Detective and mystery stories
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The Westing Game
The Long Goodbye
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
When We Were Orphans
Firekeeper's Daughter
A Study in Scarlet
The Godfather
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Moonstone
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
The Sign of Four
The Secret Garden
Death on the Nile
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
The Body in the Library
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
Christina's Ghost
The Bungalow Mystery
T is for Trespass
A Perfect Spy
The angel of darkness
Silent Night
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City of Orphans
The House of Silk
Rock with wings
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