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It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
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Scotland Yard superintendent, Richard Jury investigates the murder of wealthy bachelor Billy Maples in a shady London motel. He discovers connections between the murder and the distant past through Maples' grandfather, who served as one of Britain's top code breakers during WWII.
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The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Cries for revenge are overwhelming. Despite no witnesses and no evidence against him, a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply because he was the only soldier unaccounted for when these baffling crimes were committed. Though chosen...
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"As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire, deceit, and murder. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff...
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 13
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Severn House
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
13) Still waters
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Mark Lapslie mysteries volume 1
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Pantheon Books
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c2008
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English
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c1986
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The body of a blond shopgirl lies on the cold cobbles not far from a fashionable Mayfair pub called I am the only running footman. She has been strangled with her own scarf-and that pecuarity reminds Scotland Yard's Richard Jury of an unsolved murder in Devon, where the irascible local constable Brian Macalvie presides. Macalvie is convinced the two deaths are connected. Jury has nothing to tie them rogether but the fatal scarves..until he visits...
15) Tooth and claw
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Mark Lapslie mysteries volume 2
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
16) Mortal taste
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Lambert and Hook mysteries volume 16
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Severn House
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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