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Summary: When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the construction of a new housing development that's causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concern. As she passes the site late one afternoon, pub...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMFellowes, 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 FELChristie, Agatha
Summary: Miss Marple looks into the death of Rex Fortescue, who was poisoned while drinking a cup of tea in his office, and discovers a variety of associates and family members with motives, including a wife believed to have married for money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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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 CHRGalbraith, Robert
Summary: "In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GalbraithCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEChapman, 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 CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAFrancis, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FRADoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: Novel that introduced eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes, as well as his faithful associate, Dr. Watson, to the literary world. Convalescing in London after a disastrous experience of war, Watson finds himself sharing rooms with his enigmatic new acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes. Their quiet bachelor life is soon interrupted by the discovery of a dead man in a grimy house in southeast London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYKing, Laurie R.
Summary: "A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKing, J. Robert (John Robert)
Summary: Probably the most infamous story in the Sherlock Holmes canon is $1! @ (BThe Final Problem $1 (B as it relates the facts of the death/murder of the master detective at Reichenbach Falls. On May 4, 1891, the detective met his archenemy Professor Moriarty on a ledge above the falls; the two became locked in a titanic hand-to-hand struggle before both tumbled over the precipice, presumably to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINChristie, 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 CHRChristie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot has already decided to retire, but first he will take on twelve remarkable cases in the contemporary world that correspond to the twelve labours of Hercules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984
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Summary: At the request of archaeologist Dr. Eric Leidner, Amy Leatheran has accepted a position as companion to his wife, Louise, a woman prone to nervous terrors. What is the young nurse to make of Mrs. Leidner's bizarre stories of her first husband, a dead German spy, who has returned in a rage to destroy her new marriage? Stories of threats and dreadful warnings? Yet it's more than a flight of fancy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEABeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again in Devil's Delight. Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEADoyle, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong's wedding when a terrified young man comes running the country lane toward them wearing nothing at all. The encounter leads them to become embroiled with a naturist group, a disappearing corpse, fantasy games, witchcraft, an ice cream empire, intrigue, and murder. In meantime, Agatha's private detective agency is as busy as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAEdginton, Ian.
Summary: Graphic novel adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery in which Dr. Watson first meets Sherlock Holmes and the two locate their apartment at 221B Baker Street in the midst of a case that spans two continents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EDGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EdgintonKing, Laurie R.
Summary: When Queen Marie of Roumania calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are dubious. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen, and what would seem to be strigoi, or, as they are known in the West: vampires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINKing, Laurie R.
Summary: A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure. The queen is Marie of Romania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Romania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into returning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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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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Summary: "1929, London. In the darkness before dawn, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means of identification stripped away. Hitting a dead end, Scotland Yard call on indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton, hoping her local Yorkshire knowledge and undoubted skills at winkling out information will produce the results they need. 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROChristie, Agatha
Summary: Poirot is called to the family estate of Simeon Lee, after he is found lying in a pool of blood on Christmas Eve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRDay, 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