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King, Laurie R.

Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Walters, Minette.

Summary: In England, photographer Jinx Kingsley, a millionaire's daughter, is pulled from a bloody car wreck after her fiance, Leo, took off with her best friend, Meg. Suicide or a cover, wonders Superintendent Cheever. The same day saw the death of Leo and Meg in a manner resembling the death, some years earlier, of Jinx's husband, Russell, after his affair with Meg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

Braun, Lilian Jackson

Summary: Qwill and his cats vacation in Mooseville, but when the carpenter he hires disappears, he begins to investigate what may be a serial killer's plan to wipe out the area's woodworkers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Dixon, Franklin W.

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1964

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

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

Christie, Agatha

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007

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Peters, 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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Christie, Agatha

Summary: A group of friends challenge each other with mysteries to which only the presenter knows the answer, and which the other friends must solve. Guess who wins hands down every time? Miss Marple.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHR

Christie, Agatha

Summary: "Ablinding snowstorm - and a homicidal maniac - traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which in turn would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history ..."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

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Perry, Anne

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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Christie, Agatha

Summary: A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius.In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer. . . . In The Actress, a great star's shady past...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1997

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Summary: A showcase of many of the International Thriller Writers's top authors as well as rising stars in the genre. Includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Joan Johnston, John Lescroart, Alex Kava and Deb Carlin, and more.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2010

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FIR

Frederick, Heather Vogel.

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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2014

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRE

Dixon, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1969

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIX

George, Elizabeth

Summary: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the murder of two people found in a remote prehistoric stone circle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

Simenon, Georges

Summary: Inspector Jules Maigret travels from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Christie, Agatha

Summary: Styles Court, the Essex manor house, scene of master detective Hercule Poirot's first triumph. An air of evil still touches the gracious grounds--and the fierce little Belgian pits his brilliant mind against the vanity of killers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984

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Christie, Agatha

Summary: Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. When he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's 'private collection.' Three of the other players turn out to be Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard; Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, famed writer of detective stories; Col. Race of His...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Summary: "In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection between the two victims confounds the police. Across town a group of young women are being hunted. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADL

Kelly, Jim

Summary: Detectives Shaw and Valentine are on the case when the exhumed coffin of a murdered pub landlady is found to contain the body of a young man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Stabenow, Dana

Summary: Alexandria, 47 BC. Cleopatra shares the throne with her brother Ptolemy under the auspices of Julius Caesar, by whom Cleopatra is heavily pregnant. A shipment of new coins meant to reset the shaky Egyptian economy has been stolen and the Queen's Eye has been murdered, so Queen Cleopatra turns to childhood friend Tetisheri to find the missing shipment and bring the murderer to justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Stabenow 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M STA

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