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A Study in Scarlet (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Quiet bachelor life is not as Dr. Watson imagines once he discovers his flat-mate Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in horror. With no signs of struggle, but a strange word ...Show more
Appleby at Allington (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Innes
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Sir John Appleby dines one evening at Allington Park, the Georgian home of his acquaintance Owain Allington, who is new to the area. His curiosity is aroused when Allington mentions his nephew and heir to the estate, Martin Allington, whose name Appleby recognises. The evening comes to an end but just a ...Show more
Beneath the Skin (Popular Penguins Crime) by Nicci French
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Three women's lives are stretched to breaking point as they are tracked by a cruel and malicious stalker. Zoe, Jenny and Nadia have nothing in common save the disturbing letters that probe their most vulnerable secrets, torturing them with their own fears. Unsure of who to trust, one by one their relati ...Show more
Blood and Judgement (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Gilbert
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When the wife of a recently escaped prisoner is found murdered and partially buried near a reservoir, Patrick Petrella, a Metropolitan Police Inspector, is called in. Suspicion falls on the escaped convict, but what could have been his motive? Petrella meets resistance from top detectives at the Yard wh ...Show more
Dead in the Morning (Popular Penguins Crime) by Margaret Yorke
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Mrs Ludlow is hated because of her arrogance and cruelty towards her children, whose lives she dominates. When a body turns up, all think Mrs Ludlow must be the murder victim. But it is actually her housekeeper who has been found dead. Has a mistake been made and the wrong woman killed? Dr Patrick Grant ...Show more
Death at the President's Lodging (Popular Penguins Crime) by Michael Innes
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are the only people who had the opportunity - because the President's Lodging opens off Orchard Ground, whic ...Show more
Miami Blues (Popular Penguins Crime) by Charles Willeford
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon on his case, chasing the utterly immoral Junior and his hooker g ...Show more
Moonstone (Popular Penguins Crime) by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A priceless yellow diamond, pillaged from an Indian Temple is presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. But when the diamond is again stolen that very same night, no one is above suspicion. A chain of horrific events seem intent to ruin those surrounding the birthday girl, leaving Rachel ...Show more
Mr J. G. Reeder Returns (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Wallace
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Category: Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
On the surface, J.G. Reeder is a shabby little police officer with red hair and weak eyes, but underneath his timid appearance lies a razor-sharp mind and the ability to think like a criminal. Here are two thrilling episodes torn from his casebook. In 'The Treasure House', will Mr Reeder discover a conn ...Show more
Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (Popular Penguins Crime) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A mother and daughter are bafflingly and brutally murdered inside a locked room on Rue Morgue, and C. Auguste Dupin must apply his fine detective skills to piece together the mystery. Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales.
Plain Murder (Popular Penguins Crime) by C. S. Forester
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue. What does Mr. Morris do when he thinks someone might rat him out? He gets rid of them. Actually, it's surprisingly easy, he discovers. A talent he never k ...Show more
Playback (Popular Penguins Crime) by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Green Popular Penguins
PI Philip Marlowe is mixing a little business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told, all in the name of chivalry, of course. B ...Show more