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Summary: Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall that claimed the lives of Sherlock Holmes and criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, must track down a sinister figure who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HORFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile, their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband, Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford, requesting that they look into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELHuang, Christopher
Summary: "The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Huang 2018Thomas, Donald
Summary: A collection of new Sherlock Holmes tales includes "The Case of a Boy's Honor," "The Case of the Matinee Idol," and the title story, in which Holmes navigates the occult underworld of Victorian London in order to find a child's true killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOWilde, Darcie
Summary: "Trust is a delicate thing, and no one knows that better than Rosalind Thorne. Lady Melbourne has entrusted her with recovering a packet of highly sensitive private letters stolen from her desk. The contents of these letters hold great interest for the famous poet Lord Byron, who had carried on a notorious public affair with Lady Melbourne's daughter-in-law, the inconveniently unstable Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wilde 2020King, Laurie R.
Summary: After a lengthy case in India, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are on the steamer Thomas Carlyle, bound for Japan. Though they're not the vacationing types, Russell is looking forward to a change of focus--not to mention the chance of traveling to a place Holmes has not visited before. The idea of the pair being on equal footing is enticing to a woman who often must race to catch up with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINChristie, Agatha
Summary: Thirteen guests gather for drinks at actor Charles Cartwright?s seaside escape. Benign Reverend Babbington, who rarely imbibes, takes one sip of his beverage and keels over dead. Soon after Sir Bartholomew Strange convenes the same party and meets his own end after swallowing port. One death could be natural, but two mean murder. Hercule Poirot, who was present at both affairs, stages a third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRKing, Laurie R.
Summary: In 1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although he may have all the Victorian "flaws" listed above, the Great Detective is no fool, and can spot a fellow intellect even in a fifteen-year-old woman. So, at first informally, then consciously, he takes Mary as his apprentice. They work on a few small local cases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, . 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery KinChapman, Julia
Summary: The second book in a delightful new English village mystery series set in the Yorkshire Dales. When a pensioner turns up at the Dales Detective Agency and tells Samson O'Brien that someone in her old people's home is trying to kill her, he dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused elderly lady. But after several disturbing incidents at Fellside Court, he begins to wonder if perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChabon, Michael.
Summary: An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChristie, Agatha
Summary: "At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce--a hostile thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a doubler murderer ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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Summary: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days -- as he has done before -- and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATFrancis, Felix
Summary: Retired investigator Sid Halley is lured back into the game exploring alleged race-fixing after the suspicious death of the chairman of the racing authority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Summary: "What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HANChristie, Agatha
Summary: Everyone blamed Emily Arundell's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn't receive the letter until June 28th by which time Emily was already dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2011
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Summary: As instructed, stenographer Shelia Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Cresent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Shelia clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o'clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: "A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactress, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim's much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRPaton Walsh, Jill
Summary: Lord Peter and Harriet return to the scene of their literate courtship to resolve an Oxford University dispute that is complicated by the disappearance of several prominent Fellows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATDay, Barry
Summary: "London, 1900. Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating a string of murders that have one common thread--each of them recalls one of his earlier cases"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DAYHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HORChristie, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: Discharged from the military after suffering severe wounds, Dr. Watson unsuccessfully searches for accommodation until a chance encounter leads him to Sherlock Holmes, and 221 B Baker Street. Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician and an expert on the universal aspects of crime. He reveals to Watson that he is a consulting detective and soon draws Watson into his investigation of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2003
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Summary: Arthur Conan Doyle delivers crime mysteries of the most thrilling kind as Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson look for suspects in three stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Telltapes 2009