Peters, Elizabeth
Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PETPerry, Anne.
Summary: His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEREllicott, 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 ELLPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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Summary: 1957. Famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter on his mind. He intends to tell Constable Twitten the secret he knows about the still-unsolved Aldersgate Stick-Up case of 1945. Just before Crystal names the criminal mastermind involved, he's shot dead in his seat. As Constable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRULawhon, Ariel
Summary: In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANSpringer, 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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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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Summary: "Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2014
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Summary: The Hardy brothers' search for the missing son of a wealthy industrialist leads them to Brazil and great danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1972
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: The Hardy boys find the missing deed to an Indians' land, prevent a phony salesman from carrying through a reckless scheme, and help their father solve a top-secret case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1969
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXLewis, Beverly
Summary: Dunkum follows a trail of secret coded messages to find his missing autographed basketball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1995
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Summary: After learning about Sherlock Holmes, Humphrey the classroom hamster follows clues to try and discover why Mrs. Brisbane is gone and Mr. E, a fun but not very educational substitute, is taking her place in Room 26 at Longfellow School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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Summary: After finding a mysterious will, the Hardy boys set out to fulfill its request to find a treasure and the owner of the treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1964
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXGrimes, Martha
Summary: Superintendent Richard Jury investigates two murders in the hope of clearing the woman he loves. She is Lady Jennifer Kennington, a suspect in the deaths of an actress and a maid. A British mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRISandford, John
Summary: Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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Summary: While solving the mystery of an old man's disappearing fortune, Nancy ends a family feud and reveals the identity of an orphan of unknown parentage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1968
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KEEGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: While digging in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, English archeologist Amelia Peabody discovers the mummified body of a recently dead woman. The victim was the fourth wife of a famous archeologist and she disappeared five years earlier, supposedly eloping with a lover. Amelia turns sleuth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: Frank and Joe travel to Philadelphia where they intend to prevent an attack on an extreme sports contest called the Big Air Games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2005
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Summary: Inspector Jules Maigret travels from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMKeene, Carolyn
Summary: Nancy Drew becomes involved in a double mystery concerning a haunted bridge and jewel thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1972