The Sweet Smell of Arsenic and Apple Pie
Cordelia Pruitt steps off a rattling bus into Honeybell Hollow, Georgia, expecting nothing more than a quiet life and her grandmother's battered recipe box. Instead, she steps dire
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Humorous Mystery books
Every book here is tagged humorous and filed under Mystery. Read the first chapters of all 5 of them free, with no account and no card.
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- The first 20% of every book, rounded up, so at least one chapter. Across this shelf that is about 4 chapters per book, and every book here is 20 chapters long.
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- The free sample ends at the paywall. Dracon Omni unlocks every chapter of every book on this shelf, including the ones we give away, and keeps them on your devices.
- Who writes humorous mystery books?
- 5 authors write them, led by Agnes Marple, Clara Vorne and Eowyn Quennell. Every one opens its first chapters free.
Humorous Mystery on the shelf
Steeped in Deceit
The Copper Kettle creaks open the way it has for forty-seven years: reluctantly, with a thin exhalation of cedar and bergamot, as if the building itself is holding its breath. Tess
Dead Letters and Pecan Pie
For twenty-three years, Eugenia Crick has opened the Hollow Creek post office before sunrise, her brass key as familiar in her hand as a prayer. So when Postmaster Hiram Pettigrew
The Curious Case of the Clocktower Cuckoo
When the clocktower's cuckoo stops at midnight, Wren Calloway knows something is terribly wrong. The old tower has kept time for three generations without missing a single chime, a
The Custard Conspiracy
When the brass bell above Cosgrove Pye's bakery falls silent and the scent of yeast gives way to something far more sinister, amateur sleuth Iris Thistleberry knows that twenty yea