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Springer, Nancy

Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPR

Westerson, Jeri

Summary: "A quest to find the ancient sword Excalibur quickly turns into a hunt for a determined killer for Crispin Guest. London, 1396. A trip to the swordsmith shop for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice Jack Tucker takes an unexpected turn when Crispin crosses paths with Carantok Teague, a Cornish treasure hunter. Carantok has a map he is convinced will lead him to the sword of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WES

Sykes, S. D.

Summary: "In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYK

Price, Tirzah

Summary: Eighteen-year-old aspiring chemist Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father's murder.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2022

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Nickson, Chris.

Summary: "Leeds, 1822. The city is in the grip of winter, but the chill deepens for thief-taker Simon Westow and his young assistant, Jane, when the body of Laurence Poole, a petty local thief, emerges from the melting snow by the river at Flay Cross Mill. A coded notebook found in Laurence's room mentions Charlie Harker, the most notorious fence in Leeds who's now running for his life, and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIC

Myers, Amy

Summary: "1926, Kent. Chef Nell Drury is busy with preparations for Lady Ansley's luncheon to welcome Wychbourne Court's new neighbours, Sir Gilbert and Lady Saddler. The couple's arrival has led to much rumour and intrigue swirling around the village, particularly with regards to the mysterious Lady Saddler. Sir Gilbert belongs to a new artistic movement, the Artistes de Cler, and is organizing a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

Nickson, Chris

Summary: "Leeds, May 1822. Thief-taker Simon Westow owes Davey and Emily Ashton everything - the siblings gave him sanctuary when he needed it most. So when Davey is arrested for sedition and Emily begs Simon for help, he starts asking questions, determined to clear his friend. Are the answers linked to rumours of a mysterious government spy in town? Davey's not the only one who needs Simon's help....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIC

Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "The year is 1928, and after the death of a maid at a glamorous society party, fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life and proposes to eighteen-year-old Diana, most beautiful of the six Mitford sisters. The maid's death is ruled an accident, and the newlyweds put it behind them to begin a whirlwind life zipping between London's Mayfair, chic Paris and hedonistic Berlin. Accompanying Diana as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FEL

Ellicott, Jessica

Summary: Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport, who share a household in the hamlet of Walmsley Parva, have set up their own informal private investigation business. Their first client, Vicar Wilfred Lowethorpe, requires sensitivity and discretion. Lionel Cunningham, a parishioner and treasurer of the local pigeon racing club, has gone missing with all the club's funds and some prize birds belonging to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

Ellicott, Jessica

Summary: "In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay . . . The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint English village of Walmsley Parva hits rather too close to home-in fact, the prime suspect has taken up residence in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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Harris, C. S.

Summary: "The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAR

Schwartz, Dana

Summary: Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before--the immortality, Beechams vial--were a figment of her imagination. She doesnt even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCH

Todd, Charles

Summary: "A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy discovers a body in the river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body. The local police turn to Scotland Yard for help. Inspector Ian Rutledge is given few clues to go on--a faded military tattoo on the victim's arm and an unusual label in his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOD

Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FEL

Schellman, Katharine

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Summary: "London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Schellman 2020

Clare, Alys

Summary: "London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

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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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BUN

Rowe, Rosemary

Summary: April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . ....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROW

Thomas, Will

Summary: "Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all -- he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland Fitzhugh, Member of Parliament, arrives to consult Barker and his partner Thomas Llewelyn, he falls to the floor, dead, upon entering. As they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Hutton, Callie

Summary: Bath, England, 1892. Celebrated mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with a fellow member of the Mystery Book Club of Bath. Amy's great-aunt has offered to host their wedding at her stately manor house. But on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mr. and Mrs. Finch arguing in another room. The next morning at the wedding breakfast, Mrs....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUT

Raybourn, Deanna

Summary: "Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: M RAY

Hutton, Callie

Summary: "Bath, England, 1891. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with Lord William Wethington, but on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mrs. Alice Finch's argument with her husband, Albert. The next morning, Alice falls face-first into her breakfast--dead. The detectives charge Albert with the murder, but there are too many things that don't...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUT

Freeman, Dianne

Summary: "1899. Risings, George Hazleton's family estate in Hampshire, is a perfect choice for the wedding of Lily, sister of Frances, the widowed Countess of Harleigh. But the bucolic setting harbors a menace. Above and below stairs, mysterious accidents befall guests and staff alike. Before long, Frances suspects these 'accidents' are deliberate, and fears that the intended victim is Lily's fiancé,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Freeman 2020

Saunders, Kate

Summary: "In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAU

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