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[2011]
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"As the year 1326 draws to a close, London is in flames. King Edward II is held prisoner, and the mercenaries and rebels led by the vengeful Queen Isabella and her lover, Sir Roger Mortimer, are in the ascendant. While the richest in the kingdom fight over the spoils of the invasion, the Bardi family, bankers who once funded the King, are in a quandary. They must look to their own future with the Queen as the mob rampages over the city, steering a...
1982) The Inugami curse
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2020.
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"In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and hidden identities to find the murderer, and lift the curse wreaking its bloody revenge on the Inugamis."--Provided by publisher.
1983) Our lady of pain
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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Wayward Edwardian debutante Lady Rose Summer becomes the prime suspect in the killing of Dolores Duval, the seductive new client of her fiancé, Captain Harry Cathcart, after a fit of jealousy leads her to threaten the woman
1984) Trust no one: Book 5
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Series
The 39 clues. Cahills vs. Vespers volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When seven members of their family were kidnapped, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, got ready for the fight of their lives. But their enemy, a terrifying group known as the Vespers, remained frustratingly elusive. They stay in the shadows, picking off Cahills one by one. And now the Vespers have landed their most serious blow yet ? A blow that strikes at the very heart of the Cahill family. Because Amy and Dan discover that...
1985) The Da Vinci deception
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Series
Jack Oxby novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1998.
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A group of Anglo-American forgers produce a sketch of the Mona Lisa, supposedly by Leonardo da Vinci and nearly get away with selling it. The man who busts the plot is John Osby, a British police officer on the art and antiquities squad.
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[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
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[2013]
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"1905. A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an idyllic place in the middle of the countryside to investigate the disappearance of his sister. What he does not know is that his greatest love is about to cross his way: the beautiful daughter of the owner of the hotel and the fiancée of its director. Between them, although they come from opposite social classes, an uncontrollable and impossible love will emerge: A dangerous romance that will intertwine...
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2021
Description
Esta fascinante historia de asesinato, superstición, política religiosa y drama en un monasterio medieval fue una de las novelas más llamativas de la década de 1980. El nombre de la rosa es una historia emocionante enriquecida con detalles de época y mezclada con alusiones irónicas a personajes ficticios, el más llamativo de los cuales es el fraile franciscano William de Baskerville, que muestra muchas características de Sherlock Holmes. Aunque...
1989) Hush Now, Don't You Cry
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Formats
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Newly married Molly and her NYPD captain husband reluctantly honeymoon in 1904 Newport at the estate of an ambitious Tammany Hall politician whose subsequent murder challenges Molly's resolve to avoid sleuthing.
1990) Wild winds
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c1997
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Feisty and beautiful Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective-a daunting profession unheard of for a womam on her own in the wild west. And when her stepfather asks her to help his son escape the hangman's noose for a bank robbery he didn't commit, she rises to the challenge. The Yuma Prison break will place Maggie's own life in jeopardy and leave her with grave doubts about whether she's done right or terribly wrong....
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[2021]
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"Gathering intel, chasing leads, and cracking heads are all part of a day's work for Detective Chief Superintendent William Melville, bodyguard to Queen Victoria's son and heir to the throne, Prince Albert. But when the Queen dies, prompting most of Europe's royalty to converge on London for the funeral, Melville receives a tip about a planned attempt on the German Kaiser's life led by a mysterious anarchist known as Akushku. As Melville and his German...
1993) Daughters of night
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2021.
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"London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly-paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see...
1994) Deep divide
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[2021]
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"When her father's greedy corruption goes too far, heiress Emma Grace McMurray sneaks away to be a Harvey Girl at the El Tovar Grand Canyon Hotel, planning to stay hidden forever. There she uncovers mysteries, secrets, and a love beyond anything she could imagine-leaving her to question all she thought to be true"--
1995) The key to deceit
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Series
Electra McDonnell novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor--well, to themselves, anyway--Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give...
1996) Petticoat detective
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Pinkerton detective Jennifer Layne is working undercover as a parlor girl named Amy on a high profile case when a girl who is central to her investigation turns up dead, and handsome Tom Colton is a prime suspect.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Christmas, 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather unexpected invitation to the village Christmas party in the tiny, rural hamlet of Derrydee in the west of Ireland. Eleanor is thrilled about exploring her ancestral roots at her late uncle's estate and spending the festive season in a castle. Packing Gladstone the bulldog's coziest Christmas jumper, they set off to the Emerald Isle with her butler Clifford in tow. Arriving late at night, Eleanor...
1998) The truth of all things
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Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.
1999) Holmes coming
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Dr. Amy Winslow discovers a secret laboratory containing a sarcophagus, out of which springs a man who claims to be a real-life detective named Holmes, who, becoming uninspired by 1890s crime, devised this method to hibernate for a century to investigate future mysteries. Amy assumes he's a lunatic; it takes her a while to realize his amazing story is true. Holmes and Amy work together to solve a string of murders being committed by an exquisitely...
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice, Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938....