Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Penner, Sarah

Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Raybourn, Deanna

Summary: London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Bunce, Elizabeth C.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her fathers law books and her mums microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

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Todd, Charles

Summary: After the 1918 Armistice, nurse Bess Crawford is trying to save a former soldier in England from a mysterious killer when she is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019

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