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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Considered one of the greatest mysteries of all times, ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 396 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction.
In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed...
In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed...
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Series
Bishop files volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Within the FBI, there exists a team of psychics whose powers cannot be denied. But these agents are feared by a cabal of conspirators with only one weapon to blind the psychics to the evils all around them. Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldn't control. They changed her life and cost her the man she loved. And now, someone is playing games with Sarah's mind. It begins with Sarah's home being destroyed by...
12) Dangerous women
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xvi, 363 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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English
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"A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up meet the murky shadows of World War II. Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothing's been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Brown is precocious and itching for adventure. Then Allie Bert Tucker wanders into town, an outcast with a puzzling past, and Lucy figures the two of them can...
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English
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In Tales of Terror and Mystery, Arthur Conan Doyle steps away from the rational world of Sherlock Holmes to explore the eerie and the supernatural. This collection of short stories, a classic in its own right, delves into the darker side of human experience and the mysteries that lie beyond the grasp of reason.
From the spine-chilling horrors of "The Horror of the Heights," where a pilot encounters an unearthly creature in the skies, to the...
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