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Fire, Burn!Novel
John Dickson Carrstandalone novel1957
Tense in tone.
“Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.”
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NecropolisNovel
Basil Copperstandalone novel1980
Alternate history, eerie in tone, about family secrets, set in big city.
“Private detective Clyde Beatty, a rival of the great Holmes, has been hired by the lovely Angela Meredith to inquire into her father's suspicious death.”
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The Devil in VelvetNovel
John Dickson Carrstandalone novel1951
Time travel, set in europe and renaissance and early modern.
Sebastian St. CyrSeries
series1 book2012
Historical fiction, tense in tone, about family secrets.
“A beautiful young antiquary, Miss Tennyson recently provoked an uproar with her controversial identification of the island as the location of Camelot.”
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Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'UrbervillesNovel
Kim Newmanstandalone novel2011
Dark and tense in tone.
Sarah ToleranceSeries
series2 books2003
Alternate history.
“In an alternate Regency England, Miss Sarah Tolerance is a Private Inquiry Agent -- a unique position for a woman.”
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