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Summary: This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

Oliver, Lauren

Summary: "Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OLI

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)

Summary: Will Bert is searching for his brother, a newsboy named Freddie, saying he wants to share his recent financial good fortune. Frank Malloy finds the boy, but when Will's name is mentioned, Freddie runs off ... and is found dead a short time later. Suspicious, Frank tracks down Will who spins a tale of lust and deceit involving a young society woman, Estelle Longacre, also recently deceased....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)

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Summary: When a philanthropist's involvement in the rescue of a prostitute leads to murder, Sarah Brandt's significant other, Detective Sgt. Frank Malloy, can't prevent her from investigating. Set at the end of the 19th century in New York City.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Nesser, Hakan

Summary: Investigating a dubious religious sect in the aftermath of a young girl's brutal murder, Inspector Van Veeteren is frustrated by the group's secretive refusal to defend itself, a case that is complicated by increasingly perplexing tips by an anonymous woman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NES

Larsson, Asa

Summary: It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Oak 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAR

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