funeral parlor.
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Have you ever wanted to kill somebody? I have. I did. It was glorious. My problem was the damn body went missing. Yep, the damn thing up and vanished.
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When Lightfinger Louie Levoy accidentally lifts the wallet of a homicide detective near the scene of a murder, he puts his life in danger.
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It's 1972, and Frank Wolf, a Holocaust survivor and private eye, along with his grandson, investigate the murder of a Brooklyn butcher.
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A hit man hired to kill a client's wife makes a better deal for himself, but learns the hard way that double-crosses can backfire.
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Everybody thinks they know what happened to Becky the day the tornado struck Hadleyville, Alabama. Her brother has a different idea, one he keeps buried...except for those days when the skies boil over with black clouds and thunder shakes the ground.
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After a stroke, a lover of music develops a recognized disorder called
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Treka Dunn, an investigator with the Medical Examiner's office, doesn't believe Ron Washburn when he claims his father was murdered. All the evidence points to natural causes. But then Ron mentions one seemingly minor detail that changes everything.
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Hank was a crippled old man living alone in a dying desert town. The gunman thought he was helpless....
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P.I. Phillip Prince learns that his client is trying to kill him—even after the client's death.
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If P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves solved a crime, then it might be a story similar to this cozy.
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A man of conscience, with murder on his mind meets a terrorist.
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Creed didn’t keep his promise to Leah and now it’s too late. She's dead.
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When Scott Drayco was hired to investigate a suspicious death, he didn't count on an oddball suspect. Or that he'd wish he'd never taken the case at all.
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A hitman takes on an assignment to make up for recent missteps. Is his loyalty in the right place?
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The woman was not who she claimed. But neither was he. And neither was his wife. Would any of them get their revenge?
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At last, Eli Farris has the freedom he wanted so badly, but he needs money to sustain it. Working is for marks, but he has a plan - only it includes his sister. Amber doesn't take direction well and the buzzing in Eli's head is getting really bad.
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A private eye test for an ambitious young man leads him down a dark alley.
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A dog park romance and a chance encounter with an aging mobster renew Alex Abraham’s desire to find his long-lost brother.
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During a quick stop at a museum gift shop, a retired cop finds a dead body on display. He and the shop clerk must solve the murder.
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It's late 1800s Chicago and barber Nathaniel Tall Cloud just wants to get by. Then a killer strolls in for a shave.
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A documentary filmmaker plans to film a perfect family for a year. His plan needs rethinking after he murders the mother, father, son and daughter on the first day.
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Thirteen-year-old Eddie Webber's dog was dead, his pa was a drunk, his stepmother was a witch, and a killer outlaw was on the loose. And then things got worse . . .
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A woman's husband goes missing and people suspect she had something to do with it. She feels it's history repeating itself.
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Sometimes you can't help but change the way you think.
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Green blood and trench coats and death in the rain -- an oldfashioned murder detective and his coroner ex-flame tackle a newfangled problem in this retrofuture gumshoe tale set in a small town not at all close to you.
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Crime and cats -- bad or good luck?
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Randi has a date with a chef, and nothing is cut and dried ... yet.
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A New York food tour guide brokers a deal to import a rare gourmet delicacy to the city. He discovers that what he carries, many will kill to possess.
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How far will one man go to help a brother whose earlier betrayal sent him to jail?
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When you offer a brand new type of start up business to the criminal element, you can't always depend upon them to be trustworthy. Even when they pay half up front.
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A Paris pickpocket who loves high fashion has something a high-rolling drug dealer urgently wants.
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Professional theater can be a cutthroat business, all right, and everyone is just playing a role, heroes and villains alike.
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Five people stakeout a hotel room, unaware that they are having the same bizarre conversation.
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When the man who was sent to prison for killing Hal Richards' wife shows up on the Detective's doorstep, old wounds are reopened and secrets revealed. But is the escaped convict there for a more sinister reason?
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When you're looking for a clean break and a fresh start, the Night Movers are there to help....
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Jake Walsh received a free ticket from the Gallagher Museum of Art to view an art collection and soon learned that nothing ever comes free.
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Bryan Waller is murdered one morning on is way to work. Things only get worse when it happens again the following day.
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Three weeks before Christmas, Lester Manning is found bludgeoned to death inside his study, a room locked from the inside. Just because the only way out seems to have been the chimney, that doesn't make Santa Claus a suspect, does it?
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A man with a gun bursts into a classroom.
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Military veteran Charlie Reardon, homeless and hopeless, has decided crime might be his only way out of poverty--until a mysterious stranger offers him advice. The new plan still involves a crime, but in a way that will change his life forever.
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Former teacher Roy Talman finally lands a new job, as a department store Santa Claus. But when a seven-year-old boy confesses that he murdered the girl next door, Roy is compelled to discover the truth...no matter where it leads.
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A streetwise thirteen-year-old girl becomes a gambling debt enforcer in an attempt to keep her struggling family afloat.
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When a small-town harpy returns a pair of gnomes her husband used to commit suicide in his backyard pool to their place on the lawn, pathologist's assistant Tamsin Bruce suspects murder. No one listens until it's (almost) too late.
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A young girl witnesses a murder that could change her life, and her family's fortunes, forever. All she has to do is trust the killer.
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A mild-mannered bank clerk meets his true love and gets involved in a life of crime.
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This story’s nameless narrator is down on his luck and just wants to enjoy a quiet Holiday alone in his shack, but his plans are thwarted by murder, intrigue and romance.
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Professor John Franklin, debunker of occult phenomena, is in rehab after a bad car wreck. There he finds three witches who know an old spell that can cause death when chanted - and who like to chant a lot.
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Wade angles to become a superstar pick four lotto auditor, one stage left camera flash at a time. First, he has two problems: finding his signature on-screen pose and maybe stumbling onto a rigging scheme.
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She just wanted to get home to her boyfriend, but accidentally bouncing a blind man off her bumper puts a wrinkle in Karina Cardinal's evening plans.
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Ezra Barlow, a farmer in the depression-era South, is a loving father, but he's also a drunk and a gambler. When he winds up targeted for death by a gangster in nearby Shreveport, his two young sons realize it's up to them to save the family.
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Hospitals can a dangerous place if you're a murderous televangelist with a heart condition and the man who invented the heart monitor is just down the hall.
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A former Dallas detective turned small town Sheriff investigates a series of baffling abductions. It's as if people are vanishing in their homes. When the Sheriff uncovers the perpetrator, he has a unique if troubling solution.
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When hit men called The Conductors show up at Alvy Funchess's house looking for a satchel full of cash while Funchess is smoking a pork shoulder in the back yard, Alvy serves up a few surprises before dinner.
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War is on the horizon, and the German ambassador narrowly escapes an assassin in London. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must investigate, and encounter the immortal Count of Saint Germain....
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Holmes and Watson must solve a locked room mystery with seemingly no clues.
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It is the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Victoria, and Sherlock Holmes discovers a series of puzzling crimes he can only explain in one way: the late, not lamented Professor Moriarty, who presumably died six years earlier, has returned.
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A talking chimpanzee who travels to alternate realities uses deductive reasoning to solve a locked room murder à la Sherlock Holmes!
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Lyle Scoggins is a veteran, a cat owner and a successful crook. So, why do they want him dead?
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On a space station a Holmesian character tries to unravel the events which led to the murder and mutilation of a famous pugilist.
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The children of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson live in Jazz Age New York City. They're hired to investigate a seance.
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The self-aware artificial intelligence that runs the superyacht of a billionaire who just died hosts a birthday party for him anyway--one with a special theme.
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A Victorian damsel is in distress. Can a steampunk professor and an opera singer come to her rescue in time?
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The monster of Frankenstein has returned to Geneva and reinvented himself as a consulting detective. His motto: no case too monstrous. That remains to be seen when his client is attacked by a mummy.
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Dr. Watson narrates a lost case that could not be revealed until Mr. Sherlock Holmes's death.
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Smart but saddled with a new partner he resents, Detective Martinez investigates the death of a woman in an upscale Massachusetts community.
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Holmes and Watson are on the scene when a young man has a heart attack on a train---but was it natural?
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In New York City during the Jazz Age, the children of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve a murder. Did a malevolent soul hide behind the exterior mask of a well-schooled gentleman?
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A lead figurine of The Grim Reaper leads a failed artist in New Orleans to madness and murder.
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“Neon Nights” explores the age-old question, does the end justify the means? A burnt out, big city detective now working in a small southern town, has to ask herself just that when a serial killer and the FBI come to town.
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Two thuggish-looking men. One feisty female. One overworked hotel concierge. Two waiting taxis in the French Rivera. What could go wrong?
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Private Annalee Lincoln was overseas when her little brother Ike died. The police said it was a botched robbery and moved on, but Annalee can't. Now she's back in Sacramento, looking for answers.
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Some say a man's character is his most prized possession, but what of his sanity? John Fielding, a down-on-his-luck attorney, has just received the offer of a lifetime, but first he'll have to pass an interview testing the very fabric of his reality.
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Jewelry is being stolen. All employees are scanned for metal upon entering and exiting the premises. And yet, the jewelry is disappearing. Time for Captain Elias Young to call in his prime detectives, Bartholomew Blunt and Samuel Sharpe.
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The young couple who kidnap Martin, the author of the Buck Slammer detective series, successfully collect the ransom, but then discover their lives will never be quite the same again.
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A femme fatale tale dealing with mystery, memory and murder.
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People only come to attorney Scott Turley when there's no other choice. So when a confessed murderer with deep pockets and a powerful family retains him, he sees it as a big payday...not realizing the extent of the price to him.
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When Ginny Krause heads north to escape a bad second marriage, she finds Alaska full of surprises ...
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A walk in the woods takes a dark turn for Ben ...
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A girl wearing a dog costume is performing at a county fair with a kindergarten class, when a gunman rushes the stage. Can her costume help her save the children?
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Sheriff Sherri Fine won her election by mistake, and now she's faced with a cold case that pits her against the local political machine.
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Wade comes to understand the phrase: “The chickens have come home to roost.”
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The good news: Irish Twins twins Bobby and Ronan hit the lottery. Bad news: Their winning ticket connects them to the murder of a liquor store owner.
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When your wife is connected to all the wrong elements in town and you spend most of your time tricking people into trusting you, stealing a stash of organized crime money sounds perfectly reasonable.
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An English nobleman banished for twelve years may or may not be back for revenge.
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A mad bomber is loose in Brooklyn. Detective Bragg and his partner are stumped until they look to the stars.
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When a woman is committed to an asylum in 1920s Virginia, she forges a friendship with an old man dying of tuberculosis--a man who had been a killer in his youth, a man who may be sympathetic for her want of revenge.
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When a woman feels her actions allowed her sister's killer to beat the rap, how far will a private detective go to solve the decades-old murder?
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In the aftermath of a hurricane, a young man vows to do anything he can to get back what he lost in the flood waters--but as he discovers, payback can be tricky.
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The suicide of the TV star was recorded, so why does Jon Shadows think things are not as they seem?
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I woke that morning to find a dead man staring at me through the glass doors of my patio; between the police and a couple of nosy neighbors, things went downhill from there.
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Deputy Malcolm Lamb takes on his first solo case after the discovery of a dead miner on the asteroid Psyche. Lamb must determine who killed the miner and stop a deadly turf war between corporation and wildcatter miners.
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Phillip Prince promises to try to track down the mysterious disappearance of a woman's ex-husband. A mob hit? Or was he a killer? Nothing is what it seems.
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A reporter is in the window seat on an airplane. In the middle seat is a serial killer. The killer knows that the reporter knows who he is.
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Daisy Belle isn’t a detective and there is no mystery here, but that doesn’t stop her from being on the case. An unlikely partnership will help her get to the bottom of things, even if from the bottom of a bottle.
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Some $20 gold pieces are found when ancient sunken cypress logs are being recovered in the Louisiana swamp, and a deputy sheriff threatens to plant heroin on the crawfisherman who found them unless he gives them to the deputy.
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A court employee is working at a trial concerning a murder she witnessed. But why has she kept mum about it? And what is her role in the trial?
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The assault victim tells the police he was attacked by a time traveler. Well, a would-be time traveler, anyway, ...
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A young preacher is missing and old, forgotten myths have reawakened in this 1930s era mystery. What treasures have yet to be discovered beneath the mist of Hickory Grove pond?
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A drifter detective finds himself embroiled in a turf war between appliance salesmen.
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While kids at the drug store's comic book spinner thumb through the latest issue of Sergeant Light Beam, a comic book editor and his letterer fight it out to the finish.
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The code at an exclusive club full of Mikes is violated leading to murder.
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An attorney for more than one US president looks back at a life-and-death incident from childhood that showed him more about himself than he wished to see.
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On the lam from a collapsed Ponzi scheme in San Francisco, a shady real estate developer flees to a medieval village in Provence. As the Mistral winds howl, there he runs across a tenant he evicted, an old North Beach hippie hell-bent on revenge.
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Philip Prince, a former med tech, is blackmailed by the local sheriff into finding how a meth addict met his death. Nothing is what it seems: Phillip, the sheriff, the D.A., and officials from a drug research company all have something to hide.
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Diamonds have been mysteriously disappearing from their parcels. Blunt and Sharpe have been assigned to discover the methodology use to steal those diamonds.
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Can a mature amateur sleuth go undercover and match wits with an alleged criminal kingpin, or will she only be fooling herself?
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Wheat from an eons old Egyptian Tomb? It was found by the curiously damaged mummy of the sorcerer Artocris. Professor Vorchek seeks the link between the ancient food, the fate of Artocris, and more recent deaths.
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To produce a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed ...
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Sometimes what you do in war comes back to haunt you, no matter that you did it for good reasons.
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When a bleeding stranger breaks into a cabin after midnight, the house-sitter is mistaken for a private eye. No one is who they say they are.
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PI Joe Larrone thinks he's got the goods on crime boss Harry Ruddock, but is there another rat in the city smarter than them both?
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1930s tabloid crime photographer Weegee prides himself at being first on a murder scene. But when a big-time gangster is gunned down, he’s shocked to find photographers already there. Discovering why leads to more than a front-page photo.
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A darkly humorous piece about a former police detective based in Miami, Florida, who quit the force and her alcohol abuse problem, intending to turn over a new leaf. But her past quickly catches up with her in strange and unexpected ways.
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When a Viking chief is found murdered aboard his ship, the brewing storm is the least of the dangers facing his wife. Far from shore and surrounded by cut-throats, she must find the killer – to avenge her husband and escape with her life.
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A man is grilled by the DEA as he retrieves the ashes of his brother, whose bomb killed a drug boss and himself. Except he's alive. So who, or what, is in the box of ashes?
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The death under mysterious circumstances of the narrator's beloved Texas middle school teacher triggers a series of slayings of particular resonance in the Lone Star State.
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Ivory Roberts learns that his 9 year old neighbor has a mysterious illness, but it is not the illness that is likely to take his life. The real danger comes from others who surround him including his doctors.
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It's a race against time in Boston when a self-revered notary public must save the justice system.
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Petty criminal Kenny Orslow is pushed off a bus to the County House of Corrections and finds himself homeless and friendless.
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A delay in dropping off a library book sets Marcus on the path to commit murder.
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Danielle faces a bleak future until her smooth-talking Uncle Everett offers her an opportunity to join him in his casket-sales business.
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Arriving in the small mining town of Copperopolis in fall of 1899, Georges Armadale, self-proclaimed detective extraordinaire, has taken it upon himself to solve a murder recently committed in a local church. At the standard rate, of course.
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Mystery writer meets his characters that save his life ...
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An obscene sculpture is erected in a small town and no one knows why.
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Jimmy hates James. James loathes Jimmy. But which persona will solve the mystery of the murdered art thief?
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An office supply company security director investigates the murder of a sales manager. Four salespeople had motive and opportunity. Can the firm's security director correctly identify the murderer?
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It’s no laughing matter when a boomtown is overrun by clowns. Or is it?
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A psychic detective who is not as he seems, a damsel in distress who is not as she seems and an English manor which is not as it seems.
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Mireille Cabrol, a well-known Mallorcan artist with a remote family tie to Cezanne goes missing, and Inspector Tomás Vilalta traces her to the Medieval walled town of Alcúdia, and nearby S'Albufera Natural Park. There, while painting purple herons a
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When Denny was small, his mom told him about Murderer Bill, the man who seeks out kids who've been bad. Now he's grown up, Denny sometimes wants to be bad, but the thought of Murderer Bill keeps him in check. Then Tabitha walks into his life ...
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When you need money, job interviews can be tricky situations.
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In the near future robots have replaced most cops. Mary discovers that this leads to some new problems - as well as some old ones.
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A blind woman becomes the target of bank robbers who believe she can identify them.
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A young Texas newspaper reporter has trouble fitting into the old boys' club in the office. When she's given the throwaway assignment of a four-victim murder, she sets out to solve the crime.
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One thing lead to another …
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Not far from a remote section of Hadrian's Wall, archaeologists have departed for the season leaving the innkeeper of Wycherly's on the Moor, Hans Seefeldt, anticipating some peaceful downtime. Peaceful, that is, until a local peat cutter arrives bea
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A hitman's latest assignment doesn't quite add up, leading to some deadly surprises.
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Homeless shelter volunteers discover the frozen corpse of a city official, but find their amateur sleuthing over his demise may lead them into deadlier waters than they ever imagined.
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When a prominent scholar weds a powerful lobbyist, suspicion prompts her to enlist her brother, a former fed, to investigate. As he chases leads around D.C., truth, suspicion, and its consequences begin to blur.
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The power of the written word snowballs into unexpected rewards.
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Belle Lopez, an ex-hooker working as a neophyte private investigator, is obsessed with solving the murder of her ex-boss and mentor, Leo Gillepski. Things get complicated when Leo's ghost appears and starts interfering in the case.
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Nathan Shields is haunted by the skeleton in his past. But he soon learns the real threat lies beneath the surface, where he least expects it. As he uncovers the truth, Nathan discovers a frightening reality: sometimes what you bury will bury you.
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Since Charlemagne, a gathering of elite gourmands in French chateaux country has taken on rules and a reputation all its own. Except this year the host is hauled off for murder, and it’s up to Madame Feubert to save the season.
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Washington D.C. police detectives Mike Ryan and Hayley Michaels are tasked with investigating a double-murder. When they begin to suspect two rich upstanding citizens living in a pricey neighborhood along the Potomac River, the citizens push back.
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An episode that occurred while the world considered Sherlock Holmes but a shade pursuing houseboats upon the Styx …
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This pastiche takes an alternate look at a famous fictional world. What would happen if one of fiction's most beloved characters were suspected of murdering his best friend?
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It’s 1917 in London when T.S. Eliot the poet meets Sir James Frazer the religious anthropologist to help Captain Robert Graves who has been accused of a ritual murder while on leave from the Western Front during WWI.
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The Holmes we know may not have been all we thought, nor Dr. Watson …
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In a tight job market, some academics will do anything to land a gig …
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John Watson and Martha Hudson attempt to solve a murder without the assistance of their famous friend.
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How far will a desperate writer go to find the inspiration he craves?
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On the morning of a politically motivated execution, a young journalist sees a chance for the condemned to be exonerated.
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Only Sherlock Holmes can decipher the deadly message concealed within a grisly collection of seven nooses delivered to a terrified client ... though the message, even the entire case, might prove to be something other than what it seems.
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Being an Account of ‘Bull-dog’ Drummond’s Finally Final Round with Carl Petersen.
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He started the evening as their rich host and ended it murdered. Or ... was he murdered?
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Bartholomew Blunt and Samuel Sharpe team up in the first of what they hope will be a series of adventures.
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Johnny Turner is a world class dirtman. However when a mobster twists his arm into working for him, Johnny finds himself in a world of dirty cops, gunmen and psychotic criminals. This time he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
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Brand-new deputy Josh Tumblewhite had no idea when he made this traffic stop that he was going to be interrupting a human trafficking case. When the suspect takes off running, the rookie will have to use his brains as well as his feet to catch him.
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A cosy English mystery set in the 1920s.
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The body of a former colleague is discovered in the aftermath of a car fire, and it's up to Detective Molly Fetterly to find the killer. But will the suspects confess to every aspect of the crime, or is Molly chasing smoke?
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Having more than you need does not preclude wanting more and risking all.
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A down-on-her-luck addict attends the deathbed of her errant uncle – and learns there is more to dying than death. Sometimes much more.
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A naïve tourist in the French Quarter, seeking to broaden her horizons, drops by to meet a friend-of-a-friend, an antique dealer in cemetery artifacts, and finds herself in a sticky predicament..
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Who is a better shepherd to the faithful—a charlatan or a daredevil?
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An El Chapo lookalike finds himself on the wrong side of the law.
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A dying Morgan Ayers has one last chance to protect his family.
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It’s 1939 Manhattan. Weegee, the city’s most infamous crime photographer, needs a gimmick to excite readers bored by yet another photo of a bullet-riddled gangster. What he comes up with is sheer genius—but the results are not what he expects.
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A homicide detective sets out to avenge the death of his drug addict son, but must reconsider his quest when he receives a warning along the way:
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A modern-crime retelling of: The Three Little Pigs.
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In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting expelled from military school, a cadet comes up with a plan—something that’s guaranteed to impress the school’s superintendent. Unfortunately, it involves kidnapping and a goat.
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As a housekeeper of many years, Annabelle had grown accustomed to the whims and oddities of her wealthy employers. No amount of experience, however, prepared her for the day two strangers turned up at the Worthingtons.
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At the dawn of mankind, one resourceful human sets out to solve a mystery after his chief, Ice-eyes, is killed by a vicious predator. Is Long-spear, the only witness, deceiving the tribe?
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An aging hitman agrees to one last job arranged by his young protege. But only if he takes the shot. The older man knows his gun; the younger man the tech. The hit was crowdsourced. What could possibly go wrong?
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When a much loved homeless man is murdered, the killer must be named before a mob renders its own blind justice.
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A Silver Alert, an ex-con, and a snowstorm create a deadly combination.
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A private detective is hired by a powerful man as an enforcer, and things go sideways, as they tend to do.
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An intelligent? Buick Lacross manipulates its occupants into conducting misdeeds according to their existing natures.
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A nosy neighbor gets more than she bargained for when she believes she spots an affair across the street.
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Who can you trust? Is anyone who they appear to be?
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The mayor was alone in the locked apartment where his family had once lived. The crowd of people outside had seen him go in and would swear no one had gone in before or after him. But he was dead.
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A psychological thriller told from the perpetrator's own twisted imagination.
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When the loathsome bully from your high school days traipses into your successful law office babbling about murder, are you sorry he is the suspect and not the victim?
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Judgment and crime go together. This might be a crime story, or it might be a supernatural one.
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What happens when a cop gets tunnel vision and only sees one suspect: You.
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Sergeant Spinge is the sole policeman in a town of gnomes. He longs to solve a traditional 'locked room mystery' but first he must cope with a series of impossible thefts.
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On his second day with the Computer Crimes Unit, a disturbing email propels Sergeant Hagen into a journey to the painful past--and a murder on Skeleton Hill.
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David's father has hinted at family treasure buried in the backyard … After David's father dies, he returns home to dig.
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Doctor Vane ventured to Ironfang Island seeking pirate treasure and archaeological lore. Now Professor Vorchek has gone in search of him. What he finds justifies the infamous island's reputation.
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Great artists sometimes have messy personal lives. But what if it becomes impossible to separate the art from its creator?
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A Crime Scene tech steals incriminating evidence from a crime scene, then uses it to blackmail the criminal.
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When Detective Harry Sturgis finds himself stuck with a twenty-five-year-old case, the last thing he expects is to get himself killed. Though, in truth, his death isn't entirely a surprise.
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Two pro wrestlers and one disbelieving spectator collide on a hot summer night at a seedy Alabama motel.
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During the university holidays Sarah travels back to Ben's hometown to meet his family, but when she finds herself in the midst of a town tradition is everything what it seems?
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PTSD can trigger many reactions, including paranoia. What if the enemies are not figments? Who'll believe you if you can't trust yourself?
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Retired detective Charlie Kane is lured from his solitude to reprise his role as a famous gumshoe. But will the Andromeda case be his undoing?
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Honey's Turn is a twisted his and her love story and what happens when a good love goes really, really bad.
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A New York transplant to Southern climes finds bad news can happen when things go South.
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After a once-adored professional boxer shows up dead it's up to detectives Molly Fetterly and Jim Biggins to find the killer, but they'll soon realize the killer was closer to the victim then they could've initially imagined.
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When Etta turns to Otto in bed and tells him she poisoned his dinner, Otto, who enjoys a good joke as much as anyone, decides to play along.
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An aging actress vanishes on the day of her 100th birthday.
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After the death the town engraver, his son and daughter-in-law receive mysterious, engraved messages suggesting someone in town has a secret.
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A mysterious selfie, the murder of a college student, and attacks on homeless people weren’t exactly the Christmas presents Drayco had in mind.
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When Harry Fredder decides to kill his mother-in-law things don't go exactly as planned. Gammie turns out to be a lot more resourceful than he thought and soon the tables turn.
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A man walks into a bar in a sleepy South Carolina beach town, and what happens next is no joke …
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Three desperate fugitives from a Soviet gulag arrive cold and hungry at a trapper's cabin high in the mountains. The old man offers food, dry clothing and directions to freedom, but then the food runs out.
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Looking to reconnect with an old flame? Watch your step or you might get burned!
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A young Italian carabinieri officer launches an unofficial investigation into a series of trivial break-ins at a small cheesemonger's shop in Rome, with troubling results.
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Laurel told her father not to get married.
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Rennie, a homeless drunk, is coerced into helping a strange woman get rid of a killer cop.
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How far will a mother go to protect her child?
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Bobby Earl's always gotten himself in trouble by living in the moment. But when a guard asks Bobby Earl to hold his rifle, he really should have thought more than one step ahead.
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Three teen girls, bored with their parents country club / marina lifestyle, turn to petty crime to liven up their nights only to run afoul of a murderous drug dealer.
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A man discovers that his past isn't so easily forgotten when a former associate returns.
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Shirley's dog Tendy keeps her company through thick and thin. But when her wayward daughter Moira returns, Tendy is left fighting for a spot at the table.
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Three narratives weave throughout this depression era noir that explores poverty, race, and deadly compulsions.
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Nepotism is never a good thing, especially when a small-time gang plans multiple bank robberies.
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Larry thinks that his biggest problem is his missing slippers, until he discovers that his car is gone. And that's not the most suspicious disappearance.
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A bar patron recounts a chance meeting with a notorious criminal who performed an act of kindness that didn't go as he expected.
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A hated billionaire, a snowed-in mountaintop mansion, and a fresh supply of poison—what could go wrong?
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When a rock star visits his home town, his best friend teeters on the edges of sobriety and murder.
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Susan and Allen Horton seem the perfect couple, which makes Susan’s bludgeoning death at the hands of a homeless man outside a Providence restaurant after a 10th anniversary dinner all the more shocking.
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Even in sleepy backyards, guarded by the timid and the well-fed, murders can be committed ... and upset the balance of nature.
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A gothic mystery in the golden-age tradition, inspired by the work of John Dickson Carr. It features a seemingly impossible locked-room murder in a snowbound country house.
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Moving to a new town is stressful. Discovering people who share a hobby can help, as can learning the local community's gossip. When Rachael moves, the local knitting group is a lifesaver, and with the stitches come the stories.
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A biblical revenge is fulfilled when a rogue minister justifies the murder of his brother by taking a New Testament phrase literarily.
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Emerald Love, country music star and shapeshifter, drops in at the legendary Bluebird and gets more than the music: a duet with Nashville's next singing sensation, a stolen song, and murder.
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In a parallel world, Bonnie & Clyde didn't die in a hail of bullets; they became jazz musicians. But the Bonnie who died in our reality is still greedy to be reunited with Clyde, and she fights to steal the living Clyde from Bonnie the jazz singer.
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A quirky girl convinces her friends they have spectacular powers. After their belief takes flight, an accident claims a victim, and one detective follows a hunch that there's more going on beneath the surface.
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Michael’s father always told him to be prepared. Michael’s take on that advice isn’t exactly what the Boy Scouts had in mind.
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In ancient Alexandria, Magistrate Ovid must solve an unusual crime...
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A series of controversial prehistoric paintings on stone tablets recently discovered in a secret cave complex in the Pyrenees reveals the workings of the very first detective.
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Sherlock Holmes works to prevent a scandal that could rock the very foundation of Victorian England by destroying the reputation of one of the era's most respected and beloved figures, who cannot defend himself.
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What if a Miss Marple-type of detective is not as sweet and innocent as she seems?
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Faced with minding his own business or not, the old beekeeper proves that old habits die hard.
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A locked-room mystery, with a brief pre-history of Holmes's arch-enemy, in which a young Bertrand Russell (imported from Cambridge to London for the purposes of the story) is featured in a cameo role.
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A young girl takes to the hills in rural Appalachia, but never comes back. When the sheriff goes looking for her, the search brings back painful memories of her own daughter's disappearance into the same hills. Are the two stories related?
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Tori bet embezzled town money on old Air Force swampland, and now she's in deep. As in, fake a Bigfoot scare deep. Any go-getter knows the best thing to do in a hole is keep digging.
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Dessert King Teddy Baer intends to retire and name his successor at his 65th birthday picnic, but his daughter Bronwyn and his several ex-wives decide to stage a hostile take-over.
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Police Chief Mike Ryan is having a hard night: a child has disappeared with no trace, an old enemy has just been released from prison, and a huge storm is on its way. And things are about to get even worse . . .
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An aspiring novelist comes across evidence that a man on death row may be innocent of the crime that put him there. Was justice served, or does justice sometimes need a little doctoring?
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JD was skeptical that the rich old woman kept her money in a mattress, but people did crazy things. Finding her dead on the mattress was another problem.
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Cindy was Sean Flynn's dream girl, until she met the cop who stole her away. When tragedy strikes, can Sean swallow his pride and team up with the very same cop to take on his own outlaw clan?
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Young high school student gets beat up by a policeman and he thinks his beloved and idolized uncle betrayed him.
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Just your typical family reunion on a beautiful summer day. Till the truth comes out.
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A mysterious death in the Russian wilderness. A town under siege by a man-eating tiger. And a pair of researchers who stop at nothing to find the truth.
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Bobby Coldiron is a man on a mission. He would like to enjoy life with the woman of his dreams while he's young. Two problems. One, he hasn't told the woman yet and two...he has told his boss, and his boss says retirement is out of the question.
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Evil lurks inside the tourist destination of Temptation Square and only one lonely private investigator cares.
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He was a brother policeman, so Dan Sullivan was inclined to give him a break, to extend some professional courtesy.
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When an elderly couple rent a cabin in the Canadian wilderness for their vacation, the ravenous blackflies prove to be the least of their worries.
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While the search for a young girl continues in a small rural town, a mysterious stranger hires a mentally challenged man to build him crates.
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Late at night in a laundromat, an unusual encounter occurs.
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A forgetful sheriff leads an eccentric group of characters trying to solve three puzzling murders.
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The Head of Security and a homicide detective investigate the disappearance of a road crew member from a concert in a Reno casino.
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Samantha was a spy and assassin in the war. But now it’s 1947, and she’s trying to make an honest living as a private eye, seducing women’s husbands to give them grounds for divorce. But the cold war is starting, and someone has a more dangerous job
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After witnessing a hate crime on the graveyard shift, a janitor takes it upon himself to seek retribution and blurs the line between justice and revenge.
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To what lengths would Molly Sullivan go to assist a blood relative claiming to be in potential jeopardy? Even if she wanted to help, could she adequately adapt her urban sleuthing skills to a rural setting?
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The sweet old granny in room six wasn’t supposed to find the body. But 86-year-old Betty had as good a motive as anyone for killing the man.
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Years ago, Tosh Molloy made the change from intergalactic smuggler to Witness Protection Marshal. She's particularly good at making people disappear. But now a troublesome Showgirl client threatens to upend Tosh’s perfect record…
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When a deal goes bad you’ve only got once choice. Get in deeper. It’s the only way to protect the ones you love.
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Someone has tried to kill a famous mob figure. Someone apparently didn't finish the job. Someone is in deep doodee.
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A 1950s detective is haunted by a legend from the deep.
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Smart car technology is growing by leaps and bounds; but what if that technology leaps into terrorism?
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A househusband keeps the home fire burning, while his hard working wife is out committing armed robbery.
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When a middle-aged man wakes to find a piece of himself missing, he is determined to find out why it happened. All the while, the kid sent to collect from him might not be as stupid as he initially seems.
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How many little mutilations does it take till you’re only a piece of what you once were or could be?
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Two gut-shot gunslingers try to solve a mystery without moving an inch.
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An aging writer of crime fiction ends up becoming the hardboiled inspector he so often writes about out of necessity (well, perhaps out of vengeance).
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When an L.A. cop walks into a medical marijuana shop, things appear to be normal and routine. They are not.
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When a stranger moves in across the street and threatens his family, a mild-mannered middle aged man must dig deep within himself to discover what he stands for.
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Alone in Hiroshima's Peace Park, a retired elderly assassin overhears a murder - or does he?
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Ted Milner, divorced, broke, and living in a shabby motel, learns that his neighbor has struck it rich. . . and no one else knows. Just a few bullets could solve all of his troubles.
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While tending bar, Karin reads the lips of two men planning a murder. She's never seen them before and nobody else heard them, so how can she stop them before someone dies?
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While she was housesitting for a friend in an unfamiliar neighborhood, people-watching seemed like a perfectly harmless pastime for an amateur sleuth. Then something untoward happened next door.
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An ultra-valuable tropical spider has popped up in the French badlands, where no tropical spider should ever survive. Legend-in-his-own-mind arachnologist Nick Torthwaite is on the hunt. He’s out of his element, too.
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An investigator goes undercover to discover why four ex-employees of the Lexicon Corporation committed crimes they do not remember committing.
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Talk is cheap, but stories are expensive. Our tale won't last long, and neither will its protagonist.
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A Christmas trip to London turns bleak for William and Evangeline Posters.
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An ambulance crew is summoned to a lonely street where they find a bullet-ridden ambulance. There, they find a dying man with a large stash of money.
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A man finds a finger in his front yard and investigates the neighborhood to find the owner.
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A New York City bagman runs afoul of gunmen on a Cape Cod beach and into a femme who is fatale in just the right measure.
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Old detectives never die—they retire, become poets, and try for the quiet life. But when the peace of the Southern bayou in his backyard is violently shattered, John, 80, suddenly finds himself back on duty.
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Small towns are simple places. Their streets run in grid-like patterns. So why can he not find her?
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While entertaining at a child's birthday party, a young woman becomes embroiled in the secrets of suburbia.
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A retired cop has his doubts about his ex-wife's death ... and his step son.
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An uptight assistant in the International Marketing department of a major Hollywood movie studio has to overcome his natural insecurities when his roommate is accused of murder.
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Sixteen-year-old Ephraim begins his pickpocketing apprenticeship, mentored by a notorious criminal, the Pale Shadow.
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When a controversial specimen is taken from a locked vault, every scientist is a suspect.
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When an elderly birdwatcher witnesses a murder, the killer sets out to eliminate him. But the hunter picks the wrong prey.
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One man’s work of art is another man’s weapon of choice. Or so it seems…
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Mrs Walker hates Christmas parties, but when one of the guests dies, the party becomes a lot more interesting than she bargained for.
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Elizabeth enjoys the simple things in life, such as diamonds, Prada and chauffeurs – earned them all with hard work. But Elizabeth has been kidnapped by two men who want what she has. Except Elizabeth is much more than a tough negotiator.
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Is it true love or something much more sinister?
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A life is at stake and Hal and three friends must take extreme measures or the blood will be on their hands. But is it guilt that drives them, or something else?
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An elderly woman enlists her delivery boy in the search for a crying child.
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When a failed history professor falls in love with a bad witch he discovers that sometimes fortune does favor the bold. At least for a while.
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There's a new kid at school. And she's not laughing.
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A woman with a nefarious sense of fun meets her match on a train.
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In the 1940s, a young woman returns to her Appalachian town to avenge her father's murder.
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Lust, money and a recipe for murder.
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What happens when two famous authors discuss the existence of ghosts at dinner in a London flat and they are joined by a noted third (female) author.
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Sometimes what's in Day After Thanksgiving Soup is a real gamble. …
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Ever considered writing Sherlockian pastiche? Here are some thoughts to ponder.
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Sherlock Holmes must discover who murdered a man. But first, he must discover who murdered a pig.
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The part-time yoga instructor at an active retirement community is murdered in a fellow resident's apartment.
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In a Victorian London substantially different from the one we know, no consulting sleuth is as extraordinary as Ponder Wright, the mechanical detective. Yet even his wits are tested by a murder where the suspects are all automatons.
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At long last, the maker of Sherlock Holmes's clay pipe is revealed.
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Roger Sherrington replaces Dr John H Watson to provide invaluable assistance to Sherlock Holmes in a monster-god investigation.
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At the request of Bram Stoker, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the deadly occurrences plaguing a production of Macbeth.
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They said doing time was like a river. But a river was forgotten in the ocean. Paying for the past was nothing like a river.
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An interview with a blogger brings back some horrifying memories for the daughter of a deceased crime writer with a cult following.
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Bonnie is in love with a man she's never met, but she sees him on camera every time he drives through one of Florida's toll gates. She tries to think of ways they can be together, but can't do anything about it until his wife finally disappears.
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Getting into the mob is easy, it's having a good plan to get out that's hard.
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Mrs. Hitt was a satisfied customer of her mysterious hit man. Then Detective Snapp threatened to ruin everything.
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A stranger arrives in a town and finds himself embroiled in corruption and murder.
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In Victorian London, private enquiry agent Adam Cole races to track down a killer who taunts and terrorizes with disturbing photographs of his victims, taken both before and after death.
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At the height of the Renaissance, a shrewd churchman takes extraordinary steps to protect his family's good name from scandal.
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Junior diplomat Casey Collins volunteers to work in a war-torn country and her nature gives her only two ways to manage the risk. Go numb and avoid trouble. Or live life with every nerve end tingling …
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Walter hates dirty cops and has already executed justice on three of them. Now it's time for a corrupt judge to pay.
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Some people will do anything to win, but it's risky.
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A homeless man comes into possession of skeleton key that has special powers. The man uses the key to improve his situation but it seems he talked too much to the wrong person.
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Decades ago two strangers made mad love; he never knew she killed herself that same day ... until moments before he took a bullet in the neck, meant for the Marseilles accountant slow-mo diving beneath the table next to his.
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Some people are very good at their jobs. Just as long the instructions are kept nice and simple …
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A madcap Edwardian supernatural romp through a vast and ancient manor house. Who killed Sir Reginald Gastleigh? Who, indeed?
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A crime fiction writer, frustrated with his mountain of rejection slips, kidnaps a magazine editor and unwittingly discovers what true crime is all about.
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When her brother Johnny comes home to roost, Teri is ready.
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The horrible movie adaptation of Robert Caldwell's novel killed his literary career. But Jason Stearne wonders if Caldwell's revenge got him murdered.
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The mysterious death of a retired fortune teller. Is it murder? Suicide? Or something else?
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Uncle Charlie usually refuses to loan out money, but when he does you better not renege. Even his favourite nephew was not immune.
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A blind man is the only witness to a murder. Detectives sort through the clues he provides.
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A show-down at a small tavern defines characters on both sides of the gun control issue..
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Artist, Tru Jameson, gets in deep when he answers the call of a friend who ran away with the circus. Evie's partner in her knife-throwing act has disappeared and she asks Tru for back up in finding the rumored, illicit after-hours show.
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A cell of the Melbourne mafia meet to discuss the issue of a recalcitrant member. With the Don's power waning, and each party harbouring his own ulterior motives, the conversation at dinner takes them to places they could never have imagined.
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What do you do when the girl you love doesn't love you back? Murder is always an option.
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A birth injury takes control of a man who transforms into a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde murderer.
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Truth is stranger than fiction when a young tennis pro woos and wins the wife of the world's most famous author.
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A bank heist getaway goes horribly wrong.
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To kill and kill is the only way this aged employee can get ahead.
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An Elizabethan law student investigates a curious case.
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Curious old Mrs Walker investigates the death of the local barmaid when the killer dumps the body in her back garden.
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Jackie Plumm is the hottest television star of 1950, but when he turns up murdered, it's up to Buddy Barker, his comedy stooge, to find out who wanted his boss dead: the mob, the government, or one of his co-workers.
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In the six years I spent looking for David Alamont, it never occurred to me that I might actually find him.
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Two thousand dollars richer and with a dead client, John LeGrand must now find what happened.
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When Jed Pinto unlocks his subconscious, his muse paints a scene of rare interest to a most unusual patron.
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Would a professor just elected president of his university kill himself?
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While on vacation, a sweet pair of senior citizens turn the tables on the world's worst serial killer.
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He can never undo what he did, but maybe he can atone for his sin.
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A down-and-out millennial scours dark bars searching for an estranged friend who has disappeared into thin air.
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Private Investgator Adam Pike's latest case strains him to the breaking point as he pits himself against bullets, mobsters, and a failed case from his time on the job that cost an innocent girl her life.
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It's a whirlwind marriage for Cory Moss. Then his wife dies of a drug overdose and he's the only suspect.
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A PI travels to east Texas in search of a missing young man but finds more than he bargained for.
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Two career kidnappers approach their last grab, but their loss of nerve may cost them everything.
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“Beyond the Grave” is the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s efforts to discover the killer of his child-bride, Virginia Clemm.
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A ruthless interrogator for a private enterprise
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A heist turns into something unexpected
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Crags was determined to face life - and death - on the streets the same way he did in war. Alone.
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With the family business failing, Sal D’Amico is tempted by an unusual offer to bring back the boom times and carry on the tradition.
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Two groups of street performers who are jockeying for prime position in The French Quarter of New Orleans both try to court the unnamed narrator to inflict damage upon the other group.
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Two L.A. losers concoct a car theft scheme perfect for their city and it works like a charm, until it doesn't.
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Bodies don't stay buried in Florida
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What is the point of casting a shadow, if those who stand within it don’t feel its chill?
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Real secret agents lead lives full of intrigue, and danger. But when a spy goes missing, could it be because of bad reading habits?
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The widows of three drowned sailors plot to extract restitution from the miserly ship owner by stealing a valuable piece of ambergris.
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Merrill Ross has never been lucky—and now that his plan to escape his gambling debts has failed, he finds himself fighting for his life.
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When he’s framed for murder, an elderly book dealer must discover which of the guests at Sir Reuben’s dinner party wanted to kill his charming young ward.
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Southern hospitality isn't always so hospitable.
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Assigned to the Office of Executive Development in an organization that won’t fire anyone, Bob Haas finds more hazard than he expected on the fast track.
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A Roman soldier's gruesome murder threatens the legion's honor and a precarious peace with a conquered, but still hostile Celtic tribe.
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A hitman gets more than he bargained for when he accepted a job to take out a guy named Nick.
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A Native American sheriff gets some unlikely help solving a murder mystery -- from the ghost of Billy the Kid.
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Warren Pace is the CIA's most senior field agent, and has a wealth of experience—if he can remember it.
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Finally, after thirty years, a mysterious disappearance is solved by retired LAPD Detective Cliff Stover—or maybe not.
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When Lord Imhotep's cook is found murdered, it sets of a chain of events that his young cousin Anitepsut seeks to unravel before a friend loses her life.
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A canoe trip on a swollen river, a baby lost, a new husband with a love for campsites with high vistas--what else could a woman want to become unencumbered?
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If you could kill anyone with a wish, whom would you choose?
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Is the race always to the swift -- even on the moon?
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When contractors open your wall, you're in for a mess of trouble.
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What's it take to kill an old woman? One less idiot.
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A fictional tale based on a factual lighthouse islanded a mile off coast, where the four keepers tending to this seaward lamp begin to distrust and suspect one another of strange happenings when no man claims the actions as his own.
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Years after Florence's two friends disappear into the woods, one returns to her life, forcing her to confront her flawed memories of that fateful day.
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If an amateur scientist can't find a ghost, what can he do? Make one!
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When they suspect a coworker of cheating in the office dead pool, two experts in risk take a big chance to try to catch a killer.
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A couple make their living targeting lonely hearts for easy cash, but nothing's ever easy in a world of lies, greed, and jealousy.
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Sherlock Holmes must find who is responsible for a man's death .... before a mile-long bridge opens!
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An incompetent escape artist manages to disappear from his full-body cast.
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The second most gruesome start of an investigation that Sherlock Holmes ever conducted!
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Dr. Frederick Treves enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to investigate the suspicious death of his famous patient,
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Recovering Coke Queen Finds Her Voice
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He couldn't stop writing stories, and she couldn't take it anymore.
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Murder will not lie easy in Ellen Cobble's knot of lies, secrets, and the supernatural.
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Sometimes she's the only one standing between you and the bad guys.
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A rookie cop investigates the mysterious slayings of Rodney Rhodes, Tillie and Jacqui Gleason, and trips up a cunning killer.
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He stole some money from a mobster. Now he has to steal enough to pay it back, or die trying.
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Trapped in a cycle of violence and manipulation, a British crime writer takes the knife into his own hands.
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When a fellow member fails to upload his fitness data at the end of their group's weekly challenge, other members want to know why.
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An old man receives a letter that threatens to expose the dark secret of his past
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A Vietnam veteran has to escort a competitive eater to a contest in Philadelphia, but what they don't know might hurt them.
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Will Juut die trying to collect on his dead former friend's unpaid debt?
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In the days before World War I, German saboteurs succeed in blowing up the munitions stored on Black Tom Island, but they fail to reckon with librarian Beatrice Winser.
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A young woman is abducted by an artist who uses his paintings to enlist her aid against an imminent threat.
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Christmas mystery story about the adventures of a wannabe burglar
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Clogged drain? Troubled marriage? The plumber will fix it.
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I didn't realize, the first time I met him, that this client was dead...
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One year after her mum disappeared, Mandy's family gather to remember her.
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Old man takes law into his own hands and District Attorney finds a way to cover up the murder.
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A small town sheriff investigating a ritualistic homicide finds links to a similar crime that has remained unsolved for twenty years.
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A mafia defector is rightfully paranoid for his life, after he agrees to cooperate with the FBI.
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Who better to stage a haunted Victorian than tree-hugging, vegetarian, observant-of-detail interior designer Becki Green?
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A rural doctor finds the bear didn't kill the meth cook.
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Park ranger Neil Brody has his hands full when anarchists attending a nearby music festival commit potentially murderous mayhem at a park campground.
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Four on a lifeboat, adrift at sea, but who tells the truth?
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An inmate at Attica state prison recalls the tragic events of a summer night in Harlem.
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Detective Mark Gibbon cleans up a few last details before retirement by shooting a deacon at the cathedral.
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Six tiny mason jars, half full of water, sparkle in the sunlight.
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When a greenhorn Brit tries to outwit the laws of physics, frontier law responds.
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Divorce turns deadly in Bitter End when serial bride Louise Tellier Hannington Brown hires her best friend to assess her husband's...assets.
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A suicide's widow searches for her friend, a hoarder and a bridesmaid from her wedding.
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In a document put into a time capsule, a man describes the events that led him to murder his father.
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It's not enough to know who did the crime. You have to catch them.
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Max Kalb, deli counterman in 1925 Brooklyn, NY, finds himself involved in a missing person case that six of his mobbed up regular customers may have done.
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Katherine Carney keeps a dental appointment she won't forget--and won't remember.
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A con gets conned.
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Forest fires are devestating, destroying everything in their path, but but when the fire passes, new life grows
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The story of a paranoid busy-body who decides his new neighbour is a serial killer. But could he be right?
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Neil Brand solves two murders at the Knightsbridge movie studio.
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A priest serving a parish in a Korean village offers himself as bait to nab a killer
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A PI's exwife dies leaving two and possibly three wills, and he's suckered into figuring out which is the authentic one.
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Elderly widow Helen McKinnon leads a quiet life now that she's retired, but discovering a child in her backyard with sinister connections may change that.
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A reporter investigates the murder of an escape artist who was shot to death while inside a sealed coffin.
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Charlie Main discovers some secrets on Beale Street he wishes he'd not.
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The Chicago Blade's homeless freelance newspaper reporter finds himself covering front-page news in suburban Gravel City.
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A detective must use her wits and modern technology when a criminal catches her tailing him.
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Struggling to come to terms with a recent breakup, a college student planned the perfect murder, or so he thought.
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Mad at the Hatter, who will kill him first: Tweedledum, the Queen of Hearts, or a March Hare?
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Blackmailing a hitman for the mob is rarely a smart proposition.
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An Ohio private investigator seeks a runaway girl in Florida, but when he discovers the sordid circumstances of her death, he decides to get justice for her grieving parents.
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A wealthy man is found murdered in his locked bedroom and it's up to Detective Tubert to figure out how the seemingly impossible murder was committed and by which of his heirs.
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A possessive man warns his wife against peeping pervs while preparing for his own evening of peeping.
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Neglected by her parents, a lonely girl idolises a police officer and tries to solve the murder of her teacher.
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In a story that blends mystery with horror, artist Megan Walsh decides to spend a few quiet weeks in Persistence, South Dakota, a small town where everybody already seems to know her, even though she’s never been there before; too late, she realizes
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A divorced school principal struggles to raise his children.
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When a herd of unicorns go missing, it's up to Sheriff Dan Morgan to sift through a cast of colorful suspects to find the real thief.
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A lady believes information she has given has led to the end of a serial killer's reign.
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Could there be a connection between a wealthy woman's home development project and the jewelry thefts in her neighborhood?
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Playing stand-in for a famous Hollywood actress should have been the role of a lifetime.
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A detective story with a difference by K D Holdsworth
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What's Thanksgiving without (almost) everyone's favorite dish? Potentially deadly, Becca learns, when her aunt's cranberries go missing.
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What happens when a war wound removes your conscience?
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When her father is murdered, Molly Capriccioso is considered the prime suspect, but for the record she had nothing to do with it.
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A famous actress dies during what appears to be a robbery.
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A nocturnal serial stabber has a small town on edge.
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When a madam hires Jack Gardner to avenge one of her girls, Gardner learns that power and money always insulate the rich from the consequences of their actions.
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A retired detective finds himself embroiled in a murder at an auction house.
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Auditors balance the scales of justice, as well as the books.
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Julius Caesar has to solve a client's murder quickly or risk the collapse of his political career.
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After her Episcopal Priest boss is murdered, the secretary learns some lessons about pride.
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The Bochent Street Bridge Club has a way of murderously helping its members.
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Abel needs to sell the Volvo—but the dead man in the trunk makes it evidence until his murder is solved.
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An English professor, shot dead in his office -- a violent dispute over academic disciplines, or something more prosaic, and more sinister?
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A mystery short story by Nikki Dolson. A father and daughter reunite but there aren't any hugs or happy endings to be found.
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Jack Daniels and married blondes are a deadly combination.
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