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England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics. No surprise, Denton has his doubts, nevertheless, he's agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Naples, Italy. Napoli may be bella, but it offers Denton only boredom and frustration, until a dead body shows up to make life interesting.

It's 1901, and with the Boer War raging, England's air is crackling with political intrigue. But it's not South Africa that is on everyone's lips. Rather, it's The Jewish Question: The armies of Antisemitism are on the march, even as the call to Zionism echoes ever more loudly through London's East End. It's all largely academic for Denton until his neighbor is murdered, and signs point to the growing conflict between the Jews and those who ha...

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Leo Stanhope is rich in dreams but poor of pocket. He dreams of making a home with Maria, the prostitute he loves. And he dreams of a world where no one cares what is tucked between his legs. Leo has a secret and in Queen Victoria's England, that secret could get him locked up for life...if nobody kills him first. But it's a prostitute who's killed instead, and Leo who becomes the prime suspect. Desperate to clear his name and find the murdere...

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Philo Vance finds his old chum District Attorney Anthony Markham up against a bizarre series of murders inspired by children's nursery rhymes. The first murder was apparently based on "Who Killed Cock Robin?", it is followed by more hideous deaths referencing "Mother Goose." Philo Vance suspects a connection to a rather more sophisticated writer.

Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance--the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest amateur sleuth--uses his detective skills to unravel the murders, though sadly not before most of the Greene family has been bumped off.

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A U.S. Senator is found murdered with a machete on the grounds of a golf club in the Caribbean. The owners of a nearby modest hotel on the island of St. Matthews call their friends, Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife Emmy, to investigate.

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New York in the 1920s is the world's most glamorous city, and Philo Vance, an arrogant art expert, steps in to solve the puzzle of why a scheming stockbroker was murdered, not merely because he is bored and seeking new entertainment, but because honor compels him to point out the myriad ways in which the police are getting it wrong.

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The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died within its walls. Over the course of a century, no one has determined what-or who-haunts the storied property.Even Phoebe Backlund, who built her family's dream home, has no explanation for the events that take place there. She invites curious thrill seekers and notorious skeptics alike in the golden age of spiritualism to experience the hou...

Eliot Gardener is a maddeningly sullen teenager. He's also, apparently, a double-murderer, having whacked both of his parents with a machete.

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