Murder in fiction
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L’étranger
Bad Love
Winner of the National Book Award
Blood ties
The Shadow of your Smile
In the Shadow of the Master
Great American Short Stories
The replacement child
Mother's Day Murder
Stork raving mad
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
Roll call
Edgar Allan Poe Stories [27 stories, 8 poems]
The Tell-Tale Heart
Innan frosten
Dying To Please
Young Adam
Snake eyes
Oolong Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery, #10)
Protector of one
Bound for Murder (A Scrapbooking Mystery, #3)
The Mercedes Coffin
A Betrayal in Winter (Long Price Quartet, #2)
The brass verdict
The Interior
The Quickie
Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
Therese Raquin
The Flower Net
American rust
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