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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Lori Shepherd loves living in the small English village of Finch, but as her eighth summer in the town approaches she finds herself wishing for something exciting to spice up her routine. When King Wilfred's Faire opens nearby, Lori gets her wish and more. The age of chivalry lives again at the Renaissance fair. But Lori soon discovers that it's not all pageantry and play. With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance, she races to save her dear village...
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Includes some of the classics and some new works in the genre. Includes tales by Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Willa Cather, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Mark Twain and Washington Irving.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When the skeletons of four young women are found buried in in the woods outside of Copenhagen, ambitious and headstrong Inspector Katrine Ries Jensen and Thomas Schaeffer, a reclusive and cerebral forensic psychiatrist, are drawn into a perilous hunt for just such a monster, a killer who strikes according to a pattern which is at first impenetrable.
7846) Manhattan mayhem
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories.
7848) Sleight of Dan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nancy, George, and Bess attempt to solve the mystery of a missing magician's assistant, but Nancy gets into more trouble when she encounters a giant snake.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Mma "Precious" Ramotswe is now engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, the kind owner of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. This new development provokes a hostile reaction from Mr. Matekoni's unscrupulous maid, who quickly begins plotting the disintegration of the engagement. Despite all this, duty calls, and Mma Ramotswe is asked to help find an American woman's son who has been missing in Africa for 10 years.
7853) Mystery at Indian Point
Author
Series
Cajun Kids adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Beth, Mark, Timmy, Annie, and Sam stumble upon rare artifacts during one of their expeditions around the Louisiana marshlands they call home. Their discovery leads them on an unexpected journey filled with mystery and investigations. With the help of their parents and some new-found friends, the five children work together to solve The Mystery at Indian Point.
7854) The Saint: seasons 1
Series
The Saint volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Fearless, debonair, and always with an eye toward justice, Simon Templar, aka The Saint, circles the globe in his white Volvo in one heart-pulsing adventure after another.
7855) The Saint: season 2
Series
The Saint volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Fearless, debonair, and always with an eye toward justice, Simon Templar, aka The Saint, circles the globe in his white Volvo in one heart-pulsing adventure after another.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend--complicating his own bid for reelection, and causing tension between the couple. As Sam's investigation reveals a scandal that rocks the capital, Nick and Sam discover that...
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
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Description
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
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Description
In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...