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The Long Goodbye
When We Were Orphans
The Body in the Library
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
A Study in Scarlet
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow [8 stories]
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
The Sign of Four
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
The Visitor
Light in Shadow
Buried prey
Odds against
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Three to Get Deadly
Silent in the Grave
Down here
End of Watch
Changes
The Thin Man
Night prey
Murder in Three Acts
The Seven Dials Mystery
"O" is for outlaw
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