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Collins, Wilkie (2008) The Woman in White. (First published 1859) Oxford University Press This upper-class Victorian love story is certainly one of the greatest literary thrillers. For slow, delicious reading. More... 
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Wilkie Collins (2009) The Moonstone. (First published in 1868) CreateSpace Like no other, this classical masterpiece of a mystery novel captures 19th century characters and atmosphere. "The first and greatest of English detective novels." (T. S. Eliot) More... 
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Ed McBain (1981) King's Ransom. (87th Precinct Mystery) Signet Stupid, but ruthless thugs try to kidnap the son of a rich tycoon, but mistakenly take the son of his chauffeur. This wise-cracking police procedural from Ed McBain, the inventor of the genre (and script writer for Hitchcock's The Birds), is as fresh as if it was written yesterday. More...
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Thomas H. Cook (1997) The Chatham School Affair. Bantam Elizabeth Channing is teaching art at a small boys' school located in the Cape Cod village of Chatham when she falls in love with a fellow teacher who is unhappily married. The inevitable tragedy ends in a surprise. More... 
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Michael Innes (2008) Death At The President's Lodging. House of Stratus Inspector Appleby is called to St Anthony’s College, where the President has been murdered in his Lodging. Michael Innes is the pen-name of J.I.M. Steward, an eminent professor of English, who enjoys himself by placing a corpse carefully in the middle of an Oxbridge college and letting the readers entangle themselves in his web of plot twists. More... 
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Jacqueline Winspear (2004) Maisie Dobbs. Penguin Books Winspear's moving stroy of Maisie Dobbs may use an outdated female role-model, but her heroine's character and intellect has more substance and depths than can be found in most present-day literature for young adults. The story vividly recreates the period before and after WWI through the experience of a young, intelligent women, who in 1929 has become a private investigator. More...
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