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Even the Wicked – Ed McBain

2016-10-15

Zach Blake and his daughter Penny return to Martha’s Vineyard, seeking the truth behind the “accidental” death of their wife/mother Mary.

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Phantom Lady – Cornell Woolrich

2016-09-14

Scott Henderson is on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. The one person whose testimony can clear him? A woman nobody, not even Henderson, remembers.

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Arson Plus and Other Stories – Dashiell Hammett

2016-09-10

Three of Hammett’s early Continental Op stories from October, 1923 issues of the Black Mask pulp: “Arson Plus,” “Crooked Souls,” and “Slippery Fingers.”

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Pale in Death – Ed Brock

2016-03-27

His past had come calling, dropping by unexpectedly, in the shape of an officially unidentified female body left like garbage …

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Polar City Blues – Katherine Kerr

2016-01-19

The universe is dominated by two gigantic factions, the Interstellar Confederation and the Coreward Alliance. Humans from Earth have created …

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The Z Murders – J. Jefferson Farjeon

2015-08-31

Richard Temperley finds his erstwhile travel companion—a disagreeable fellow passenger—dead, with a mysterious woman and a crimson metal “Z” the only clues to the murderer…

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Inter Ice Age 4 – Kōbō Abe

2015-08-20

When the Japanese scientists who’ve developed a prognostication device set their machine to track an individual, they uncover the greatest scientific conspiracy of their age.

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Obit Delayed – Helen Nielsen

2015-05-29

When a young woman is killed in a small desert town, the only person not yet ready to condemn her ex-wife is the plucky journalist Mitch Gorman.

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Mister Justice – Doris Piserchia

2015-03-26

A time-traveling vigilante named Mister Justice takes evidence from the past to condemn criminals in the future; the government uses a young superboy to take him down.

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Murder in Piccadilly – Charles Kingston

2015-03-18

The only thing between Bobbie Cheldon and marrying the love of his live is his lack of cold, hard cash—an inheritance he won’t collect until his uncle has passed away…

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The Sussex Downs Murder – John Bude

2015-03-14

“Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!”

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