Private investigators, fiction
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When We Were Orphans
The Long Goodbye
His Last Bow [8 stories]
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
The Sign of Four
The Secret Garden
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Y is for yesterday
Hammers on Bone
The Whisperers A Charlie Parker Thriller
Gathering prey
Red planet blues
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
The Wrecker
Storm Front
Strong Poison
The high window
First Grave on the Right
Locked rooms
Invisible Prey
Traitor's purse
Echo Burning
The Labours of Hercules
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