Peter Lovesey
63) Sergeant Cribb
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Sergreant Cribb solves mysterious crimes against the backdrop of Victorian England.
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On Leap Year Day in 1964, an attractive teenager called Carole Jeffries was strangled in a Liverpool park. The killing caused a sensation: Carole came from a prominent political family and her pop musician boyfriend was a leading exponent of the Mersey Sound. When a neighbour confessed to the crime, the case was closed. Now, more than thirty years later, Ernest Miller, an amateur criminologist, seeks to persuade lawyer Harry Devlin that the true culprit...
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Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a time of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. From the hardships and fear of a World War, with Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, to the trauma of being parted from ones parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For...
67) Sergeant Cribb
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From the vulgar brothels of London's fog-filled streets to Windsor Castle, Sergeant Cribb maintains a level head and a wry sense of humor as he unravels crimes in Queen Victoria's England and exposes the vile deeds of Victorian criminals.
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Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed whodunits by five acclaimed masters of mystery and suspense. Multiple award-winning, bestselling authors provide the literary thrills and chills in this masterful collection of five ingeniously puzzling mysteries that...
70) Dead gorgeous
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A black comedy in the tradition of Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Two very different women, one shy, one flamboyant, meet and discover a common bond, they are unhappily married. A plot is devised to eliminate the unwanted husbands.
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In recent years, colleges and universities have become known for their “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces”-but as the 18 authors who penned stories for this powerful new anthology can tell you, there's plenty of danger still lurking behind the stolid stonework, leather-bound volumes, and thickets of ivy. Award-winning editor Lawrence Block has assembled a Who's Who of literary luminaries and turned them loose on the world of academia, where...