Posted by admin | Posted in Bestsellers | Posted on 25-07-2008
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My brother likes mystery books, he’s going into 9th grade in August. Any recommendations?
I’m not a big mystery book reader, but we want to keep him at his level of reading. I promised him some books to read over the summer. Thanks.
I’d agree about agatha christie: and then there were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, A Pocketful of Rye, The abc murders, A Caribbean Mystery, Nemesis (which should be read after A Caribbean Mystery), The Moving Finger, Sleeping Murder, Lord Edgeware Dies, Endless Night (this one is rather Gothic) and many more.
Your brother might also enjoy some of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My personal favorite is The Hound of the Baskervilles, but he wrote many good ones. His collection of stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is excellent.
G.K. Chesterton wrote a series of shorter father Brown mystery stories. These were also excellent. One set is called The Innocence of Father Brown.
If your brother enjoys historical mysteries, he may enjoy the Brother Cadfael stories which are set in Medieval times. The first is called A Morbid Taste for Bones. These mysteries are also very good.
Margery Allingham wrote the Albert Campion mysteries, starting with The Crime at Black Dudley. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, starting with Whose Body? Ngaio Marsh wrote the Rodderick Alleyn mysteries, starting with A Man Lay Dead. They are all good.
If your brother enjoys the hard-boiled detective fiction, you might suggest Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler (among others).
Steve Martini has written some really good courtroom drama/mysteries. john grisham is another author whose works he may enjoy.
Janet Evanovich wrote a series of mysteries that are funny, starting with One for the Money.
David Baldacci is another good author of stories full of mystery and intrigue.
There are many more, but I hope this helps.
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Richard Scarry Busy Town $11.74 Race around town solving mysteries! How many objects can you find? Join Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm on a fun-filled race around Busytown to solve mysteries and find hidden objects. Drive through lively city streets, an activity-filled farm, an action-packed airport, and a bustling harbor full of silly boats. There’s much to discover on this gigantic, colorful game board that’s over six feet long! As… |
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Scooby-Doo! Haunted House Game $15.99 Ready for another mystery with Scooby and the gang? In this 3D game, you move around the haunted house and try to reach the top. Secret booby traps are out to get you, like a moving ghost knight, a creaky staircase and a haunted moose head. There are seven traps in all that could keep you from moving ahead. Be the first to overcome the traps, make it to the top and uncover the villain, and you win… |
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Clue $12.20 Discover the secrets of this updated game that’s packed with more suspense than ever before. Reveal, withhold and discover with the “new Clue” that is all about today. It’s the same classic strategy — and all the usual suspects — but with new settings, new weapons and new rooms. There is also a new deck of cards that will either help you with the game play or knock you out. For three to six play… |
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Meet Joe Black: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack $6.67 Meet Joe Black, director Martin Brest’s remake of the ’30s semiclassic Death Takes a Holiday, took widespread critical potshots for its three-hour length and laconic pace. Ironically, composer Thomas Newman’s score is a compelling exercise in musical economy–spare, emotionally longing arrangements where the spaces resonate almost as much as the notes. The composer (youngest son of the great film … |
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Magical Mystery Tour (Remastered) $9.82 BEATLES THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (EDICION LIMITADA)… |
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The Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 $11.52 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed…. |
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John Dee’s Five books of Mystery $41.25 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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The Mystery of Things $11.81 ‘Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in our world; at the same time it recognises and honours the mystery in things too.’ In this collection A.C. Grayling extends the range of his previous two books to show how much understanding people can gain about themselves and their world by reflecting on the lessons offered by science, the arts (including literature) and history. Covering subjects as diverse as jane austen’s EMMA, the Rosetta Stone, Shakespeare, the Holocaust, quantum physics, Galileo, and even alien abductions, A..C. Grayling’s latest collection is a rich source for reflection and contemplation over the mysteries of life. |
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Mystery Man $11.81 A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It’s not as if there’s any danger involved. It’s an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she’s not – because she can see the bigger picture. And when they break into the shuttered shop next door on a dare, they have their answer. Suddenly they’re catapulted along a murder trail which leads them from small-time publishing to Nazi concentration camps and serial killers… |
