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Author
Series
Peter Shandy mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Chasing a vile English plant, Professor Peter Shandy and his friends go on a most peculiar trip The giant hogweed, a creeping menace known for crushing the life out of any plant foolish enough to get in its way, has put the hedgerows and pastures of the English countryside in jeopardy. Fishermen find their streams clogged, young lovers are caught with rashes in embarrassing places, and the English nudist colony has been all but exterminated. Only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
For Professor Ungley, death isn't half as inconvenient as losing his toupee An unpleasant man in every respect, university professor Herbert Ungley is exceedingly vain. One morning, his landlady catches her cat coming in with Ungley's hairpiece between its teeth. It's clear something has happened to the old grouch, because he would never be caught without his toupee. Ungley is found in the yard behind his social club, with his head bashed in and...
23) Adam and Evil
Author
Series
Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper fears for her bright senior student Adam Evans. Increasingly erratic, unkempt, and isolated, Adam is an accident waiting to happen. So when a young woman is murdered at the landmark Free Library while Amanda and her class are touring the premises, Adam--now mysteriously missing--becomes the prime suspect.
24) Shatter: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Psychologist Joe O'Laughlin fails to stop a confused woman from jumping off a bridge to her death. Joe knows she had been talking on a cellphone. Now he needs to find out who, or what, was on the other end of the line.
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 19
Language
English
Description
If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, a killer is to blame. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco....
26) The Third Gate
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto famed explorer Porter Stone's archaeological team to investigate a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences that are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse behind Pharoah Narmer's elusive "double" crown of the two Egypts. As paranoia and fear run rampant, Logan must delve into the mysteries of ancient Egyptology and near death experience in order to understand what might be plaguing...
27) Three debts paid
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 5
Language
English
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Description
"A serial killer is on the loose, and may have a hidden connection to young barrister Daniel Pitt's university days, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders are keeping his mind occupied, but when Ian learns that their old professor, Nicholas Wolford, has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
At Balaclava Agricultural College, a kidnapping and pig-napping are followed by murder
Newlyweds Peter and Helen Shandy are picking out flatware when a pair of gun-toting hooligans burst into the silversmith's shop, empty the safe, and leave with Helen as their hostage. Although the police recover Helen quickly, her professor husband is badly shaken by the ordeal. Early the next morning, the college's head of animal husbandry frantically reports...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the year 2023, after numerous worldwide calamities, New York psychiatrist, criminal profiler, and historian Dr. Gideon Wolfe acquires evidence that the well-known visual record of President Emily Forrester's assassination in 2018 was altered by her husband, and that the public at large is being deceived by the media every day.
30) Exit the milkman
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"Professor Jim Feldster will do anything for his cows and his students of dairy management...and anything to avoid an evening at home with his bossy, house-proud wife, Mirelle. A member of every lodge in the county, he's out of the house most evenings, and on this particular night, escaping to a meeting of the Scarlet Runners. On the way, he bumps into a neighbor, Peter Shandy, who is out strolling with his cat, Jane Austen. Professor Feldster never...
31) Instinct
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.
32) Derailed
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Charles Schine meets the gorgeous Lucinda on a train, their ensuing affair derails their lives.
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Series
Language
English
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"Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper's pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack. Returning to Brigid's Island, NC,...
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Language
English
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Description
"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain...
35) Christmas sweets
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve desserts of Christmas: It’s the perfect mix of naughty and nice when two lovestruck boarding school teachers watch six kids over Christmas break. But when someone wants the cozy couple’s romance to burn out faster than a scorched fruitcake, it’s Hannah Swensen to the rescue, armed with her sleuthing skills--and twelve deliciously festive recipes . . .
Nightmare on Elf Street: Aside from the mortifying costume, how bad can a gig as a...
Author
Series
Adventures of Benny and Watch volume 8
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Benny isn't too happy to run into his teacher during the weekend but the encounter turns out to have happy consequences.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The seemingly idyllic family life of Netherlands mathematics professor-turned-politician Siem Sigerius is threatened by his violence-shadowed previous marriage, his older son and an unexpected deception.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument--and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight--about a betrayal of the school's honor code--led to Fritz's disappearance. A decade later, after an early triumph with his first novel, followed by too much partying...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 15
Language
English
Description
Gallery owner Annabel Smith and her husband, law school professor Mac, become involved in a murder investigation when a man is found shot to death in the parking garage of the Watergate complex in the middle of a speech by presidential candidate Joe Aprile.