Results for: British Mysteries


Dr. David Hunter is a former forensic specialist who left London after the death of his wife and daughter, and settled in rural Norfolk, where is now has a practice as a general practitioner. He tries to not get involved when the body of a woman is found in the woods. When a second woman is found, however, a woman he knows, he lends his expertise to the investigation.
The Chemistry of Death
Beckett, Simon
New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.
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Brown cloth over black boards. Seven short stories, chosen by the author. 275 pp.
The Best of Rumpole
Mortimer, John
New York: Viking Press, 1993.
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Constable Hamish Macbeth likes nothing better than the quiet life in his little Scottish village. He's quick enough to aid his community when anything untoward happens. The vicar's wife has received an anonymous letter accusing her of having an affair--with Macbeth! Then the postmistress from a nearby village is found dead with another anonymous letter close by. Macbeth must figure out who's sending the letters before anyone else dies.
Death of a Poison Pen
Beaton, M. C.
New York: Mysterious Press, 2004.
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Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley has been called to investigate the deaths of Nicola Maiden, daughter of Lynley's former mentor, and London artist Terry Cole, who found near the Nine Sister Henge, a stone circle on Calder Moor. At first there doesn't seem to be a connection between Nicola and Terry, but before long, the investigation reveals that Nicola was a prostitute and Terry was her "card boy," distributing ads for her services. Lynley's sidekick in this investigation is Winston Nkata. Barbara Havers is in disgrace after events in George's previous novel, Deception on his Mind. However, Nkata asks Barbara to do the legwork in London, which she attacks with zeal. Illustrated enpapers.
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
George, Elizabeth
New York: Bantam Books, 1999.
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P. D. James has been honred with Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the British Crimewriters Association (the Cartier Golden Dagger), and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar. The Murder Room is a room in a museum dedicated to the years between the world wars. The room includes exhibits on murders that occurred during the featured years. But then a series of new murders takes place which mirror those in the exhibits, and Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate. Complicating Dalgliesh's life is a woman, Emma Lavenham, with whom Dalgliesh has a personal, romantic, interest.
The Murder Room
James, P. D.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
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Ellie Haskell's life is going along swimmingly until her char turns up dead. The same fate overtakes her replacement, and then another. It becomes a veritable chain of char demises, and Ellie poses as a char heself to get to the bottom of this series of crimes.
Spring Cleaning Murders
Cannell, Dorothy
New York: Viking Press, 1998.
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First Anchor Books Edition. This first book in the Sunday Philosophy Club series introduces Isabel Dalhousie, editor of "The Review of Applied Ethics."
The Sunday Philosophy Club
McCall Smith, Alexander
New York: Anchor Books, 2005.
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Ninth book in the Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton series, set in 1890s London. An American named McCafferty travels to London, then disappears. Bragg and Morton search for the missing man, and encounter violence and revolutionaries along the way.
Sphere of Death
Harrison, Ray
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
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London Magistrate John Fielding is blind, but able to see through the eyes of his young assistant, Jeremy Proctor. In Watery Grave, Fielding's stepson returns from a voyage at sea with a tale of the murder of the ship's captain. Fielding sends Jeremy out to find possible witnesses, but he has trouble doing so--the sailors are being murdered one by one.
Watery Grave
Alexander, Bruce
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
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The Cross-Legged Knight: An Owen Archer Mystery
Robb, Candace
New York: Mysterious Press, 2002.
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Peter Lovesey has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Assocation Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Bertie in the title is Prince Albert, and the Tinman the prince's favorite jockey, Fred Archer. Bertie doesn't think the Tinman's death was suicide and personally investigates.
Bertie and the Tinman
Lovesey, Peter
New York: Mysterious Press, 1987.
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Security expert Tim Lacy is asked to install a state-of-the-art security system at Lannar Castle, which sits on an island in a Scottish loch. The castle's owner, Mr. J. Robertson, is an eccentric man, with an extensive personal collection of instruments of torture. Two of Robertson's pets, and then Robertson himself, are killed by some of those instruments. Lacy finds his task has extended far beyond security systems--he must now investigate the murder of his client.
Cumberland's Cradle
Wilson, Derek
London: Headline Book Publishing, 1996.
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Robert Amiss takes over management of the political journal, The Wrangler, which has been steadily bankrupting its owner. The journal and its staff are stuck in the past, and Amiss must jump start it into the latter half of the 20th century. The process isn't smooth, however; soon after he arrives, two of the editors are found murdered. Amiss soldiers on, however, assisted, or rather pushed, by his mentor, the Baroness Troutbeck. A previous reader was so impressed with Edwards' vocabulary that she noted her favorite words on the flyleaf.
Publish & Be Murdered
Edwards, Ruth Dudley
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1999.
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Retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton has become the unintentional favorite of Scotland Yard with her uncanny ability to "see" the essentials of crimes and then draw them. In Miss Seeton Undercover, the Plummergen Peculiar apple is about to be featured on a television food program. Meanwhile, Miss Seeton, in her typical inimitable style, breaks up an art and antiques theft ring.
Miss Seeton Undercover
Crane, Hamilton
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1994.
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Eighteenth century blind magistrate John Fielding and his young protogé Jeremy Proctor are called upon to investigate a man claiming to be Lawrence Paltrow. Paltrow has been missing for years, and has now rather mysteriously reappeared from America just as his older brother is executed, and the estate to which his brother was heir is now available to an authentic claimant. Paltrow convinces his old friends and even his mother that he is who he says he is, but Fielding is not so sure.
Death of a Colonial
Alexander, Bruce
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.
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Miss Maude Silver, a former governess, is now a private detective. In Ladies' Bane, she has been hired by Allegra Trent's godmother to investigate Allegra's husand, Geoffrey's, financial status. Miss Silver is more concerned, however, by the fact that Allegra seems to have been drugged, and that Geoffrey's ward, Margot, dies in wht may not have been an accidental fall.
Ladies' Bane
Wentworth, Patricia
New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.
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Someone in the Colonial Office has been feeding secrets about Britain's African strategy to the Germans. Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt has been charged with finding the traitor. He believes the crime is linked to the death of his childhood mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond.
Traitors Gate
Perry, Anne
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.
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Richard Jury's friend Jenny Kennington, has been accused of murdering two women from a Lincolnshire estate. Jury asks his pal Melrose Plant to impersonate an antiques dealer and gather information, while Jury himself does some unofficial investigation on his own. What motive would Jenny have had for killing the two women?
The Case Has Altered
Grimes, Martha
New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
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A dozen and a half short stories by such authors as Nicholas Blake, Edmund Crispin, and Leslie Charteris, selected by Ellery Queen as representative examples of the evolution of the mystery in the decade of the 40s.
Masterpieces of Mystery. The Forties. Selected by Ellery Queen
Queen, Ellery, compiler.
Davis Publications, 1978.
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An American film crew has invaded St. Mary Mead, home to the redoubtable Miss Marple. Residents of the village are all agog because Marina Gregg is one of the film stars. Angela Lansbury stars as Miss Marple, Elizabeth Taylor is Marina Gregg, Rock Hudson plays Marina's husband, and Kim Novak does a lovely turn as Marina's rival. VHS videotape.
The Mirror Crack'd
Christie, Agatha
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