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  Dolphin Junction - Stories

  Mick Herron

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  CWA GOLD AND STEEL DAGGER–WINNER MICK HERRON’S SHORT FICTION, COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
   
  Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers’ Association and has been called “the John Le Carré of the future” (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than “just” write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order, irrepressibly versatile in form (novels, novellas, short fiction) and mood (witty, taut, spooky, laugh-out-loud funny), whose “efficient, darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences … feel purpose-built to perforate [our] private daze of illiteracy” (The Atlantic). 
   
  Now, for the first time, Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume.  
   
  In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five standalone nerve-rackingly thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House.

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  Triple Threat

  Jeffery Deaver

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour -- comes three powerful short stories. In "Fast," Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance.   In "Game," a housekeeper looks for her murdered employer's missing body-and uncovers a shocking truth that hits too close to home.  In "Paradice," a car brake failure leaves John Pellam stranded in a remote Colorado mountain town, where he suddenly finds himself accused of murder.  With this trio of brilliantly written, utterly gripping stories, Deaver proves once again that he's the "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist).

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  Wicked Spirits: Mysteries Spine...

  Tony Medawar

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  It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. 
  And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast live on the wireless, sometimes not even published at all – these are the stories you cannot find on even the dustiest of library shelves. 
  This follow-up volume to the bestselling Ghosts from the Library resurrects forgotten tales of the supernatural by some of the most accomplished mystery authors of all time. Close the windows. Draw the curtains. Just don’t let the lights go out… 
  The Wicked Spirits series, edited by Tony Medawar, is a sequel that takes traditional horror to new heights. This anthology of thrillers is a masterclass in suspenseful fiction, with each story more chilling than the last. 
  For fans of Otto Penzler (The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries), and Leslie S. Klinger (Average Jones). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  On Some Old Customs - From their...

  William Makepeace Thackeray

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  The great author of 'Vanity Fair' and 'The Luck of Barry Lyndon' was born in India in 1811.  At age 5 his father died and his mother sent him back to England.  His education was of the best but he himself seemed unable to apply his talents to a rigorous work ethic.  However, once he harnessed his talents the works flowed in novels, articles, short stories, sketches and lectures.  Sadly, his personal life was rather more difficult.  After a few years of marriage his wife began to suffer from depression and over the years became detached from reality.  Thackeray himself suffered from ill health later in his life and the one pursuit that kept him moving forward was that of writing.  In his life time, he was placed second only to Dickens.  High praise indeed.

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  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens

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  Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him.
  
  ©2020 Pandora's Box (P)2020 Pandora's Box

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  The Classic Collection of Philip...

  Philip K. Dick

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  Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against elements such as alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness.  
   Born in Chicago, Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family at a young age. He began publishing science fiction stories in 1952, at age 23. He found little commercial success until his alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle (1962) earned him acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel, when he was 33.[6] He followed with science fiction novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ubik (1969). His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. 
     
   The Crystal Crypt 
   The Eyes Have It 
   Beyond the Door 
   Beyond Lies the Wub 
   The Defenders 
   The Gun 
   Tony and the Beetles 
   The Hanging Stranger 
   Adjustment Team 
   Of Withered Apples 
   Survey Team 
   The Crawlers 
   Meddler 
   Souvenir 
   Human Is

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