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Heart of Darkness

★★★★☆
Deep in the African jungle, Kurtz ran a business procuring ivory and is treated like a god by the natives. But lately, something entirely more sinister is afoot... Kurtz has gone insane.

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Catch-22

★★★★☆
If you want to fly more missions, you're insane, making you eligible to be grounded. But if you want to be grounded, it means you're sane enough to keep flying.

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The Burglar in the Closet

★★★☆☆
Another heist gone wrong, as Bernie is hiding in the closet when a woman is murdered.

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Train to Pakistan

★★★★☆
Mano Majra, a sleepy village is caught in the crossfire as it sits right on the fault line where a great nation is being divided in two.

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Before The Coffee Gets Cold

★★★★☆
A fable about table at a restaurant which allows a patron to time travel... as long as they meet certain conditions.

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The A.B.C. Murders

★★★★★
Poirot tracks a serial killer with a peculiar modus operandi... he murders people in alphabetical order.

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The Pale Criminal

★★★☆☆
Tracing a blackmailer leads Bernie Gunther to the trail of a series of missing young girls... and a plot to discredit Jews that goes all the way to the top

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Right Ho, Jeeves

★★★★★
Wooster is at Brinkley Court, trying to get Gussie Fink-Nottle away from newts long enough to get him hitched, while also trying to mend his cousin Angela's love life and saving his Aunt Dahlia's cook Anatole.

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Beartown

★★★★★
In a small town obsessed with junior level hockey, the star player is accused of a crime which tears the town apart

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

★★★★★
Alice falls into the rabbit-hole and has several adventures involving some very unusual characters

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Very Good, Jeeves

★★★★★
A collection of short stories related by Wooster where Jeeves rescues him and his friends from the after effects of their hare-brained schemes

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Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Woundn't Grow Up

★★★★☆
Peter Pan, and the little fairy Tinker Bell lead the Darling children to the magical world of Neverland

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The Fat Years

★☆☆☆☆
A political commentary on the CCP disguised as science fiction

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Carry On, Jeeves

★★★★★
The world's most famous valet exercises his grey cells again to extricate Wooster and his vapid friends from sticky situations

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Neverwhere

★★★★★
Richard Mayhew stumbles into a world under the streets of London, a world filled with angels, monsters, monks, assassins, saints and soul-stealing beings which transcend definition.

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March Violets

★★★★★
Bernie Gunther, a private detective in 1930’s Berlin, has to solve the murder of a billionaire’s daughter

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