Private investigators, fiction
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When We Were Orphans
The Long Goodbye
The Sign of Four
The Secret Garden
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
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 Big Four
Susannah's Garden
Sudden prey
"V" is for vengeance
Funeral in blue
Gone, Baby, Gone
Beekeeper's Apprentice
The Sins of the Fathers
Lord Edgware Dies
The Big Sleep
The A.B.C. Murders
Reflex
Lethal White
Hickory Dickory Death
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series)
Pluto, Vol. 2
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