Results for Mysteries & Thrillers + Amateur & Private Detectives + 1940s & '50s

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  • City of Dragons
    City of Dragons
    Kelli Stanley
    Paperback: 08/30/2011
     
    San Francisco's Chinatown, 1940: Miranda Corbie, a private investigator, stumbles upon the fatally shot body ...
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
    Alan Bradley
    Paperback: 01/19/2010
     
    An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a...
  • Havana Fever
    Havana Fever
    Leonardo Padura
    Paperback: 05/01/2009
     
    Mario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde ...
  • Christine Falls
    Christine Falls: A Novel
    Benjamin Black
    Paperback: 02/01/2008
     
    In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a ...
  • This Dame For Hire
    This Dame For Hire
    Sandra Scoppettone
    Paperback: 06/27/2006
     
    Going after the bad guys and fighting a good fight on the home front, Faye is as scrappy and endearing as any ...
  • Fear Itself
    Fear Itself
    Walter Mosley
    Paperback: 07/01/2004
     
    The nephew of the wealthiest woman in L.A. is missing and wanted for murder. Fearless Jones and Paris Minton ...
  • Fearless Jones
    Fearless Jones
    Walter Mosley
    Paperback: 06/01/2002
     
    Walter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars," returns to mysteries at last! Fearless Jones is a...

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