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Attorney and client Fiction Cairo (Egypt) History 20th century Fiction Hardy, Dismas (Fictitious character) Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Egypt Cairo Fiction Nineteen twenties Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Socialites Socialites Crimes against Fiction Trials (Murder) FictionFairstein, Linda A.
Summary: Brendan Quillian, a successful young businessman, is on trial for murdering his wife, and the courtroom is tense. Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case against him hangs by a thread thanks to scant evidence and Brendan's all-star legal team. As the trial progresses, an explosion destroys a water tunnel being constructed deep beneath the city. Then, secrets from Brendan's past link him to the fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scibner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAICopies Available at East Bay
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Summary: Investigating the murder of a disgraced socialite whose vigilante killer left a scrapbook documenting the crime's motives, Lomax and Biggs are dismayed by subsequent murders also marked by scrapbooks and begin a race against time to decode elusive clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KARKenda, Joe
Summary: In this first novel, rookie Detective Joe Kenda, mentored by his veteran partner Detective Lee Wilson, investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KENNeubauer, Erica Ruth
Summary: "Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel--an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows . . . Egypt, 1926. Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won't be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie's best efforts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEULescroart, John T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLescroart, John T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LESHamill, Pete
Summary: A thriller written with inspired descriptions of New York. The setting moves from the swank Upper East side to a Brooklyn tenement and provides a gripping portrait of the city and its inhabitants today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMNeubauer, Erica Ruth
Summary: "Egypt, 1926. Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won't be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie's best efforts at meddling with her love life, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane's plans to remain cool and indifferent become ancient history in the company of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Neubauer 2022Aiken, Ginny.
Summary: "When socialite Emma Crowell stops the carriage on the way to Portland to 'exercise' her fussy poodle, she does not expect to become stranded in the woods in decidedly unsuitable attire. The pair of men who find her decide to take her back to their cave, where they've hidden sheep they rustled. When rancher Peter Lowery arrives, furious, to retrieve his property and discovers Emma, he does the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014