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England London Large type books Lenox, Charles (Fictitious character) Lenox, Charles (Fictitious character) Fiction London (England) Fiction London (England) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Private investigators Private investigators England London FictionSummary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VISContents: Disc one, The stringband era. Pan American blues -- Muscle Shoals blues (DeFord Bailey) -- Gray Eagle (Taylor's Kentucky Boys) -- G rag (Georgia Yellow Hammers, with Andrew Baxter) -- K.C. railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter) -- Dallas rag (Dallas String Band) -- Bill Cheatem (James Cole String Band) -- Turkey buzzard blues (Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony) -- Corinne Corinna (Charlie McCoy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1998
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FROJunco, Carlos del.
Contents: Blues with a feeling -- No particular place -- Plain old (down home) blues -- Skatoon -- Don't bring me down -- Our man flint -- Run me down -- Let's mambo -- Long highway -- Blues mongrel -- Nine below zero -- Don't worry your pretty little head.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Blues 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES JUNFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: When a servant girl is found dead, a supposed suicide, Victorian gentleman and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is called in by his old friend, Lady Jane, to investigate and begins to suspect that the girl has fallen victim to a rare and deadly poison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective--without a single case. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. But when an anonymous writer sends a letter to the paper claiming to have committed the perfect crime--and promising to kill again--Lenox is convinced that this is his chance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Finch 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY FINJunco, Carlos Del.
Contents: Diddle it -- Dull blade -- Jersey bounce -- Mashed potatoes Canada -- Movin' down the river rhine -- Paradise -- Amazing grace -- Simple life -- Bailey's bounce -- Bye for now -- Doodle it.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Blues Music 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES JUNRyan, Pam Munoz
Summary: A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYAFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polished series." Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter he finds that his friend has suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Finch 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M FINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "From bestselling author Charles Finch comes the third and final in a prequel trilogy to his lauded Charles Lenox series. London, 1855: A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder without a single clue. Slumped in a first-class car at Paddington Station is the body of a young, handsome gentleman. He has no luggage, empty pockets, and no sign of violence upon his person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Finch 2020Finch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "A writer and literary critic's diary of the year 2020, beginning with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and spanning the protests for racial justice and the chaos of the U.S. presidential election"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 FINSummary: The story of two women who search for meaning in lost loves and missed chances. As one monther looks to her past to gain the strength to face the future, a daughter investigates the emotional wounds which have kept her from finding love. Their stories come together in surprising and deeply moving ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLEFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up - just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: Returning from a continental honeymoon with his wife, Lady Jane Grey, newly elected MP Charles Lenox is asked by his colleague, Ludovic Starling, to investigate the murder of his footman who was bludgeoned to death with a brick. Lenox gradually realizes that what seem to be the facts of the case may have been manipulated, and that an old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Though a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder without a single clue. Slumped in a third-class car at Paddington Station is the body of a handsome young gentleman. He has no luggage, empty pockets, and no sign of identification on his person. And putting together the clues to the mystery of the man's identity only raises more questions, when Lenox discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: In March 1873 aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox undertakes a delicate espionage mission to Egypt, where five British agents have been killed, apparently by the French. But soon after Charles's ship sets sail, the captain calls on him to dust off his deductive skills when a crew member is murdered and left eviscerated on the deck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Finch 2021Finch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: It's Christmas 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have met with violent deaths--one shot, one stabbed. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case, but must leave it behind to go north to Stirrington, where he is running for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: "On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old client at Charing Cross. But when their cryptic encounter seems to lead, days later, to the murder of an innocuous country squire, this fast favor draws Lenox inexorably back into his old profession. Soon he realizes that, far from concluding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man , a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. London, 1853: Having earned some renown by solving a case that baffled Scotland Yard, young Charles Lenox is called upon by the Duke of Dorset,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019