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1) Hag's nook
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 1
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The Starberths die of broken necks' goes the legend in the village of Chatterham . . .'
The Starberth family governed the now-abandoned Chatterham prison for many years, and each male heir must spend the night of his twenty-fifth birthday there, alone, overlooking the hanging site of Hag's Nook.
Meanwhile, after a chance encounter on a railway platform, Dorothy Starberth and young American graduate Tad Rampole fall in love. Rampole is here in rural...
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Mysterious extra-terrestrial Thomas Jerome Newton falls to Earth on a mission to save his drought-ridden home planet of Anthea from ecological destruction.
Determined to find a way to transport water back to his dying world, Newton begins selling patents for advanced technology, but his success soon makes him a target for both the government, and a sinister rival corporation.
As his mission drags into years, Newton finds himself seduced by the...
3) Fell Back
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F+W Media
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2011
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When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder.
4) Fell
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F+W Media
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2011
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John Fell loves his family and gourmet cooking, and feels appropriately tormented by Keats, his rich girlfriend from the right side of the tracks. A normal life - normal, that is, until he meets Woodrow Pingree one night by ramming into the back of his Mitsubishi. Suddenly nothing will be the same. A poor boy is now a rich one at an exclusive prep school. A woman who's no longer a girl enters Fell's life with long kisses and no promises. He's paid
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 4
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Brilliant detective Dr. Gideon Fell embarks on an adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's suspenseful tale A vicious killer is loose aboard the majestic liner Queen Victoria and four people are determined to track him down. But they are as wholly unprepared for the heavy weather and high seas as for crime-solving and its strange circumstances-a blood-soaked stateroom, a lethally sharp razor,...
6) Death-Watch
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 5
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John Dickson Carr, a master of the Golden Age British-style mystery novel, presents Dr. Gideon Fell's most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member of the nobility. That night, one of the stolen hands is found buried between a policeman's shoulder blades, stopping his clock for all time. The crime is just peculiar...
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 20
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The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly, she goes anyway and finds herself encircled by terror when a murderer strikes. With its eerie similarities to a crime that dates back to World War II, the...
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 12
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Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's stylish, baffling mystery novel. The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen...
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 8
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Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from London to Sussex to South Africa. Mystery novelist Christopher Kent accepts a friend's outlandish bet and sets out to travel from Johannesburg to London with nothing but the cash in his wallet and the clothes on his back. He arrives with twenty-four hours to spare, his...
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Tiara Brookes has no choice to step up but to the plate of being single mother after her boyfriend, A' Quan Billings, gets himself and her locked up behind a drug charge. A'Quan takes full responsibility of the incident and Tiara is released, but she is not left to raise their two kids alone. Tiara is devastated. Even, though she knew that Quan was bad news from the start, she still loved him and gave him her heart. Getting arrested changed Tiara's...
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Tiara opened her heart and life up to Omega. She trusted him with all that she had. All she wanted in return was a better life for her and her children. He promised her that and more. However, his endless trail of lies, mystery and secrets are coming back to haunt him. Tiara and her children ends up paying the price.
Omega swears he innocent, but after the kidnapping Tiara is not so sure. She wants to know why she and her kids were kidnapped, but...
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It was the summer of storms and strays and strangers. The summer that lightning struck the big oak tree in the front yard. The summer his mother died in a tragic accident. As he recalls the tumultuous events that launched a surprising journey, Samuel can still hardly believe it all happened. After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Samuel Chambers would do anything to turn back time. Prompted by three strange carnival fortune-tellers and the surfacing...
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Life has many ways of testing someone's sanity with either nothing happening at all or everything happening at once. Every test in life can leave you either feeling bitter or better.
As a child, El lived in different foster homes, trying to survive mental and physical abuse. It almost took her life while she fought to live, and as always, someone was there to save her. By the age of thirteen, she was adopted, and that's when she met her best friend,...
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It was once said that the hood was a deadly battlefield where only the strongest survive. Leilani Vasquez has had her fair share of fights being born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her childhood was suffused with drugs and abuse as she was treated as a burden by the very woman who brought her into the world. Love eludes their home once Leilani's innocence is torn away from her by her mother's moral-less boyfriend. Showing no mercy, Leilani is forced...
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Featured in Carr's widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Hollow Man, Dr. Gideon Fell is a portly sleuth whose formidable intellect is the terror of every criminal in London and the envy of every detective in Scotland Yard. The Blind Barber: Aboard the majestic ocean liner Queen Victoria, the theft of a reel of top-secret government film sets off a chase involving stolen jewels, massive marionettes, and a corpse that won't stay put. It will take the...
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Before the Tree of Life, everything in Abra Miller's life had been predictable. But after the Tree and the lightning and the angels, everything felt tenuous, like holding a soap bubble in the palm of her hand. She spent years looking for signs of that other world, waiting for it to break through. When it didn't, her friendship with Sam Chambers grew cold and distant, and they both wondered how any of it could actually have happened. Four years later,...
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Fell volume 1
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Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police investigations department numbers three and a half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: Everybody's hiding something.
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In the second installment of this heartbreaking series, the story picks up right where we left off. The remaining leaders of the Supreme pick up the pieces of their lives after losing their dear friend Leilani. Clueless to who was behind his little sister's murder, Isaiah relentlessly questions Juelz, pushing the teenager deeper into an opioid addiction. Seeing history repeat itself, Essence focuses on getting her nephew better; no matter how many...
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The finale of She Fell in Love With a New York Hitta follows the aftermath of Roselyn's revenge plan. The leaders of the Supreme all face a number of obstacles that they may never be able to overcome. Don and Elena are unconscious in a hospital fighting for their lives while Sincere is confined to a federal cage with a slew of charges that he may not be able to beat. Isaiah and Essence are on the run from the Feds, suffering deeply as their bank accounts...
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Deadwater Fell volume 1
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When a house fire devastates a close-knit village, a community must pick through the ashes to find answers. Was it a tragic accident or something more sinister?