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2) Ladies' Bane
Author
Series
Miss Silver mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c[1952]
Language
English
Description
Miss Silver travels to the country to investigate a young man who may be deceiving his wife No one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband swept her off her feet and out of London, to a faraway town called Bleake. She has stopped writing letters, and her family has begun to worry. Allegra's husband is a strange man, consumed with the dream of owning a ramshackle medieval estate, and he intends to use his new wife's money to do it....
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Series
Language
English
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"It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent. A woman of means ... but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him in a most public manner. Now everyone believes Clive is headed for the gallows. Everyone, that is, but Serafina....
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
Author
Series
Miss Silver mysteries volume 30
Publisher
Aeonian Press
Pub. Date
1976, c1957
Language
English
Description
A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman's husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that is all...
Author
Series
Kate Shackleton mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Invited by a stranger to a grand house said to be cursed, Kate Shackleton arrives in Saltaire to discover her intended host has drowned in a reservoir.
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Series
Language
English
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For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve--the unexplained disappearance of an entire colony of bees from one of Holmes's beloved hives. But the anticipated sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a galling memory from her husband's past. Mary had met Damian Adler only once before, when the promising surrealist painter...
Author
Series
Kate Shackleton mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Invited by 1930 North Yorkshire's brewery queen to accompany her to public engagements that are then upended by the murder of a drayman, Kate Shackleton investigates two suspects, including a disreputable horse dealer and her hostess's conservative-minded father.
10) Day of vengeance
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Martin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carole and Jude's Turkish holiday takes a murderous turn in the new Fethering mystery
Carole Seddon has never enjoyed holidays much. Nevertheless, she has allowed herself to be persuaded by her friend Jude to accept a fortnight's free accommodation at a luxurious Turkish villa owned by Jude's property developer friend Barney Willingdon.
But from the outset the holiday is marred by a series of menacing incidents: threatening messages daubed on the...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden - sellers of fruit and vegetables on the streets of London - Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, the grieving costers are deeply skeptical about the cause of his death. Who would want to kill Eddie and why?
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Women from the upper end of British society are being targeted by a killer known as The Slasher. When her best friend becomes the latest victim, Lady Trent vows to capture the murderer with the help of her partner Dylan Tremayne. Serafina must rely on her wits and newfound trust in God to save her from a killer known only as "The Slasher" in the story that concludes the Lady Trent Mysteries.
16) True witness
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the death of a young man at Dimmock pier, Daniel Hood believes that the police are looking for the wrong suspect and is assisted by investigator Brodie Farrell, who wants to save Daniel from his own dangerous impulses.
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fearing for Daniel's safety when he leaves town after an argument, Brodie uncovers disturbing secrets from her friend's earlier years that culminate in a dangerous chain of events.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
19) Flawed
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pregnant with the child of her estranged partner, Superintendent Jack Deacon, private detective and single mother Brodie Farrell becomes caught up in a complicated conspiracy involving child abuse, cover-ups, and organized crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening--to meet her new equine patient and his owner Sonia Dalrymple--she does not expect to stumble across a man lying in the darkness. Co-owner of the stables Walter Fleet has been viciously stabbed to death.