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Archaeology Fieldwork Civilization, Ancient Constables Ontario Toronto Drama Criminal investigation Ontario Toronto Drama Murder Investigation Fiction Murder Investigation Ontario Toronto Drama Police Ontario Toronto Drama Problem solving Puzzles Women pathologists Ontario Toronto DramaHerring, Peg
Summary: Discontented with existence on the ship, Seamus decides it's time to do what he's been avoiding for six decades. Though he knows his wife and best friend teamed up to murder him, there are things about the crime he doesn't understand, as well as emotions he hasn't yet been able to face. With fellow Dead Detective Ronnie to assist, Seamus returns to 1953 to face his memories and answer questions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHerring, Peg
Summary: When Dead Detective Seamus is asked to investigate the death of wealthy businessman William Dunbar, he agrees, but there is an additional request. Will he take a detective-in-training along? Reluctantly, Seamus agrees and meets Mildred, who seems charming if a little headstrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Stanley, Michael
Summary: "Recent university graduate David 'Kubu' Bengu joins the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department directly rather than via the normal route of a constable on the beat. This does not sit well with existing detectives. Shortly after he joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is well-executed and brutal. Police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stanley 2020Herring, Peg.
Summary: Recent murder victim Tori can't make peace with the afterlife until she finds out who killed her and why. With the help of a Portal Detective named Seamus, Tori returns to the world of the living to seek answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LL-Publications 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC HERStanley, Michael
Summary: A Bushman is discovered dead near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Although the man looks old enough to have died of natural causes, the police suspect foul play, and the body is sent to Gaborone for an autopsy. Pathologist Ian MacGregor confirms the cause of death as a broken neck, but is greatly puzzled by the man's physiology. Although he's obviously very old, his internal organs look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction StanleyHerring, Peg
Summary: When newly-arrived soul Cassie Parker refuses to believe she's no longer alive, Dead Detective Seamus is sent back to Life to learn what happened to her. He soon suspects it was murder, but why would someone kill the costume maker at a small Toronto theater? While Cassie struggles to accept being dead, Seamus tries to protect her less worldly sister Christy, who takes over Cassie's job as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERNunn, Malla.
Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M NUNCharles, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Do-Not 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAHinton, J. Lynne.
Summary: "Sister Eve always says God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery, especially a murder. A member of the Benedictine Order in Pecos, New Mexico, Sister Evangeline has been feeling disconnected and a bit uncertain about her calling. She'snot thrilled when she must return home to Madrid, New Mexico, to care for her testy, ailing father, but she's also invigorated to take on some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HINSummary: The two-hour Christmas special, has Murdoch and the team investigating the host of a Christmas charity gala for sick children after he is killed, and all the presents he was going to give away are stolen. When witnesses report hearing a wild animal near the scene, Crabtree suspects the legendary creature Krampus is the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MurdochKeene, Carolyn.
Summary: Nancy Drew and her friend George Bess win a vacation to an eco-resort in Costa Rica. But after a string of increasingly dangerous "accidents," it seems that there is a jealous predator staying at the resort, making trouble for the management and the guests. Against the urging of her friends, Nancy takes on the case to get to the bottom of it before the entire week at Casa Verde is ruined--or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PROTursten, Helene
Summary: From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still develops unhealthy fixations and makes rash decisions from time to time, she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURSummary: How long has civilization flourished in the Nile Valley? Were the area's first inhabitants the ancestors of the pyramid builders? Or was pharaonic culture imported, as some scholars have claimed? This program pursues the answers in an effort to understand the identity of Egypt's original people, exploring archaeological sites that predate the pyramids by thousands of years. Information on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Anthony, William
Summary: "Help the STEM Detectives discover who the hacker is who took their school Internet down. Bring your skills in matching shapes, reading graphs, and figuring out which objects float. Grab your notebpad and start investigating!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANTAnthony, William
Summary: "Help the STEM Detectives solve the case of the missing noodles. Bring your skills in mapping circuits, using magnets, and making tally charts. Grab your notepad and start investigating while the clock ticks down!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANTSummary: Detective William Murdoch uses emerging science such as ballistics and profiling to solve the most dreadful crimes in Victorian-era Toronto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "William Murdoch finds himself in Bristol, England with no memory of who he is and pursued by the British authorities accusing him of murder. Murdoch must use all his wiles to get back home and prove himself innocent. Season Three also takes William into the disturbing world of Eugenics, the murky realm of art theft, the circus and the Freemasons. When a long-buried secret bubbles to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Direct Holdings/Time Life 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVd TV MurdochSelig, Paul
Summary: The third work in channeler Paul Selig's acclaimed Mastery Trilogy guides readers to the knowledge of their true selves. The channeled literature of Paul Selig-who receives clairaudient dictation from unseen intellects called the Guides-has quickly become the most important and celebrated expression of channeling since A Course In Miracles rose to prominence in the 1970s. Selig's previous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 133.9 SELSummary: Although vital to ancient Egyptian religion, the preservation of dead animals evidently held varying shades of meaning. This program studies ways in which the Egyptians mummified a wide range of creatures, highlighting two purposes for the practice-one spiritually reverent, one blatantly commercial. Exploring the web of tunnels beneath the Saqqara pyramids, the program distinguishes between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Anthony, William
Summary: "Help the STEM Detectives crack the case of the locked library. Bring your skills in matching shapes, finding patterns, and reading backwards text. Grab your notepad and start investigating!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANTSummary: Although their function and architecture have inspired centuries of debate, the Egyptian pyramids harbor yet another enigma, having to do with their location. This program looks at why particular places were selected for pyramid-building and why new sites were chosen as Egypt's culture evolved. Explaining the architectural leap from the mastaba to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Comparable to Luther's split with Catholicism, Pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution caused an upheaval in Egyptian society. This program sheds light on the royal renegade's motives for abruptly switching to monotheistic sun worship and relocating 50,000 of his people to the hastily planned capital at Armana. Studying several archaeological discoveries-including the tombs of Akhenaten's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto₂s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013