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Mystery books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.
Updated March 28, 2025
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The Little Lost Library
Adams, Ellery
Paper Book
Big clues come in small packages as Miracle Books owner Nora Pennington and the Secret, Book, and Scone Society attempt to solve a series of murders connected to a bibliophile's missing books in the latest cozy mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams . . .
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The Darling Dahlias and the red hot poker
Albert, Susan Wittig
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It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason...
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Book clubbed
Barrett, Lorna.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett is back in town--Booktown, that is--with another page-turning mystery. This time bookstore owner Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, put their own problems on the shelf to catch a killer who turns a bookcase into a murder weapon...
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Killing time
Beaton, M. C.
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Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again. Agatha Raisin's private detective agency has their work cut out for them when a series of shop burglaries disturbs their...
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The silence of the flans
Bradford, Laura
Paper Book
An Emergency Dessert Squad MysteryAs owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, baker Winnie Johnson has a deft touch in the kitchen and a soft spot for lost causes. So when her business professor beau might have to fail one of his fourth-year students, Winnie offers an extra credit opportunity at her...
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The cat who dropped a bombshell
Braun, Lilian Jackson.
Paper Book
James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who. . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko has developed a strange new hobby: He drops himself from balconies,...
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Hiss & tell
Brown, Rita Mae
Paper Book
When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. "As feline...
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The paper caper
Carlisle, Kate
Paper Book
During the first annual Mark Twain Festival at the Covington, a wealthy media magnate Joseph Cabot places with his local look-a-like for a day, a-la The Prince and the Pauper. The two men will trade places for a week as part of a huge publicity campaign to raise money for the Covington Library. But...
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
Le Carré, John
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Featuring George Smiley, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in John le Carr#65533;'s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of A Delicate Truth and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. John le Carr#65533;'s new novel, A Legacy of Spies, will be...
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The big sleep
Chandler, Raymond
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The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. * Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. One of The Atlantic's Great...
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A dark and stormy tea
Childs, Laura
Paper Book
It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Browning's troubles. As she approaches St. Philips Graveyard, Theodosia witnesses a brutal murder and sees a dark-hooded figure slip away into the fog. As she is alerting police, Theodosia recognises the victim - it is the daughter...
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The body in the library : a Miss Marple mystery
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is...
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Ten little niggers : a play in three acts
Christie, Agatha
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Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one...
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The woman in white
Collins, Wilkie
Paper Book
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice,...
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The First Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
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A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED NOVEL OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S FIRST NOVEL FEATURING SHERLOCK HOLMES! <...
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Pink lemonade cake murder
Fluke, Joanne
Paper Book
Fans of deliciously charming, page-turning whodunits rejoice! Beloved New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Culinary Mystery Joanne Fluke delivers the twenty-eighth mouthwatering Hannah Swensen Mystery! The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and...
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Shredding the evidence
Gerber, Daryl Wood
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The Agatha Award-winning author of Sifting Through Clues returns to the Cookbook Nook, where a combative food reporter gets her just deserts . . . The denizens of Crystal Cove are salivating over the upcoming Food Bowl Week, when local chefs offer some of their best and most...
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A gentlewoman's guide to murder
Hamilton, Victoria
Paper Book
"[An] outstanding series launch. ... Hamilton expertly balances the page-turning detection with the story of a hypocritical society where women, whether they are scullery maids or orphans, rarely get to make their own decisions."--Publishers Weekly(starred review) Scandal and slayings...
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Don't go home
Hart, Carolyn G.
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Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon-and former Broward's Rock resident-Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, Don't Go Home. But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the...
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One for the hooks
Hechtman, Betty
Paper Book
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Whiskers and lies
Kelly, Sofie
Paper Book
" Librarian Kathleen Paulson is always willing to help a friend, but to save one from a wrongful arrest, she'll need magical backup from her affectionate cats in the newest installment of this New York Times bestselling series. Baker Georgia Tepper...
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And then there were nuns
Logan, Kylie
Paper Book
A National Bestselling AuthorA League of Literary Ladies MysteryB and B owner Bea Cartwright is taking meals to ten visiting nuns who are on retreat at the Water's Edge Center for Spirit and Renewal on picturesque South Bass Island. But their peace is shattered when one of the nuns is found murdered...
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
McCall Smith, Alexander
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her...
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The Thursday murder club
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture The first installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop...
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The Black Lizard big book of locked-room mysteries : the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled
Penzler, Otto
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The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD...
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Claw enforcement
Ryan, Sofie
Paper Book
Sarah Grayson and her feline ally, Elvis, are hot on the tail of a crafty killer in the newest installment of the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat mysteries. Sarah Grayson owns a delightful secondhand shop in the small town of North Harbor, Maine, where she and her...
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City of schemes
Thompson, Victoria
Paper Book
The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends discharged from the army. One of them, Archie Carstens, fell in love with a beautiful woman named Noelle when stationed in France. When Archie receives a letter from Noelle begging for money,...
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Anatomy of a murder
Traver, Robert
Paper Book
First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the now classic Otto Preminger film of the same name, starring Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington. It's...
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Aunty Lee's chilled revenge
Yu, Ovidia
Paper Book
Rosie "Aunty" Lee--feisty widow, amateur sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant--is back in another delectable, witty mystery set in Singapore. Slightly hobbled by a twisted ankle, crime-solving restaurateur Aunty Lee begrudgingly agrees to take a rest from...
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