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Humorous Mystery and Crime Assassin Bugs 2

The Exterminators

Bill Fitzhugh

'Wild and clever fun.' Carl Hiaasen

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Humorous Mystery and Crime An Inspector Pel Mystery 14

Pel and the Party Spirit

Mark Hebden

Brigade Criminelle is mobilised when a fatal stabbing, an anticipated delivery of lethal drugs from Marseilles, and the discovery of a thirty-year-old corpse in an ancient turreted tower in the town of Puyceldome coincide with a frantic search for two murderous hitchhikers – all on Chief Inspector Pel’s patch.

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Classic Canning 4

The Improvised Life of Polycarp Jarvis

Victor Canning

An exuberant, life-affirming novel of taking your chances.

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Humorous Mystery and Crime Benbow and Wingate 3

Murder by Owl Light

Corinne Holt Sawyer

The murder of the gardener at Camden-sur-Mer is a break in routine for Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate’s retirement community

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Satirical Comedy Great America 1

Billy’s Great American Ice Cream Adventure

Paul Flower

A short satire for our times

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Satirical Comedy A Serge Storms Adventure 5

The Stingray Shuffle

Tim Dorsey

With Serge Storms off his meds and on the hunt for a briefcase stuffed with $5m, no one is safe…

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Social comedy The Bandy Papers 2

That’s Me in the Middle

Donald Jack

Bandy is ejected from the Royal Flying Corps and lands in the trenches in the 13th Bicycle Brigade…

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Social comedy The Bandy Papers 4

Me Bandy, You Cissie

Donald Jack

With war at an end, Bartholomew Bandy smashes (literally) into the exciting new world of the movies.

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Humorous Mystery and Crime Lucian Wing 3

Children of the Valley

Castle Freeman

A pair of runaways take refuge in Sheriff Wing’s slice of the Vermont countryside in this fast-paced, sharply observed novel of rural suspense

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Humorous Mystery and Crime A Miss Seeton Mystery 15

Miss Seeton Plants Suspicion

Hamilton Crane

Miss Seeton digs deep to uncover the hidden roots of a crime.

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Humorous Mystery and Crime A Dolly Mystery 4

Operation Nassau

Dorothy Dunnett

Doctor B. McRannoch is drawn into an espionage plot in the Bahamas – the fourth book in a classic suspense mystery series, with an ending always sure to surprise!

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The Smiler Trilogy 2

Flight of the Grey Goose

Victor Canning

Canning's classic children's trilogy continues as fifteen-year-old Smiler, still on the run from the police, hitches a ride to Scotland.

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