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Thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude, having enlisted the help of shop owner Mr. Balthasar, search for Minnie's uncle Alf's donkey and cart, which disappeared after the man was murdered and is believed to hold a dazzling golden box, which Mr. Balthasar warns may contain evil.
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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.
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Dominic and Clarice Corde, who met and fell in love in Brunswick Gardens, journey to a quaint hamlet to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday. The holiday takes a nasty turn when the vicar is discovered not to be away at all, but brutally murdered and stashed in the cellar. So instead of fulfilling the vicar's duties, the Cordes are charged with solving his murder. All the while, the picturesque village is becoming increasingly and dangerously...
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On the heels of the success of A Christmas Journey comes this festive mystery. The joyful tranquility of a snowbound estate in the Lake District of England is overturned in a moment by a shocking murder. Renowned mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone-long known to readers of Perry's bestselling Victorian series featuring William Monk-must put his analytical and creative capacities to the test as he assumes the role of an amateur investigator....
17) Resurrection Row
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Bodies that won't stay buried-is it a practical joke? Or murder? Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the man's corpse is found sitting in the family pew the Sunday following his second interment, Pitt begins to wonder if perhaps there's some message...
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In 1857 India, after the Siege of Cawnpore leaves a British guard dead and an Indian prisoner free, Lieutenant Victor Narraway is sent to defend a British medic accused of the crime without much evidence, and, even though he is not expected to try hard because the government simply wants a show trial, Victor is encouraged by a soldier's widow and her children to find the truth.
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On a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge, police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the icy waters of the Thames. Was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? Ever the investigator, Monk learns that the woman, Mary Havilland, had planned to marry the fair-haired man who shared her fate. He also discovers that Mary's father had recently died in a supposed...
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