3.97 avg rating — 3,634 ratings

"The first but not the best of the Professor Shandy series."

3.68 avg rating — 2,124 ratings

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"Asey Mayo has travelled the world as a sailor then worked at many trades for the Cape Cod wealthy set. With a mass of family connections to keep him informed he becomes the ideal local sleuth to unravel any and all problems on the Cape and cook them a good breakfast, too."

3.90 avg rating — 964 ratings

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"Irene Adler's version of the story behind her relationship with the King of Bohemia. The opera diva was also a sleuth the equal of the great Sherlock Holmes. To Holmes she was always the one woman of any interest."

3.84 avg rating — 70,889 ratings

"The first Tommy & Tuppence story."

3.70 avg rating — 7,529 ratings

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"This was the best of the three Lovesey wrote about Prince Albert but not the first in the series."

3.83 avg rating — 5,222 ratings

"Sir Charles Sheridan is a polymath and sleuths while indulging his other interests."

3.71 avg rating — 671 ratings

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"Hamish McBeth makes a wonderfully different sleuth, one to take the easiest route Hamish will never overdo anything resembling work."

3.66 avg rating — 20,204 ratings

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