Washoe County Library System

Agatha Christie collection

Series

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius.In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer. . . . In The Actress, a great star's shady past becomes the plaything of a blackmailer. . . . In The Harlequin...

2) The regatta mystery, and other stories

Author

Series

Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 3
The Agatha Christie mystery collection

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie's wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit.

There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring

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3) The habit of widowhood

Author

Barnard, Robert

Publisher

Scribner

Pub. Date

1996

Language

English

4) Tales for a winter's night

Author

Series

Academy mystery

Publisher

Academy Chicago

Pub. Date

[1989]

Language

English

5) The witness for the prosecution and other stories

Author

The Agatha Christie mystery collection

Series

Publisher

Dodd, Mead

Pub. Date

1975-

Language

English

6) Witness for the prosecution: and other stories

Author

G.K. Hall large print book

Series

Publisher

G.K. Hall

Pub. Date

[1976]

Language

English

7) Piranha to scurfy and other stories

Author

Rendell, Ruth

Publisher

Crown Publishers

Pub. Date

c2000

Language

English

8) Daggers drawn

Publisher

Titan Books

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

Description

Collects nineteen winners of the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger award, which began in 1982, and includes tales of such crimes as serial murder, the drug trade, and forgery.

9) Field of thirteen

Author

Francis, Dick

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

[1998]

Language

English

Description

Thirteen stories on horse racing. In Blind Chance, a blind boy discovers a scheme by crooks to rig bets, while in Carrot for a Chestnut, life punishes a jockey who drugs his horse.

10) The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Author

Series

Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 4
World's best reading

Publisher

Reader's Digest Association

Pub. Date

[1988]

Language

English

11) The original illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 short stories plus a complete novel comprising The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The return of Sherlock Holmes and The hound of the Baskervilles

Author

Publisher

Castle Books

Pub. Date

1976.

Language

English

12) Sherlock Holmes

Author

Everyman's library children's classics

Series

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

[1996]

Language

English

13) Ellery Queen's eyes of mystery, anthology I

Author

Queen, Ellery

Publisher

Curley Publishing

Pub. Date

[1990]

Language

English

14) Senior sleuths: a large print anthology of mysteries and puzzlers

Series

G.K. Hall large print book

Publisher

G.K. Hall

Pub. Date

1989.

Language

English

Description

Here the mysteries are solved not by the brashness of muscles and youth, but by sharp wits, experience, and intellect.

15) Tales of terror and mystery

Author

Crippen and Landru lost classics

Publisher

Jefferson Publication

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

16) Much ado about murder

Publisher

Berkley Prime Crime

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

17) The trinity cat: and other mysteries

Author

Peters, Ellis

Series

Publisher

Crippen & Landru

Pub. Date

c2006

Language

English

18) The execution of Sherlock Holmes

Author

Thomas, Donald Serrell

Series

New adventures of the great detective volume 3

Publisher

Pegasus

Pub. Date

c2007

Language

English

19) The improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Publisher

Night Shade

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

Description

Features short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Watson solving mysteries where a particular piece has been changed, which alters the course of the story and conclusion.

20) Victorian tales of mystery and detection: an Oxford anthology

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

[1992]

Language

English

Description