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Early on, a dead body turns up, a valuable item goes missing, or a puzzle begs to be solved. Meg is a rich girl who wants a job on a newspaper because she loves photography. List of best mystery books of all time by some of the famous mystery writers like. Or if you love classic mystery, check out our best. In fact, crime fiction and mystery are one of the topselling fiction genres, second only to romance, according to bookstr.
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