Title: Crime Story Collection
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Paretsky, Sara & Others
Genre: CS
YL:
Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 17,833
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Summary: Murder of a stranger or a relative, in a quiet English town or a crowded American city. It happens everywhere for all kinds of reasons. Short stories by some of the finest modern crime writers.

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Title: The Street Lawyer
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (PAR4)
Author: Grisham, John
Genre: CS
YL:
Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 16,407
Rating:



Summary: Michael is a successful lawyer with Drake and Sweeney. Then a homeless man attacks him. As Michael tries to discover who the man was, he uncovers a dangerous secret about Drake and Sweeney.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: CS
YL: 3.4-3.6
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 11,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: There are five stories in this book. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Barrel of Amontillado" are stories of madness; "The Maelstrom" describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" and "The Stolen Letter" meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Escape
Author: Burrows, Philip & Foster, Mark
Genre: CS
YL: 0.9
Headwords: 250
Total Word Count: 1500
Rating: ****

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Summary: 'I'm not a thief. I'm an innocent man,' shouts Brown. He is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous - very dangerous.

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Police TV
Author: Vicary, Tim
Genre: CS
YL: 0.9
Headwords: 250
Total Word Count: 1500
Rating: ***

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Summary: 'Every day someone steals money from the people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are soo many suspects - who is the robber?

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Drive Into Danger
Author: Border, Rosemary
Genre: CS
YL: 0.9
Headwords: 250
Total Word Count: 1500
Rating: ***

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Summary: 'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous.

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Series: Oxford Bookworms Library Starters (OBW0) YL 0.8~1.2
Title: Mystery in London
Author: Brooke, Helen
Genre: CS
YL: 1.0~1.2
Headwords: 250
Total Word Count: 1500
Rating: **

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Summary: Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes?

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