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"A headless corpus delicti, a weird forest at night and a woman's head in a locked leather hat box under the bed. Add to this a neurotic English girl, a doddering hypochondriac and a charming but cold-blooded killer. The result? One of the most unusual and daring thrillers to come out of Hollywood in the '30s ..."--Container.
2) Wonder bar
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Proprietor Al Wonder, a master showman keeps the champagne flowing, the patrons glowing and the bills paid. In just one night at this merrily sophisticated Parisian watering hole, anything can happen ... and almost everything does.
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"Ask mother" says the message scrawled in lipstick at a muder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story - if it bleeds, it leads - and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer.
4) Nightbreed
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"Boone may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates us from them and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. ... They are the Nightbreed, denizens of a world beyond death, beyond imagination, perhaps beyond anything you've seen."--Container.
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"Matrimony means different things to different people. For temperamental artist Geoffrey Carroll, it means he's in his element. And out of his mind. Geoffrey [is] making a habit of poisoning one wife and marrying another when the former no longer inspires his canvases. Current wife Sally puts two and two together and comes up with six -- as in six feet under, the place she'll be if she continues to accept the glass of milk Geoffrey regularly offers...
7) Winter kill
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The ski resort Police Chief Sam McNeill is the target of a serial killer who leaves no clues, except taunting messages spray-painted next to the bodies of his, or her, victims.
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"The seas are calm and the ship is sturdy, but the shipboard romance is doomed. Dan does not know that Joan is dying of an incurable disease. Joan does not know Dan is a convicted murderer en route to San Quentin. Still, they have four weeks to find happiness in each other's arms. Or will Dan forsake the love of a lifetime for his own life, using the vessel's Honolulu layover as a chance to escape the law?"--Container.
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"The brain-teasing tale of a serial killer who chooses his/her victims in alphabetical order. As quickly as you can say ABC, Hercule Poirot is on the case, pursuing gorgeous Amanda Beatrice Cross who confesses to the crimes in Poirot's Turkish bath. Poirot is shocked. After all, the ladies have their own facility elsewhere in the building! A befuddled British intelligence officer galumphs along in Poirot's wake. Surprise cameos from the Miss Marple...
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