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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 SPRManiscalco, Kerri
Summary: Seventeen year old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. Between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANSpringer, Nancy
Summary: Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's younger sister and self-declared finder of lost persons and things, is determined to find her friend, Lacy Cecily, a confused young Baronet's daughter on the run from her father's devious schemes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRBayron, Kalynn
Summary: London, 1885. Gabriel Utterson, a 17-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life-- and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll--was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry's expulsion from the London Medical School. Whispers about the true nature of Gabriel and Henry's relationship have followed the boys for two years, and now Gabriel has a chance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAYClare, 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 CLAGoodman, Alison
Summary: "Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," and her twin sister, Julia, need to rescue their friend's goddaughter, Caroline, from her violent husband. The sisters set out to Caroline's country estate, but their carriage is accosted. In the scuffle, Gus accidentally shoots and injures the ruffian, only to discover he is Lord Evan Belford, who was charged with murder twenty years ago. What follows is a high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOOSpringer, Nancy
Summary: Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRRedmond, Heather
Summary: London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiance Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman's quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDRedmond, Heather
Summary: With the help of his boss' attractive, vivacious daughter, young journalist Charles Dickens investigates the death of a young woman that bears unsettling similarities to a murder that occurred a year ago to the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDRedmond, Heather
Summary: "London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDConnally, Celeste
Summary: "London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. A woman of independent means--and rather independent ways--Petra sees no reason to cede her wealth and freedom to any man now that the love of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONThomas, Will
Summary: "Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOFreeman, Dianne
Summary: "With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Wingate needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances--who understands society's quirks and constraints as only an outsider can--is the perfect candidate. Kate is charming and intelligent, though perhaps not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FREPearl, Matthew
Summary: "The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAFreeman, Dianne
Summary: "On the eve of her marriage to George Hazelton, Frances has a great deal more on her mind than flowers and seating arrangements. The Connors and the Bainbridges, two families of American robber barons, have taken up residence in London, and their bitter rivalry is spilling over into the highest social circles. At the request of her brother, Alonzo, who is quite taken with Miss Madeline Connor,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREHastings, Anastasia
Summary: "Of Manners and Murder is the first in the delightful new Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings. 1885: London, England. When Violet's Aunt Adelia decides to abscond with her newest paramour, she leaves behind her role as the most popular Agony Aunt in London, "Miss Hermione," in Violet's hands. And of course, the first letter Violet receives is full, not of prissy pondering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HastingsThomson, E. S.
Summary: When the principal physician for Angel Meadow Asylum is found brutally murdered, Jem Flockhart and Will Quatermain pursue the story through the darkest corners of London. From the depths of a notorious rookery, to brothels, gallows, graveyards and the convict fleet, Jem and Will find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORFreeman, Dianne
Summary: Wealthy young widow Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, moves from the English countryside to Victorian London, where accusations that implicate her in her late husband's death cause her to begin her own investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Freeman 2018Thomas, Will
Summary: "London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHastings, Anastasia
Summary: "The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings--when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, fielding questions from both irate housekeepers and heartbroken mothers is par for the course... "Dear Miss Hermione--what is a mother to do?" Sensible Violet Manville and her very ladylike half-sister Sephora are absolutely bored, thank you very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASPerry, Anne
Summary: "In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London's Hungarian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Perry 2017Winters, Mary
Summary: "When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess and agony aunt Amelia has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a thrilling new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury-widow, mother, and countess-is bored, crushingly so. In an attempt to fill the days, Amelia becomes an "agony aunt" for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WINPerry, Anne.
Summary: "Commander William Monk has learned to live with the fact that he cannot remember the events of his life prior to a horrific carriage accident years ago. But when a ghost from his past, a man he has no recollection of, attempts to frame him for a series of murders, he must rely on the help of his wife Hester and his close friend Oliver Rathbone in order to free himself--from both the charges,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016