American Mystery Classics

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  • The Tragedy of Y

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    A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide’s been staged–and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . .

    A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Queen, Ellery
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 04 2026
    • ISBN10: 1613168926
    • Language: English
  • Golden Age Suspense Stories

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    Fifteen suspenseful tales from the Golden Age of the mystery genre.

    The art of the suspense story is incredibly varied. Rarely classified as whodunits, these narratives can be more accurately describe

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Penzler, Otto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 408
    • Publish Date: July 07 2026
    • ISBN10: 161316789X
    • Language: English
  • Obelists Fly High

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    A surgeon is murdered in mid-air with only his fellow airplane passengers as possible suspects in this classic closed circle mystery set in the age of early aviation.

    1935: A surgeon, the appropriatel

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: King, C. Daly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: May 19 2026
    • ISBN10: 1613167482
    • Language: English
  • Dreadful Summit

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    A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of the House.

    Every sports fan in New York knows Al Judge, the hard-bitten reporter whose column is the scou

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Ellin, Stanley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 26 2026
    • ISBN10: 1613167695
    • Language: English
  • Cats Don’t Need Coffins

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    Elderly cat fancier Rachel Murdock, “an appealing Jessica Fletcher antecedent” (Publishers Weekly), tackles a puzzling case in this cozy mystery from a master of domestic suspense.

    When sisters Rachel

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    • Series: Rachel Murdock Mysteries
    • Author: Hitchens, Dolores
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: April 07 2026
    • ISBN10: 1613167466
    • Language: English
  • While the Patient Slept

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    The “timing and gothic atmosphere are second to none” in this classic mystery where “the suspense steadily builds . . . until the satisfying denouement” (Publishers Weekly).

    From the moment nurse Sara

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Eberhart, Mignon G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 161316744X
    • Language: English
  • The Baffle Book

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    The “brilliant” and baffling puzzle book that launched the “solve-it-yourself” mystery craze of the 1920s and ’30s (New York Times).

    Calling all mystery puzzle fans! This is the book that launched the

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Wren, Lassiter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1613167415
    • Language: English
  • The Yellow Room

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    As far as New Yorker Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge of marriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, le

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613167539
    • Language: English
  • The Burning Court

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    When Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son’s publishing house, learns of the mysterious events that befell his neighbor’s rich uncle, he shrugs off their seemingly supernatural circumstances. He… [more below]

    • Author: Carr, John Dickson
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613166982
    • Language: English
  • The Burning Court

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    When Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son’s publishing house, learns of the mysterious events that befell his neighbor’s rich uncle, he shrugs off their seemingly supernatural circumstances. He… [more below]

    • Author: Carr, John Dickson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613166990
    • Language: English
  • Golden Age Christmas Mysteries

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    Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so at odds with violence, crime, an

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Penzler, Otto
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613167016
    • Language: English
  • The Scarlet Circle

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    On vacation with his daughter on the New England coast, Dr. Hugh Westlake is enjoying the sun, the sea, and the fishing. It being September, the inn where they’re staying is almost empty, except for a… [more below]

    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Stagge, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 161316713X
    • Language: English
  • Golden Age Christmas Mysteries

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    Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so at odds with violence, crime, an

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    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Penzler, Otto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613167024
    • Language: English
  • Tragedy of X

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    Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned thespian, he made his name in London, where his rec

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    • Series: Ellery Queen Detective
    • Author: Queen, Ellery
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: August 26 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613166699
    • Language: English
  • Blood on the Cat

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    Bennet Farr was the richest, most corrupt, and most hated man in Cognac, a small town just outside of Chicago. He ruled the village with his money and crossed nearly all of the villagers in the proces… [more below]

    • Series: American Mystery Classics
    • Author: Rutledge, Nancy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1613166664
    • Language: English
  • The Door

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    Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young c… [more below]

    • Author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1613165900
    • Language: English
  • The Fallen Sparrow

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    For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languished in a Fascist prison in Spain where he was tortured by a limping jailor known only as Wobblefoot. He escaped with the help of a childhood friend from Ame… [more below]

    • Author: Hughes, Dorothy B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1613165897
    • Language: English
  • The D.A. Calls It Murder

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    In a small town north of Los Angeles, Doug Selby claims narrow victory in a hotly-contested race for District Attorney. Then his troubles begin: First, when the local paper, supportive of the incumben… [more below]

    • Author: Gardner, Erle Stanley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 03 2025
    • ISBN10: 161316663X
    • Language: English
  • The Door

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    Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young c… [more below]

    • Author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1613165935
    • Language: English
  • The Case of the Careless Kitten: A Perry Mason Mystery

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    Helen Kendal’s woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to make contact with criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she

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    • Series: An American Mystery Classic
    • Author: Gardner, Erle Stanley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1613161166
    • Language: English
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