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Long Piddleton antiques dealer Marshall Trueblood is has acquired a secretaire--and a corpse, something he hadn't paid for, and definitely doesn't want. Detective Superintendent Richard Jury has acquired a corpse near Wapping Old Stairs in London. The two crimes were discoverd miles apart, but Jury thinks they may be connected.
The Five Bells and Bladebone
Grimes, Martha
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1987.
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In 1989, Dick Francis won the British Crime Writer's Association Cartier Golden Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he's been racking up awards ever since. In 1996, he received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Grand Masters Lifetime Award, and in 2000, the Malice Domestic Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement. A former steeplechase jocky, Francis' mysteries all involve horses in some manner, but each has a slightly different twist. In To the Hilt, artist Alexander Kinloch must leave his quiet existence on a Scottish mountain to assist his ailing stepfather. The family's brewery, racehorse, and sponsorship of the King Alfred Cup are under assault from multiple directions.
To the Hilt
Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
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Sergeant Verity and the Swell Mob
Selwyn, Francis
New York: Stein and Day, 1981.
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Signed by author on title page.
Shadow Play
Fyfield, Frances
New York: Pantheon, 1993.
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In 1989, Dick Francis won the British Crime Writer's Association Cartier Golden Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he's been racking up awards ever since. In 1996, he received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Grand Masters Lifetime Award, and in 2000, the Malice Domestic Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement. A former steeplechase jockey, Francis' mysteries all involve horses in some manner, but each has a slightly different twist. In Wild Horses, film director Thomas Lyons hears a dying friend's deathbed confession and the decades-old story unexpectedly insinuates itself into the film he is making.
Wild Horses
Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.
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The author's first novel. An elderly man asks Father Anselm for asylum in Larkwood Priory in England. Father Anselm later learns that the man is Eduard Schwermann, a former Nazi. Agnes Aubret lived in occupied Paris during World War II, part of a group that smuggled Jewish children to safety until the group was exposed--by Eduard Schwermann. When she learns that Schwermann is still alive, Agnes confides her past to her granddaughter Lucy. Lucy and Father Anselm each try to understand what happened more than fifty years before.
The 6th Lamentation
Brodrick, William
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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On the Channel Island of Guernsey, American China River is being held for the murder of philanthropist Guy Brouard. Brouard, at the time of his death, was working on a museum honoring island residents who resisted the Nazis in World War II. When China' brother Cherokee asks China's old friend, Deborah St. James, for help, Deborah and her husband Simon, characters in George's Lynley and Havers series, travel to Guernsey, where they discover there is no shortage of other suspects who wanted Brouard dead.
A Place of Hiding
George, Elizabeth
New York: Bantam Books, 2003.
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In 1994, a lost manuscript was discovered in Minnesota: Dr. Watson's account of Sherlock Holmes's journey to Minnesota to find the arsonist known as the Red Demon.
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon
Watson, John H., edited by Larry Millett
New York: Viking Press, 1996.
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson have been summoned to Scotland to assist Queen Victoria. They are nearly murdered on the journey, then they learn of the murder of the architect and foreman who had been hired to renovate the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh. To Holmes, their deaths are reminders of the murder of Divid Rizzio, the "Italian Secretary" assassinated in the presence of Mary Queen of Scots three hundred years before. Has Rizzio's ghost returned to protest the disturbance of his place of death?
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Carr, Caleb
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition. Young boys are disappearing, and the only link between them is an aviary, or bird yard, at an abandoned house. When a boy known to Detective Superintendent Parker of the Greater Manchester disappears, he knows he must find the killer before more tragedy occurs.
The Bird Yard
Martin, Julia Wallis
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 1998.
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Playing God
Whitehead, Barbara
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
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The twelfth Peter McGarr outing.
Death of an Irish Sea Wolf
Gill, Bartholomew
New York: William Morrow, 1996.
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Based on an outline created by Dorothy L. Sayers before her death, newlywed Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, Harriet Vane, travel to Parish, were they meet Laurence and Rosamund Harwell. The fair Rosamund is soon thereafter strangled, and the Wimseys' honeymoon is overtaken by paired sleuthing.
Thrones, Dominations
Sayers, Dorothy L. and Jill Paton Walsh
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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Death and Deconstruction
Fleming, Anne
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
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Deborah Crombie's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James novels have been nominated for the Agatha and Barry Awards, and Dreaming of the Bones on the Macavity Award for Best Mystery. Kincaid and James investigate two different crimes in In a Dark House, but the cases are closer than they know. Arson, battered women, and an abducted child all figure in the resolution.
In a Dark House
Crombie, Deborah
New York: William Morrow, 2004.
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Brigadier General Nigel Haversham, relic of British Cold War intelligence service, heads off to Southern California to find his missing god-daughter, who may have been kidnapped by a Hollywood hotshot. Little does the hotshot know what avenging fury is about to descend upon him.
The Old Limey
Crocker, H. W. III
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2001.
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Murder in the Smokehouse
Myers, Amy
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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Inspector Wexford searches for the daughter of a friend. False hopes and fears arise when the body of another young black woman is found, then a second. A third woman is found alive but badly beaten. Ruth Rendell has been awarded three Edgar and four Gold Dagger Awards.
Simisola
Rendell, Ruth
New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.
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Your Royal Hostage: A Jemima Shore Mystery
Fraser, Antonia
1988: Atheneum, 1988.
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Chief Inspector Wexford is searching for information on the disappearance of two girls. Both are found, with no apparent harm done, but Wexford continues to investigate. Ruth Rendell has been awarded four Gold Dagger and three Edgar awards, including the Grand Master Award.
Harm Done: An Inspector Wexford Mystery
Rendell, Ruth
New York: Crown Publishers, 1999.
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