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Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories

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  Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW A Retrospective Collection of Classic Occult and Supernatural Detective Stories by Some of the Field’s Greatest and Best-Known Weird Fiction Authors Since the gaslit nights at the end of the nineteenth century, the occult detective has been a beloved and recurring archetype. Mixing the best aspects of the detective tale and weird or supernatural fiction, and capitalizing in part on the massive popularity of Sherlock Holmes, these stories portrayed men and women pitted against surreal and horrifying foes, usually with little to defend them but their own savvy, experience, and know-how. From William Hope Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki, to Seabury Quinn’s fearless Frenchman Jules de Grandin, to Jessica Salmonson’s Penelope Pettiweather, the occult detective has taken a variety of forms, investigated a wide array of supern...
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Musseled Out (A Maine Clambake Mystery Book 3)

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  Musseled Out (A Maine Clambake Mystery Book 3)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW The busy summer tourist season is winding down in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden senses trouble simmering for the Snowden Family Clambake Company. Shifty David Thwing--the Mussel King of upscale seafood restaurants--is sniffing around town for a new location. But serving iffy clams turns out to be the least of his troubles. . .When Thwing is found sleeping with the fishes beneath a local lobsterman's boat, the police quickly finger Julia's brother-in-law Sonny as the one who cooked up the crime. Sure, everyone knows Sonny despised the Mussel King. . .but Julia believes he's innocent. Proving it won't be easy, though. It seems there's a lot more than murder on the menu, and Julia needs to act fast. . .Includes Traditional Maine Clambake Recipes! READING BOOK            ...
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Widow's Tears (China Bayles Book 21)

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  Widow's Tears (China Bayles Book 21)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW After losing her husband, five children, housekeeper, and beautiful home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her home, and later died there, having been driven mad with grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grand niece of Rachel’s caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed and breakfast. But she is concerned that it’s haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby—who has the gift of extrasensory perception—to check it out. While Ruby is ghost-hunting, China Bayles walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. A half hour before she is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs bank is robbed and a teller is shot and killed. Before she can discover the identity of the killers, China follows Ruby to the Blackwood house to discuss urgent business. As she is draw...
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Death of the Couch Potato's Wife

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  Death of the Couch Potato's Wife                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Welcome to Boring, Indiana, home to patio cookouts, homeowner dues, carpeted lawns, and neighbors so welcoming they’re dying to meet you — literally. City slicker turned suburbanite housewife Laura Berry isn’t taking well to life in her new neighborhood. She moved to follow her husband’s dream, and now she can’t tell if she’s clinically depressed or just bored half to death. But Boring becomes anything but when Laura discovers her neighbor Candace Flynn face up on a sofa with her hand buried in a snack bag. With a healthy dose of neighborly suspicion and street smarts, Laura sets out to find Flynn’s killer, but her curiosity becomes desperation when the killer targets Laura. Someone is determined to stop her from digging deeper into the murder, but Laura is just as determined to figure out who’s behind the death-by-poison...
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La lettera rubata (Italian Edition)

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  La lettera rubata (Italian Edition)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Il presente ebook è arricchito da una originalissima quanto approfondita presentazione di Bruno Corino sul significato intrinseco dell'opera stessa di Poe.La lettera rubata (titolo originale: The Purloined Letter) è il terzo racconto poliziesco scritto da Edgar Allan Poe avente come protagonista l'investigatore improvvisato Auguste Dupin. Questo racconto fu spunto di riflessione per Sigmund Freud, per uno psicanalista sperimentale come Jacques Lacan e per il celebre filosofo francese Jacques Derrida.La vicenda è narrata da un amico del Cavalier Dupin, che ne riferisce al lettore attraverso i dialoghi in proposito intrattenuti con l'improvvisato investigatore stesso. Si tratta della sottrazione di una compromettente lettera da parte del ministro francese D. al vero destinatario, proprio davanti agli occhi di quest'ultimo,...
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Masquerade and the Nameless Women

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  Masquerade and the Nameless Women                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Since the death of her sister, police force newbie Yuri Uguisu has been chasing the notoriously untraceable serial killer Masquerade. When a new corpse turns up in Odaiba, Yuri immediately goes on alert—only to recognize the victim as an old classmate, the alluring and mysterious Reina Myoko. When the police force calls in long-time consultant psychologist Seiren Higano for assistance in untangling the testimonies of Reina’s father, fiancé, and lover, Yuri meets the riveting, charismatic psychologist for the first time. Little does she know that Higano is none other than Masquerade himself. Faced with Reina’s case, Higano promises to get the answers, but no one is prepared for the conclusion reached in the interrogation room…In this cat-and-mouse tale of hunter and hunted, Eiji Mikage has woven a subtle and twisting tale o...
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Father Brown Complete Murder Mysteries: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair…

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  Father Brown Complete Murder Mysteries: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair…                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself...Here you will find the complete Father Brown collection of 53 murder mystery stories in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Innocence of Father Brown- The Wisdom of Father Brown- The Donnington Affair- The Incredulity of Father Brown- The Secret of Father Brown- The Scandal of Father Brown- The Mask of Midas READING BOOK              ...
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