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The Long Goodbye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Raymond Chandler
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead. So he turns to his only friend in the world, Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. Marlowe's willing to help a man down on his luck, but Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself dra ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
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G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Penrose Mystery (Popular Penguins Crime) by R. Austin Freeman
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won't insure. When Dr Thorndyke is alerted to a burglary at his house, a scrap of paper is found with the word 'lobster' on it and two Latin words, and Penrose has fled in panic after a car accident. The police are clearly mys ...Show more
The Perfect Murder (Popular Penguins Crime) by H. R. F. Keating
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
What terrible luck to be investigating the perfect murder at the beginning of his career with the Bombay Police, thinks Inspector Ghote. First he must deal with the influential tycoon, Lala Verde, his investigation beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. As if that's not enough, he must t ...Show more
The Prisoner of Zenda (Popular Penguins Crime) by Anthony Hope
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The hero of this classic swashbuckling romance, English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll, is transported from a comfortable life in London to extraordinary adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land. Rassendyll bears an uncanny resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg, who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania; and w ...Show more
The Pursued (Popular Penguins Crime) by C. S. Forester
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Life was largely uneventful for Marjorie Grainger until she came home one night to find her sister dressed up, lying lifelessly on the kitchen floor with her head in the oven. But their mother suspects this is not a simple case of suicide. In fact, she's sure she knows exactly who the killer, is, and st ...Show more
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers joins his friend Davies on a yachting expedition in the Baltic. But Davies has more on his mind than killing fowl. As they navigate the waters and treacherous, shifting sands on board the Dulcibella, Carruthers learns the real reason behind their trip - a ...Show more
The Thin Man (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dashiell Hammett
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Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
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In prohibition-era New York, Nick Charles plans to enjoy a quiet Christmas with his glamorous wife, Nora, their Schnauzer, Asta, and a case of good scotch. But the bullet-riddled corpse of a former lover, a missing inventor and a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns force him out of retire ...Show more
Trent's Last Case (Popular Penguins Crime) by E. Clerihew Bentley
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When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth, and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson - 't ...Show more
Tropical Issue (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dorothy Dunnett
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Rita Geddes is a dyslexic make-up artist whose appearance seems to change with the weather. She is called to Johnson Johnson's apartment to fix the make-up of the famous Natalie Sheridan. However, Johnson, who is seemingly recovering from an accident, which turns out to be a murder attempt, is also pres ...Show more