Search Results for Police -- Great Britain -- Fiction.

Bodies

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Barnard, Robert.
c1986.
Book

Slight mourning

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Aird, Catherine.
1976, ©1975.
1st ed.
Book

Search the dark

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Todd, Charles.
2000.
St. Martin's pbk. ed.
Book

Some die eloquent

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Aird, Catherine.
1980, ©1979.
1st ed.
Book

Henrietta who?

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Aird, Catherine.
c2008.
[New material].
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Death by sheer torture

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Barnard, Robert.
1995.
Book

Silence observed.

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Innes, Michael,
[1961]
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When the dead cry out

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Bonner, Hilary.
2005.
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
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Little Knell

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Aird, Catherine.
2001.
1st U.S. ed.
Inspector C.D. Sloan is called in when it is discovered that a large collection of artifacts that has been left to the Calleshire Museum includes a three-thousand-year-old mummy case containing an all-too-recent murder victim.
Book

After effects

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Aird, Catherine.
1996.
1st U.S. ed.
When two patients die at Berebury Hospital, Detective Inspector Sloan is called in to investigate a missing doctor, a drug trial involving a pharmaceutical company, and a break-in at the company's headquarters by a group of animal rights activists.
Book

The Dead Sea deception

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Blake, Adam.
c2011.
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Harm's way

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Aird, Catherine.
1984.
A number of confusing leads complicate Detective Inspector Sloan's investigation when first a finger then a headless corpse turn up in the quiet English farm country.
Book

Fatal legacy : a Detective Chief Inspector Andrew Fenwick mystery

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Corley, Elizabeth.
2001.
1st U.S. ed.
DCI Fenwick investigates the shadowy goings-on at Wainwright Enterprises that culminated in the murder of the firm's financial controller.
Book

Scaredy cat

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Billingham, Mark.
c2002.
1st U.S. ed.
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne tracks two serial killers who seem to be working hand-in-hand, trying to catch them before those closest to him get caught in the crossfire of the investigation.
Book

Lazybones

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Billingham, Mark.
[2004]
1st U.S. ed.
Detective inspector Tom Thorne investigates a series of murders of ex-convicts by an anonymous pen-pal who befriended the convicts while they were in prison and then murdered them upon their releases.
Book

Stiff news

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Aird, Catherine.
1999.
1st U.S. ed.
Strange deaths occur in a British home for retired military officers and their wives. As he investigates, inspector C.D. Sloan discovers that all the victims were connected to a World War II battle. By the author of After Effects.
Book

A fatal attachment

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Barnard, Robert.
©1992.
1st American ed.
A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle.
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Injury time

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Aird, Catherine.
1995.
1st U.S. ed.
Sixteen crimes and their solution. Who poisoned Anna Macmillan with a deadly dose of antimony? Where are the priceless pearls that vanished during a country house weekend? How was the code to a high-tech alarm system broken?
Book

The creeper

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Carver, Tania.
2012.
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her, sleeping, taken during the night. And underneath, the words: "I'm watching over you." Her nightmare isn't over. In fact, it's just beginning. Detective Inspector Phil Brennan of the Major Incident Squad has a killer to hunt. A killer who stalks young women, insinuates himself into their lives, and ultimately tortures and murders them in the most shocking way possible. But the more Phil investigates, the more he delves into the twisted psychology of his quarry, Phil realizes that it isn't just a serial killer he's hunting but something or someone infinitely more calculating and horrific. And much closer to home than he realized.
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Half a crown

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Walton, Jo.
2008.
1st ed.
In this alternative history sequel to Ha'penny, two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest worry until now has been where to find the right string of pearls, and the commander of Britain's distinctly British secret police, the Watch.
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The bad samaritan : a novel of suspense featuring Charlie Peace

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Barnard, Robert.
c1995.
In England, a Bosnian refugee befriends a vicar's wife, who finds him work. Soon after a member of the church is murdered and the Bosnian disappears. A tale of immigrant smuggling which detectives Oddie and Peace try to unravel.
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A little white death

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Lawton, John,
[2006].
1st American ed.
Set in London in the swinging 1960s, this latest novel from Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard's chief detective, deep into a case reminiscent of the infamous Profumo scandal, where secret affairs stretch to double-crosses and backroom deals in the halls of Parliament--not to mention murder.
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Far cry

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Harvey, John,
2010.
While on a camping holiday in Cornwall with her best friend, Heather Pierce goes missing and is found dead in a mine several days later. With no other evidence and only suspicions of foul play, her death is ruled accidental. Years later, Heather's mother has remarried, and her daughter from her second marriage nearly the same age as Heather goes missing. Is it a coincidence or is there a connection?
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Gone to ground

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Harvey, John,
c2007.
1st ed.
Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective, Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong. But as their investigation widens, their attention focuses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of fifties film star, Stella Leonard, whose death from drowning, when the car she was driving skidded mysteriously off a lonely Fenland road, uncannily echoed the climax of her most notorious film, Shattered Glass. With Bryan's journalist sister egging them on, and bringing herself into mortal danger as she conducts her own investigation, Will and Helen gradually peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and its own perverted sexuality.
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The return of Merlin : a novel

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Chopra, Deepak.
c1995.
1st ed.
A New Age version of the legend of King Arthur, the premise being that Arthur & Co. are immortal and are continuing their lives in the bodies of successive generations. A reflection of the author's philosophy on ageless bodies and timeless minds.
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Amendment of life :

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Aird, Catherine.
2003.
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
When a body is found in the center of a Tudor-era yew maze, Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan is placed in charge of a disturbingly complex case.
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Sleepyhead [sound recording] : a Tom Thorne novel

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Billingham, Mark.
p2013.
Unabridged.
Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a deliberately induced stroke, and although she can see, hear, and feel, she is completely unable to move or to communicate. In leaving Alison alive, the police believe her assailant has made his first mistake. Until Detective Inspector Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: Alison is the psychopath's first success; the three women he killed before her were the mistakes.
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The blood royal

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Cleverly, Barbara.
2011.
1st U.S. ed.
Returning to England only to discover that his role at the Metropolitan Police has expanded to include the Special Irish Branch, Joe Sandilands struggles with regional terrorism while clashing with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.
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Farthing

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Walton, Jo.
2006.
1st ed.
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A long shadow

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Todd, Charles.
?2015.
Unabridged.
In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself the target of a mysterious person who is leaving oddly engraved cartridge casings around that seem to point to unfinished business involving the Great War.
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Scaredy cat [sound recording] : a Tom Thorne novel

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Billingham, Mark.
p2013.
Unabridged.
It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the same day. Yet someone followed Carol Garner home from the train station and strangled her to death in front of her three-year-old son. And, afterwards, Ruth Murray died in a similar manner. The evidence is leading Detective Inspector Tom Thorne to a stunning conclusion: there isn't only one serial killer on the prowl, but a pair of them, working in tandem.
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The lighthouse [sound recording]

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James, P. D.
p2005.
Unabridged.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham.
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JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

A moment of madness

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Bonner, Hilary.
2006.
1st U.S. ed.
"For journalist John Kelly, the violent death of local celebrity and rock superstar Scott Silver promises to be the best story he's seen since his days on Fleet Street. With a little work he may even turn it into the second chance he's been looking for all these years. DCI Karen Meadows isn't so sure her old friend Kelly is seeing clearly." -- Jacket.
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To love and be wise

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Tey, Josephine,
1998.
1st Scribner pbk. Fiction ed.
"Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed."--Back cover.
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Ha'penny

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Walton, Jo.
2007.
1st ed.
In this sequel to Farthing, Inspector Carmichael has just come off the Farthing case and has been assigned to a bombing which killed leading actress Lauria Gilmore. Meanwhile Viola Lark has been chosen to act Hamlet in a gender-switching production of the play following Gilmore's untimely death and is drawn into a plot to kill Hitler at the opening night of the play, along with Prime Minister Mark Normanby, the lead figure in the increasingly fascistic government.
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Sleepyhead

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Billingham, Mark,
c2001.
1st U.S. ed.
It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder. The police aren't making much progress in their hunt for the killer until he appears to make a mistake: Alison Willetts is found alive and D.I. Tom Thorne believes the murderer has made a mistake, which ought to allow them to get on his tracks. But it was the others who were his mistakes: he doesn't want to take life, he just wants to put people into a state where they cannot move, cannot talk, cannot do anything but think. When Thorne, helped by the neurologist looking after Alison, starts to realise what he is up against he knows the case is not going to be solved by normal methods - before he can find out who did it he has to understand why he's doing it.
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The lighthouse [sound recording] : [an Adam Dalgliesh mystery]

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James, P. D.
p2005.
Library ed.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.
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The mad-hatter murders [spoken word]

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Whittaker, Marrisse,
[2022]
Unabridged.
"A British police detectives latest case gets curiouser and curiouser in this hard-hitting novel by the author of The Devils Line. DSI Billie Wildes romantic relationship is intense--but its nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially since the new chief of police is gunning for her squad. If they dont get a handle on a series of deaths--which seem to have a connection to Alice in Wonderland--they could wind up being demoted. And the identity of one of the victims has made things devastatingly personal for Billie. In search of clues, she winds up working closely with PI Ellis Darque, who is working undercover. But as Billie works to sort out whats going on behind the scenes, and confronts dark truths about her own family, she starts to feel like shes gone through the looking-glass herself ... This chilling police procedural by the author of The Magpie, finalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction, is a compelling tale filled with complex motives, tangled mysteries, and shocking surprises."--
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The lighthouse : an Adam Dalgliesh mystery

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James, P. D.
2005.
1st large print ed.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.
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The silent room

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Hannah, Mari,
2018.
First U.S. edition.
"Detective Sergeant Matthew Ryan wants to clear the name of his former boss, who stands accused of official corruption. But before he can do so, his boss disappears. Did he escape from police custody, or was he kidnapped? Or did something even worse happen to him? Suspended from duty on suspicion of aiding and abetting the audacious escape of his former boss, Ryan is locked out of the manhunt. Desperate to preserve his career and prove his innocence, he backs off. But when the official investigation falls apart, under surveillance and with his life in danger, Ryan goes dark, enlisting other fascinating but decidedly unofficial cohorts in his quest to discover the truth. Mari Hannah's The Silent Room has it all--truly memorable characters, a breakneck pace, and a gripping plot. In addition, it has heart. Add some truly scary villains and a loudly ticking clock, and it's clear that Hannah has penned an ingenious and lightning-fast thriller that will grip readers from the first pages and never let go."--Dust jacket.
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Low pastures

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James, Bill,
[2022]
First World edition.
A well-dressed corpse found shot in the sand and gravel wharf sparks trouble for Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his unpredictable boss, Assistant Chief Constable Iles. The man is found dead in the local dockyard, shot from behind. Colin Harpur, examining the impeccably dressed corpse on his hands and knees, predicts the execution spells imminent trouble - and not just the unexpected arrival of his spiteful, brilliant boss, ACC Iles, at the two a.m. slaughter scene. Iles's progressive attitude towards the local drugs trade has kept gang warfare off the streets, but now it seems jealous outsiders may be coveting the safe, ordered community he has so brilliantly created. Coveting, too, the local property - for instance, drug lord Ralph Ember's luxurious mansion, Low Pastures, home to his unparalleled collection of china and porcelain. Harpur and Iles are determined to protect their set-up at all costs - which includes protecting 'Panicking' Ralph. But Ralph has his own plans, and there are dark rumours about Iles on the wind...--
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The lighthouse

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, P. D.
2005.
1st American ed.
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects when there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder. This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P.D. James's novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.
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The lighthouse

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James, P. D.
2006, ©2005.
1st Vintage books ed.
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects when there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder. This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P.D. James's novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.
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Gideon's press

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Marric, J. J.
[1973]
[1st U.S. ed.].
A dock strike plunges Commander Gideon of Scotland Yard into an investigation of an extreme right-wing group believed to be responsible for disrupting labor negotiations.
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A long shadow

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
c2006.
1st ed.
In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself the target of a mysterious person who is leaving oddly engraved cartridge casings around that seem to point to unfinished business involving the Great War.
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Gideon's lot

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Marric, J. J.
[1964]
[1st ed.].
Scotland Yard's top detective, Commander Gideon, must stop the new flood of criminals from abroad--an Italian seeking control of the vice market, a sadistic American kidnapper, and an Australian psychopath with an appetite for sex spiced with murder.
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The singing sands

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Tey, Josephine,
1996.
1st Scribner pbk. Fiction ed.
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Gideon's drive

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Marric, J. J.
c1976.
1st U.S. ed.
Mrs Morneo had just lost her first baby - and it looked as if she would lose her own life too. Her husband had made no idle threat to the doctor involved. Commander Gideon had his hands full - a rapist, food poisoning, gangs of thieves and a murdered doctor.
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Final curtain [sound recording]

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Marsh, Ngaio,
[1994]
Unabridged.
Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor Sir Henry and his eccentric household. But she was not prepared for the acts of malice and mischief that would ensue at his birthday party.
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Artists in crime [sound recording] : a Roderick Alleyn mystery

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Marsh, Ngaio,
p2010.
Taking a break while painting a mock crime scene, art student Agatha Troy, a fellow student, and their instructor return to find their model literally murdered. Enter Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn, who has seen his share of tough cases. However, if Agatha, the woman he loves, is actually the murderer, will he be able to bring her to justice?
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To love and be wise

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Tey, Josephine,
1988, c1951.
1st Collier Books ed.
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A shilling for candles

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Tey, Josephine,
1998.
1st Scribner pbk. fiction ed.
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Gospel

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James, Bill,
1997.
1st American ed.
A murder mystery which analyzes the relationship between policemen and their informers. It is set in England and features Detective Harper who thwarts an armed robbery thanks to a tip from a "grass." By the author of Astride the Grave.
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Payment in blood

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth.
1993.
Bantam reissue, May 1993.
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Died in the wool.

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marsh, Ngaio,
1945.
Murder on a sheep ranch in New Zealand.
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Night fall

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Smith, Frank,
2013.
When a body is found having been bound, gagged, thrown off a bridge, and with the letter 'A' carved into his forehead, Detective Inspector Neil Paget has nothing to go in until another body appears in a similar condition.
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Dead water

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marsh, Ngaio,
©1963.
1st ed.
Inspector Roderick Alleyn faces a difficult case in which the two chief murder suspects are his oldest friend and the victim.
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A Christmas railway mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marston, Edward,
2019.
[Large print edition]. First Isis edition.
December, 1860: The morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive Works is about to begin, and an army of men is pouring out of the nearby terraced houses built by the GWR. Frank Rodman should have been among them, but he is destined for the grave sooner than he might have expected - or he will be, once his missing head is found. However, Christmas is fast approaching, and the last thing Inspector Colbeck needs is a complex case, mired in contradictions. As he wrestles with one crime, he is alarmed to hear of another - the abduction of Superintendent Tallis. Colbeck and Leeming find themselves in a hectic race to solve a brutal murder before rushing off to Kent in a bid to save the superintendent's life.
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In the shadow of evil : a DCI Neil Paget mystery

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Smith, Frank,
2012.
1st world ed.
When Antonia Halliday is found dead in a barn, her head and neck slashed with an old-fashioned sickle, Paget and Tregalles attend the scene. The victim is from Bromley Manor, the country home of a highly respected family with links to the chief constable, and Chief Superintendent Brock warns Paget to tread carefully. With all the evidence drawing Paget back to the manor, he soon finds himself at odds with his superiors - and the killer is not quite finished yet.
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Wycliffe and the redhead

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Burley, W. J.
1998.
1st U.S. ed.
In Cornwall, Superintendent Wycliffe investigates the murder of a bookseller whose testimony convicted another man of murder. Suspicion centers on the convicted man's daughter who worked in the bookshop, but Wycliffe thinks that is too facile.
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Russian roulette

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Darrell, Elizabeth.
2005.
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Spinsters in jeopardy

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Marsh, Ngaio,
[1981] c1953.
High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr. Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is not the historic castle, however, that intrigues Roderick Alleyn, on holiday with his family, but the suspicion that a huge drug ring operates from within its ancient portals. But before the holiday is over, someone else has stumbled upon the secret. And Mr. Oberon decides that his strange and terrible rituals require a human sacrifice.
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Payment in blood

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George, Elizabeth,
2007, c1989.
Bantam trade paperback ed.
The career of a playwright comes to an abupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an 18-inch dirk through her neck.
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Come clean

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
1993.
Sarah Iles, the wife of Colin Harpur's supervisor, witnesses a murder while having an affair.
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Tragedy on the branch line

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Marston, Edward.
[2021]
First Edition.
"When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. Hastily readying himself and dashing off a few lines for the porter to summon his friend Nicholas Thorpe, he hurries to the railway station. But he doesn't reach his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway. It soon becomes apparent that Cambridge's hopes of success in the forthcoming Boat Race rested on Pomeroy's shoulders. With academic disputes, romantic interests and a sporting rivalry with Oxford in play, the Railway Detective will have his work cut out to disentangle the threads of Pomeroy's life in order to answer the truth of his death."--Publisher's description.
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Halo parade

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James, Bill,
1991.
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Lovely mover

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James, Bill,
1999.
1st American ed.
Superintendent Harpur goes undercover to bust a ring of British drug dealers. A dangerous assignment as the drug dealer for whom Harpur is working just murdered someone who double-crossed him.
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Take

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
1994.
The dilemma of an aging British crook. When plans for a payroll van robbery go wrong he must decide whether to abandon the robbery altogether, or take on young and risky new recruits who may consider his habitual wariness a sign of the timidity of old age.
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A suitable vengeance

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
1991.
When Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Eighth Earl of Asherton, and his fiancee, Deborah Cotter, arrive at Howenstow, Lynley's family home, they find the atmosphere rife with tension.
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Roses, roses

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
1998.
1st American ed.
British police inspector Colin Harpur investigates the murder of his wife, Megan, who was stabbed while returning home from her lover. She intended to leave Harpur and their two daughters because of his philandering.
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The death messenger

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Hannah, Mari,
2019.
First U.S. edition.
"When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O'Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on the only lead comes from the anonymous and chilling woman's voice narrating the blood-soaked lock-up depicted on screen. But with no victim visible, nor any indication of where the unidentifiable crime scene is located, Ryan and O'Neil get the distinct feeling someone is playing with them. As further shocking videos start arriving at police stations around the country, the body count rises. But what connects all the victims? And why are they being targeted? As the investigation deepens, the team is brought to breaking point as secrets from the past threaten to derail their pursuit of a merciless killer"--
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The Saint vs. Scotland Yard

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Charteris, Leslie,
1976, ©1932.
Book

Resolutions

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Adams, Jane,
2010.
1st world ed.
Book

A long shadow [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
2006.
Large print ed.
"The eighth in this acclaimed series finds Inspector Rutledge in an isolated rural village north of London, charged with bringing to justice the criminal who has gravely wounded its constable, sending an arrow through his chest while he was investigating a murder. And someone is hunting the inspector himself, leaving engraved cartridge casings behind to torment him." -- School Library Journal.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Dying for you

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Evans, Geraldine.
2004.
1st world ed.
Book

Chinese puzzle

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Darrell, Elizabeth.
2006.
Book

The cold hand of malice

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Smith, Frank,
2009.
1st world ed.
Book

Death dues

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Evans, Geraldine.
2008.
When local loan shark John Jaws Harrison is found with his skull caved in in an alleyway backing on to rundown Primrose Avenue, DCI Joe Rafferty, and dour sidekick Dafyd Llewellyn, imagine the case will be easily solved. Armed with a list of local debtors, they begin their investigations. But they hadnt counted on the apparent consensus of silence amongst the residents most of whom had good reason to want Jaws dead.
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Murder in thrall

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Cleeland, Anne.
c2013
From Anne Cleeland comes the first in a captivating new mystery series, following the perilous exploits of two Scotland Yard detectives as they track down London's most elusive killer. . . First-year detective Kathleen Doyle and Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair, Lord Acton, are a most unlikely pair. An Irish redhead of humble beginnings and modest means, Doyle is the antithesis of Acton, the British lord who has established himself as a brilliant but enigmatic figure with a knack for solving London's most high profile homicides. But Acton senses something exceptional beneath Doyle's awkward naivet and taps her to help him with his investigations. And her spot-on intuition is just what he needs to solve a chilling string of murders. . .
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A fine summer's day : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2015]
Unabridged.
On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge is planning to propose to a woman he deeply loves, despite hints from his family and friends that she may not be the suitable choice for a policeman's wife"--Publisher's website.
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With no one as witness

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
©2005.
1st ed.
When an adolescent boy is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, New Scotland Yard acting superintendent Thomas Lynley and his colleagues tie the crime to a series of killings but find the case complicated by racial issues. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley takes on the case of his career. When it comes to spellbinding suspense and page-turning excitement, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George always delivers. As the Wall Street Journal raves, "Ms. George can do it all, with style to spare." In With No One as Witness, Elizabeth George has crafted an intricate, meticulously researched, and absorbing story sure to enthrall her readers. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is back, along with his longtime partner, the fiery Barbara Havers, and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata. They are on the hunt for a sinister killer. When an adolescent boy's nude body is found mutilated and artfully arranged on the top of a tomb, it takes no large leap for the police to recognize this as the work of a serial killer. This is the fourth victim in three months but the first to be white. Hoping to avoid charges of institutionalized racism in its failure to pursue the earlier crimes to their conclusion, New Scotland Yard hands the case over to Lynley and his colleagues. The killer is a psychopath who does not intend to be stopped. Worse, a devastating tragedy within the police ranks causes them to fumble in their pursuit of him.
Regular print

The daughter of time

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Tey, Josephine,
1995.
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
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Wolves of memory

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2006.
1st American ed.
"A large, carefully plotted "cash-in-transit" raid goes hopelessly awry when armed policemen intervene to seize the perpetrators. Relatives and friends of the incarcerated are convinced that information -- the date, the time -- was leaked by the only man to escape before his arrest. Deputy Constable Colin Harpur and Assistant Constable Desmond Iles are delegated the job of hiding and and protecting the informant and his family. With an unruly informant - whose reckless behavior serves to aid an angry mob - on their hands, Harper and Iles find themselves faced with their toughest assignment to date - one that is only resolved in the most brutal and astonishing turnaround that the deputy constable and assistant constable have ever seen" -- Inside cover.
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Panicking Ralph

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2001.
1st American ed.
Ralph Ember, bar owner and drug dealer, carefully plans to take over the business of his murdered rival, Oliphant Kenward Knapp. Meanwhile, D.C.S. Colin Harpur lays a trap for the drug barons.
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Payment in blood

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
©1989.
Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard is possessed by a fierce attraction to a murder suspect while investigating the savage slaying of a controversial playwright.
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Murder with malice

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Underwood, Michael,
1977.
Book

Payment in blood [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
2009.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

The progress of a crime

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Symons, Julian,
[2021]
"The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes's (bonfire) night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green, and there were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, nobody is clear on what exactly happened and what they saw. In the writhing, violent shadows, it seems as if the truth may have gone up in smoke. Julian Symons's phenomenal 1960 novel is a searing drama of wrongful accusation, twisty police procedural, and account of grim murder all rolled together. Also includes the short story "The Tigers of Subtopia.""--
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The daughter of time [sound recording]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Tey, Josephine,
[2008], p1987, 1999.
While recuperating from a broken leg, Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard embarks on a search through history for the truth behind Richard III's alleged murder of his brother's children, in a classic of the mystery genre.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Bad blood

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Evans, Geraldine.
2004.
"Investigating the murder of wealthy widow Clara Mortimer, estranged from her family and living alone in an upmarket sheltered apartment, Rafferty fears his own family estrangement. Because when Abra, his girlfriend, said she might be pregnant, said she might be pregnant, his reaction wasn't exactly New Man ..."--Jacket.
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Colour scheme

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marsh, Ngaio,
1943.
It was a horrible death, Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted, if he wasn't a spy himself.
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Hole in one

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Aird, Catherine.
2005.
1st U.S. ed.
Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan and his less-than-able sidekick, Constable Crosby, launch an investigation into a bizarre death on the local golf course and uncover a serious case of murder.
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No birds sing

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bannister, Jo.
1996.
The Castlemere police face two dangerous assignments. Cal Donovan will infiltrate a gang of thieves and Liz Graham will act as bait for a serial rapist.
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The sixth man and other stories

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2006.
James' reputation as a mystery writer with a notably dark sense of humor derives mainly from his Harpur and Iles series. In these 15 short stories, he shows that he needs neither his familiar heroes nor the novel's length to deliver quality crime fiction. There are three new Harpur and Iles tales here, but in the other dozen entries, James' versatility is on display. Perhaps the funniest of the lot is "Elsewhere, " in which a ringing telephone plays a pivotal role in a lonely man's sexual success.
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Blaze away

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2015.
First world edition.
Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the greatest informant Harpur has ever dealt with--might be the greatest informant any police officer has ever dealt with--and although Jack ended this arrangement some time ago, Harpur still feels indebted to him. Lamb's posh manor house is stuffed with expensive paintings, ripe for the pinching...and small-time thief George Dinnick and his crew intend to relieve him of a few. But their plans are complicated by local big-time crook Ralph Ember, who is on the lookout for some art to elevate his gentleman' club, The Monty; and who else would he visit to procure this art but Jack Lamb? Add to the mix odd-job man and stolen-art procurer Basil Gordon Loam--aka Enzyme--who Harpur and Iles would very much like to see locked up, and things start to get complicated indeed.
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Broken lines

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bannister, Jo.
1999.
1st U.S. ed.
Inspector Liz Graham of Castlemere, a small town in England, works to clear a colleague of a charge of police brutality. The colleague's fingerprints were found on a gun used to beat a suspect. By the author of No Birds Sing.
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Naked at the window

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2002.
1st American ed.
"When drug dealer Ralph Ember and his sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of their bulk supplier, yachtsman Barney Cross, they unwittingly stumble onto the scene of a violent crime; Barney and his women have been savagely murdered by three London drug rivals. Beau dies a quick and merciless death at the hands of these brutal killers, and Ember, although he is let go, is a marked man for having witnessed this gruesome, morbid scene at the yachtsman's house."--Jacket.
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Vacuum

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2011.
1st world ed.
When a drug kingpin gives up his evil ways, he leaves his empire open for takeover. Harpur and Iles try to prevent a bloody war as other firms fight to fill the vacuum.
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A taste for burning

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bannister, Jo.
1995.
1st U.S. ed.
In England, two police officers investigate their chief, suspected of sabotaging an investigation of arson in the Asian community to divert suspicion from his son's role in it. A study of loyalty--family versus one's profession--and a study of British racism. By the author of The Matrix.
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Trick of the mind

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Chan, Cassandra.
2008.
1st ed.
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A bleeding of innocents

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bannister, Jo.
1993.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

Changelings

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bannister, Jo.
2000.
1st U.S. ed.
"The town of Castlemere is under siege. Someone is making very dangerous and convincing threats to destroy the city if it doesn't come up with a ransom of one million pounds. Now, time is Castlemere's enemy. It seems the town's bells are tolling not for the passage of time but of people. With the casuality rate rising, the pressure is on Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro to catch the blackmailing killer."--Jacket.
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Search the dark

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
1999.
1st ed.
A post-World War I mystery featuring British inspector Ian Rutledge, a man plagued by the voice of a deserter whom he executed. He investigates the murder of a woman believed to have been killed by her husband, a soldier damaged by the war. By the author of Wings of Fire.
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Mrs. Jeffries and the silent knight

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
2005.
1st ed.
Aided by his sleuthing housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, Inspector Witherspoon is called in by the Home Secretary to uncover the truth about the bludgeoning murder of Sir George Braxton, an investigation complicated by the victim's three daughters.
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A detective at death's door

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Keating, H. R. F.
2005.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

Stone cold heart

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Frear, Caz.
[2019]
Unabridged.
After a brief stint in the Mayor's Office, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is back at the London Metropolitan Police, wisecracking with her partner Luigi Parnell and trying to avoid the wrath of the boss, DI Kate Steele. But for Cat and Parnell, it's serious business when a young Australian woman turns up dead after a party thrown by her new boss. The initial investigation of Naomi Lockhart's murder points to Joseph Madden, the owner of a coffee shop around the corner from police headquarters. Madden insists he's innocent, that he was home with his wife Rachel at the time of the murder. When police question her, Rachel contradicts his alibi, swearing that she was home alone. While the team builds its case against Joseph, Cat is tasked with getting to the heart of the Maddens' marriage. Cat knows that one of them is lying, but the question of which one, and why, is far more complicated than she could have expected.
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First fix your alibi

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2016.
First world edition.
"Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance--and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. Having heard of the movie Strangers on a Train, in which two men agree to undertake each other's murders as a way of preventing detection, Shale suggests he and Ralph should have a similar arrangement--and Ralph is in no position to refuse. When he learns of the plan, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles fears that if things go wrong, the hard-won peace he and Harpur have established in the city will be seriously threatened. The two top policemen find they have their work cut out to limit the damage and restore tranquillity." --
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The daughter of time [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Tey, Josephine,
2013.
Large print edition.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Czech mate

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Darrell, Elizabeth.
2007.
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The crime trade

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Kernick, Simon.
2004.
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers in the act of selling a large consignment of cocaine to undercover police officers, goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the police officers involved: "Stegs" Jenner. Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, he has in the past played the role of a criminal just a little too well. Now suspended from duty, and with his close friend killed in the shoot-out, he determines to go at it alone.--from Publisher's description (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005042064-d.html ).
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The 12.30 from Croydon

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Crofts, Freeman Wills,
[2016]
First US trade paperback edition.
Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. As a mild-mannered Inspector by the name of French investigates, we follow the case from the perspective of the killer, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living with its execution.
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Twice in a blue moon

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Moyes, Patricia.
1993.
1st ed.
Everything is going swimingly at a new English inn until a guest dies of mushroom poisoning, bringing Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett to the country. The nineteenth in the series.
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Deception on his mind

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
?1997.
Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergent Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrible price people pay for deceiving others ... and themselves. -- Cover.
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Play dead

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2013.
Following a deep investigation into an incident in another Force, Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, uncovered an unpalatable truth: there is corruption in the ranks. Corruption which led to murder.
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Death dance

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Evans, Geraldine.
2010.
Investigating the murder of Adrienne Staveley, who was found strangled to death in her home, Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty is horrified when he discovers that the fingerprints of his his fiancée, Abra, were found in the dead woman's house.
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Mrs. Jeffries sallies forth

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
2013.
Mrs. Jeffries, housekeeper to Scotland Yard Inspector Witherspoon, helps solve three murder cases, including one in which a theater critic known for his harsh reviews turns up dead in a canal.
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Farewell blues

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Robinson, Maggie,
[2021]
"Lady Adelaide Compton had prepared herself to say goodbye forever to Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter. It would be a welcome relief not to get mixed up in any more murders, even if it meant never working alongside the handsome detective again...wouldn't it? But then Addie's prim and proper mother, Constance, the Dowager Marchioness of Broughton, is accused of murdering her secret lover, and there can't be enough gentlemen detectives on hand to find the truth. The dead Duke of Rufford appeared to lead a blameless life, but appearances can be deceiving. And unless Addie and Dev work together, Constance will hang--which is no one's idea of a happy ending"--
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An affair with Mr. Kennedy

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Stone, Jillian.
2012.
1st Pocket Books pbk. ed.
For years, the memory of a deadly bombing at King's Cross has haunted brilliant Scotland Yard detective Zeno "Zak" Kennedy. In London, 1887, his investigation zeroes in on a ring of aristocratic rebels campaigning for Irish revolution, and pulls him into the arms of free-spirited Cassandra St. Cloud, an impressionist painter with very modern ideas about life and love.
Content Time Period w8w8
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Our lady of pain

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Chesney, Marion.
2006.
Large print ed.
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The four just men [sound recording]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Wallace, Edgar,
c2011.
Unabridged.
Four freedom fighters who have survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of repressive regimes swear to bring vengeance on the highly placed bankers, politicians, munitions manufacturers, and corrupt officials who make the existence of such tyrannies possible. In Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men, as one person after another, whose hands are stained with the blood of innocents, is assassinated, the police of Europe are mobilized. But no one knows who the Four Just Men are or how they perform their assassinations, often in the midst of a cordon of police protection. Then Scotland Yard puts its greatest detective on the case. But whose side are his sympathies on? As the clues pile up and the police close in, the Four Just Men swear to commit one last act of assassination, no matter what the danger. The world waits breathless with one question on its mind. Can they be stopped and should they be stopped?
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

The Black Country

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Grecian, Alex.
[2013]
When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith, aided by newly arrived forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.
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The ghost and Mrs. Jeffries

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
1994.
Berkley Prime Crime ed.
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Charisma

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bannister, Jo.
1994.
1st U.S. ed.
In Britain, Inspector Liz Graham receives an official reprimand for flirting with a travelling preacher whose oratory provokes a riot and lynching after police release a murder suspect. It happens during an investigation into the slaying of two girls, both of whom had their throat cut. By the author of A Bleeding of Innocents.
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Mrs. Jeffries delivers the goods

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily,
[2019]
First edition.
"On a cold night in February, the popular Lighterman's Ball festivities are cut short when a guest of honor, Stephen Bremmer, goes into spasms and abruptly collapses. Once again Inspector Witherspoon returns to the Wrexley Hotel to investigate a murder. The victim was considered a boorish snob who felt entitled to anything and anyone he wanted. Yet despite his Oxford education, he was barely literate, lazy, and prone to make stupid mistakes--his last mistake turned out to be crossing a killer. The owners and management of the Wrexley Hotel clearly don't welcome the return of Inspector Witherspoon, but he has his job to do, and Mrs. Jeffries and the rest of the household must do their best to catch a murderer who shows no signs of slowing down. "--
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The cellar

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Walters, Minette,
2016
First edition.
"From the internationally bestselling, award-winning crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British home. On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songoli's young son fails to come home from school, fourteen-year-old Muna's fortunes change for the better. Until then, her bedroom was a dank windowless cellar, her activities confined to cooking and cleaning. Over the years, she had grown used to being abused by the Songoli family- to being their slave. Now that Scotland Yard has swarmed the Songoli house to investigate the disappearance of the son, Muna is given a real bedroom, real clothing, and treated, at least nominally, as a daughter. But her world remains confined. She is not allowed to go outside, doesn't know how to read or write, and cannot speak English. At least that's what the Songolis believe. Before long it becomes clear that young Muna is far cleverer -and her plans more terrifying- than the Songolis, or anyone else, can ever imagine."--www.amazon.com
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Murder in hindsight

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Cleeland, Anne,
2015.
Scotland Yard's unlikeliest detective pair-- plucky Irish redhead Kathleen Doyle and British lord turned cop Michael Acton-- are on the trail of a serial killer in the third of Anne Cleeland's mystery series. Kathleen Doyle is on the trail of a killer who seems to be intent on handing out vigilante justice-- killing those who, for one reason or another, have not paid the price for their crimes. But as she gets closer to the killer, other dangers lurk. Solonik has reared his head again, pulling Doyle into his web in unexpected ways. And Acton is acting surprisingly distant, given his usual fascination with his new wife."
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A fine summer's day : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
[2015]
First edition.
"New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers on a trip to Ian Rutledge's past, with the story of the last case the Scotland Yard detective tackles before he goes off to fight in World War I"--
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Chapter and hearse

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Aird, Catherine.
2004.
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
A collection of seventeen short mystery stories features such characters as Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan, his assistant, Crosby, and the mysterious Malcolm Venables of the Secret Service.
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Angel death

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Moyes, Patricia
1981, ©1980.
1st American ed.
Murder at a resort in the Caribbean.
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Racing the devil : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2017]
Unabridged.
On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead--and make it through the war--they will meet in Paris a year after the fighting ends. They will celebrate their good fortune by racing motorcars they beg, borrow, or own from Paris to Nice. In November 1919, the officers all meet as planned, and though their motorcars are not designed for racing, they set out for Nice. But a serious mishap mars the reunion. In the mountains just north of their destination, two vehicles are nearly run off the road, and one man is badly injured. No one knows--or will admit to knowing--which driver was at the wheel of the rogue motorcar. Back in England one year later, during a heavy rainstorm, a driver loses control on a twisting road and is killed in the crash. Was it an accident due to the hazardous conditions? Or premeditated murder? Is the crash connected in some way to the unfortunate events in the mountains above Nice the year before? The dead driver wasn't in France--although the motorcar he drove was. If it was foul play, was it a case of mistaken identity? Or was the dead man the intended victim after all?Investigating this perplexing case, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the truth is elusive--and that the villages on the South Downs, where the accident happened, are adept at keeping secrets, frustrating his search. Determined to remain in the shadows this faceless killer is willing to strike again to stop Rutledge from finding him. This time, the victim he chooses is a child, and it will take all of Rutledge's skill to stop him before an innocent young life is sacrificed.
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Money in the morgue

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marsh, Ngaio,
2018.
Felony & Mayhem edition (first U.S. edition)
"Inspector Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II, for one, keeps intruding. It's war-work, after all, that has brought Alleyn to this seedy hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has left the hospital swimming in convalescing soldiers - noisy, often drunk, and always over-interested in the nurses. Nor is the weather helping. A storm has killed the electrical power, leaving Alleyn, the soldiers, the medical staff and all stranded in the dark...with a murderer. It's a good thing for everyone, including the reader, that there's a Scotland Yard detective on hand. Dame Ngaio Marsh died in 1982 after writing 32 "Inspector Alleyn" novels and a few chapters of Money in the Morgue. The manuscript has been brilliantly completed by Stella Duffy, who shares with Marsh an expertise in crime-fiction, a New Zealand background, a passion for the theatre, and an Order of the British Empire. Marsh fans who have longed for just one more of Alleyn's adventures will be delighted, and new readers will enjoy the introduction to Marsh, long hailed as one of the "four queens" of classic British mystery." --
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The iron horse

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marston, Edward.
2007.
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Magpie Lane

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Atkins, Lucy (Journalist),
2020.
"When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging, an eerie and ancient house, a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother. But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why was Felicity silent?" --
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I am gold

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2011, ©2010.
1st American ed.
A woman and her stepson are gunned down while driving to school on a quiet residential street. A former bodyguard kills himself by firing two pistols simultaneously. Was the killer really aft er the woman's husband, the notorious drug baron Mansel Shale? And what possible connection could Shale's collection of pre-Raphaelite works of art have to the killings? Nothing in Bill James's latest Harpur & Iles thriller is as it seems. When the police chase the shooting suspect into a busy second-hand shop the action quickly turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse standoff . As the siege unfolds, with more than just gunplay in the mix, events threaten to take down more than the gunman and his hostages. Will this spell the end of Detective Harpur and his troubled boss, Assistant Chief Constable Iles?
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No shred of evidence

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2016]
First edition.
"New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd brings back Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge, who must unravel an unsolved, old case before he can bring a murderer to justice"--
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Past tense : a Sloan and Crosby mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Aird, Catherine.
2011.
1st U.S. ed.
When a young girl's murder is linked to the recent death of a woman named Josephine Short, DCI Sloan and Constable Crosby research dubious elements of Short's life in the hopes of identifying the child's killer.
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Close

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, Bill,
2017.
First world edition.
"Thomas Wells Hart drifted into a dodgy career as a private investigator and grew clever at tailing suspects and all the other tricks at the game. Not quite clever enough, however. Coming across Hart's shot-up body, Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Des Iles have to work out their own explanation as to how he came to be executed behind the wheel of a Ford Focus in a quite suburban street. The trail will lead them through illegal art trading, big-bucks money laundering-- and more murder. As ever, Iles suspects Harpur is hiding essential facts from him. As ever, Harpur is hiding essential facts from his boss. Will the mismatched pair manage to close the case?"--
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With no one as witness [sound recording]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth.
p2005.
Library ed.
When an adolescent boy's mutilated body is found, it doesn't take long for the police to realize that this is the work of a serial killer.
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Murder in retribution

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Cleeland, Anne,
2014.
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Detective Kathleen Doyle has her hands full. She has recently been paired with the newly promoted Detective Sergeant Williams to investigate a turf war--a series of retribution murders between the Russians and the Irish, both of whom are trying to control a lucrative underworld business. Kathleen also just learned that she's pregnant and must now deal with the repercussions of her hasty marriage in the form of Chief Inspector Acton's mother, the displeased dowager, who makes an unannounced visit. Still worse, Kathleen senses that Acton is carrying out a "scorched earth" retribution of his own and that he instigated the turf war to rid London of its villains. She worries that he is meting out his own form of justice--and who knows what will happen if it's exposed?
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Deception on his mind

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
1997.
English policewoman Barbara Havers is assigned to investigate the murder of an affluent Pakistani which sparked a race riot. In between the sleuthing, a look at the tense race relations in modern Britain.
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The young widow

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Chan, Cassandra.
2005.
1st ed.
An ambitious young detective sergeant with Scotland Yard, Jack Gibbons investigates the poisoning death of Geoffrey Berowne, in a case that takes a strange turn when the prime suspect, the victim's young wife, turns her attentions on Jack.
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The final cut [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Coulter, Catherine.
2013.
Large Print edition.
Scotland Yard's new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the "minder" of the Crown Jewels for the "Jewel of the Lion" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother's crown. Drummond, American-born but raised in the UK, is a dark, dangerous, fast-rising star in the Yard who never backs down. And this case is no exception. Special Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich from Coulter's bestselling FBI series don't hesitate to help Drummond find the cunning international thief known as the Fox. Nonstop action and high stakes intensify as the chase gets deadly. The Fox will stop at nothing to deliver the Koh-i-Noor to the man who believes in its deadly prophecy. Nicholas Drummond, along with his partner, FBI Special Agent Mike Caine, lay it on the line to retrieve the diamond for Queen and country.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Hidden in plain sight

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2020.
First U.S. edition.
"Jeffrey Archer's Hidden in Plain Sight is the second novel featuring Detective William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles. William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fiancée Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar. As William's team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight . . "--
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The black tower

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

James, P. D.
2001.
1st Scribner pbk. Fiction ed.
Responding to an old friend's call, Commander Adam Dalgliesh travels to Toynton Grange, a convalescence home in Dorset, where he finds his friend dead and, himself weakened by a recent illness, encounters multiple murder and malicious intrigue.
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No shred of evidence : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2016]
Unabridged.
In this absorbing new entry in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is caught up in a twisted web of vengeance and murder.On the north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy is repaid by an arrest for murder. Four young women have been accused of the crime. A shocked father calls in a favor at the Home Office. Scotland Yard is asked to review the case.However, Inspector Ian Rutledge is not the first Inspector to reach the village. Following in the shoes of a dead man, he is told the case is all but closed. Even as it takes an unexpected personal turn, Rutledge will require all his skill to deal with the incensed families of the accused, the grieving parents of the victim, and local police eager to see these four women sent to the infamous Bodmin Gaol. Then why hasn't the killing stopped?With no shred of evidence to clear the accused, Rutledge must plunge deep into the darkest secrets of a wild, beautiful and dangerous place if he is to find a killer who may-or may not-hold the key to their fate.
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Death of a cave dweller

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Spencer, Sally.
2000.
"When Eddie Barnes is electrocuted on the stage of The Cellar Club, in front of three hundred adoring fans, the Liverpool Police immediately call in Scotland yard, which in effect means calling in the Yard's resident expert on 'Up North', Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend. But for once, Woodend feels out of his depth."--Jacket.
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Mrs. Jeffries and the Merry Gentlemen

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
[2013]
First edition.
"Orlando Edison is a stockbroker using London's infatuation with foreign mining ventures to make a fortune. He has curried favor with the nation's most respected aristocrats, even inviting three of the most influential investors in England--known as the Merry Gentlemen--to be part of his latest enterprise. Despite his mysterious past, Edison is now welcomed in the highest circles and moves with ease among the rich and powerful. Yet a few days before Christmas, he is found sprawled across his doorstep, murdered. Charismatic and charming, Edison was kind to his servants and generous with his friends. Why would someone want him dead? Inspector Witherspoon and his household are all looking forward to the festive season. Witherspoon is eager to spend time with his godchild. Wiggins, the footman, is infatuated with football and would rather cheer goals than chase down clues. And Mrs. Goodge longs to bake recipes from the latest cookbooks. But they all know their duty, and led by the intrepid Mrs. Jeffries, they plan to see justice served for the holidays..."--
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Bluffing Mr. Churchill

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Lawton, John,
[2004], ©2001.
1st American ed.
In 1941, Calvin Cormack teams up with MI5 officer Walter Stilton to find Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy masquerading as an SS officer, but Cormack must enlist the aid of Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard after his partner turns up dead.
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The high flyer : a Ben Norton aviation mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Darrell, Elizabeth.
2016.
First world edition
1930. The Lance family, major shareholders in Marshfield Aviation, watch in horror as their prototype fighter fails to pull out of a dive during a display before government and military VIPs. At the pilot's funeral, a man introduces himself to the widow as Ben Norton, a close friend of her husband during war service with the Royal Flying Corps. Ben becomes Marshfield's new Test Pilot, determined to refute worldwide press claims of a faulty aircraft design. Convinces that deliberate sabotage was behind the crash, the young flyer vows to uncover whoever was responsible. But who is Ben Norton? And why is it that the man he claims to have been his close wartime colleague had not once mentioned Ben to his wife?
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The naval treaty

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from the office of a government clerk. Who stole it and how did they do it? Will the treaty ever be recovered? This sounds like a case for England's most brilliant sleuth! This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+" -- Amazon.com.
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The hound of the Baskervilles

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. The Baskerville family of Dartmoor live under an appalling curse. They are haunted by a monstrous hound that has sent many of them to an early grave. Can our legendary sleuth save Sir Henry Baskerville before the hound strikes again? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The six Napoleons

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. Someone keeps breaking into shops and houses and smashing statuettes of the French general and statesman, Napoleon. Why? The police are baffled, so they call in the one man who can solve the mystery: London's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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A banquet of consequences [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
2015.
Large Print edition.
As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful fac?ade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire, deceit, and murder. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? After various career-threatening issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with a bestselling feminist writer and her pushy personal assistant gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Mrs. Jeffries weeds the plot

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
©2000.
"Eccentric Annabeth Gentry pretty much keeps to herself. Besides her recent inheritance and the attention her bloodhound gets for digging up the body of a murdered thief, her life is, in fact, rather dull. So why does she think that someone is trying to kill her? That's what Mrs. Jeffries and her staff have to find out."--Back cover.
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Mrs. Jeffries and the mistletoe mix-up

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
2011.
1st ed.
Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case--preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve--but of course he will require assistance from the always sharp-witted housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, who has a few of her own theories on why McCourt had to die by the sword.
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Our lady of pain

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Chesney, Marion.
2006.
1st ed.
"Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India to find a husband. But then Harry's latest client, Dolores Duval - a vision of curves with a seductive French accent - starts appearing everywhere at his side. And that changes everything." "In a fit of rage, Rose threatens Dolores, only to be found the very next day standing over her dead body. The newspapers rush to convict her, but can Harry and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard clear Rose's name and put the real murderer behind bars?"--Jacket.
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Nobody's sweetheart now

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Robinson, Maggie,
2018.
First edition.
"Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up! Not in the flesh, but in - actually, as a - spirit. Rupert has to perform a few good deeds before becoming welcomed to heaven - or, more likely, thinks Addie, to hell. Before Addie can convince herself she's not completely lost her mind, a murder disrupts her careful seating arrangement. Which of her twelve houseguests is a killer? Her mother, the formidable Dowager Marchioness of Broughton? Her sister Cecilia, the born-again vegetarian? Her childhood friend and potential lover, Lord Lucas Waring? Rupert has a solid alibi as a ghost and an urge to detect. Enter Inspector Devenand Hunter from the Yard, an Anglo-Indian who is not going to let some barmy society beauty witnessed talking to herself derail his investigation. Something very peculiar is afoot at Compton Court and he's going to get to the bottom of it - or go as mad as its mistress trying"--
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Turn a blind eye [spoken word]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
[2021]
Unabridged.
Going undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect.
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JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

The gate keeper : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2018]
"On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet. She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken woman insists it all happened so quickly, she never saw the man's face. Although he is a witness after the fact, Rutledge persuades the Yard to give him the inquiry, since he's on the scene. But is he seeking justice--or fleeing painful memories in London? Wentworth was well-liked, yet his bitter family paint a malevolent portrait, calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit, his village, has a notorious history: in Medieval times, the last wolf in England was killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs, the evidence suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose, and that death is closer than Rutledge knows"--
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The house on Vesper Sands

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

O'Donnell, Paraic,
[2021]
Unabridged.
London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. Why does the seamstress choose to jump out of that window? Why is there a cryptic message sewn into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Gideon Bliss, a young Cambridge dropout who is in love with one of the missing girls, and his partner Inspector Cutter.
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The Raven's Eye : a Brock and Kolla Mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Maitland, Barry.
2013.
First edition.
"DCI David Brock and DI Kathy Kolla, of Scotland Yard, find themselves pulled into a case of murder, a mysterious death among the houseboats that line the canals around greater London DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is called in as a matter of course by the local Paddington police when a woman turns up dead in what appears to be an accident. On her houseboat, Vicky Hawks is found by one of her neighbors having apparently succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning due to improper ventilation of the narrowboat's heating system. But while the cause of death seems apparent and there's no reason for Kolla to think otherwise, something about this death still bothers her. Meanwhile, her boss, DCI Brock, is wrestling with harsh budget cuts and a new Commander who is determined to make fundamental changes to the system--including limiting resources devoted to investigations. Struggling against the limitations imposed by the new order at Scotland Yard, Brock and Kolla find themselves pulling at the loose strings in the death of Vicky Hawks, trying to find out who she really was, what she was up to, and how her death might be related to another earlier tragic accidental death"--
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The final cut

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Coulter, Catherine,
[2013]
Unabridged.
Scotland Yard's new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the minder of the Crown Jewels for the Jewel of the Lion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother's crown. Drummond, American-born but raised in the UK, is a dark, dangerous, fast-rising star in the Yard who never backs down. And this case is no exception. Special Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich from Coulter's bestselling FBI series don't hesitate to help Drummond find the cunning international thief known as the Fox. Nonstop action and high stakes intensify as the chase gets deadly. The Fox will stop at nothing to deliver the Koh-i-Noor to the man who believes in its deadly prophecy. Nicholas Drummond, along with his partner, FBI Special Agent Mike Caine, lay it on the line to retrieve the diamond for Queen and country.
Sound recording

Payment in blood

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
[2010]
Unabridged.
The producer of a troubled play invites the cast to spend the weekend in his remote Scottish Highlands estate to hash out the problems. When the housemaid finds the playwright murdered in bed, Thomas Lynley and his partner must unmask the villain.
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Mrs. Jeffries serves at six

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily.
2015.
Berkley Prime Crime trade paperback edition.
"If you like Downton Abbey, you'll love Mrs. Jeffries! NOW IN ONE VOLUME-THREE VICTORIAN MYSTERIES FEATURING MRS. JEFFRIES A DETECTIVE IN THE HOUSE Everyone's awed by Inspector Witherspoon's Scotland Yard successes, but they don't know about his secret weapon. Her name is Mrs. Jeffries, and she keeps house for the Inspector-and keeps him on his toes. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, her polished detection skills are up to the task. Because as she knows all too well, a crimesolver's work is never done... Mrs. Jeffries Pinches the Post The dubious dealings of ruthless businessman Harrison Nye have finally done him in. But with his associate keeping secrets and his maid missing, Witherspoon and Mrs. Jeffries have their work cut out for them as they make it their business to find the culprit...Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case When the death of Harlan Westover is ruled a suicide after a slipshod investigation, it's up to Mrs. Jeffries and her staff to gently nudge the Inspector in the right direction before a killer gets away with another murder...Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney A dead man dressed like a vicar is discovered outside a church. An address found on the man leads Witherspoon to a dilapidated house where a skeleton is stuffed in the chimney. Luckily he has Mrs. Jeffries to help him sweep up this mess of a case..."--
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Silver blaze

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. The famous race horse Silver Blaze has disappeared, and the horse's trainer, John Straker, has been murdered. The great detective travels to Dartmoor to investigate. Can he discover who killed Straker and track down Silver Blaze ... before it's too late? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The final problem

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. Has our crime-fighting hero finally met his match? The evil Professor Moriarty seems able to guess his every move. As Holmes closes in on his arch-enemy, the two prepare to meet in a final confrontation. Who is going to win? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The empty house

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. The whole of London is shocked and baffled by the murder of Ronald Adair. It seems like an impossible crime! Can our sensational sleuth solve the mystery of how Adair was killed before the murderer strikes again? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The dancing men

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. Hilton Cubitt is worried. Drawings of "dancing men" keep appearing around his house and they're frightening his wife, who seems to know what they mean. Can our brilliant hero solve the mystery of these drawings before disaster strikes? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The blue carbuncle

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue jewel is stolen, a former thief is charged with the crime, but is he really guilty? Never fear: Sherlock Holmes is on the case, and the truth will out! This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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With no one as witness

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
©2005.
1st Harper large print ed.
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, and Detective Sergeant Winston try to find the psychopath responsible for a gruesome series of murders, but tragedy strikes one of their own.
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This body of death : a novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
c2010.
1st ed.
On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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The last party : a novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Mackintosh, Clare,
[2022]
Unabridged.
On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he's generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors. But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year's Day, Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbors, friends and family, and Ffion has her own secrets to protect.
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A scandal in Bohemia

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. The King of Bohemia wishes to marry ... but before he can do so, he needs Sherlock's help! Can the sleuth retrieve an embarrassing photograph of the royal, before a scandal erupts and the king is forced to cancel his wedding plans? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The sign of four

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. Captain Arthur Morstan has vanished. Where is he, and does his disappearance have anything to do with the six pearls sent to his daughter Mary? Our crime-fighting sleuth decides to investigate. This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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Who's sorry now?

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Robinson, Maggie,
[2019]
"Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter finds himself in the middle of a series of upper-class deaths in London. Bright Young People are being extinguished in their favorite night spots, from a sleazy private jazz club to the Savoy ballroom. Dev knows just the person to help him navigate the treacherous society waters: Lady Adelaide Compton, a marquess' daughter and widow of a Great War hero. Unfortunately, he has put her in jeopardy once before, nearly leading him to turn in his warrant card.But when her sister Cee is nearly one of the victims, Addie turns to Mr. Hunter, offering her help... and it soon becomes clear that the two of them working together again could lead to much more than merely solving crime."--Publisher description.
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The reigate squires

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. A coach driver has been murdered ... and it looks like the killer is going to get away with their terrible crime. The only clue is a torn piece of paper in the victim's hand, with a few words written on it. With the help of this single tiny clue, can our legendary sleuth unravel the mystery? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The valley of fear

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. Sherlock is on the trail of a murderer. As he investigates the death of country gentleman John Douglas, he begins to piece together some unusual clues: muddy bootprints, a tattoo, and something called "The Valley of Fear." Can Holmes put these together in time to solve the mystery? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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The red-headed league

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. What is the mysterious Red-Headed League and why is it giving jobs to people with red hair? Sherlock Holmes senses a major crime may be in the offing! Set off with the legendary sleuth as he races against the clock to catch the cunning criminals behind this latest plot. This exciting tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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A study in scarlet

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. A wealthy man has been murdered in the strangest circumstances. A woman's wedding ring has been found with the body and the word "RACHE" has been scrawled in red on a nearby wall. Is this mystery too baffling for even the brilliant Sherlock Holmes? This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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In the presence of the enemy

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
2008.
Bantam trade pbk. ed.
In London, a woman parliamentarian's daughter is kidnapped and a newspaper editor with whom the parliamentarian had an affair receives a call, threatening the girl's life unless he admits paternity. Inspector Lynley suspects the girl is behind it.
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The white feather killer

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Morris, Roger,
2019.
First world edition.
"London, 1914. The declaration of war with Germany has made the capital a dark, uncertain place, rife with fear and suspicion. As the pressure on young men to enlist grows stronger, Pastor Cardew holds a rally at his church. Unfortunately, it ends in humiliation for Felix Simpkins when he receives a dreaded white feather - the ultimate sign of cowardice. Meanwhile, DI Silas Quinn returns to New Scotland Yard after his recent sick leave to find the Special Crimes Department has been closed and his team absorbed into CID. But when a body is discovered in Wormwood Scrubs the day after Cardew's rally, a white feather placed in its mouth, Quinn finds himself unable to take a back seat in the investigation. Was the murderer really a foreign spy - or someone closer to home?"--Publisher's description.
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The Musgrave ritual

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2022.
"Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. Reginald Musgrave is baffled by the disappearance of his butler and maid. Where did they go and does it have anything to do with the mysterious, ancient "Musgrave Ritual?" Only one man may be able to solve the mystery: Reginald's crime-fighting friend, Sherlock Holmes. This thrilling tale has been retold and adapted with new illustrations, making it perfect for younger readers. Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, it will delight bright young things aged 7+." -- Amazon.com.
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Racing the devil : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2017]
First edition.
"Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series. On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead--and make it through the war--they will meet in Paris a year after the fighting ends. They will celebrate their good fortune by racing motorcars they beg, borrow, or own from Paris to Nice. In November 1919, the officers all meet as planned, and though their motorcars are not designed for racing, they set out for Nice. But a serious mishap mars the reunion. In the mountains just north of their destination, two vehicles are nearly run off the road, and one man is badly injured. No one knows--or will admit to knowing--which driver was at the wheel of the rogue motorcar. Back in England one year later, during a heavy rainstorm, a driver loses control on a twisting road and is killed in the crash. Was it an accident due to the hazardous conditions? Or premeditated murder? Is the crash connected in some way to the unfortunate events in the mountains above Nice the year before? The dead driver wasn't in France--although the motorcar he drove was. If it was foul play, was it a case of mistaken identity? Or was the dead man the intended victim after all? Investigating this perplexing case, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the truth is elusive--and that the villages on the South Downs, where the accident happened, are adept at keeping secrets, frustrating his search. Determined to remain in the shadows this faceless killer is willing to strike again to stop Rutledge from finding him. This time, the victim he chooses is a child, and it will take all of Rutledge's skill to stop him before an innocent young life is sacrificed"--
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With no one as witness [sound recording]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth.
p2005.
Abridged.
When an adolescent boy is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, New Scotland Yard acting superintendent Thomas Lynley and constable Barbara Havers tie the crime to a series of killings, but find the case complicated by racial issues,
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JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Hidden in plain sight [spoken word]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
[2020]
Unabridged.
William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fiancee Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar.
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JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Turn a blind eye [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2021.
Large print edition.
"Newly promoted, Detective Inspector William Warwick, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work--to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police. Along with constables Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers. As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper, and more of his colleagues might be willing to turn a blind eye"--Page 4 of cover.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Next in line

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2022.
"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess." Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive--and unique--responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning. A renegade organization has the security of the country--and the Crown--in its sights. The only question is which target is next in line ..."--
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Gillard's sting

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Duffy, Margaret,
2020.
First world edition.
"The stakes couldn't be higher for Patrick Gillard when he is drawn out of retirement to find a missing former Met commander - but Patrick's not the only one on his tail . . . Patrick Gillard is drawn out of retirement when his former NCA boss, Commander Michael Greenway, appears on his doorstep. John Brinkley, a newly retired commander of the Metropolitan Police, has gone missing, and Greenway wants Patrick to find him. Brinkley is wanted in connection with corruption in the Met, but Patrick is convinced that there's more to his disappearance than meets the eye. Why is Brinkley's old boss, Assistant Commissioner Luke Wallingford, so keen on his arrest, and what does Brinkley know that has the Met, MI5 and dangerous mobsters all on his tail? Patrick and his wife and working partner, Ingrid Langley, soon realize that the stakes are far higher than they imagined - and that someone is prepared to go to any lengths to keep what Brinkley knows hidden . . ."--Provided by publisher.
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Sherlock Holmes in A study in scarlet

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
2015.
First edition.
When a Scotland Yard detective asks for assistance, Sherlock Holmes uses his powers of rational, reasoned observation and deduction to solve a murder case.
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This body of death : a novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
2010.
1st Harperluxe ed.
On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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In the presence of the enemy

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
1996.
In London, a woman parliamentarian's daughter is kidnaped and a newspaper editor with whom the parliamentarian had an affair receives a call, threatening the girl's life unless he admits paternity. Inspector Lynley suspects the girl is behind it.
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The gate keeper

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2018]
Unabridged. Retail edition.
On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories.
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Mrs. Jeffries and the one who got away

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily,
2015.
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
"Old sins cast long shadows. Normally dead bodies in a graveyard are buried--but not this one. When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery with an old newspaper clipping clutched in her hand, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before. Mrs. Robinson was a respectable widow who ran a quiet Islington lodging house. None of her lodgers have any apparent motive to murder their landlady. But nagging suspicions are lodging in the Inspector's mind--only he knows that "Alice Robinson" is not her real name. Now he'll need the help of Mrs. Jeffries to revisit an old case that has haunted him for years and to get the real story"--Page [4] of cover.
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The Final Cut

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Coulter, Catherine,
[2013]
Scotland Yard's new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the "minder" of the Crown Jewels for the "Jewel of the Lion" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother's crown. Drummond, American-born but raised in the UK, is a dark, dangerous, fast-rising star in the Yard who never backs down. And this case is no exception. Special Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich from Coulter's bestselling FBI series don't hesitate to help Drummond find the cunning international thief known as the Fox. Nonstop action and high stakes intensify as the chase gets deadly. The Fox will stop at nothing to deliver the Koh-i-Noor to the man who believes in its deadly prophecy. Nicholas Drummond, along with his partner, FBI Special Agent Mike Caine, lay it on the line to retrieve the diamond for Queen and country.
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A fatal lie [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2021].
First Harper large print edition.
"A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy discovers a body in the river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body. The local police turn to Scotland Yard for help. Inspector Ian Rutledge is given few clues to go on--a faded military tattoo on the victim's arm and an unusual label in his shirt. But eventually they do lead to the victim's identity: Sam Milford, an Englishman. By all accounts, he was a good man and well respected. Then why is his death so mysterious?"--Page 4 of cover.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Traitors gate

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2023.
"Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run like clockwork. But this year, everything is about to change. Because a master criminal has set his sights on pulling off the most outrageous theft in history--and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favor. Unless the team can stop him before it's too late..."--
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Over my dead body [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2021.
Large print edition.
"In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up an Unsolved Murders Unit to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner--convicted of forgery and theft--was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? On board a luxury cruise liner en route to New York, the battle for power at the heart of a wealthy dynasty is about to turn to murder. The investigations are led by DCI William Warwick and ex-undercover agent DI Ross Hogan. Will the team catch the killers before it's too late?"--
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Turn a blind eye

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2021.
First U.S. Edition.
"William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation. Meanwhile, a notorious drug baron goes on trial, with the prosecution case led by William's father and sister. And William's wife Beth, now a mother to twins, renews an old acquaintance who appears to have turned over a new leaf, or has she? As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye."--Publisher.
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The hollow men

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

McCarthy, Rob,
2016.
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Immersing himself in his work as a surgeon for the London Metropolitan Police to ward off memories of his time as an army medic, Dr. Harry Kent is sent to treat a mentally ill teen who has taken hostages in a fast-food restaurant. When Solomon's life is put in danger again at a critical care ward, it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect. Determined to uncover the secret that drove the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon realizes that someone in the medical world, someone he may even know, has broken the doctors' commandment to "do no harm" many times over.
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The Black Country [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Grecian, Alex.
2013.
Large print edition.
The British Midlands is called the "Black Country" for a reason. Bad things happen there. It's 1890 and when members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village and a human eyeball turns up in a bird's nest, the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, with no idea what they're about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories. And the village itself is slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave.
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JLC Title 245h [large print]

Next in line [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2022.
Large print edition.
"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess". Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive and unique responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning. A renegade organization has the security of the country--and the Crown--in its sights. The only question is which target is next in line"--
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Under a veiled moon : an Inspector Corravan mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Odden, Karen,
2022.
First edition.
"September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat the Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It is the worst maritime disaster London has ever seen, and early clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who believe violence is the path to restoring Irish Home Rule. For Scotland Yard Inspector Michael Corravan, born in Ireland and adopted by the Irish Doyle family, the case presents a challenge. Accused by the Home Office of willfully disregarding the obvious conclusion, and berated by his Irish friends for bowing to prejudice, Corravan doggedly pursues the truth, knowing that if the Princess Alice disaster is pinned on the IRB, hopes for Home Rule could be dashed forever. Corrovan's dilemma is compounded by Colin, the youngest Doyle, who has joined James McCabe's Irish gang. As violence in Whitechapel rises, Corravan strikes a deal with McCabe to get Colin out of harm's way. But unbeknownst to Corravan, Colin bears longstanding resentments against his adopted brother and scorns his help. As the newspapers link the IRB to further accidents, London threatens to devolve into terror and chaos. With the help of his young colleague, the loyal Mr. Stiles, and his friend Belinda Gale, Corravan uncovers the harrowing truth--one that will shake his faith in his countrymen, the law, and himself." --
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Kept : a Victorian mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Taylor, D. J.
c2007.
1st ed.
A talented and versatile writer, author of The Comedy Man (2001) and a biography of George Orwell (2003), Taylor presents a literary Victorian mystery that combines a Dickensian cast of characters with the dark foreboding of Poe. In a story ostensibly about a madwoman whose husband, Henry Ireland, dies in questionable circumstances, finding the killer is ancillary to a journey into the human psyche. Mr. Dixey, a naturalist whose country manse contains rare specimens of stuffed and live wildlife, also houses Henry's distraught widow: her precarious sanity is secure in protective isolation. Dixey's shady proclivities lead him to a con man whose opportunism makes financial captives of people of all classes. The novel's deliciously drawn-out pacing mirrors Victorian literature, as does the wonderfully descriptive language ("skeins of birds, " "mournful in the gloaming") and sophisticated vocabulary ("encomia pronounced over his catafalque"). A refreshing lack of unbelievable coincidences reflects a more modern style: each person's story realistically demonstrates the author's conclusions about the things we collect and the people we cannot. Book groups will enjoy this one.
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Cuerpo de muerte

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

George, Elizabeth,
2010.
Después de la muerte de su esposa, el inspector Thomas Lynley es reclamado en Scotland Yard cuando se ha descubierto el cuerpo asesinado de una mujer en un cementerio londinense. La investigación conducirá a Lynley a la reserva natural de New Forest, un lugar hermoso pero donde acecha más de un oscuro secreto.
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A fatal lie

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2021]
First edition.
"A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body other than a military tattoo and an unusual label in his shirt collar; he isn't a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard and Inspector Ian Rutledge for help."--Publisher.
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Sanction

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Hunter, William,
[2017]
"While in England on an unsanctioned assignment, Sean Garrett witnesses the shooting of a distinguished Cambridge professor by elite contract killer David Laurent. With his cover blown, Garrett is on the run from an assassin desperate to erase his tracks, and authorities who believe he is responsible for the murder. Banastre Montjoy, a burned-out head of section at the Secret Intelligence Service, is in a race himself to discover if the scholar's death is linked to a bombing of the London Underground a year earlier. Montjoy's nemesis, the power-hungry and scheming Berwyn Rees, seeks to drum his rival out of MI6, while maneuvering to become deputy chief. With time running out, SOG operators Tre Ward and Brian Bishop are sent in by the CIA to locate and extract Garrett. As Laurent, MI5, and Scotland Yard close in on their target, Montjoy uncovers a devastating secret, one that someone inside the British government has sought to keep buried since World War II."--Amazon.com.
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The black ascot

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2019]
First Edition.
An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horse races honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England, giving the Yard a last chance to retrieve its reputation and see justice done.
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The innocent spy

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Wilson, Laura,
2009.
1st U.S. ed.
London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters. Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage. Only when Stratton's path crosses Diana's does the pair start to uncover the truth.
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The killings at Kingfisher Hill

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Hannah, Sophie,
[2020]
First U.S. edition.
"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot's curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached... Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?"--
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Mrs. Jeffries aims to win

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily,
[2023]
First edition.
"Mrs. Jeffries must help Inspector Witherspoon crack a new case and catch a killer in this next installment of the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Successful businessman Jeremy Marks wasn't highly regarded by any of the members of the West London Archery Club. Most of them considered him a buffoon and a bore. But everyone was stunned when the fellow was murdered during a lull in the club's annual archery competition. He'd been shot with arrows from a longbow during a raging thunderstorm. But those who knew Marks well understood that the unkempt "court jester" persona adopted by the late, unlamented man was as fake as the smile he wore. As Inspector Witherspoon investigates the murder, he discovers the victim had real enemies among the assembled archery contestants. Marks was notorious for not paying his bills, cheating vendors, bad-mouthing business rivals, and worst of all, betraying his business partners. The dead man had built a whole career and amassed quite a substantial fortune by harming those who trusted him. It will take Mrs. Jeffries and the inspector's household as well as their friends to sort out fact from fiction and target a killer"--
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No mark upon her

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Crombie, Deborah.
c2012.
1st ed.
This mystery novel embroils Kincaid and James in the case of the puzzling drowning of a rower, a Met detective, on the Thames. It is twisting tale of psychological suspense, a story rich in deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals. When an Olympic rowing hopeful and a detective with the Met is found dead in the Thames, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, along with his wife and his team, is submerged in a complex case involving political and ethical issues that put both his career and reputation on the line.
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Turn a blind eye

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2022.
Large print edition.
"Newly promoted, Detective Inspector William Warwick, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work--to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police. Along with constables Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers. As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper, and more of his colleagues might be willing to turn a blind eye"--Provided by publisher.
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Over my dead body

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Archer, Jeffrey,
2021.
In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On board the luxury cruise liner The Alden, a group of wealthy clientele have signed up the for opulence and glamour of a trans-Atlantic voyage. But the battle for power at the heart of a wealthy dynasty is about to turn to murder. And at the heart of all three investigations lies Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick, rising star of the Met. Only Warwick's genius for deductive reasoning, his fierce intelligence and his occasionally rash bravery - combined with that of ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan, reluctantly brought in from the cold - can bring the criminals to justice and put his nemesis behind bars. But can they catch the killers before it's too late?
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The Black Ascot

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2019]
Unabridged. Retail edition.
"An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. 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. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England, giving the Yard a last chance to retrieve its reputation and see justice done. Rutledge is put in charge of a quiet search under cover of a routine review of a cold case. Meticulously retracing the original inquiry, Rutledge begins to know Alan Barrington well, delving into relationships and secrets that hadn't surfaced in 1910. But is he too close to finding his man? His sanity is suddenly brought into question by a shocking turn of events. His sister Frances, Melinda Crawford, and Dr. Fleming stand by him, but there is no greater shame than shell shock. Questioning himself, he realizes that he cannot look back. The only way to save his career--much less his sanity--is to find Alan Barrington and bring him to justice. But is this elusive murderer still in England?"--Amazon.
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Hardcastle's secret agent

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham,
2021.
First world edition.
"August, 1939. As war looms, Detective Inspector Walter Hardcastle is following in the footsteps of his father, Ernest, and progressing through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police. Summoned to the office of Charles Marriot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of CID at New Scotland Yard, Walter learns that he has been promoted to a senior role at V Division, and is plunged into a top secret case when burglaries occur at the homes of those working on a new type of war submarine. Could a German spy be behind the break-ins? When one of the burglaries ends with a double murder, the stakes get higher for Walter. Can he track down an enemy agent on the streets of London while also resolving another disturbing case?"--Publisher.
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The killings at Kingfisher Hill : the new Hercule Poirot mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Hannah, Sophie,
[2020]
First Harper Large Print edition.
While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.
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The excursion train

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Marston, Edward.
2005.
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The Yard

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Grecian, Alex.
c2012.
Suffering public contempt after the Metropolitan Police's failure to capture Jack the Ripper, Walter Day, a member of Victorian London's recently formed "Murder Squad, " partners with Scotland Yard's first forensic pathologist to track down a killer who is targeting their colleagues.
Book

Betrayal at Lisson Grove

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2010.
Book

Hardcastle's armistice

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham.
2005, c2004.
1st world ed.
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The Bride of Blackfriars Lane

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Griep, Michelle,
[2022]
The Continuing Adventure of Jackson and Kit! Detective Jackson Forge can hardly wait to marry the street-sly swindler who's turned his life upside down. Kit Turner is equally excited to wed the handsome detective, and what better way to show her love than providing him with a gift any man of the law would love? She determines to bring to justice the men who years ago maimed his brother--despite Jackson's warning to leave the past in the past. As she digs into the mystery of what happened, she unwittingly tumbles into her own history and endangers her future happiness with Jackson.
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The whispering dead

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Mark, David John,
2022.
First world edition.
"Cordelia Hemlock is teetering on the verge of joining MI6 when she meets the enigmatic Walt, a high-ranking member of the Secret Intelligence Service, who tells her: They won't want you to do well. They won't ever trust you. They don't trust me and I'm one of them. She takes this as a challenge rather than a warning. She wants to protect the nation. Serve Queen and country. Who would turn down such a glorious opportunity? Fourteen years later, Cordelia is desk-bound after finishing an undercover operation and going quietly mad with boredom. So when the call comes through on the top-secret Pandora line - so-called after the locked-box the telephone is kept in - she answers it. It's Walt. No longer officially MI6, he still inhabits the murky world of intelligence, where information always comes with a price. He tells her he has a secret to share with her - and only her. And once she knows it, nothing will ever be the same again . . ."--
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A Matter of Justice

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
2009.
When successful London businessman is found savagely and bizarrely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is called upon to investigate and soon discovers that the victim was universally despised.
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Detecting the nation : fictions of detection and the imperial venture.

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Reitz, Caroline.
©2004.
In Detecting the Nation Reitz argues that detective fiction was essential both to public acceptance of the newly organized police force in early Victorian Britain and to acclimating the population to the larger venture of the British Empire. In doing so, Reitz challenges literary-historical assumptions that detective fiction is a minor domestic genre that reinforces a distinction between metropolitan center and imperial periphery. Rather, Reitz argues, nineteenth-century detective fiction helped transform the concept of an island kingdom into that of a sprawling empire; detective fiction placed imperialism at the center of English identity by recasting what had been the suspiciously un-English figure of the turn-of-the-century detective as the very embodiment of both English principles and imperial authority. She supports this claim through reading such masters of the genre as Godwin, Dickens, Collins, and Doyle in relation to narratives of crime and empire such as James Mill's History of British India, narratives about Thuggee, and selected writings of Kipling and Buchan. Reitz also shows how detective fiction and writings more specifically related to the imperial project, such as political tracts and adventure stories, were inextricably interrelated during this time. --Back cover.
Electronic resource

Keep calm : a thriller

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Binder, Mike,
2015.
First edition.
"Former Michigan cop Adam Tatum receives an unexpected offer from Heaton Global Investments, a golden opportunity that seems almost too good to be true. He travels to 10 Downing Street to help implement a new pension program for the British Civil Service. The deal goes off without a hitch--and so does a bomb in the conference room. The Prime Minister is gravely wounded. And the only attendee with a checkered past is Adam Tatum. Sensing a trap, Adam flees with his family, desperately fighting for survival in an unfamiliar country. The lives of his children, the future of his marriage, and the fate of a nation depend on Adam exposing the conspirators who pegged him for a fall. Georgia Turnbull, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Davina Steel, the lead investigator, each stand to gain from the successful manhunt of Adam Tatum. But, as motives emerge and desires excite, each must decide what they're really after. Layered plots, crackling dialogue, and propulsive action mark Keep Calm, the riveting debut thriller from award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter Mike Binder"--
Book

Hardcastle's quartet

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham,
2014.
"June 1918. A patrolling constable discovers the body of Georgina Cheney, wife of a naval commander, in the basement area of a house in Westminster. At first it is thought to be suicide or even a tragic accident. But as Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the A or Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police begins to investigate --ably assisted by Detective Sergeant Charles Marriott--they soon discover a different story. It is clear that the woman was murdered, and revelations about the victim's previous life in Malta arouse Hardcastle's interest"--Dust jacket flap.
Book

Blackstone and the endgame

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Spencer, Sally,
2013.
December 1916. Inspector Sam Blackstone is suspicious when he is called to the office of Superintendent Brigham the new head of special branch and confused that Brigham seems to want to see him as little as Sam himself wishes to be there. An already stranger situation grows more strange when Sam discovers what hes there for: a German traitor wants 25000 in exchange for secret intelligence on U boat locations and Max has specifically asked for Blackstone to be the one to deliver the money alone. Blackstone and his sergeant Archie Patterson are certain theres more to it than that but Blackstone cant turn down the job if he doesnt do it some other poor fool will have to. But that is little comfort when as suspected it all goes wrong and Blackstone finds himself on the run from his own colleagues with Patterson languishing in a cell looking at a twenty year stretch if hes lucky
Book

Hardcastle's frustration

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham.
2012.
1st world ed.
In 1918 Britain, Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle investigates after a dead man is found in the River Thames, but the man's flirtatious wife, a supposed South African actor, and a bevy of other suspects complicate matters.
Book

Dark sky island : a Jennifer Dorey mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Dearman, Lara,
2018.
First edition.
"An inspector and journalist join forces to uncover long-buried secrets, simmering resentments, and a chilling murder in a tiny, remote island in the English Channel." -- publisher
Book

Hardcastle's traitors

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham.
2013.
It is New Year's Eve 1915 and the Hardcastle family are welcoming 1916 at their home in Kennington, London. But an hour into the New Year, Hardcastle is called to a murder in a jeweller's shop in Vauxhall. In a first for the A Division senior detective, the killers apparently made their escape in a motor car.
Book

A matter of justice

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
c2009.
1st ed.
When successful London businessman is found savagely and bizarrely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is called upon to investigate and soon discovers that the victim was universally despised.
Book

A pale horse

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
c2008.
1st ed.
Investigating the suspicious death of an unidentified man who may have been hunted by the British War Office, 1920s Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge experiences powerful roadblocks throughout the case and finds his own life in danger.
Regular print

The moonstone

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Collins, Wilkie,
[198-?]
First published serially in 1868, Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone" is generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone, a large and valuable, yellow diamond, plundered from an Indian temple by Colonel Herncastle during the Siege of Seringapatam, is rumored to bring bad luck to its owner. The Colonel bequeathes the diamond to his niece Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. At her birthday party, Rachel wears the Moonstone for all to see, later that night the priceless stone is stolen again and an investigation ensues to discover the identity of the thief and recover the jewel. When Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels, " and described by G. K. Chesterton as "probably the best detective tale in the world, " "The Moonstone" is one of Wilkie Collins's most popular works which influenced the development of an entirely new genre of fiction. The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear.
Book

Stilton slaughter

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Higgs, Steve,
2020.
When retired cop, Albert, arrives in Stilton for a festival, he has cheese on his mind, but that's not what he gets... arriving the morning after the factory and warehouse have been raided, all the stilton is gone, and the security guard, Dave, who bravely fought to stop the thieves, needs someone's help to save the day. With sidekick Rex Harrison, the failed police dog, at his side, our aging but sprightly hero will put his ear to the ground and his mind to work as he unravels the clues to this mystery. Rex and Albert will be tested like never before in this quiet English town as they catch the first glimpse of a criminal mastermind at work. Can they find the cheese in time to save the festival? Will Rex be able to smell the answer with all the stinky cheese around? It's a race against time to solve this crime but is there something bigger going on? Can this really just be about some mouldy cheese?
Book

The good wife

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Adams, Jane,
2020.
First world edition.
A chilling murder ruins a fun day at the races in the fifth historical mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone. 1929. Police surgeon Dr Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in an empty horsebox at Southwell Races, her handbag stolen. The Masons were enjoying a day out at the races with their friends, Dr Ephraim Phillips and his wife Nora, when Martha went to speak to a face she recognized in a crowd--and disappeared. As Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone and Sergeant Mickey Hitchens investigate, it's clear this wasn't a robbery gone tragically wrong - Martha was deliberately murdered. Why did the life of this well-respected, popular member of the community meet such a tragic end? Henry and Mickey soon learn that the Masons' marriage was not what it seemed, and make a number of shocking discoveries. Who was Martha Mason, and what secrets was she hiding?
Book

She's leaving home

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Shaw, William,
2014.
First North American edition.
"London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this is Breen's last chance to prove he's up to the job. Breen is of the generation for whom reaching adulthood meant turning into one's parents and accepting one's place in the world. But the world around him is changing beyond recognition. Nothing illustrates the shift more than Helen Tozer, a brazen and rambunctious young policewoman assisting him with the case. Together they navigate a world on edge, where conservative tradition gives way to frightening new freedoms--and troubling new crimes"--
Book

Policing and the media : facts, fictions and factions

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Leishman, Frank.
2003.
Focusing on the interplay between policing realities, public perception and media reflections, this text provides an accessible account of the relationship between policing and the media.
Electronic resource

The thief of Blackfriars Lane

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Griep, Michelle,
[2021]
"England, 1885. Constable Jackson Forge intends to make the world safer, or at least the streets of Victorian London. But that's Kit Turner's domain, a swindler who runs a crew that acquires money the old-fashioned way--conning the rich to give to the poor. When a local cab driver goes missing, Jackson is tasked with finding the man, and the only way to do that is by enlisting Kit's help. If Jackson doesn't find the cabby, he'll be fired. If Kit doesn't help Jackson, he'll arrest her for thievery. Yet neither of them realize those are the least of their problems."--Provided by publisher.
Book

The clockmaker

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Adams, Jane,
2019.
First world edition.
"February, 1929. Clockmaker Abraham Levy's young nephew has vanished. He was last seen boarding a train on his way to see his fiancee, and with no sign of foul play, the suspicion is that he may have got cold feet about his upcoming nuptials and alighted at an earlier stop. The police seem to think so, but Abraham isn't convinced. Feeling he has no other option, Abraham makes an unexpected visit to DCI Henry Johnstone to appeal for his help. Despite his initial reluctance, Henry's curiosity gets the better of him, and his review of the case soon leads to a startling discovery. As Henry is plunged fully into a new investigation, it seems the truth is far more complicated and disturbing than it first appeared."--Publisher.
Book

Hardcastle's runaway

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham,
2017.
First world edition.
March, 1919. The commissioner of police at New Scotland Yard has a task for Divisional Detective Inspector Hardcastle of A Division: find Lily Musgrave, the missing daughter of Ausen Musgrave MP. Hardcastle, aided by Detective Sergeant Charles Marriott, discovers that the headstrong Lily provides risque entertainment for a number of ex-officers. When she return home of her own accord, however, Hardcastle assumes the case is closed and turns his attention to arranging the finer details of his daughter Maud's wedding. But no sooner is the wedding over than Lily Musgrave goes missing again. And this time, finding her might not be so easy.
Book

Half Moon Street

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2000.
1st ed.
Superintendent Thomas Pitt, investigating the discovery of a dead man found drifting in the Thames, must walk a narrow line between hunting down the guilty and protecting the innocent when his search for answers leads him deep into Victorian London's bohemia.
Regular print

Murder in Haxford

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bleiweiss, Rick,
2023.
First edition.
The 1910 Haxford Spring Fair turns deadly when a balloonist plummets to the earth. Unraveling this web of intrigue will require the skills of Haxford's brilliant Chief Inspector Pignon Scorbion.
Book

Blackstone and the Great War

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Spencer, Sally.
c2012.
To fulfill a debt, Blackstone travels to the Western Front to investigate the murder of a young lieutenant only to find officers resent his presence and enlisted men either refuse, or do not dare, talk to him.
Book

A matter of justice

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
?2009.
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the victim was universally despised in Cambury--even the victim's wife and the town's police inspector are suspect. And yet in London circles, the man was highly regarded. What triggered his death? Rutledge doggedly follows a well-concealed trail that finally leads him to the one person who knows the whole truth. But it's too late to stop a spreading evil and a vicious settling of scores. As the seasoned inspector comes to understand the larger picture, he realizes he may not be able to prove what he suspects. In spite of his skill, this may be the only case in which Rutledge fails to get his man.
CD

Black ship : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Dunn, Carola.
2008.
1st ed.
In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small circle of houses and a communal garden, it seems a near idyllic setting. That is until a dead body turns up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal garden, rumors of bootleggers, American gangsters, and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. And it's up to Daisy - well, Alec with some help from Daisy - to find out who the dead man is, why he was murdered and who did him in!
Book

A pale horse [spoken word]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles.
?2008.
Unabridged.
Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the Devil. Instead, they stumble over the Devil himself, sitting there watching them. Terrified, they run for their lives, leaving behind a book on alchemy stolen from their schoolmaster. The next morning, a body is discovered in the cloisters of the abbey--a man swathed in a hooded cloak and wearing a gas mask. Scotland Yard dispatches Inspector Rutledge to find out who the man was and why he died in such mysterious circumstances. But the villagers clearly have something to hide. And what does the huge chalk sculpture of a pale horse of the Apocalypse have to do with the crime?
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

An unsuitable death

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Gregson, J. M.
2000.
1st world ed.
"When the body of a beautiful young woman is found on the Lady Chapel altar in Hereford Cathedral, it appears that serial killer the 'Sacristan' has set the grandest stage yet for his unholy tableaux, and the newspapers waste no time in stoking up public fear and fury."--Jacket.
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Broken music : a mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Eccles, Marjorie.
2011, c 2009.
1st U.S. ed.
"The year is 1919 and Great Britain is still struggling to its feet after being hit by the atrocities of the First World War. Former police sergeant Herbert Reardon returns home, determined to finally find out what happened the night that his daughter, Marianne, was found drowned in the lake. When a maid is found murdered in exactly the same spot, Reardon is convinced that the two cases are linked"--
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Heirs and assigns

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Eccles, Marjorie,
2015.
First world edition.
Introducing Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon in a new mystery series, set in the Downton Abbey period. November, 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn to celebrate the retired wealthy businessman's 60th birthday. But the morning after what should have been a convivial supper party, their host is found dead in his bed - and the circumstances look decidedly suspicious. As he questions the victim's nearest and dearest, DI Reardon discovers there are several long standing secrets lurking amongst the Llewellyn clan - and he is convinced that not everyone is telling him the truth, or at least not the whole truth. Those who stand to inherit most from Pen Llewellyn's will - if it can be found - are under the strongest suspicion, and among them hides a ruthless killer.
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Murder in Haxford

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Bleiweiss, Rick,
2023.
First paperback edition.
The 1910 Haxford Spring Fair turns deadly when a balloonist plummets to the earth. Unraveling this web of intrigue will require the skills of Haxford's brilliant Chief Inspector Pignon Scorbion.
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Rusted souls

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Nickson, Chris,
2023.
Leeds, 1920. Chief Constable Tom Harper of Leeds City Police has just six weeks left in the role before his well-earned retirement. But even though his distinguished forty-year career is ending, the crime and mayhem on the city's streets continues. Council leader Alderman Thompson is being blackmailed. He wants Harper to find the love letters he sent to a young woman called Charlotte Radcliffe and return them discreetly. Elsewhere, masked, armed robbers are targeting jewellery shops in the city, and an organized gang of shoplifters is set to descend on Leeds. As events threaten to spiral out of control, Harper battles to restore justice and order to the streets of Leeds one last time.
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Brass lives

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Nickson, Chris,
2021.
First world edition.
"Leeds, June 1913. Deputy Chief Constable Tom Harper is a busy man. He's overseeing a national suffragist pilgrimage due in Leeds that his wife Annabelle intends to join, and his daughter Mary has exciting plans of her own. Then a letter arrives from police in New York: Davey Mullen, an American gangster born in Leeds, is on his way back to the city, fleeing a bloody gang war. Despite Tom's best efforts to keep an eye on him, Davey's arrival triggers a series of chilling events in the city. Is he responsible for the sudden surge in crime, violence and murder on Leeds's streets? Facing a mounting workload, Tom must hunt down a cold-blooded killer while also confronting danger and tragedy close to home."--Publisher.
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The leaden heart

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Nickson, Chris,
2019.
First world edition.
"Leeds, England. July, 1899. The hot summer has been fairly quiet for Detective Superintendent Tom Harper and his squad, until a daring burglary occurs at an expensive Leeds address. Then his friend and former colleague, Inspector Billy Reed, asks for his help. Billy's brother, Charlie, a shopkeeper, has committed suicide. Going through Charlie's papers, Billy discovers crippling rent rises demanded by his new landlord. Could these have driven him to his death? As Harper investigates, he uncovers a web of intimidation and corruption that leads back to the mysterious North Leeds Company. Who is pulling the strings behind the scenes and bringing a new kind of misery and violence to the people of Leeds? Harper is determined to unmask the culprits, but how much blood will be shed as he tries?"--Publisher's description.
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Mooncop

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Gauld, Tom,
2016.
First edition.
"The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new highway. Our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds. His beat grows ever smaller. The population dwindles. A young girl runs away, an old lady loses her dog, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy, capturing the essential truths about humanity."--Cover.
Book
Publication Information (vernacular script) [Montreal, Qu¿ebec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2016.

Murder on the Serpentine

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
[2017]
First U.S. Edition.
Privately summoned by Queen Victoria when one of her closest confidantes is found murdered, Thomas Pitt navigates the secretive world of London society in what becomes the most dangerous case of his career.
Book

The angel court affair : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
[2015]
First Edition.
"When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process. Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew. With his career on the line, he races to unravel the truth behind Sofia's disappearance, enlisting the help of his beloved wife Charlotte and his old friend Victor Narraway. And he soon realizes that if he cannot find Sofia before it's too late, the consequences could destroy not only his reputation, but the British empire itself"--
Book

Death on Blackheath : A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel.

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2014.
Book

Acceptable loss [text (large print)]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2011.
Large print ed.
"When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. Informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer-a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts. Further investigation takes Monk and his wife, Hester, to an unresolved crime from the past, to blackmail and more murder, and to a deadly confrontation with some of the empire's most respected men" -- Cover verso.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [text (large print)]

M, king's bodyguard : a novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Leonard, Niall,
[2021]
First edition.
"Gathering intel, chasing leads, and cracking heads are all part of a day's work for Detective Chief Superintendent William Melville, bodyguard to Queen Victoria's son and heir to the throne, Prince Albert. But when the Queen dies, prompting most of Europe's royalty to converge on London for the funeral, Melville receives a tip about a planned attempt on the German Kaiser's life led by a mysterious anarchist known as Akushku. As Melville and his German counterpart, Gustav Steinhauer, race to uncover exactly what Akushku has planned, they find themselves drawn into a world of brutal violence, illicit romance, and bitter class warfare. And all the while, Akushku dances just out of reach, ensnaring rich and poor alike in his web. As the day of the funeral approaches, Melville realizes that far more than the Kaiser's life is at stake -- if he can't reach Akushku in time, he risks the destruction of the very realm he's sworn to protect"--
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The perplexing theft of the jewel in the crown

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Khan, Vaseem,
2016.
First U.S. edition.
"For centuries, the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king. Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess. So when the Crown Jewels go on display in Mumbai, security is everyone's principal concern. And yet, on the very day Inspector Chopra visits the exhibition, the diamond is stolen from under his nose"--Amazon.com.
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The angel court affair [sound recording] : [a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
p2014.
As the nineteenth century draws to a close, most of Europe is in political turmoil, and terrorist threats loom large across the continent. Adding to this unrest is the controversial Sofia Delacruz, who has come to London from Spain to preach a revolutionary gospel of love and forgiveness that many consider blasphemous. Thomas Pitt, commander of Special Branch, is charged with protecting Sofia-- and shielding Queen Victoria's government from any embarrassment that this woman, as beautiful as she is charismatic, might cause. When Sofia suddenly vanishes and two of her female disciples are gruesomely murdered, Pitt is challenged as never before.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

Hardcastle's obsession

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham,
2011.
First world edition.
It is September 1916, and a Zeppelin discharges its deadly cargo of bombs over London destroying a house in Washbourne Street and killing all the occupants. In the basement of the house a grisly discovery presents Hardcastle of the Metropolitan Police with a tricky murder enquiry. The dead woman was killed before the bomb was dropped.
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The winds of change : a Richard Jury mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Grimes, Martha.
2004.
Declan Scott stood inside the room looking at Jury as if he were one more disappointment in a long list of them. Police, private investigators-all had failed to find the child Flora. Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwell police takes this failure especially hard.
Regular print

The room with eight windows

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Adams, Jane,
2023.
First world edition.
Henry Johnstone has retired from the police, but when he suddenly disappears his old colleague and friend, Inspector Mickey Hitchens, investigates. December, 1930. Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector at London's Scotland Yard and is staying at the home of the late Sir Eamon Barry on the south coast, cataloguing and inventorying his extensive library. Until he suddenly - and inexplicably - vanishes. Mickey Hitchens, Henry's old partner-in-crime, now an inspector himself, investigates the house with his colleague, Sergeant Tibbs. The room Henry was staying in had eight unusual, curved windows, and the pair quickly uncover disturbing signs of a struggle, along with a blotter that has the name of a man who was murdered five years ago written on it. Is there a link between that case and Henry's disappearance? Can Mickey find his friend and bring him home safely, or is it already too late?
Book

Three debts paid [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
2022.
Large print edition.
"A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. He turns to Miriam Fford Croft, Daniel's good friend and now officially of the first female pathologists in London, to find details he and Daniel have missed. As the murders continue with no clue as to who is committing them, Miriam and Daniel find themselves questioning everything. Is the "Rainy-day Slasher," as the newspapers have deemed the killer, really just one person? Or have they stumbled into a more complicated web of deceit? The answer may lie closer than anyone expected"--
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Old sins

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Adams, Jane,
2020.
First world edition.
"1929. The discovery of the bodies of two retired policemen, Walter Cole and Hayden Paul, sounds warning bells to DCI Henry Johnstone. Both men were experiencing financial difficulties, and their deaths were staged to look like suicides. Hayden left a note containing two words: old sins. And when Henry attends his sister's Halloween party, he is approached by a flamenco dancer who leaves a note with the name of another man. Could this be a grim warning?Henry is forced on a painful journey back to an old case he worked on with Cole and Paul. Is someone playing a deadly game with Henry, and is he about to pay for his past mistakes? With Detective Sergeant Mickey Hitchens by his side and his family at risk, Henry must catch a dangerous killer bent on revenge - before the killer catches him..."--Publisher.
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The altered case : a Hennessey and Yellich mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Turnbull, Peter,
2012.
1st world ed.
When a deep grave containing five skeletons is found in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York police station are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over twenty years, and the resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder that seems to have its roots in a legal dispute between two families going back to the aftermath of the English Civil War. But have the victims been discovered too late to catch the killer?
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The red door

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2010]
Unabridged.
Lancashire, England: June, 1920. Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? What did she see before she died? And who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he had never really gone? How is the woman's death linked to his disappearance? And why is Scotland Yard blind to the connection, even when Inspector Ian Rutledge points it out?
CD

Hardcastle's mandarin : a Hardcastle and Marriott historical mystery

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Ison, Graham.
2009.
1st world ed.
Inspector Hardcastle begins to wonder if the Germans may somehow be involved in the death of Sir Nigel Strang, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Munitions.
Book

Murder on the Serpentine [spoken word]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
p2017.
Unabridged.
When Thomas Pitt is summoned to Queen Victoria's private chambers, he hardly knows what to expect. When she tells him that the body of one of her closest confidantes--Sir John Halberd--has been found in the Serpentine, he knows he is facing his most daunting and dangerous investigation yet. Sir John was a man who kept many secrets, moving within a circle of the most powerful and prominent members of London society. And the more Pitt learns about Sir John's past, the more he puts himself and his loved ones at risk. The royal family cannot be denied.but will the most important case of Pitt's career be his last?
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

The angel court affair [sound recording]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
p2015.
When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process. Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew. With his career on the line, he races to unravel the truth behind Sofia's disappearance, enlisting the help of his beloved wife Charlotte and his old friend Victor Narraway. And he soon realizes that if he cannot find Sofia before it's too late, the consequences could destroy not only his reputation, but the British empire itself.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Midnight at Marble Arch : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
[2013]
First edition.
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
Book

A pale horse

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Todd, Charles,
[2009]
Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the mysterious death of a man in an English village and soon begins to tie the murder to a missing man who worked on a secret mission during World War I and whom the British War Office wants found.
Book

Darkness beyond

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Eccles, Marjorie.
2021.
First world edition.
"February, 1933. When their eldest brother Paul walks into their hallway, fourteen years after he was presumed dead, successful property developers Thea and Teddy Millar are beset with questions. Where has he been? Why has he never written to let them know he was alive? And most of important of all: what happened to Paul, after the end of the Great War, to make him abandon everything and everyone he ever knew? When Paul's body is found floating in the canal two weeks later, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon feels sure the murder is connected to his new life in London. For who would want to kill a man who's been thought dead for over a decade? But Reardon knows the past can cast long shadows, and as he investigates, he finds a knot of dark secrets and old grudges that someone is determined he'll never untangle . . ."--Publisher.
Book

The good wife [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Adams, Jane,
2020.
First large print edition.
"1929. Police surgeon Dr Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in an empty horsebox at Southwell Races, her handbag stolen. The Masons were enjoying a day out at the races with their friends, Dr Ephraim Phillips and his wife Nora, when Martha went to speak to a face she recognized in a crowd--and disappeared. As Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone and Sergeant Mickey Hitchens investigate, it's clear this wasn't a robbery gone tragically wrong - Martha was deliberately murdered. Why did the life of this well-respected, popular member of the community meet such a tragic end? Henry and Mickey soon learn that the Masons' marriage was not what it seemed, and make a number of shocking discoveries. Who was Martha Mason, and what secrets was she hiding?"-- Back cover.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Murder on the Serpentine [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
2017.
Large Print edition.
"It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons-- so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queen's confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majesty's request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems to have had an undue amount of influence on her son, the Prince of Wales. Now Commander Pitt must navigate the corridors of power with the utmost discretion and stealth, for it seems certain that Sir John's killer is a member of the upper classes. Aided by his wife, Charlotte, and her social contacts, Pitt seeks out the hidden motives behind the polite façade of those to the manner born-- and uncovers a threat to the throne that could topple the monarchy."--Amazon.com
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Family plot : another John Pickett mystery907-355-4053

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

South, Sheri Cobb
2015.
Large Print edition.
Bow Street Runner John Pickett is in Scotland investigating a woman found unconscious on the beach who bears a striking resemblance to the local laird's daughter, missing these last fifteen years. He's surprised to learn she was found by Lady Fieldhurst, and gratified to find her ladyship registered at the inn as Mrs. Julia Pickett. Then Angus Kirkbride dies hours after announcing he's changing his will, and "Mr. and Mrs. Pickett" join forces to discover the truth.
Book

Midnight at Marble Arch [spoken word] : [a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2013.
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
CD
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Midnight at Marble Arch [large print] : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2013.
Large print edition.
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
Large print
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The dispossessed state : narratives of ownership in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Maurer, Sara L.
2012.
"Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested in the question of whether the Irish had rights to their land that could neither be bestowed nor taken away by England. In analyzing how these ideas were represented through a century of British and Irish fiction, journalism, and political theory, Maurer recovers the broad influence of Irish culture on the rest of the British isles. By focusing on the ownership of land, The Dispossessed State challenges current scholarly tendencies to talk about Victorian property solely as a commodity. Maurer brings together canonical British novelists - Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Meredith - with the writings of major British political theorists - John Stuart Mill, Henry Sumner Maine, and William Gladstone - to illustrate Ireland's central role in the literary imagination of Britain in the nineteenth century. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies - property, the state, and national identity - and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies."--Project Muse.
Electronic resource

The molten city

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Nickson, Chris,
2020.
First world edition.
"Leeds, September 1908. There's going to be a riot. Detective Superintendent Tom Harper can feel it. Herbert Asquith, the prime minster, is due to speak in the city. The suffragettes and the unemployed men will be out in the streets in protest. It's Harper's responsibility to keep order. Can he do it? Harper has also received an anonymous letter claiming that a young boy called Andrew Sharp was stolen from his family fourteen years before. The file is worryingly thin. It ought to have been bulging. A missing child should have been headline news. Why was Andrew's disappearance ignored? Determined to uncover the truth about Andrew Sharp and bring the boy some justice, Harper is drawn deep into the dark underworld of child-snatching, corruption and murder as Leeds becomes a molten, rioting city."--Publisher description.
Book

Muerte en Blackheath

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
2015.
1a edición.
As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there's no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of the Kynaston's maid.
Book

Death on Blackheath [spoken word]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
p2014.
Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Midnight at Marble Arch [sound recording] : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Currency [spoken word]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Stephenson, Neal.
[2011], p2010.
Unabridged.
Daniel Waterhouse finds himself embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower of London itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

The not quite perfect murderer

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Duffy, Margaret,
2021.
First world edition.
"Twelve-year-old Damien 'Spike' Baker is a young voyeur who loves to climb up trees, houses and walls . . . and look in people's windows. But when he climbs up some rampant ivy on a large mansion and peers through one of its windows, he makes a deadly mistake. It seems that Damien has looked in one window too many . . . What did he see? Detective Chief Inspector James Carrick of Bath CID is dealing with a raid on a jeweller's shop, and soon has a broken leg and the discovery of Damien's body on a buildingsite near the River Avon to contend with. Fortunately his old colleague, Patrick Gillard, now retired from the National Crime Agency, offers to assist with the investigation. Can Patrick and his wife and working partner, Ingrid Langley, catch a criminalheavyweight intent on leaving a trail of death and destruction in the city?"--
Book

Mrs. Jeffries and the midwinter murders

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Brightwell, Emily,
[2021]
First edition.
"Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon should be checking off their Christmas present list but instead they're listing murder suspects in this latest entry of the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Harriet Andover had no intention of dying young like her silly siblings had. She intended to outlive them and outdo them as she always had. But Harriet discovers that the best intentions can lead to murder when she is strangled inside her mansion with a house full of holiday guests. As much as Inspector Witherspoon enjoys his job delivering justice, the last thing he wanted was a complicated murder case just a week before Christmas. He soon discovers that Harriet's own husband and grown stepchildren are not overcome with grief and neither are most of her friends. And to put the icing on the Christmas cookies, the room where Harriet's body was found was locked from the inside and she had the only key in her pocket. Mrs. Jeffries and the household have no intention of letting their inspector down and learn that Harriet's sister may have died from foul play as well. As the clues mount, this dedicated band of merry sleuths will not rest until they've delivered a stocking full of coal to a crafty killer"--
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The death of kings

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Airth, Rennie,
[2017]
"In the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed John Madden series, the former Scotland Yard detective returns in a gripping post-World War II mystery that will delight fans of Philip Kerr On a hot summer day in 1938, a beautiful actress is murdered on the grand Kent estate of Sir Jack Jessup, close friend of the Prince of Wales. The arrest of an ex-convict and his subsequent confession swiftly bring the case to a close, but in 1949, the reappearance of a jade necklace raises questions about the murder. Was the man convicted and executed the decade before truly guilty? Though happily retired from the police force, John Madden is persuaded to investigate the case afresh. In a story of honor and justice that takes Madden through the idyllic English countryside, post-war streets of London, and into the criminal underworld of the Chinese Triads, The Death of Kings is an atmospheric and captivating police procedural"--
Book

Death on Blackheath : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
[2014]
First Edition.
Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
Book

Treachery at Lancaster Gate [large print]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne,
2016.
Large print edition.
"In this, the thirty-first installment of the New York Times bestselling Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series, Commander Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called to the scene of a brutal explosion in the heart of London. The bomb was set off during an important--and secret--police raid, killing several officers, and the government suspects anarchists are at work. But what Pitt discovers is far more disturbing: the explosion was not a terrorist attack meant to sow chaos, but a calculated means to commit a targeted murder. And the evidence trail leads him straight to a deadly crime that is set not in the back alleys of London, but in the drawing rooms of London's elite"--
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

The Darwin affair [large print] : a novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Mason, Timothy,
2019.
Large print edition.
"London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later--and only a block away--Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin's target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes? Soon, Field's investigation exposes a shocking conspiracy in which the publication of Charles Darwin's controversial On the Origin of Species sets off a string of murders, arson, kidnapping, and the pursuit of a madman named the Chorister. As the investigation takes Field from the dangerous alleyways of London to the hallowed halls of Oxford, the list of possible conspirators grows, and the body count escalates. And as he edges closer to the Chorister, he uncovers dark secrets that were meant to remain forever hidden"--Provided by publisher.
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The last post

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

[2018]
War and romance collide in the sweltering heat and political unrest of 1960's Aden--a port city in today's Yemen--where the British Royal Military Police battle local militia in an intense struggle to control the strategically important port. The officers know only too well that a lapse in luck or judgment risks death. But do they know what their wives are risking at the local country club, where the swinging '60s are in full swing?
DVD

Maigret. The complete series [DVD]

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

[2018]
A mild-mannered man visits Maigret, accusing his wife of wanting to poison him. Maigret then gets a visit from the man's wife, who accuses him of being neurotic. Is Maigret watching a domestic spat unfold, or is it a murder in the making?
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

Caught in time

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

McElwain, Julie,
[2018]
Unabridged.
Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret.
CD

WPC 56. Series two

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

[2014]
Five more exciting episodes of continuing British police period drama set in 1956. Gina Dawson is the first woman police constable to serve in her hometown, as she struggles to gain acceptance in the male-dominated world of policing.
DVD

Death on Blackheath [large print] : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Perry, Anne.
2014.
Large print edition.
Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
Book
JLC Title 245h [large print] :

The commander. Set 1

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

[2008]
Commander Clare Blake is the highest-ranking female officer in new Scotland Yard. Letting her personal life bleed into her career, she gets too close to her cases, making her vulnerable to those who wish to take her down. Special features included.
DVD

Poison is not polite

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Stevens, Robin,
2016
First US edition.
In 1930s England, schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home for the holidays when someone falls seriously, mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem--and everyone has a secret or two--so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth . . . no matter the consequences.
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Shadow of Spain

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Buckley, Fiona,
2022.
First large print edition.
March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire countryside, shot dead by a crossbow bolt as he was transporting secret correspondence between the queen and the duke. The queen's half-sister and occasional secret agent, Ursula Stannard, is happy not to be involved for once. But when Ursula's ward Mildred elopes with the handsome yet mysterious Berend Gomez, Ursula is forced to follow the pair to Brussels, where she finds herself plunged into a hotbed of intrigue and rumour at the Duke of Parma's court, a place where no one is to be trusted. Can Ursula rescue Mildred, effect an alliance with the duke, and stay alive in the process? The future of England depends on it.
Book

A line to kill : a novel

2024-06-02T16:35:00Z

Horowitz, Anthony,
2021.
First Harper Large Print edition.
Invited to an exclusive literary festival on an island off the English coast, Hawthorne and Horowitz find themselves investigating a murder amidst a local feud over a disruptive power line.
Book