CLASSIC MYSTERIES
PDI Bookclub: 10 All-Time Great Mystery Reads…
This blog post offers a listing of 10 works, in no particular order or ranking. Pulled from a variety of time periods and settings, their overall popularity attests to the assertion that each is worthy of being read by anyone who enjoys a great Mystery.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit, Bones.
Book #12 in this popular series opens with Temperance Brennan regaining consciousness and finding herself in a cold, dark, enclosed space. She’s is bound hands to feet. It’s obvious someone wants her dead, or at least out of the way, but who? And, why? To find the answers, she must retrace the last steps that she can remember taking…
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The mystery master’s riveting masterpiece and the best-selling murder-mystery book of all time...
Eight people travel to an island in response to an invitation that has been tailored to his or her personal circumstances. They are met by the butler and cook-housekeeper, Thomas and Ethel Rogers, who inform the guests that their hosts, Mr. Owen and his wife, Mrs. Owen, whom neither met in person, have not arrived. Mr. Owen did, however, leave detailed instructions…
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The spellbinding bestseller that intertwines the true tale of two men...
Chicago circa 1893- Daniel H. Burnham, the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World’s Fair, is driven to wow the world and secure America’s place at the table of great nations of influence. H.H. Holmes, the cunning serial killer, seizes the opportunity to use the fair to lure victims to his cleverly constructed boarding house and their death…
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An instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” -Lev Grossman, Time
It’s Nick and Amy’s 5th wedding anniversary. Presents are wrapped and reservations are made when Amy suddenly disappears. Passages from Amy’s diary provide clues, revealing that the perfectionist-Amy could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Pressure mounts from the police and the media, not to mention Amy’s fiercely doting parents, and Nick scrambles to preserve his innocence. He’s oddly evasive, and bitter, but is he really a killer?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most-beloved Sherlock Holmes case…
Sir Charles Baskerville has been murdered, hunted down by a supernatural hound. How long can it be before Sir Henry Baskerville becomes the hound’s next victim? A maze of mystery haunts Grimpen Mire and Sherlock Holmes will have to weave his way through them all, if he’s to stop the madness. It’s one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most beloved mysteries featuring his whip-smart super sleuth. Crack open the pages and you’ll soon discover why it endures…
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From one of the great mystery writers of all-time, comes a glittering gem of detective fiction that has captivated generations of readers.
The beautiful “Miss Wonderly” hires shop worn private detective, Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer to follow Floyd Thursby, who has run off with her sister. Archer takes the first watch, but is found murdered later that night. Thursby is also ends up dead and Spade becomes the #1 suspect. It’s a game of murder and misdirection that will land someone a highly treasured statue of immeasurable value – the iconic Maltese Falcon – and put someone away for murder.
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“Rebecca is a work of immense intelligence and wit, elegantly written, thematically solid, suspenseful.” –Washington Post.
Set in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naive young woman in her early 20’s, is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter. After a fortnight of romance, she accepts his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe how her fortunes have changed. But once they arrive at Manderley, his massive country estate, she begins to see the dark shadow his late wife will cast over their lives. Can she survive the lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave?
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“Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.” —The Detroit News
For more than two decades, this modern day classic had to been a window into historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. New York City, 1896- reporter John Schuyler Moore is contacted in confidence by his friend, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler. Dr. Kreizler is an “alienist” or psychologist and he wants Moore to help him make sense of the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. Together, they spark a revolutionary journey in criminology, creating a psychological profile of an unknown serial killer, based on the details of his kills.
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Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this “ripping spoof of the spy genre” -Vanity Fair
Laurie’s bestseller is an irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard, turned hired gun. He’s a freelance soldier of fortune, who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy. Thomas Lang is offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, but cold-blooded murder just isn’t his style. He decided to inform the target instead, but his good deed that soon takes a sideways turn and business picks up. Billionaires, femme fatales, and rogue CIA Agents are all in the mix of this adventure that keeps readers turning pages.
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When you open the door to the past, sometimes you end up coming face to face with your own destiny…
Vida Winter, a reclusive author famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent sixty years writing about her alternate lives. Old and sick, she’s finally ready to tell the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent, tragic past that she has hidden so long. Margaret Lea is a young biographer is troubled by her own painful history. As Vida reveals the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized and caught up. Together, the two confront the ghosts that have haunted them and become transformed by the truth about themselves…
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