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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
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English
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The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody and her archeologist family. But there is a great evil in the wind sweeping through Cairo in the presence of a notorious looter of the living and the dead.
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The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie's first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple-as a dead body in a clergyman's study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.
Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and...
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English
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In the classic mystery by Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie, an elderly priest is murdered, quite possibly doomed by a woman's deathbed confession and by the secrets kept safely locked behind closed doors of a mysterious local pub. When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on...
8) Comeback
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English
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Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 25
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English
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"Poirot investigates the murder of an old woman after her lodger is convicted of killing her and condemned to death because the investigating officer believes the man is innocent" ----Provided by publisher.
10) The old silent
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 10
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English
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The Scotland Yard superintendent that witnesses a killing in an old inn and his colleague who wishes he could perform one on his aunt are only two of many characters that hover around the center of a gruesome mystery.
14) Suspect
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Kindle County novels volume 12
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation-until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an...
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Jenny Cain mysteries volume 6
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English
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Jenny goes west to investigate the murder of a millionaire benefactor and his bizarre family when a cattle ranch in Kansas is left to the Port Frederick Civic Foundation.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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Police superintendent Richard Jury travels to Baltimore to investigate the murder of a former British subject.
17) The edge
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English
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Tor, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, masquerades as a waiter on a horse-racing junket called the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.
19) Captive
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb - until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all in this gripping suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Persuasion. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful...
20) The gate house
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English
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Now living in close proximity to his ex-wife Susan, John Sutter is targeted by her dead lover's mafia son Anthony, who seeks revenge against his father's murderer and attempts to lure John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa crime family.
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