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Title: A Figure in Hiding
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Book 16 in the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories. The book was originally published in 1937 and later rewritten. The original book was ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and included dust jacket art by Paul Laune. This Applewood edition is a facsimile reproduction of the book as it was originally published in 1937.

Title: A Long Way From Eden
Author: David Chacko
Planned as the first novel in the Adam Templeton series. Almost all the characters and events are based on real characters or events. Call it drawing on life, or on research, it comes to the same end. A close observer of the Sun Coast will think that he knows every town and building in the book, but it will still be fiction. It's like any good story: the end should be anticipated but still carry the full impact of surprise.

Title: A Study in Scarlet
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
The very first Sherlock Holmes story, and was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. This mystery and murder story is divided into two parts; the action up until the arrest of the murderer, and the second part a detailed back-story of the murderer's life and motives, previously unexplained. These seemingly unrelated stories eventually overlap, but the ending consists of Holmes merely marking off the clues which have led him to solve the murders.

Title: Absolute Power
Author: David Baldacci
Absolute Power is a 1996 book by David Baldacci, which was made into a 1997 film starring Clint Eastwood.

Title: Anthem
Author: Ayn Rand
Anthem is a dystopian, science-fiction novella by philosopher Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics.

Title: Apology for a Murder
Author: Lorenzino De Medici
This tale is about a glimpse into the mind of an unrepentant killer, a man who compares himself to the heroes of the ancient world, and who is immersed in the mentality of the New Beginning.

Title: Arsene Lupin
Author: Edgar Jepson, Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin is the name of a fictional gentleman thief who appears in a book series of detective fiction / crime fiction novels written by French writer Maurice Leblanc - Tired of boring rural life at the family's luxurious castle in Normandy, Arsene's father instructs him to steal a particularly necklace once worn by Marie Antoinette. Once the necklace is passed off to his father, Arsene goes to sleep, only to wake the next morning to discover his father dead and the family cast out.

Title: Arsene Lupin in 813
Author: Maurice Leblanc
This is one of the extraordinary adventures of Lupin. Arsène Lupin is accused of murder. All the evidence points to him, so he undertakes to head the police investigation to find the true murderer. A clock on which the number 813 has particular significance is a vital element in the case, as is a packet of letters written to Bismarck of Germany, who must make several journeys (incognito) to help clear up the mystery. The death-rate, via murder and suicide, is high.

Title: Arsene Lupin in The Crystal Stopper
Author: Maurice Leblanc
Arsene Lupin may have finally met his match in Deputy Daubrecq, a cunning detective who foils Lupin's most cunning robberies, thefts, and even a kidnapping. Can the world's greatest thief get his act together, save his arrested men from the guillotine, and recover his lost honor?

Title: Arsene Lupin in The Hollow Needle
Author: Maurice Leblanc,  Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
Maurice Leblanc's gentleman thief returns in this intricately plotted tale of disguises, loot, and love. Once more Lupin is at large, snatching fortunes from under the noses of the wealthy. But this time he may have met his match . . . and not in his usual nemeses, Inspector Ganimard or Holmlock Shears, but in a bright school student who manages to penetrate his secrets -- and reaches his treasure-trove! But the greatest danger may be the woman with whom Lupin has fallen in love, for she has made him promise to give up his life of crime forever!

Title: Arsene Lupin Vs. Herlock Sholmes
Author: Maurice Leblanc
LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat -- witty, charming, brilliant, sly -- and possibly the greatest thief in the world. In this classic tale, Lupin comes up against the only man who may be able to stop him -- no less than the great British gentleman-detective Herlock Sholmes. Who will emerge triumphant?

Title: Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start and Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

Title: Basket Case
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Basket Case, published in 2002, is the ninth novel by Carl Hiaasen. It is a classic Hiaasen crime novel, set in Florida as always.It opens with the death of James Stomarti (aka Jimmy Stoma), an ostensibly washed-up former lead man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies.

Title: Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers Of Louisa May Alcott
Author: Louisa May Alcott
This is a collection of thrillers from the writings of Louisa May Alcott. The four included here are Pauline's Passion and Punishment, The Mysterious Key, The Abbott's Ghost, and Behind a Mask. It is considered by critics as Alcott's finest work in romance-thriller genre.

Title: Carpenter's Gothic
Author: William Gaddis
Carpenter's Gothic relates the words and occasional actions, in one house, of an ex-soldier, confederate apologist, and pathological liar; his neglected and ineffectual wife; and a compassionate, understanding but haunted visitor who appears to stand in for the author.

Title: Danger on Vampire Trail
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Book 50 The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters.

Title: Deception Point
Author: Dan Brown
Deception Point is a thriller novel by Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Digital Fortress : A Thriller.

Title: Digital Fortress : A Thriller
Author: Dan Brown
Ensei Tankado, a Japanese cryptographer who was once employed in National Security Agency - NSA has written a code Digital Fortress, an unbreakable code resistant to NSA's TRANSLTR. When Tankado dies unexpectedly, Susan Fletcher, head of the NSA, finds herself faced with task of stopping the spread of the code.

Title: Double Cross
Author: James Patterson
Alex Cross rejoins the Washington DC police force in pursuit of a serial killer who wants to be a mega-celebrity. Alex Cross has a new girlfriend, Brianna Stone, who is also a detective in the police force. Each murder becomes increasingly complex and expands the audience to the murders. The killers ‘modus operandi’ is that he adores an audience to his murders. Throughout the story the murderer is referred to as DCAK, short for “The Washington DC Audience Killer”

Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Dracula is an acclaimed novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist, the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters.

Title: Dracula's Guest
Author: Bram Stoker
Dracula's Guest is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death.

Title: Dragons in the Waters
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Having been raised by his great aunt, Miss Leonis Phair, Simon accepts an invitation to travel by freighter to Venezuela with a long lost cousin, Forsyth Phair. Phair recently purchased a valuable heirloom painting of Simon Bolivar from Aunt Leonis. It is a relic of Simon's forebear, Quentin Phair, who fought at Bolivar's side. The portrait was sold to raise money to support Simon and Miss Leonis, who is ninety years old. Forsyth proposes to donate the portrait to a museum in Caracas — but all is not as it seems.

Title: Footprints Under the Window
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Book 12 Frank and Joe attempt to uncover a plot to smuggle refugees from Baredo in the Huellas (a fictional island nation off the coast of French Guiana) into the United States, and the involvement of local magnate Orrin North.

Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, first published anonymously in London, but more often known by the revised third edition of 1831 under her own name. It is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the 'over-reaching' of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. Many distinguished authors, such as Brian Aldiss, consider this the very first science fiction novel.

Title: Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales
Author: Deborah Noyes
A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire
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