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81) Trap Lane
Author
Series
Alex Duggins novels volume 6
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Although he has always kept his past carefully hidden, as the ever-reliable manager of her well-stocked pub, The Black Dog, Hugh Rhys has Alex Duggins' total trust. However the unexpected arrival of two women from his past raises the fury of the usually even-tempered Hugh, threatens his carefully-crafted reputation and sends shockwaves through the village. When a battered body is discovered in a deep pond near Hugh's estate, Alex and her partner...
82) Have his carcase
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fictions most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayerss work, praising her “great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.” The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Newbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant sculptress Gillian Roberts. However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the art department, when the lift breaks down ans a corpse is discovered at the bottom of the shaft. Dorothy and Alan become involved in the ensuing...
Author
Series
Ishmael Jones novels volume 6
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been despatched to assist a group of scientists who are investigating a mysterious black hole which has appeared on a Somerset hillside. Could it really be a doorway to another dimension, an opening into another world? When one of the scientists disappears into the hole, with fatal consequences, Ishmael must prove whether it was an accident or murder. But with no clues, no witnesses and no apparent motive,...
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The shocking death of a student in one of her charity's properties draws Ellie into another dark mystery. Ellie Quicke returns from Canada to find her home in chaos and her housing charity tearing itself apart. A student has fallen to his death from the top of one of the charity's properties, let through a reputable local estate agency. Accused of corruption, the agency is the victim of a vicious social media campaign. Was the student's death really...
88) Career of evil
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. She is furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly did not send the letter...
Author
Series
Fethering mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Polly's Cake Shop has been a feature of the shopping parade for many years, but when its owner announces her retirement, the Fethering residents start to worry about the loss of this popular amenity. Alarmed by rumours that the café might become a Starbucks, a group clubs together to form the Save Polly's Cake Shop Action Committee. The plan is that Polly's should become a community venture, managed and run by volunteers from the village. Roped...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Spring has come to the faded seaside town of Seatoun. Easter is approaching, and the weather is mild, leading to a mini-boom in the tourist industry. Vetch's Investigations is buzzing with clients, and even Jan, the receptionist from hell, is busy--all of which is making Grace Smith feel depressed, since she's the only one without a client. The situation has become so desperate that Grace has taken a job with the local Tourist Board. Dressed as the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Sandy Campbell's body is found at the foot of a cliff near the small town of Kirkcudbright, the local constabularies are convinced that the argumentative painter is a victim of a tragic accident. But when Lord Peter Wimsey turns up, the hunt begins for an ingenious killer. Faced with six men, all of whom have a motive for murder, the aristocratic amateur sleuth must deduce which are the five red herrings and which has blood on his hands.
93) Whisper the dead
Author
Series
Alex Duggins novels volume 5
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the construction of a new housing development that's causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concern. As she passes the site late one afternoon, pub owner Alex Duggins is confronted by the terrifying scene...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"1946, London. The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another runaway success. Unfortunately, it has also caught the attention of Superintendent Stanislaus Oates for reasons that go beyond its superior plotting. The crime at the heart of The Bottle Party Murder bears a number of striking similarities to a very real, recent and unsolved murder at the Grafton Club...
95) Music macabre
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Music researcher Phineas Fox has been enjoying his latest commission, gathering background material for a biography of Franz Liszt. But although he has - as anticipated - uncovered plenty of scandal in the 19th century composer's past, matters take a decidedly unexpected turn when his investigations lead to Linklighters, a newly-opened Soho restaurant built on the site of an old Victorian music hall, and unearth evidence of a possible murder involving...
96) The fifth heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
" In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus--his three-year absence after Reichenbach...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"When the India Office seek help in finding Maharajah Narayan, last seen hunting on the Bolton Abbey estate, they call upon the expertise of renowned amateur detective Kate Shackleton to investigate. But soon a missing persons case turns to murder. Shot through the heart, Narayan's body has obviously not been in the woods overnight. Who brought it here, and from where? And what has happened to the hugely valuable diamond that was in the Maharajah's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, four mystifying criminal conundrums test the detecting skills of the unflappable Hercule Poirot. How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should...
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This stellar anthology of 16 new short stories that pay homage to the great detective includes whodunits by S.J. Rozan, Phillip and Jerry Margolin, Colin Cotterill, and Charles Todd. Other contributors include Lee Child, Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman, Margaret Maron, and Jacqueline Winspear.
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seven keen amateur photographers gather for the most popular openings of the decade. Only six will return. Yorkshire, 1928. Indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton is taking a well-deserved break from her detective work and indulging in her other passion: photography. When her local Photographic Society proposes an outing to the opening of the Bronte Museum, Kate jumps at the chance to visit the setting of Wuthering Heights. But the setting proves to be...
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