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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs's career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government." When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Caroline--Charlotte Pitt's mother--and Joshua Fielding travel with his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational novel named after him. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula written by the daughter of Whitby millionaire Charles Netheridge during the Christmas holiday, but after the disastrous first read-through of amateurish script, Joshua...
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Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, an opportunity to dig up fossils becomes even more thrilling when a corpse washes ashore in this fourth book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes.
After an invigorating but not exactly restful trip to a Yorkshire spa during which she survived a near brush with death...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 3
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman--
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
While...
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...
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Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited when she spies a dead bird on the doorstep of her family's run-down mansion with a postage stamp stuck to its beak. Several hours later she uncovers the body of a man taking his last breath in their cucumber patch. Flavia concludes these things which happened "are the most interesting thing that has ever happened to her."
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
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