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(Fictitious character) Russell, Mary 1900- Fiction Cotswold Hills (England) Fiction England Holmes, Sherlock Fiction Jude (Fictitious character : Brett) Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Seddon, Carole (Fictitious character) Fiction Women private investigators Women private investigators England FictionCameron, Stella
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 CAMChristie, 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 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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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINBeaton, 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: "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 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 BEAKing, 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: "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 BRODams, Jeanne M.
Summary: Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, while on holiday in the English village of Broadway, discover the body of a man in a quarry, and as the police have no suspects Dorothy investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINWeaver, Ashley
Summary: Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway. Holloway and his wife Georgina are old friends of theirs, and when Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing. However, Amory is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEAWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: London, 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered in a South London canal, her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. Before her death, Usha was staying at an ayah's hostel, a refuge for Indian women whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: After she lands a starring role in the local production of George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," Jude's role becomes that of investigator when one of the lead actors is found hanging from the especially-constructed stage gallows during rehearsals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2014
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Summary: Hired to help her friend, Daniel Hood, refresh his driving skills, Brodie Farrell must look for answers when, following a seemingly minor accident involving an hysterical young woman, the victim accuses Daniel of attempted murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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Summary: Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral when one of the candidates is found murdered in his own church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMDams, Jeanne M.
Summary: When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend at a lovingly restored old mansion, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have known better, but even she could not have anticipated the terror that is unleashed by an epic storm and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMBrett, Simon.
Summary: The genteel game of real tennis takes a murderous twist when a friend of Jude's new boyfriend winds up dead on the court, while Carole Seddon pursues her own investigation into the identity of the human remains known locally as the "Lady in the Lake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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Summary: Enlisted by a friend in the police force to find the long-lost aunt of two girls whose mother has been murdered, Brodie Farrell discovers that she is working against a dangerous adversary when a murderous intruder breaks into the girls' home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANKing, Laurie R.
Summary: "Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M KINBrett, Simon
Summary: While holidaying at a Turkish villa, Carole and Jude investigate a series of menacing events plaguing their host, a ruthless property developer, which come to a head when a body turns up in an ancient Lycian tomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction WinspearCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINCameron, Stella
Summary: "Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins' total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted reputation and sends shockwaves through the village. When a battered body is discovered in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2019
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1 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