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  • White corridor
    Author:
    Fowler, Christopher
    Summary:

    Christopher Fowler is acclaimed as a "new master of the classical detective story" (Denver Post). In White Corridor, Fowler's senior-citizen detectives find themselves solving a locked-room case (by cell phone, no less)...
  • The return of dr. sam johnson, detector
    Author:
    Torre, Lillian De La.
    Summary:

    James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson team up to solve mysteries in this collection of brilliantly baffling historical crime stories. James Boswell is just twenty-two when he comes south from Scotland, determined to befriend Dr. Sam...
  • The exploits of dr. sam johnson, detector
    Author:
    Torre, Lillian De La.
    Summary:

    Literary legend Samuel Johnson and his biographer, James Boswell, solve mysteries in eighteenth-century London in this delightful story collection. A brilliant thinker and his trusted assistant sit in their drawing room, pondering a...
  • The detections of dr. sam johnson
    Author:
    Torre, Lillian De La.
    Summary:

    Eight exquisite mystery stories set in London, starring Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. In 1775, as the British Empire is about to be cracked by the earthquake of the American Revolution, twenty...
  • The Black Ascot
    Author:
    Todd, Charles
    Summary:

    Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
  • Prism a memoir as fiction
    Author:
    Chesbro, George C.
    Summary:

    The author of the Mongo Mysteries reveals the interior life of a troubled writer in this deeply personal autobiographical novel. At the age of fifty-eight, author Garth Fugue is adrift. For the last forty years he has poured his soul...
  • Mischief in maggody
    Author:
    Hess, Joan
    Summary:

    When a woman is shot in a cannabis patch, Arly Hanks must restore order to her Ozarks community, in this sharp-witted mystery by an Agatha Award-winning author. When small-town police chief Arly Hanks returns to Maggody, Arkansas, after...
  • Meet collins and burke sign of the cross, obit, and barrington street blues
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    Go back to the beginning of the Collins-Burke mysteries with this collection, which includes the first three novels in the award-winning series: Sign of the Cross, Obit, and Barrington Street Blues. Sign of the Cross: This winner of the...
  • Kingdom of the blind
    Author:
    Penny, Louise
    Summary:

    "[Narrator Robert Bathurst] engages us completely...If you haven't listened to this series, start at once. You'll love your stay in Three Pines."-AudioFile Magazine on A Great Reckoning The new Chief Inspector...
  • Diana's altar
    Author:
    Cleverly, Barbara
    Summary:

    Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest and his last-minute...
  • Death on nantucket
    Author:
    Mathews, Francine
    Summary:

    Spencer Murphy is a national treasure. A famous correspondent during the Vietnam War who escaped captivity in Southeast Asia, he made a fortune off of his books and television appearances. But Spence is growing forgetful with age; he...
  • Death in the off-season
    Author:
    Mathews, Francine
    Summary:

    When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket's oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Meredith Folger is faced with her first murder case. Merry...
  • Death in rough water
    Author:
    Mathews, Francine
    Summary:

    Fresh from her first murder case, Nantucket detective Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. When Joe Duarte, a fishing boat captain with decades of experience on the wild seas off Nantucket, is swept overboard during a...
  • Death in a mood indigo
    Author:
    Mathews, Francine
    Summary:

    The third book in the recently revamped Nantucket mystery series. When two children make a grisly discovery on Sconset beach, Detective Meredith Folger finds herself with a perplexing case on her hands. The crime lab can tell her only...
  • Death in a cold hard light
    Author:
    Mathews, Francine
    Summary:

    The fourth book in the recently reissued Nantucket mystery series. Merry Folger is more than ready for a romantic vacation with her fiance Peter when fate--and her police chief father--intervenes. Twenty-one-year-old Jay Santorski never...
  • Death at thorburn hall
    Author:
    Deering, Julianna
    Summary:

    The Fartherings' Scottish Vacation Takes a Dark Turn Drew Farthering arrives in idyllic Scotland for the 1935 British Open at Muirfield hoping for a relaxing vacation, but he soon finds a mystery on his hands. Lord Rainsby, his...
  • Bone
    Author:
    Chesbro, George C.
    Summary:

    In New York City, a homeless man with amnesia must unravel his past while a serial killer stalks the streets, in this taut thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. When he wakes up he remembers nothing, not even his own name. He...
  • And then there were none
    Author:
    Christie, Agatha
    Summary:

    Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the...
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