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The Moonstone

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

This precurser to the modern mystery, written in 1868 and set in a Yorkshire country house, concerns the theft of a precious stone and is told through the perspectives of three different characters. (GBR697, $9.00)

The Sunday Philosophy Club

by Alexander McCall Smith

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

The first book in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, set in Edinburgh and starring detective Isabel Dalhousie, the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. The mystery opens when a man falls to his death outside a concert hall. (SCT114, $14.00)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES

Stevenson's gothic classic set in Edinburgh -- a great horror story and allegory for the dual nature of man. (SCT74, $3.95)

 

Dracula


by Bram Stoker

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 520 PAGES

The vampire novel that started it all, based on the legend of "Vlad the Impaler." The gothic shocker is set within the dank castles and misty forests of Transylvania, and the foggy streets and staid country houses of Victorian England. (EUR125, $11.00)

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre


by Charlotte Bronte

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 624 PAGES

The classic novel of the romance of the titular character and the brooding and enigmatic Mr. Rochester. (GBR404, $7.99)

Playing With Fire


by Peter Robinson

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 417 PAGES

Two people are dead after a fire destroys two barges on a Yorkshire canal and Inspector Alan Banks investigates in this mystery, the 14th in a series. (GBR699, $7.50)

Raven Black


by Ann Cleeves

  • MYSTERY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

In this award-winning debut, Inspector Jimmie Perez investigates multiple murders in the remote Shetland Islands. (GBR700, $14.99)

Recalled to Life

Recalled to Life


by Reginald Hill

  • MYSTERY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 392 PAGES

Yorkshire detectives Dalziel and Pascoe reopen a thirty-year-old case in this complex and often humorous mystery, which involves murder, political corruption and all the hallmarks of a good British yarn. (GBR698, $7.99)

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