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The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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2,448 mystery & crime

Trial of Mary Blandy

William Roughead · history

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 01

Trial of William Palmer

George H. -1924 Knott · history

Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume I

Roy J. Snell · novel

Troubled Waters

Robert Leckie · novel

True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons

Cleveland Moffett · history

True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office

Arthur Cheney Train · novel

Truth [Vérité]

Émile Zola · novel

Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes

Andrée -1898 Hope · travel

Tutt and Mr. Tutt

Arthur Cheney Train · novel

Twelve Causes of Dishonesty

Henry Ward Beecher · ideas

Twelve Times Zero

Howard Browne · novel

Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World

Clifton R. Wooldridge · biography

Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate

Frank Thorpe Porter · biography

The story in one page

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

From murderous cats to phantom toes, twenty-five accounts of the supernatural range from the psychological to the suspiciously culinary.

W. Bob Holland · collection

Twenty-three and a half hours' leave

Mary Roberts Rinehart · short story

Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment

Edward Bellamy · short story

Two Ghostly Mysteries

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · novel

Two Wonderful Detectives; Or, Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill

Old Sleuth · novel

Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

Alfred Marks · history

Mrs. Molesworth · short story

Uncle Sam, Detective

William Atherton DuPuy · novel

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · novel

Wyndham Martyn · novel

Under Honour's Flag

Eric Lisle · novel

Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3)

T. W. Speight · novel

Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 2 (of 3)

T. W. Speight · novel

Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 3 (of 3)

T. W. Speight · novel

The story in one page

Under the Red Dragon: A Novel

An officer survives a Welsh social season and a Russian winter, only to lose a limb and his first love.

James Grant · novel

Under the Tiger's Claws; Or, A Struggle for the Right

Nicholas Carter · novel

Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery

Bert Leston Taylor · novel

Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier

Suelette Dreyfus · novel

The story in one page

Unnatural death

An elderly woman dies, leaving behind a fortune and a nurse with surprisingly efficient bookkeeping habits.

Dorothy L. Sayers · novel

Unravelled Knots

Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy · short story

Randall Garrett · novel

Urbain Grandier

Alexandre Dumas · novel

Alexandre Dumas · novel

Carolyn Wells · novel

Visible and Invisible

E. F. Benson · short story

Voice from the Cave

Mildred A. Wirt · novel

Walker of the Secret Service

Melville Davisson Post · novel

Eugene Cunningham · short story

Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)

United States. Warren Commission · history

Was it a ghost? The murders in Bussey's wood

Henry Johnson Brent · history

The story in one page

Washington Confidential

A guide to the bookies, 'untouchable' diplomats, and secret syndicate bosses running the swamp in the mid-century Truman era.

Jack Lait · travel

Watermelon Mystery at Sugar Creek

Paul Hutchens · novel