Whodunit?

Ten great reads for a lonely night of thrills and chills!

In John Gregory Betancourt's "Dog Pit," the fourth entry in "The Pit and the Pendulum" series, Peter "Pit Bull" Geller must unravel the theft of an expensive ring, while simultaneously dealing with a nasty canine guard. Sydney J. Bounds's "The Book Miser" has detective Josephine "Jo" Royal trying to thwart an unscrupulous book collector who's taken advantage of an innocent seller. In "The Purple Glove Murders," by Mary Wickizer Burgess, attorney Gail Brevard is asked to solve a killing that appears to be linked to another murder from decades earlier.

In Victor Cilinca's "Eggs," a multi-millionaire pasta company executive becomes the target of a scam. In "The Case of the Telbury Halt Ghost," by Ernest Dudley, well-known detective Doctor Morelle must unravel the mystery behind the apparent haunting of a rural railway station. "The Adventure of the Forgotten Umbrella," by Mel Gilden, is one of those tales of Sherlock...