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Detective and mystery stories England London Large type books London (England) Fiction Monk, William (Fictitious character) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Peabody, Amelia (Fictitious character) Fiction Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character) Fiction Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character) Fiction Police England London FictionPears, Iain.
Summary: In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSHO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
Summary: A romantic hike in the mountains by two lawyers is disrupted by the death of another hiker. The death turns out to be murder, which leads to other murders, and the lovers, Nina and Collier, find themselves in court on opposite sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSHO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
Summary: Nina Reilly collaborates with a grave exhumation expert and triggers a cat-and-mouse game between her former investigator Paul van Wagoner and a brilliant killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSHCapin, Hannah
Summary: You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me--Annie Marck, alias Cleves--and you accidentally transform into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of the king himself? Life becomes the exact opposite of boring.Henry has it all: he's the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ink Yard Press 2019
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Summary: Separated from their parents in Beijing, China's Forbidden City, second-grade twins Ethan and Ella luckily find an ancient map that helps them find their way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARCain, James M
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1934
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAIParis, Harper
Summary: "In Paris, France, twins Ethan and Ella must find a stolen painting and a secret bakery without giving themselves away"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PEAPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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Summary: Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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Summary: A collection of three stories of 12th-century monastic life including a Christmas story, a tale of robbery and attempted murder, and a narrative of Brother Cadfael's early years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: The 1895-1896 season promises to be exceptional for Amelia Peabody, her Egyptologist husband Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious eight-year-old son Ramses; with permission granted to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2008
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Summary: For John Rebus, 40 years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. She was murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, and Maria's killer has never been found. Meanwhile, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for grabs. A young pretender, Darryl Christie, may have staked his claim, but a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2011
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Summary: Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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Summary: Victorian private inquiry agent William Monk is hired to investigate the brutal rape of a young London woman and the strangulation murder of nurse Prudence Barrymore, a talented, extraordinary woman who had served in the Crimea with Florence Nightingale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 1994
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Summary: Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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Summary: When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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Summary: In Victorian London, Supt. Pitt of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three apparently disparate victims: a band leader, a naval officer and a bus conductor. All three were beheaded. The case leaves him stumped, but fortunately there is his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPerry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Random House Large Print, in association with Ballantine Books 1999
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Summary: In Victorian London, PI William Monk investigates a new game in town, the raping and beating of prostitutes by rich men. The probe leads him to the murder of a solicitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1997
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Summary: In 19th Century England a meeting of Irish Protestants and Catholics to discuss home rule for Ireland is disrupted by murder. Scotland Yard's Thomas Pitt and his wife try to find the killer before he strikes again and scuttles the talks, the purpose of which is to bring peace to Ireland. By the author of Pentecost Alley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1997
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Summary: Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010