| 1. |  | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
from Walker & Company
Price: $16.47
Customer Review:
I've always been a big fan of in "whodunits" and historical novels, so I was pretty excited when I saw this book come out and immediately had to snatch it up. Summerscale writes a great novel of a murder mystery set it gothic Victorian London, where the family are the only suspects. The case proves... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Spark Notes And Then There Were None
from SparkNotes
Price: $5.95
Customer Review:
Let me say this- I'm a sucker for mysteries, and for a time, Agatha Christie used to be one of my favorite writers. However, this doesn't seem like an Agatha Christie novel. It seems to be more along the lines of a Phillip Margolin- and yet he is able to do it more effectively.
My issue with... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Perfectly Plum: An Unauthorized Celebration of the Life, Loves and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter (Smart Pop series)
from Benbella Books
Price: $12.21
Customer Review:
Perfectly Plum: My wife said it was an ok book, but not what she expected tho. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Scarpetta Collection Volume I: Postmortem and Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta)
from Scribner
Price: $21.02
Customer Review:
the first of the great scarpetta novels is very calculated and interesting mrs cornwell is a very safisticated and cunning author as is her characters.really enjoy her work | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles
from Bloomsbury USA
Price: $13.60
Customer Review:
"The main premise of detective criticism is this: many of the murders narrated in literature were not committed by the people accused by the text. In literature, as in life, the true criminals often elude the investigators and allow secondary characters to be accused and condemned. In its passion... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
from Harper Paperbacks
Price: $11.92
Customer Review:
I love Tony Hillerman's reading of he work. His Oklahoma voice adds credibility and sympathy to very interesting people. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
from William Morrow
Price: $23.07
Customer Review:
This is a coffee table book filled with interesting essays to complement Elizabeth Peter's delightful Amelia Peabody Emerson mysteries about a family of archaeologists in Victorian and Edwardian Egypt.
The essays cover the history of Egyptology, the British in Egypt, and Islam, as well as... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
from University of Utah Press
Price: $13.57
Customer Review:
Tony Hillerman's novels swept through their readership every few years like a flash flood in the Four Corners. They weren't great literature. They weren't even very well written sentence by sentence, but they expressed a kind of warm integrity and humanity that many people preferred to the... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Secret Adversary
from Cosimo Classics
Price: $11.95
Customer Review:
This version for some reason does not properly fit the Kindle. There are far too many spaces where non should exist and sentences are seperated for several lines inbetween. You constantly have to advance to the next page as very few sentences fit on the screen.
Try another version of this... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. | ![]() | The Beautiful Cigar Girl
from Penguin Audio
Price: $26.37
Customer Review:
author pursued two story lines and really did justice to neither. as an earlier review states, there was no real solution to the murder mystery. I learned quite a bit about Poe(he could have not invented a more tragic character than himself), but might have done so more easily by picking up a... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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