MURDER ON THE LINKS is the second Hercule Poirot novel written by Agatha Christie. First published in 1923, the Sugar Skull Press edition arrived nearly a century later in 2022. Find it at Amazon.com.
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November
26
New Release: Cover Stories ( Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery #3) by Dakota Donovan
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Dakota Donovan’s third Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery, COVER STORIES, was released on November 26, 2022, in Kindle and Paperback editions. ABOUT THE NOVEL: After a jury acquits Prima Powell of killing her husband, the beautiful TV star remains guilty in the court of public opinion. She hires Dakota Donovan to write her comeback project, but the […]
November
30
DOUBLE IDENTITIES (Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery #2) by Dakota Donovan
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Dakota Donovan’s second Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery, DOUBLE IDENTITIES, was released on November 28, 2021, in Kindle and Paperback editions. ABOUT THE NOVEL: When Terry Grayson, showrunner for a popular sitcom, starts getting death threats, he’s sure the danger is coming from someone on staff. Grayson hires Dakota Donovan to go undercover in the writers’ room […]
June
05
Hunger, a novel by Knut Hamsun
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From the opening line — It was during the time I wandered about and starved in Christiania: Christiania, this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the traces of his sojourn there.— Hunger, the 1890 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, pulls us into the narrator’s inner and outer worlds. This compelling story of […]
June
03
Therese Raquin: A novel of passion and crime by Emile Zola
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First published in 1890, Therese Raquin — Emile Zola’s classic tale of forbidden love and murder — has served as the basis for television programs, radio plays, operas, movies (including 2013’s In Secret starring Jessica Lange and Elizabeth Olsen), and stage plays (including the 2015 Broadway production starring Keira Knightley). The story follows impoverished orphan […]
May
12
L.A. SLEEPERS (Hollywood Ghostwriter Mystery #1) by Dakota Donovan
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When elderly Hollywood producer Milton Kingman says he’s dying and needs someone to write his memoir, Dakota Donovan takes the job. The pay is lousy and the hours are worse, but the ghostwriter has no other options at the moment. What starts out as a standard “as told to” assignment soon becomes a long, strange […]
May
12
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
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First published in 1878, The Haunted Hotel is among the later works of Wilkie Collins, famous for his 1868 novel The Moonstone, widely considered as the first modern English detective novel. The Haunted Hotel is notable for its atmosphere–a decaying palace in Venice–as well as intrigue among members of the aristocracy. “Wilkie Collins invented the […]
October
09
The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin
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“It is because I liked Edgar Allan Poe’s stories so much that I began to make suspense films.” ALFRED HITCHCOCK “Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?” ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE “Mr. Poe has that indescribable something that men have agreed to call genius.” JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL “Poe constantly and inevitably produced […]
October
05
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Mystery & Fantasy Stories
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Mystery & Fantasy Stories features four mysterious and fantastic tales from America’s premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The volume includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the short story that served as the basis for the 2008 film starring Brad Pitt. “Fitzgerald had one of the rarest qualities in all of literature…the word is charm…a […]
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