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  The Adventure of the Three...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" (1924), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
  According to Dr. Watson's opening narration, this story is set at "the latter end of June, 1902 ... the same month that Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described." This is a parallel to the knighthood of Arthur Conan Doyle around the same time.
  Holmes receives a letter from a Nathan Garrideb of 136 Little Ryder Street, asking for help in a most peculiar quest. He is looking for another man with his unusual surname, for it will mean a $5 million inheritance for him. He has been approached by another man, John Garrideb of Kansas, who says that he needs to find others with the same last name.

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  The Murders in the Rue Morgue

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It is often considered the first modern detective story and features the character C. Auguste Dupin, who later became a prototype for many fictional detectives to come. The story revolves around a brutal double murder in Paris that baffles the police. C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant amateur detective, takes on the challenge of solving the seemingly inexplicable crime. Through deductive reasoning and keen observation, Dupin unravels the mystery in a dramatic and unexpected manner.

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  Nature of the Crime

  Cara Devlin

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  The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series continues with the sixth Audrey Sinclair and Hugh Marsden investigation . . .  
   
   
   
  When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey's packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer. Detained in Dover for an inquest that is being led by a prejudiced magistrate, she is joined by trusted friends and family—and the newly minted viscount, Hugh Marsden—to prove her innocence. 
   
   
   
  But when it's discovered the murdered man was a private inquiry agent, hired to follow the duchess while she traveled the Continent, they enter a race to find out who hired him and why—and what secrets the true killer intends to expose before sending Audrey to an early grave.

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  Where Is My Husband?

  Ivanka Fear

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  Too many secrets, too many lies—and now a missing husband. Since the death of her parents, Mallory has suffered from increased anxiety and depression. When she falls in love with Jake, he revives her will to live. One day Jake is a no-show at work, even though Mallory dropped him off there. She can’t find him anywhere. When Mallory hears noises at night and senses someone watching her inside their home, she suspects the reason for Jake’s disappearance stems from something sinister. And if her husband’s life is in danger, then so is hers and their baby’s. As memories of her happy life with Jake morph into haunting flashbacks, Mallory realizes there’s a dark side to their relationship and that their marriage is far from perfect. She wonders if she knew her husband at all. Now she must decide whether it’s worth having him home or if she should forget he ever existed. Mallory has so much to lose—the perfect little family that she’s always imagined.

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  The Valley of Fear

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discovering that he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but he sends Holmes a note telling of this decision. From the cipher message and the second note, Holmes is able to deduce that it is a book cipher and that the book used for the encryption is a common book, large (with at least 534 pages), printed in two columns per page, and standardised. An almanac fits these conditions exactly. Holmes tries the latest edition of Whitaker's Almanac, which he had only received a few days earlier, and fails; he then tries the previous edition. With this almanac, Holmes is able to decipher the message as a warning that "some devilry is intended against one "Douglas", a country gentleman residing at Birlstone House.Unlike many of the other Holmes novels, mostly linear entertainments, Doyle crafted The Valley of Fear as "two parts and a coda and carefully stage managed the elements of fear and terror".Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Woman Next Door The: Quick Reads...

  Louise Jensen

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  A Quick Reads story from the bestselling author of The Fall and The Intruders! 
  Two Neighbours. Two Secrets. One chance at survival. 
  Running from her past, Meena hopes to find peace in her new home. But her neighbour, Ada, is a mystery. Meena can’t shake the feeling that something about Ada is off. 
  Ada is delighted to have a new neighbour, but she, too, knows Meena is hiding something. 
  While Meena and Ada are watching each other, someone is watching them. With danger closing in, they must rely on one another to survive, but when both are lying, trust becomes the deadliest weapon. 
  What secrets lie next door? 
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  Praise for Louise Jensen:  
  ‘Thrilling’ Crime Monthly 
  ‘Twisting, turning, breathless ride to the end’ Woman & Home 
  ‘Louise Jensen is the master of suspense … gripping’ Kia Abdullah 
  'Intricate plotting, incredible pace, and a wonderful weaving of past and present.’ Andrea Mara 
  For fans of Freida Mcfadden (The Tenant), Sue Watson (His First Wife), Kiersten Modglin (The Atonement), Mark Edwards (The Psychopath Next Door), and Tm Logan (The Daughter).

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