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English
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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.
2) Affinity
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English
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Margaret Prior, assigned to visit the women's ward of Victorian London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work for a suicide attempt, is drawn into a dark romance with spiritualist Selina Dawes who has been jailed after a seance she was conducting went horribly wrong.
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English
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Bill Slider and his firm are assigned to solve the mysterious case surrounding the murder of David Rogers, a wealthy doctor, but the case takes an unexpected turn when Slider discovers that none of the doctor's many girlfriends seem to have any knowledge of where Rogers worked or what he did for a living.
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English
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While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know about their world and those they trust most.
6) Original sin
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a brilliant but ruthless publishing house director.
8) Dark mirror
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates the arsenic poisoning of a doctoral student and uncovers the victim's mysterious past is linked to the crime.
11) Death to go
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Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
When Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called to investigate a murder at a fish-and-chip shop, clues point in bewildering directions and even send him delving into the past life of his own recently deceased boss.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Bill Slider, just back on the job after a harrowing case in which his partner was seriously injured, is pulled into the world of seedy nightclubs and prostitutes when he sets out to discover who killed erotic dancer Jay Paloma.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Young Stephen Huxtable, the Earl of Merton, becomes entangled in a romantic affair with Cassandra Belmont, a beautiful widow who has been accused of murdering her husband, but taking Cassandra as his wife would risk his reputation.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of seven London residents in the week before Christmas in 2007, including a hedge fund manager in his attempt to further his career, a professional football player from Poland, a pothead schoolboy with an addiction to reality television, a Tube train driver, and others.
18) Lost: a novel
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English
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London Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz, pulled out of the Thames River with amnesia and a bullet wound in his leg, embarks on an investigation to recover his lost memory and find out what his shooting had to do with a three-year-old kidnapping case in which the victim is believed to be dead and perpetrator in jail.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
While a new New Age couple moves in to Terence Moongrove's estate, Barbara Ragg, a literary agent, decides to move forward with publishing an autobiography of a Yeti--which claims to have been dictated to the author by the Yeti, himself--and Freddie de la Hay, the Pimlico terrier who belongs to failed wine merchant William French, is recruited by the MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.
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