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Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers some unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated.Going into the boxing clubs and public houses, the Mayfair mansions and servants' quarters of Victorian London, Lenox gradually...
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Pemberley Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Mistress Hester Kean's brother Jeremy is sent to Newgate prison after being charged with murder and printing seditious pamphlets, prompting Mrs. Kean to enlist the help of the highwayman Blue Satan to unravel the mystery and free her brother.
83) Something blue
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl,"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain, left in possession of the ashes of Violet Park, becomes convinced that Violent is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
86) Old filth
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Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the...
91) The dream maker
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1993
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English
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In London in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, Flora St. Serf finds love in the most unlikely of places.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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William Smith, a middle-aged wine merchant, tries unsuccessfully through stronger and stronger hints to get his twenty-four-year-old son Eddie to move out, while other eccentric residents of Corduroy Mansions, a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London--including Freddie de la Hay, a vegetarian terrier--explore the limits of neighborliness.
93) Second violin
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Frederick Troy, climbing the ranks of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad in the late 1930s, gets caught in the middle of the chaos surrounding the dawn of World War II when he is assigned to round up enemy aliens--a group that includes his Austrian-born brother Rod, a foreign correspondent--and must lead the investigation into a series of murders targeting rabbis.
94) The look
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
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Headstrong American heiress, Lillian Bowman has come to England to find an aristocratic husband. Unfortunately, no man is strong enough to tame the stubborn beauty's fierce will. Except, perhaps, the powerful and arrogant Earl of Westcliff-a man Lillian despises more than anyone she's ever met.
Marcus, Lord Westcliff, is famous for his icy English reserve and his supreme self-control. But, something about the audacious Lillian drives him mad. Whenever...
96) Half Moon Street
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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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During a dank and damp autumn late in the 19th century in London, Snuff and his owner, Jack, are collecting the ingredients needed for an unearthly rite. Snuff and Jack are not alone. They are joined by all manner of participants, both human and undead, in preparation of the night when black magic will summon the Elder Gods back to the world.
100) About a boy
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus.
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