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  The Adventure of the Three...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Three Gables" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected as one of 12 in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1926 as a serial.
  The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow. Although Dixie has come to intimidate Holmes, Holmes secures Dixie's future cooperation by threatening to tell what he knows about the suspicious Perkins death involving Dixie. Dixie's boss is Barney Stockdale, and he must be connected with the Harrow Weald case, of which Holmes has just learnt from a message from Mary Maberley, a lady who lives at Three Gables, a house at Harrow Weald.

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  Last One to Lie - 'The Family'...

  Jack Stainton

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  If you’re incapable of telling the truth, then ensure you are the Last One To Lie… 
   
  Fear and dread fill Matt Walker’s veins as he returns to his West London apartment. He promised himself things would be different this time, yet here he was again - haunted by the same demons and sins of his past. 
   
  Before long, Lisa and baby George join him in the idyllic village they so hoped would be their fresh start. But all is not as it seems; shadows lurk behind closed doors and Matt is convinced he is being watched. 
   
  Then Lisa makes a discovery which throws her life into turmoil, her world spinning out of control. Little does she know how far-reaching its consequences will be. 
   
  Hannah and Tom Wells, the local neighbourhood watch co-ordinators, were supposed to be their saviours, but it soon becomes clear that danger lurks in their friendly welcome - could their deepest fears be coming true? 
   
  And to their horror, the family they thought they had escaped appeared to be coming back into their lives… 
   
  Did they ever really leave?

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  Grace Under Fury

  Annabel Chase

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  Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight. 
  Residents are sneezing and coughing all over town and it seems like a brutal allergy season is upon us--until someone dies. When Dr. Verity reveals a supernatural cause, I'm on the case, but how do I track a culprit whose only evidence seems to be the infection it leaves behind? In the meantime, neighbors new and old bring trouble to Munster Close and I need to intervene before the wicked witches escalate matters. With the annual cheese festival on the horizon and a stealthy demon on the loose, I know I'll need to set aside my misgivings and use my magic to prevent a catastrophe.  
  Can I stop this out break before it becomes a full-fledged epidemic or will the entire town succumb to the deadly demon? 
  Grace Under Fury is the fourth book in the Federal Bureau of Magic Cozy Mystery series.

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  Horse Under Water - A Novel

  Len Deighton

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  "The poet of the spy story" —Sunday Times 
   
   
   
  A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War—until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.

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  The Deposition (1879) by Luigi...

  Luigi Capuana

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  A barber is brought in for questioning. What begins as a routine interrogation slowly unravels into a tense, layered confession in this 1879 classic Italian short story.  
  Luigi Capuana, a master of Italian verismo literature, delivers a raw interrogation scene that feels strikingly modern. Often cited as an early influence on later mafia-themed films, "The Deposition" explores razor sharp psychology in a tight, dialogue-driven narrative.

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  Pedro and Marques Take Stock - A...

  José Falero

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  In the favelas of Porto Alegre, Brazil, marijuana is hard to come by. Supermarket stock clerks Pedro and Marques spend their days unloading trucks, restocking shelves, and dreaming of a better life, of breaking the cycle of poverty that has afflicted their families and their community. Well-acquainted with the drug dealers in their neighborhood and seeing an opportunity to earn a little extra cash, they decide to start a weed-dealing operation. 
   
   
   
  The economic hierarchies of Porto Alegre are turned upside down as, almost accidentally, the two men build a thriving enterprise and get rich, quickly. Distribution grows from dime bags to kilos, and Pedro and Marques begin to plan for a future where low-wage work will never again be a necessity for them and their families. All too soon however, their operation starts attracting outsider attention, and cracks in their carefully crafted and seemingly untouchable world begin to show, culminating in one final, lethal showdown. 
   
   
   
  A witty, voice-driven, and electrifying portrait of poverty and a canny examination of the ethics of drug dealing and low-wage labor in the underbelly of Brazil, Pedro and Marques Take Stock is a contemporary picaresque novel of class and crime.

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