The Bargain Wordsmith Book Inventory: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Title
Author
Genre
Agatha Christie
Mystery
Appearing in Agatha Christie's very first novel in 1920 and her very last in 1975,
Hercule Poirot became the most celebrated detective since Sherlock Holmes,
appearing in 33 novels, a play, and these 51 short stories. Arranged in their original
publication order, these short stories provide a feast for hardened Agatha Christie
addicts as well as those who have grown to love the detective through his many film
and television appearances.
N400.00
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery
Here, reproduced in complete facsimile, are the original Sherlock Homes detective
stories as they first appeared in the famed 19th-century British magazine "The
Strand." Illustrating the stories are drawings of Sidney Paget - illustrations as
immortal as the stories themselves. Includes over 37 of Doyle's best suspense-filled
short-stories plus the complete version of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
N400.00
3 A Prisoner of Birth
Jeffrey Archer
Thriller
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not
N400.00
have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the
prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends—a
barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established
firm’s history—who is going to believe Danny’s side of the story? Danny is sentenced
to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land,
from where no inmate has ever escaped. But Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport,
Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek
revenge—and the extent to which his fiancée Beth will go in pursuit of justice.
4 Honor Among Thieves
Jeffrey Archer
Thriller
Spring 1994, Washington, D.C. - While the Clinton Administration grapples with its N400.00
domestic policies, a sinister plot is being masterminded six thousand miles away in
Baghdad. By using $100 million as bait and spinning a deadly web of corruption,
forgery, and terror, Saddam Hussein seeks to embarrass the U.S. with the ultimate
revenge: to steal a treasured historical document and then destroy it before the
world's media-on July 4, 1994. As the countdown to Independence Day begins, two
agents stand in the way of his nearly flawless plan: Scott Bradley, a rising star in the
CIA who is desperate to prove his patriotism, and Hannah Kopec, the stunning
Mossad operative who has already lost o much that she fears nothing and trusts no
one.
5 The Associate
John Grisham
Crime/Thriller Kyle McAvoy, a callow Yale Law School student, dreams of a public service gig on
N400.00
graduation, until shadowy figures blackmail him with a videotape that could revive a
five-year-old rape accusation. Instead of helping those in need, McAvoy accepts a
position at a huge Wall Street firm, Scully & Pershing, whose clients include a
military contractor enmeshed in a $800 billion lawsuit concerning a newly-designed
aircraft. McAvoy can avoid exposure of his past if he feeds his new masters inside
information on the case.
6 The Confession
John Grisham
Crime/Thriller For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He
N500.00
doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he
certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes
that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are
determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly
accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the
police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent
person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.
Travis Boyette is such a man. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been
paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution.
Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life,
he decides to do what’s right and confess. But how can a guilty man convince
lawyers, judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
7 Damage
John Lescroart
Crime/Thriller Wes Farrell has a new job: he is San Fransisco’s new district attorney. And his first
N500.00
case looks like it’s going to be a doozy. Ten years ago, Roland Curtlee, scion of a
wealthy and powerful family, was convicted of the rape and murder of a family
employee. Now he’s been let out pending a retrial (on what seems an especially nitpicky technicality). When the first trial’s chief witness appears to be killed in a house
fire, and someone else involved in the case dies under similar circumstances, Wes
must fend off pressure from the Curtlee family and find the truth in a case that’s full
of confusion and lies.
Kurt Eichenwald
Crime/Thriller In The Informant, award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times
N400.00
bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald tells the outrageously true story of greed,
corruption, and conspiracy that left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the
cooperation of one man. The story of Mark Whitacre, the executive who wore a wire
for the FBI as they tried to bring down corporate giant Archer Daniels Midland—but
whose dark secrets and hidden agenda threatened to unravel one of the largest pricefixing cases in history.
1 Hercules Poirot: The Complete Short
Stories
2 The Original Illustrated Sherlock
Holmes
8 The Informant
Summary
Rental Price
9 The Reversal
Michael Connelly
Crime/Thriller Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute N500.00
the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted
killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced
Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his
investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a
case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on
bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway
eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. With the odds and the evidence
against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is
sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.
10 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson
Crime/Thriller Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical
condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city
hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers,
she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of
her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her
innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the
vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot
revenge—against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government
institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.
11 The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson
Crime/Thriller Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to N400.00
run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its
publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the
fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius
hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into
an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat
and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.
12 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Crime/Thriller Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty N400.00
years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires
Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to
investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander.
Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
13 Faithful Place
Tara French
Crime/Thriller Frank Mackey, head of the Garda’s Dublin undercover unit, left home at 19. He and N500.00
Rosie Daly, madly in love, had plans to adopt one of the only career paths available in
Ireland in the 1980s: immigration. They planned to meet at midnight and take a ferry
to England and forget their dysfunctional families on Faithful Place. But Rosie never
showed up. Frank assumed that she’d left without him and joined the police. Twentyfive years later, Rosie’s suitcase is discovered in an abandoned house, and Frank must
return to the “bubbling cauldron of crazy” that is his family and his street. Rosie’s
remains are soon found, and the tightly wound cop is immediately sucked back into
the violence, hatred, alcoholism, and ignorance he’s been trying to forget.
N500.00