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x J. D. Salinger   The Catcher in the Rye    
Jerome David "J. D." Salinger ( /ˈsælɪndʒər/ SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his only novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), and his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965...
Franny and Zooey
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Nine Stories
Soft-Boiled Sergeant
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x Kevin Kelly Kk-2003 Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World    
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture. Kelly was born...
Asia Grace
Cool Tools
Bicycle Haiku
New Rules for the New Economy
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x Jean Baudrillard WikipediaBaudrillard20040612 Simulacra and Simulation    
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
The Mirror of Production
America
échange impossible
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x Danny Hillis Danny Hillis2 The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work   Science Masters series
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Why Computer Science is No Good
The Myth of Y2K
The Connection Machine
x Stewart Brand Stewart Brand speaking September 5, 2004 The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer The Last Whole Earth Catalog  
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation....
How Buildings Learn
Das Ticken des langen Jetzt. Zeit und Verantwortung am Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends.
The Media Lab
Space Colonies
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x Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson The Big U   The Baroque Cycle
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
The Cobweb
Cryptonomicon
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x James Joyce Revolutionary Joyce Dubliners    
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Finnegans Wake
Ulysses
Stephen Hero
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x Dan Simmons Dan simmons The Rise of Endymion   Hyperion Cantos
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. He spans genres such as science fiction, horror...
The Fall of Hyperion Ilium
Summer of Night Dale Stewart/Mike O'Rourke
A Winter Haunting
Olympos
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x Haruki Murakami HarukiMurakami The Elephant Vanishes   Trilogy of the Rat
A Wild Sheep Chase
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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x H. L. Mencken H l mencken George Bernard Shaw: His Plays    
Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken (September 12, 1880, to January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore,"...
A Book of Prefaces
In Defense of Women
The American Language
Libido for the Ugly
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x Donald Knuth Donald Knuth 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated    
Donald Ervin Knuth ( /kəˈnuːθ/ kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the ...
The Art of Computer Programming
Concrete Mathematics
Selected Papers on Computer Science
Surreal Numbers
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x Kage Baker Kage Baker 3491 In The Garden of Iden   Company
Mendoza in Hollywood
The Graveyard Game
The Life of the World to Come
The Children of the Company
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x Philip K. Dick   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?   VALIS
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in...
The Man in the High Castle The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch The Early Work of Philip K. Dick
Ubik VALIS trilogy
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
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x Jef Raskin Jef Raskin credit Aza The Humane Interface    
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005) was an American human–computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B.S. 1964...
x Christopher Alexander   A Pattern Language    
The Timeless Way of Building
vision of a living world
nature of order
foreshadowing of 21st century art
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x Sara Ishikawa   A Pattern Language      
x Murray Silverstein   A Pattern Language    
Murray Silverstein (born September 19, 1943) co-authored the book A Pattern Language. At that time, he taught architecture courses at the University of California, and subsequently taught at the University of Washington. He had also written several...
x Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel in London More Dykes to Watch Out For    
Alison Bechdel ( /ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic...
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For
Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For
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x Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould by Kathy Chapman The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox The Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Celebration of the Earth's Physical Past Science Masters series
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
I Have Landed
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
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x Adrian Room   The fascinating origins of everyday words    
Adrian Room was a noted Toponymist, Onomastician, and Lexicographer that began researching name origins in 1974. He published over 50 reference books.
Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Confusible Words
Cassell's Dictionary of Word Histories
A concise dictionary of modern place-names in Great Britain and Ireland
A Dictionary of Art Titles
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x Richard Feynman feynman.jpg Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!    
Richard Phillips Feynman ( /ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity...
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
The Character of Physical Law
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x Terry Pratchett Terry pratchett Good Omens   Terry Pratchett Plays
The Last Hero Discworld - Childrens
The Colour of Magic Discworld Maps
The Light Fantastic Discworld Reference
Equal Rites Tiffany Aching
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x J. R. R. Tolkien Tolkien 1916 The Lord of the Rings   Middle Earth Universe
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE ( /ˈtɒlkiːn/, US /ˈtoʊlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of...
The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings
Songs for the Philologists The History of Middle-earth
The Silmarillion
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
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x Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine    
John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He also received much praise for his...
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Home town
House
My Detachment
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x Peter Norvig   Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach    
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Beautiful Data
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Verbmobil: Translation for Face-to-Face Dialog
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x James Blish BlishGrave The Quincunx of Time   The Devil's Day
James Benjamin Blish (May 23, 1921 – July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr. Blish was born at East Orange, New Jersey. In...
A Case of Conscience Cities in Flight
Black Easter Heart Stars
A Style in Treason Star Trek Bantam Books (1967-1978)
The Shipwrecked Hotel Star Trek Bantam Books (1970-1981)
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x John Keegan   Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia, 1941    
Sir John Keegan OBE FRSL (born 15 May 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime, and intelligence...
The Face of Battle
Six Armies in Normandy
The Mask of Command
Who Was Who in World War II
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x Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky   Zones of Thought
A Fire Upon the Deep Across Real Time
Rainbows End
Marooned in Realtime
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
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x Burton Malkiel   A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing    
Burton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, 1932) is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 10th edition, 2011). He is a leading proponent of the efficient market hypothesis,...
Male-female pay differentials in professional employment ..
Strategies and Rational Decisions in the Securities Options Market
The term structure of interest rates: expectations and behavior patterns
x Connie Willis ConnieWillisCW98 wb To Say Nothing of the Dog    
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born 31 December 1945) is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear (August 2011). She was inducted to...
Doomsday Book
Passage
Bellwether
Remake
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x E. Annie Proulx   The Shipping News    
Brokeback Mountain
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Accordion Crimes
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
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x Armistead Maupin AMaupin The Night Listener   Tales of the City
Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer, best known for his Tales of the City series of novels, set in San Francisco. Maupin was born to a conservative Christian family in Washington, D.C.. Soon afterwards, his family...
Michael Tolliver Lives
Babycakes
Significant Others
Maybe the Moon
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x E. B. White E B White The Trumpet of the Swan    
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985), usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. He was a long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the widely-used English language style guide, The Elements of...
Stuart Little
The Elements of Style
Charlotte's Web
Letters of E. B. White
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x Douglas Hofstadter Hofstadter2002 The Mind's I    
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Metamagical Themas
Le Ton beau de Marot
I Am a Strange Loop
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x Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker - headshot Room Temperature    
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such...
The Mezzanine: A Novel
Checkpoint: A Novel
The Fermata
Double Fold
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x Norman Maclean   A River Runs Through It    
Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 — August 2, 1990) was an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992). Born in Clarinda, Iowa, on December 23, 1902, Maclean...
The Norman Maclean Reader
Young Men and Fire
x Anne Lamott   Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son    
Grace
Word by Word
All new people
Plan B
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x James Thurber James Thurber NYWTS The 13 Clocks    
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine then collected in his numerous...
The White Deer
The Great Quillow
Many Moons
My Life and Hard Times
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x Ken Kesey KenKeseyStatue1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest    
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey ( /ˈkiːziː/; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat...
Sometimes a Great Notion
Demon Box
The Sea Lion
Kesey
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x Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Death Is a Lonely Business    
Fahrenheit 451
Dandelion Wine
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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x Henry James HenryJamesPhotograph Daisy Miller Letters of William James  
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843(1843-04-15) – 28 February 1916(1916-02-28)) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of...
Essays in London and Elsewhere
Partial Portraits
Watch and Ward
The Outcry
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x Murasaki Shikibu Writing Murasaki Shikibu by Kikuchi Yosai The Tale of Genji    
Murasaki Shikibu (紫 式部, English: Lady Murasaki) (c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese...
Joseibetsu Genji monogatari
Aobyōshibon Genji monogatari
Genji monogatari hyoshaku
lady of the boat
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x Yojiro Ishizaka   Aoi Sanmyaku    
x Lewis Mumford Льюис Мамфорд в 1926 году The Story of Utopias    
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a...
The Brown Decades
The City in History
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes
Sidewalk critic
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x Daniel Berkeley Updike   D.B.U. and R.R    
Daniel Berkeley Updike (14 February 1860—29 December 1941) was an American printer and historian of typography. Updike was born at Providence, Rhode Island. In 1880 he joined the publishers Houghton, Mifflin & Company, of Boston as an errand boy. He...
Daniel Berkeley Updike to William Morris
On the dedications of American churches
Some aspects of printing, old and new
outlook for typography
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x John Updike John Updike with Bushes A Conciencia A Century of Arts and Letters Rabbit Novels
A & P The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Age of Innocence
alligators
Americana
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x Toni Morrison Toni Morrison 2008 A Mercy Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case  
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye,...
Amatissima
Amor/ Love
An Interview With Toni Morrison
Beloved
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x Julia Child Julia Child Julia Child and More Company    
Julia Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French...
Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
My Life in France
Julia's delicious little dinners
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x Janice Kim        
x Larry Gonick   The cartoon guide to statistics   The Cartoon History of the Universe
Larry Gonick (born 1946) is a cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form, which he has been publishing in installments since 1977. He has also written The Cartoon History of the United...
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
The cartoon guide to the environment
The Cartoon Guide to Sex
Genetik in Cartoons.
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x Steve Martin Steve Martin by David Shankbone An Object of Beauty    
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin came to public notice as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent...
The Pleasure of My Company
Pure Drivel
Cruel Shoes
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
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x George Orwell GeoreOrwell.jpg Down and Out in Paris and London    
Burmese Days
A Clergyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Road to Wigan Pier
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x Isaac Asimov Isaac.Asimov02.jpg The Caves of Steel The Hugo Winners, Volume 5 The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov (/ˈaɪzək ˈæzɨməv/ EYE-zək AZ-i-məv; born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; Yiddish: אייזיק יודאָוויטש אסימאוו; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston...
The Naked Sun The Foundation Series
The Robots of Dawn Norby Chronicles
Robots and Empire Young...
Pebble in the Sky F&SF Essay Collections
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x Steven T. Seagle 10 It's a bird--    
Steven T. Seagle (born on March 31, 1965) is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game, and animation, industries. He is best known for his nationally acclaimed graphic novel memoir It's a Bird ...
Matt Wagner's Grendel tales, the devil in our midst
Solstice
Kafka
House of secrets, foundation
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x Madeleine L'Engle   A Wind in the Door   Time Quartet
A Swiftly Tilting Planet O’Keefe
A Wrinkle in Time
Many Waters
The Arm of the Starfish
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x Gene Wolfe Genewolf1 A Walking Tour of the Shambles   The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a...
The Urth of the New Sun The Solar Cycle
Gene Wolfe's Book of Days The Book of the Long Sun
Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights The Wizard Knight
Storeys from the Old Hotel Latro
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x Nicholas Meyer   The West End Horror    
Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter, producer, author, and director, most known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of...
The Canary Trainer
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The 7 Per Cent Solution
Confessions of a homing pigeon
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x William Goldman William Goldman Marathon Man    
The Princess Bride
Magic
Dreamcatcher: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)
A Family Affair
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x Frederick Forsyth Frederick Forsyth Avenger    
Frederick Forsyth, CBE (born 25 August 1938) is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The...
Avenger X24 Dumpbin
Biafra story
Chacal
Crime Movies
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x Agatha Christie Agatha Christie plaque -Torre Abbey cropped The A.B.C. Murders    
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66...
Peril at End House
Death Comes as the End
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Curtain
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