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The Moonstone  •  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, $7.95)
  The Moonstone
Knots and Crosses  •  Ian Rankin
MYSTERY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 228 PAGES
Detective John Rebus investigates a series of grizzly killings in his hometown of Edinburgh. (SCT121, $7.99)
  Knots and Crosses
The Sunday Philosophy Club  •  Alexander McCall Smith
MYSTERY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
The first book in McCall-Smith's Sunday Philosophy Club series, set in Edinburgh and starring detective Isabel Dalhousie, the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. It all starts when a man falls to his death outside a concert hall. (SCT114, $13.95)
 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  •  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)
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 

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Dracula  •  Bram Stoker   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  Charlotte Bronte   • LITERATURE  •  The classic novel of the romance of the titular character and the brooding and enigmatic Mr. Rochester. (GBR404, $8.00)
 
 
Playing With Fire  •  Peter Robinson   • MYSTERY  •  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  •  Ann Cleeves   • MYSTERY  •  In this award-winning debut, Inspector Jimmie Perez investigates multiple murders in the remote Shetland Islands. (GBR700, $13.95)
 
 
Recalled to Life  •  Reginald Hill   • MYSTERY  •  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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