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Toby Peters mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Harry Blackstone's reputation as a first-class illusionist is threatened when a series of murders implicates him, forcing the frustrated magician to turn to Hollywood detective Toby Peters for help in nabbing the killer.
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.
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Series
Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.
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"London, 1893. James Norbury is a shy would-be poet, newly down from Oxford and confounded by the sinister, labyrinthine city at his doorstep. Taking up lodging with a dissolute young aristocrat, he is introduced to the drawing rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. On the cusp of achieving a happiness long denied to him, he vanishes without a trace. In Yorkshire, his sister Charlotte, only in her twenties but already resigned...
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Retired constable Ned Parker plans to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer. But a phone call leads him to a body in the Red River and into the investigation headed by his nephew, Vietnam vet and newly elected constable Cody Parker. The two work to head off a multi-state killing spree. Cody and Deputy John Washington follow a lead to the long-abandoned Cotton Exchange which is riddled with booby-trapped passageways and dark burrows. Unfortunately,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Percé village. Includes glossary and historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians
49) Search the Dark
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Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Scotland Yard's most intrepid inspector is sent to Dorset with strict orders to coordinate the search for two missing children, but his investigation is complicated by his growing feelings for a potential suspect.
50) Letter from home
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In small-town Oklahoma in the summer of 1944, a young reporter investigates the murder of her acquaintance.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. It is a tragic and all-too-common story or so it seems. Charles's father asks to speak with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the...
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Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
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Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel. Includes historical notes on the time period.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"The French Riviera, 1956: The invitation to dinner was not unexpected, though neither was it welcome. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he s not on holiday. An old and dangerous adversary, Mielke is calling in a debt. He intends that Bernie go to London and, with the vial of Thallium he now pushes across the table, poison a female agent they both have had dealings with. But chance intervenes in the form...
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
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Daisy Dalrymple mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"In the late 1920's in England, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar--i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out who would be the heir to the viscountcy. With the help of the family lawyer, who advertises Empire-wide, they have come up with four potential claimants. For his fiftieth birthday, Edgar invites those would-be heirs--along with Daisy and the rest of...