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Comic books, strips, etc Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc Detective and mystery plays Detective and mystery stories Detective and mystery television programs Mystery and detective stories Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) Police Suspense fiction Authorship Television seriesSummary: Disgraced detective Sandra Pullman is given a chance to save her career by heading up a team of retired detectives in charge of solving open cold cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEWSummary: Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.087 LINSummary: A collection of twenty-six crime stories, written by top women authors during the past century, includes pieces by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretsky, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, J.A. Jance, and other notables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMGoerz, Gillian
Summary: Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOESummary: Nine short stories featuring haunted houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1961
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Place a hold to request this item.Dixon, Franklin W.
Summary: After the new hydrofoil they are guarding is stolen, the Hardy boys face frequent danger in solving a mystery involving criminals who operate by signs of the zodiac.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1977
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Place a hold to request this item.Smiley, Jane
Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIStilwell, Steven A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Group 1999
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 016.8135 STITursten, 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: A police superintendent asks Hercule Poirot to investigate a case where a man may have been convicted for a murder he didn't commit; the headmistress at an all girls' school asks Poirot to solve the murders that have been committed there; the cast and crew of "Poirot" discuss the making of the episodes and bringing the detective to the screen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POISummary: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in their most widely recognised roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. After the film versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were released in 1939, Rathbone and Bruce reprised their film roles in a radio series, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , which began in October 1939. This collection includes 30...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SHEBarnes, Rodney
Summary: "When a small town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father--the revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr.--he begins to unravel a mystery that leads him down a path of horrors and shakes his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality... and vampires. Now, it's up to Jimmy and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KILBeaty, Erin
Summary: "In Erin Beaty's fantasy mystery-thriller, Blood and Moonlight, an orphan with a secret, magical sight gets caught between a mysterious genius and the serial killer he's hunting. "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEACleland, Jane K
Summary: "The key to keeping readers on the edge of their seats is filling your stories--from memoirs to thrillers and stage plays to screenplays--with unexpected twists and turns. By integrating Plot *T*wists, Plot *R*eversals, and Moments of Heightened *D*anger(TRDs) at crucial points, you can captivate your readers with I-can't-wait-to-see-what-happens-next intrigue. The quicker pace and focused...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 CLEDonovan, Kemper
Summary: "It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DONVargas, Fred.
Summary: When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, the press take up the story with amusement and psychiatrists trot out their theories. Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, a policeman, is alone in thinking that this is not a game and far from amusing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions J'ai lu 2008
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHKarber, G. T.
Summary: Join Deductive Logico and investigate murders most foul in Murdle Volume 1. The first of their kind, these humorous mini-mystery puzzles challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and use the power of deduction to complete the grid and catch the culprit. Together, you'll uncover a buried secret beneath all of the murders and a message that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 793.93 KARLeon, Donna
Summary: A suspicious accident leads Commissario Guido Brunetti to uncover a longstanding scam with disturbing unintended consequences Surprised, if not dismayed, to discover from his superior, Vice-Questore Patta, that leaks are emanating from the Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is surprised more consequentially by the appearance of a friend of his wife's, fearful that her son is using drugs and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOMcDowell, Marta
Summary: "Plants, borders, and various horticultural paraphernalia make surprisingly frequent appearances in mystery plots. In this wide-ranging survey of classic and contemporary murder fiction, Marta looks at the detectives, motives, methods, opportunities, and writers that have used the garden as their point of departure. The result is a diverting and eye-opening study that deepens our appreciation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 MCDVargas, Fred.
Summary: Une jeune fille assassinée par trois coups de poinçon, un ivrogne qui ne se souvient de rien mais que tout accuse... Pour le commissaire Adamsberg, il n'y a aucun doute : le passé refait surface. Le tueur au trident est de retour. Celui-là même qui avait poignardé la fiancée de Raphaël, le frère du commissaire, des années plus tôt dans leur contrée natale des Pyrénées. Seul hic : l'homme est...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J'ai lu 2013
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHWorley, Rob M.
Summary: The Aldens are having a delicious time helping out at a pizza parlor! They toss dough in the kitchen and even invent a new kind of pizza. But when a blackout and other problems hurt business, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to shut down the pizzeria. It's piping hot mystery for the Boxcar Children!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2010