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Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
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English
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The Canadian prime minister and national security agent Terrence Meyers enlist Murdoch's help with an extortion crisis. They have 24 hours to stop the detonation of a rogue weapon that could spark a war between Canada and the United States.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
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English
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It seems like an open-and-shut case when local farmer Alexander Reynolds is found with an axe in his chest at his birthday celebration. Reynolds's blood-soaked daughter immediately confesses to the crime, but Murdoch believes there are deeper issues at play.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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English
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When a politician dies in a fall at the legislative building, a witness blames it on ghosts rumored to haunt the site. Murdoch looks into the politician's suspicious land deal, while Crabtree pursues his own line of inquiry against Murdoch's orders.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 15
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English
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A young woman walks into an apartment building and, seconds later, an explosion kills her. Could she be the victim of a bomb attack or the perpetrator? The case becomes even more intriguing when Watts identifies her as one of the missing women he's been investigating.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
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English
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After the electrocuted body of a man is found near the university, Murdoch and Brackenreid investigate researchers Arthur and Laura Kingston. Snidely referred to as "The Frankensteins" for their bizarre psychological studies, they deny any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Julia is unsettled by her needy neighbor Goldie Huckabee, and Crabtree is suspicious of Dorothy, Effie's new secretary.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 24
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English
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After finding a bomb at their home, Murdoch secures Ogden and baby Susannah at a seedy hotel with a panic button while he pursues the threat. Meanwhile, Crabtree is hunting the otherworldly beings who seem to have abducted Effie's maid of honor, to the glee of his future father-in-law and disdain of his mother-in-law to be. Both Brackenreid and Hart are being blackmailed by her nefarious father.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
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English
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A young student dies in an opium den, but the cause of death is not immediately obvious. Murdoch probes the dead man's fellow members of the Earth and Dragon Society, a group of students interested in Chinese philosophy, led by an eccentric professor.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
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English
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The manager of the ladies wear section at Eaton Co. is found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft. As Murdoch investigates the employees and their motives, it becomes clear that a master manipulator is at work.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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English
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A summer heat wave finds much of Toronto taking refuge at the beach, but when a body marked by a large bite washes ashore, rumours of a sea monster quickly spread across the city.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 2
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English
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A trunk delivered to Inspector Brackenreid contains a lawyer's naked corpse and a taunting note. When a second trunk turns up, Murdoch races to find the killer before his boss becomes the next victim.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 1
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English
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Murdoch has become a gold prospector in the Klondike. When a woman arrested for murder asks him to help prove her innocence, Murdoch is reluctant to return to his former line of work. Meanwhile, Crabtree struggles to lead his first investigation on his own, and Dr. Ogden begins training a new coroner.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
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English
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Murdoch investigates the death of a man trapped in a snare and mauled to death not far from a sideshow exhibit featuring a "wild" girl purportedly raised by wolves. Meanwhile, Julia learns some distressing news about Roland's mother and hires Freddie to uncover the truth.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 12
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English
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The murder of a girl leads police to suspect a plot against visiting Prince Alfred. Constable Crabtree joins the prince's retinue and finds His Highness more than a handful to guard.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 9
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English
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Bridge builders at the Don River discover the mummified bodies of a man and a woman. Murdoch and Ogden ascertain that the pair was murdered, possibly some time ago. Working closely with Dr. Ogden also causes Murdoch to reevaluate his feelings for her.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
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English
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Farmer Gunther Wenders is taken into custody for trying to drown his woodland neighbor, Minerva West, a self-confessed witch. Murdoch considers the case a disagreement between a superstitious man and a delusional woman. But when Minerva and her fellow coven members cast a spell outside the station house, Wenders suddenly dies in the cells, and Murdoch must explain how.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 17
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English
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Violet Hart attends an event in Niagara featuring American civil rights leaders W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. When their supporters are greeted by racist protesters, the speakers remain unflappable. But then the protest leader is found murdered, and the local constabulary are rude and dismissive of Hart's assessment. Fearing for the integrity of the investigation, she begins her own.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
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English
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Julia and Emily attend a bachelorette party on a secluded, perhaps haunted island. Meanwhile, Detective Murdoch and the boys from Station Four find themselves in a high stakes curling match.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 6
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English
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Murdoch suspects that a detailed miniature streetscape of a Toronto neighborhood contains clues to a homicide. But the artist is an "idiot savant," unable to finger the killer. It's up to Murdoch to get a clear picture of a street roiling with conflict, deceit, and murder.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
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English
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As they are returning from a volleyball tournament, Effie and Brackenreid are injured when brake failure causes a train derailment. While Ogden and Hart tend to the passengers, they soon discover a dead police officer who had been transporting a now-missing prisoner. Back in Toronto, Murdoch is unexpectedly left caring for Higgins's daughter when the crawling infant escapes from the station house.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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English
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Bedlam strikes Barnett's Traveling Royal Circus when an out-of-control tiger kills its trainer before escaping. Although the animal is later caught, Murdoch suspects the case may be more complicated than it appears and begins investigating the other circus performers.
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