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Summary: England, 1303. Sir Hugh Corbett is summoned to a scene of bloody mayhem and murder: Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League,and his wife, son and a clerk have been barbarously assassinated. The "Carta Mysteriosa"--a collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea chart--have not been stolen. So why were the murders committed and by whom? Corbett investigates and, once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOHPaige, Robin.
Summary: Kathryn Ardleigh tries to adapt to high-society life with her newly lorded husband, Charles, and she discovers a new friend in Jennie Churchill, who is embroiled in a scandal involving claims that Jack the Ripper is the father of her son, the future leader Winston Churchill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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Summary: "In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FINPaige, Robin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAISimmons, Dan.
Summary: Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens' life, "Drood" explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMPaulits, John.
Summary: History records that on June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died of a cerebral haemorrhage. History, however, is wrong. June 9, 1870, is the day on which Emile de la Rue murdered Charles Dickens. During a stay in Genoa in 1844-45, Charles Dickens, an accomplished mesmerist, used his mesmeric abilities to treat a young Englishwoman, Augusta de la Rue, attempting to cure a years' long malady of hers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MX Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAURedmond, 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, 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 REDMassey, Sujata
Summary: "India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASVickers, Salley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J FIC NES
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESHammett, Dashiell
Summary: The thin man: Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple, are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder when a pretty blonde asks for help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMMann, Greyson
Summary: Gerald gets in over his head when he starts using his Enchantment skills outside the classroom --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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Summary: "Hugo Marston must figure out what lies hidden inside an old sailor's chest before a 200-year-old blood promise is revealed and claims another life. In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYSt. James, Dorothy
Summary: Chocoholic Charity Penn must save her new seaside chocolate shop from a deadly assortment of threats in this sweet series debut. When Charity Penn receives a letter saying she won a trip to South Carolina for free confectionery lessons at a seaside chocolate shop, the Chocolate Box, she's skeptical: she knows that she never entered the contest. An old prep school friend offers to look into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STJPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEAFarber, Erica.
Summary: Fish Finelli and his friends set out to find Captain Kidd's treasure, rumored to be buried on nearby Lyons Island, but it seems like the local library director is looking for it as well--and finding the treasure may be the key to saving the island from developers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: Heir to the throne of Faerie, Private Investigator Meredith Gentry faces unforeseen enemies and must summon magical powers to battle the evil that threatens to devour her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man , a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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Summary: In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2024
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Summary: When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREEdwards, Emily J.
Summary: "New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINHunter, Stephen
Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE