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Summary: Lawyer Peter Kingdom represents the oddball people in the town of Market Shipborough, England. While trying to seek answers to the problems of everyone else, he continues to be overshadowed by the disappearance of his brother, who may or may not still be alive. Contains six episodes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009

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Summary: Peter Kingdom is a country solicitor whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the picture postcard town of Market Shipborough. But there's a secret sadness for the popular lawyer. His brother and business partner, Simon, has died but his body has never been found. Peter constantly searches for clues to the mystery surrounding Simon's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2012

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Summary: Respected country solicitor Peter Kingdom, with the assistance of his apprentice Lyle and secretary Gloria, runs a small legal practice in Market Shipborough for the eccentric people of Norfolk. Peter lives with his slightly crazy sister Beatrice, and recently lost his half-brother Simon under mysterious circumstances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009

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Deveraux, Jude

Summary: "An English manor home, an unsolved mystery, too many suspects to count -- It's the perfect holiday for romance novelist Sara Medlar. After solving two murder cases in their hometown of Lachlan, Florida, Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their friend Jack need a change of scenery. Sara arranges for them to visit an old friend of hers in England. Upon arrival at Oxley Manor, a centuries-old estate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020

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French, Nicci.

Summary: The body of a sixteen-year-old girl, Natalie Martello, is found buried in the garden of a country house in Shropshire. She has been murdered, but finding the body represents lost hopes for her family. Jane Martello, Natalie's closest friend and sister-in-law, embarks on an investigation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2006

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Deveraux, Jude

Summary: Old friends gather at a country estate in England to solve a twenty-five year old mystery. But the festive murder-mystery weekend takes a dangerous turn when the remains of someone who'd been thought to have run off with valuable jewelry are found and the victim has clearly met with foul play.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Morton, Kate

Summary: Decades after Alice's little brother goes missing during a Midsummer's Eve party, a young London policewoman sets off a series of events that reveal shocking truths.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Publishing 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOR

Ellis, Bella

Summary: Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019

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Summary: Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media U.S. 2006

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Setterfield, Diane

Summary: When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered; and who killed him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ICE

Bunzl, Peter

Summary: When her father goes missing, thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman must team up with a clockmaker's son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance and his world-changing invention, a perpetual motion machine called the Cogheart.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Spencer, Sally.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publisher 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPE

Toboso, Yana

Summary: "Due in no small part to Sebastian, his uncommon butler, Earl Ciel Phantomhive finally succeeds in earning an audience with the enigmatic headmaster of Weston College following the outcome of the annual cricket tourney. As moon-pale petals bloom on the lapels of the students who have been granted a place at the Midnight Tea Party, the man who holds all authority at the school reveals himself to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2014

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Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: In 1870s England, Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer who returned from Africa, is hired by the owner of a coal mine to find a man missing after a pit explosion, a man many people don't want found. In the process he falls in love with Rose, a tough pit girl. The novel is at once a mystery, a love story and a critique of English society, the hero being an Anglophobe. By the author of Gorky Park.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996

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Deveraux, Jude

Summary: "An English manor home, an unsolved mystery, too many suspects to count -- It's the perfect holiday for romance novelist Sara Medlar. After solving two murder cases in their hometown of Lachlan, Florida, Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their friend Jack need a change of scenery. Sara arranges for them to visit an old friend of hers in England. Upon arrival at Oxley Manor, a centuries-old estate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Deveraux 2020

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Bauer, Belinda

Summary: Eighteen years ago, Billy Peters disappeared, and everyone in town believed he was murdered by serial killer Arnold Avery who admitted to killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounded Billy's village. But Billy's mother is convinced he's still alive, and her twelve-year-old grandson, Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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Summary: "Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found freedom to search for his favourite crossword compiler, known only by the pseudonym of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 1995

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Toboso, Yana

Summary: "Their elaborate schoolroom deception at an end, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his peerless manservant, Sebastian, finally hit upon the truth behind the incident of the vanished students at Weston College. Just what tragic steps did the elites of the school, spurred on by their overwhelming sense of justice, take to stamp out the bullying running rife in the halls of their institution?! What began...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2014

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Summary: On May Day in a small community, the residents go about their everyday business as they wait for the traditional pagan parade to begin. When the newly crowned May Queen, the highlight of the event, does not show up, townsfolk grow suspicious that someone among them has kidnapped her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAY

Grimes, Martha.

Summary: Detective Richard Jury solves a string of disappearances and murders in Cornwall, including two grandchildren of an American fast-food magnate. But the leg work is done for him by his aristocratic and eccentric friend, Melrose Plant.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Wilson, D. K. (Derek K.)

Summary: Based on the true story of the unsolved disappearance of Hans Holbein--famed portrait-painter of Henry VIII--this atmospheric historical novel evokes an underworld of Tudor politics and intrigue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Summary: Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Mostert, Natasha.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007

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