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Charles Dickens is smitten with Ellen Ternan, a teenage actress, and heads to the country to retrieve her from the home for fallen women run by Angela Burdett-Coutts-who also owns one of England's largest banks and has recently received an anonymous threatening note. Back in London, Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins give the note to Inspector Field. But more urgent worries are to come. Both men's paramours-the actress as well as a former...
42) Nine Times Nine
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Sister Ursula, a Los Angeles nun who makes a habit of sleuthing, tackles a locked room murder in this mystery classic.
Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness...
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Mrs. North comes to the aid of a young boy accused of murdering his beloved Cleo Harper is nineteen, and pretty enough to catch any boy's eye. But when the police find her, there's a gash in her throat and blood on her clothes. Cleo's been dead for just a few minutes. She'd been eating lunch in a coffee shop when she was stabbed in the neck, and all the evidence paints Franklin Martinelli as the killer. Every kid in the neighborhood knew he loved...
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A belated Honeymoon... New friends... and another Murder!Cookie and Jerry, along with Cream, are motor-homing their way around the country for their honeymoon. Along the way, they've made a lot of new friends. The trip is going great as they spend endless hours alone together seeing the sights, away from the worries of Widow's Rest.But the fun ends when one of those new friends is found dead and they find themselves in the middle of another murder...
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Virginia Freer has had it with her sort-of-ex-husband's taste for drama. Yes, Marcus Avery was a dear old duffer who lived in Virginia's town. Yes, Lillian Pace, Felix Freer's neighbor in London, was a sweet old bird. Yes, it's terrible they were murdered, but we live in a naughty world. But look at the coincidences!-Felix insists. That unpleasant silversmith. That awful couple seeking revenge. These were not two separate murders, I tell you: There...
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When it's curtains for a theater director, Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen takes center stage in this locked room mystery from the author of Nine Times Nine. Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy,...
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Amateur sleuth, Professor Bevyn Jones receives a invitation to a mystery weekend in cottage country. He barely has time to breathe the country air when a certain "Ladybug" sends him a text message to meet at the boathouse. A minute later, he finds himself in the middle of a real whodunit.He joins forces with Detective Watson, dressed as Miss Scarlett, Chief Murphy and Detective Roy.Another dead body turns up in an abandoned room as the number of suspects...
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Criminology student Kaitlynn Dahl faces her toughest exam yet: solve a murder or become the next victim!
Still grieving the loss of a dear friend, Kaitlynn seeks refuge in the thrilling world of crime solving, and when she's offered the chance to take part in a murder mystery dinner hosted by her professor in a grand Victorian mansion, she jumps at the distraction. But what begins as a game of Clue soon turns into a deadly reality.
As the lights...
49) Color Her Dead
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Susan Burch was a strange sort of person. She was an artist, very able, in paints. She used substitute colors, getting some amazing results. It was a talent she had noticed as a child. She would change tones and hues in all of a painting.She had a commission in Isla Tormenta, a small lush Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. A wealthy man there wanted his girlfriends and their friends painted, using the technique.He had a wife and young daughter....
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Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
51) Killer View
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Jim Warren was looking for a place with a spectacular view to build a home for him and his teenage children.He found the perfect place, near Pavon He took some pictures and was leaving when he thought he heard a shot.The next morning there was an item on the news about a body, shot through the head, found on a local property. The camera showed the double waterfall from a slightly closer angle.Then he downloaded his digital camera and looked at the...
52) Grounds to Kill
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Barista Jen Hamby's coworkers give her a hard time for bringing coffee and pastries to a homeless man who sits outside her café-;but she has a secret. The scruffy man is her father.
She's also hiding the little matter of why her palm itches. But how can she explain that her hand has a mind of its own and writes messages from the beyond? Right. That'll get her Employee of the Month.
When she finds herself scrawling your boyfriend is cheating on...
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Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series.
Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. He attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back - and claims to be converted! Shackleton's...
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Book 2 of the Black Orchid Enterprises Mystery series finds Johnny Ly, Dianne Cortez, and JD Thompson trying to celebrate their first year in business in a small Central Texas town. The weather outside is frightful, and indoors isn't looking too good either, not when a crazed hairless cat invades their Christmas party and leaves a trail of destruction in his wake. The murder in the backyard doesn't help, but Johnny and Dianne are more worried about...
55) Bottled Up
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A weekend getaway to a beautiful beachside town with an old friend should have been a relaxing change of pace for Dell Powers.But then, when is her life ever relaxing?While walking on the beach Dell discovers a quite unique, antique bottle complete with a note inside. Thinking it would make a great addition to her Inn, she digs it out of the sand.Her weekend takes a turn for the dangerous shortly after, so Dell packs up and heads home early, where...
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A party to die for!
After personal and professional disasters, event planner Emma Cassidy just wants to rebuild her life in her sleepy hometown. Organizing a housewarming party for the brash and arrogant Tony Barnet is a step in the right direction. But when food poisoning ruins the party, Tony instantly blames Emma, and the bad publicity spells doom for her business.
At least she still has the job of planning Sean and Madison's wedding. Sean, one...
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Emma Cassidy is doing what she does best-organizing a wedding. But there's tension in the atmosphere, and Emma can't shake an uneasy feeling about this match.
Trent Chalmers leads a charmed life-handsome and wealthy, heir to the famous Maravilla winery, and about to tie the knot with Alice Bartolo, his high school sweetheart. Trent is a man who has it all. Until he jilts his fiancée in front of everyone at their rehearsal dinner...and turns up dead...
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Event planner Emma Cassidy moves into a cottage in the woods, where she soon discovers her new neighbor Isadora is more than just an herbalist, but also a self-styled witch, albeit a rather chaotic one.
Isadora has become more scatterbrained of late, with muddled spells and a failing memory. But the situation turns dire when her long-time friend and New Age millionaire Marshall dies after drinking one of her potions, a potion that turns out to be...
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Three twisty mysteries are collected in A Trio of Hazards. Set in Regency England, these novels present people from the many spheres of life clashing against each other-and against murderers!
Complex Schemes, Dangerous Pasts :: The Hazard of Secrets
Clarey Parton crosses the Atlantic to steal an inheritance. She hopes that no one discovers the rightful heir lies in a cold grave.
Jem Baxter returns to the England he fled three years before. He assumes...
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Eddie Benson is a typical middle-class father with a secure job, a home in suburban Philadelphia, and a seemingly happy family. For Benson life holds no fear or terror. Then something unusual happens. One day his daughter, Renni, a normal, fun-loving fourteen-year-old, disappears.
Soon after, Eddie finds her wandering the streets of Philadelphia with a band of children. Dressed in orange robes, they bear drums and tambourines and cymbals. Moving...
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