Fiction, mystery & detective, general
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The Terminal Experiment
Amsterdam
The stories of John Cheever
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
When We Were Orphans
The Body in the Library
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Secret Agent
The Woman in White
The Godfather
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Moonstone
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow [8 stories]
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
The Sign of Four
The Secret Garden
Death on the Nile
And Then There Were None
Oliver Twist
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Death Masks
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Bandits
Red Dragon
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