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Pearl, Matthew.

Summary: In 1849 Baltimore, following the death of Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Clark discovers that Poe's final days had been marked by a series of bizarre, unanswered questions and launches his own investigation to resolve the mystery of Poe's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POE

Hambly, Barbara.

Summary: When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Hambly, Barbara.

Summary: Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between old friend Mademoiselle Madeleine and her husband's Creole mistress Angelique Crozat, and ends up being one of the last people to see Crozat alive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Royal, Priscilla.

Summary: Recently appointed prioress Eleanor of Wynethorpe gets more than she had bargained for when she takes over the Order of Fontevraud after a monk is found murdered and Brother Thomas arrives to investigate the Order's shaky finances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROY

Sandford, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Starr, Melvin R.

Summary: Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, is called in when a valuable stolen book is turns up alongside the drowned body of a poor Oxford scholar. The investigation leads him to Kate, the only woman who has tempted him to leave bachelor life behind.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Springer, Nancy.

Summary: After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPR

Adler, Irene

Summary: Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADL

Cotter, Erin

Summary: In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as their forbidden feelings for each other ignite.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023

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

Parry, Ambrose

Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Starr, Melvin R.

Summary: Hugh is called in when the body of Alan, beadle of the medieval manor of Bampton, is discovered with his throat torn out, and his face, hands, and forearms lacerated with deep scratches. The coroner surmises that a wolf caused the great wound, yet Hugh wonders ... why was there so little blood?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Starr, Melvin R.

Summary: Another slice of medieval skullduggery from the surgeon-turned-sleuth Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry--with his current wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants--has outstayed his welcome at Bampton. The next morning, Sir Henry is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Fiction 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Starr, Melvin R.

Summary: It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrew's Chapel. The dying man is a chapman--a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chapel grounds, an ancient, corroded coin is found in the man's mouth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Monarch Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

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...

Format: text

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

Pryor, Mark

Summary: "Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRY

Handler, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Chisholm, P. F.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Harrison, Cora.

Summary: June, 1510: the Burren, west coast of Ireland. Upon going unexpectedly into an early labour, Mara is alerted to the disappearance of Malachy, the local physician. Mystery follows birth, as shortly after the entrance of her son into the world the body of Malachy is discovered. But who stands to profit from this death and who therefore are Mara's lead suspects? For starters there is Malachy's new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Gregory, Susanna

Summary: After returning to London, Chaloner investigates the death of lawyer with ties to a trader known as "the Butcher of Smithfield."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Gregory, Susanna

Summary: At the start of this rapidly paced if sometimes confusing first in a new historical series from Gregory (A Deadly Brew ), ex-government spy Thomas Chaloner returns from a mission in Holland after Charles II takes the throne in 1660. When spymaster John Thurloe's post-boy, Charles Stewart, is abruptly slain, Chaloner, hoping to impress his former boss, chases the lad's killers through London's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Gabaldon, Diana.

Summary: Lord John has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAB

Alexander, Bruce

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALE

Liss, David

Summary: An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city's mean streets in the service of England's gentry tracking down debtors and thieves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

Liss, David

Summary: Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIS

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