In Santa Teresa, California, PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by a mother to investigate her daughter's death, which police are unable to solve. As Millhone probes, there emerges a picture of a two-facetted woman, simple receptionist during the day and porno queen at night. By the author of A Is for Alibi.

The debut novel from the New York Times–bestselling "master of crime fiction and equine thrills" features an investigation into the death of a jockey (The Atlantic Monthly). Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival jockey Bill Davidson takes a fall in the middle...

Mark Ablett's stately mansion, the Red House, is filled with very proper guests when his most improper brother returns from Australia. The prodigal brother enters Mark's study, the parlor maid hears arguing and the brother dies...rather suddenly, with a bullet between his eyes. The study is locked from the inside and Mark is missing! Investigating the crime is wealthy Antony Gillingham, who rivals Sherlock Holmes in his remarkable powers of observation....

Hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.

In Agatha Christie's gripping international thriller Destination Unknown, a woman at the end of her rope chooses a more exciting way to die when she embarks upon an almost certain suicide mission to find a missing scientist.

When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from

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"Detective Inspector Irene Huss is an investigator assigned to the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. She is a wife and mother, her husband is a chef and she has twin daughters and also a judo champion and an avowed feminist in a police department which is still adjusting to the presence of women as officers."--Jacket.

Though it means Nate can't get his dog ready for the smartest pet contest, he agrees to search for the missing prize for the contest.

The life of a strait-laced London accountant is drastically altered by his winning a hugh sum of money in the football pools and by the people this new-found wealth brings into his life.

A collection of stories by Agatha Christie.