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Maxim Jakubowski
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Some of the latest and best from the whodunnit genre
The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths is the latest collection from legendary murder mystery editor and writer Maxim Jakubowski. Filled with impossible murders and puzzling plot twists that keep your brain on the mysteries until the last minute.
Clever fictional crime stories. Some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the USA and UK offer a series of brand-new ingenious murder stories that will have you scratching your brow until the very last minute and delighting in Machiavellian solutions. Enjoy the third volume in Mango's innovative collections of the best crime stories fiction has to offer.
Enigmas and puzzling plot twists. Crime mystery fiction can be full of impenetrable conundrums and endless question marks when the story itself becomes a reality-defying puzzle for the sleuth to solve. A murder has been committed but how could it have happened? Was the room locked from the inside? Was the suspect or killer actually close to the scene or miles away? Why does the body show no sign of violence? Where is the murder weapon? Was the right person actually killed?
Fresh innovative murder stories. The locked room murder genre has always been a favorite. Collected by Maxim Jakubowski, one of the genre's eminent award-winning editors, his latest book features never before seen stories by some of the most renowned American and British crime and thriller authors of today, including British Science Fiction Award winner Eric Brown, Derringer Award winner O'Neil de Noux, and multiple CWA Dagger Award winners and nominees.
A fan of Maxim Jakubowski’s The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery Stories and The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories? Reader of books such as Best American Mystery Stories 2018, Her Body and Other Parties, or The Big Book of Female Detectives? A movie goer who liked Clue or Knives Out? Jakubowski’s latest book is for you.
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Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked all the rules out – and wrote seven perfect detective stories to demonstrate. But that was 30 years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days. Until Julia Hart, a brilliant, ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: An author hiding from his past and an editor keen to understand it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GOING IN MY TOP 10!!
- De Shaelyn en 08-07-20
De: Alex Pavesi
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The Christmas Card Crime
- And Other Stories
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin, Anne Dover
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping. And lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.... This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season, from unexplained disturbances in the fresh snow to the darkness that lurks beneath the sparkling decorations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aahhh... Just The Right Blend Of Mystery, Murder And Christmas.!!
- De John en 12-04-18
De: Martin Edwards
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 894
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 789
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 788
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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Fellowship of Fear
- Gideon Oliver Mysteries Series, Book 1
- De: Aaron Elkins
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black-clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room with intent to kill. And then there are a few trivial details that the recruiting agency forgot to mention - such as the fact that the two previous holders of the fellowship both met with mysterious ends.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful
- De Christine M. en 07-14-19
De: Aaron Elkins
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Life for Sale
- De: Yukio Mishima
- Narrado por: Kotaro Watanabe
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly bizarre requests and what follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots - even a vampire. For someone who just wants to die, Hanio can't seem to catch a break, as he finds himself enmeshed in a continent-wide conspiracy that puts him in the crosshairs of both his own government and a powerful organized-crime syndicate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book is good - Narration is just terrible
- De Vyacheslav Varlakov en 03-12-21
De: Yukio Mishima
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A Dream of Death
- A Kate Hamilton Mystery
- De: Connie Berry
- Narrado por: Ruth Urquhart
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Autumn has come and gone on Scotland’s Isle of Glenroth, and the islanders gather for the Tartan Ball, the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Spirits are high. A recently published novel about island history has brought hordes of tourists to the small Hebridean resort community. On the guest list is American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton. Kate returns reluctantly to the island where her husband died, determined to repair her relationship with his sister, proprietor of the island’s luxe country-house hotel, famous for its connection with Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator has a grating, yet whiny voice
- De Lisa en 06-17-21
De: Connie Berry
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The Cold, Cold Ground
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 1
- De: Adrian McKinty
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,966
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,470
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,445
Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen to this book. You won't be disappointed.
- De Christopher en 01-21-12
De: Adrian McKinty
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Gallows View
- De: Peter Robinson
- Narrado por: Mark Honan
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 506
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 409
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 408
Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors---among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wrong interpretation
- De Patrick en 08-24-09
De: Peter Robinson
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Pride, Prejudice, and Poison
- A Jane Austen Society Mystery, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth Blake
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,207
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,104
Erin Coleridge's used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society's monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder with extreme prejudice when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably, but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Where was the editor??
- De Kelly Garland en 05-04-21
De: Elizabeth Blake
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Nobody's Sweetheart Now
- De: Maggie Robinson
- Narrado por: Gemma Dawson
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 268
England, 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up - not in the flesh, but as a spirit! Rupert has to perform a few good deeds before becoming welcomed to heaven.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fresh New Voice For Me..Very Good
- De John en 08-06-20
De: Maggie Robinson
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The Man with a Load of Mischief
- A Richard Jury Novel, Book 1
- De: Martha Grimes
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,443
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,287
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,282
At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out on the beam of the pub’s sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer - except for one Melrose Plant....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this series, but FYI
- De DCinMI en 03-29-14
De: Martha Grimes
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A Slow Fire Burning
- A Novel
- De: Paula Hawkins
- Narrado por: Rosamund Pike
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,275
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,648
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,622
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book should have a DISCLAIMER!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-21
De: Paula Hawkins