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Anne Perry has written a series of Christmas mysteries. In A Christmas Visitor, Judah Dreghorn died in a fall. Was it an accident, or murder? Judah's wife Antonia enlists the help of her godfather, Henry Rathbone, a character who also appears in Perry's William Monk series. Rathbone must determine if an old land dispute led to Judah's death.
A Christmas Visitor
Perry, Anne
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
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A Mystery Guild publication. Features three novels by Tey: The Daughter of Time, Brat Farrar, and Miss Pym Disposes.
A Cup of Tey
Tey, Josephine
Garden City: Mystery Guild, 2006.
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A Detective Under Fire
Keating, H. R. F.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.
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Detective Harriet Martens, a competent but relatively low-ranking officer, is surprised when she is brought from Birchesther to London and assigned to head an investigation into corruption in the Maximum Crime Squad. It appears that the Inspector in charge of the case thinks her provincial background makes her a "female gentleman." Unfortunately, the staff assigned to her are not of the same opinion. Harriet's dogged determination will get to the bottom of the situation.
A Detective Under Fire
Keating, H. R. F.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.
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Owen Archer is sent to Wales by the Duke of Lancaster to recruit archers for the Duke's expected invasion of France. Another, secret, task is to find out if the Duke's steward is involved in a plot to support a French invasion of Wales. They no sooner arrive than the steward's son is found dead, and his wife disappears. Owen must investigate.
A Gift of Sanctuary
Robb, Candace
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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A Russian icon becomes becomes the object of a race by the KGB, the CIA, and of Adam Scott, son of a dishonored colonel. The trail leads from Nazi Germany across three continents, and for Adam, becomes a matter of honor. Includes a bonus interview with the author. Abridged. Read by Martin Jarvis.
A Matter of Honor
Archer, Jeffrey
New York: Audio Renaissance, 2004.
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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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Second book in the series featuring Meredith Mitchell and Chief Inspector Markby;
A Season for Murder
Granger, Ann
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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First Ballantine Trade Paperback Edition. Set in London in 1722, A Spectacle of Corruption is the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning "A Conspiracy of Paper," in which Benjamin Weaver was thrown into prison for a murder he did not commit. In Spectacle, Weaver escapes from prison and sets out to clear his name. His efforts find him mixing with London citizenry high and low, as the Tories and the Whigs battle for control of parliament. Skills gained during his former profession of pugilist come in handy.
A Spectacle of Corruption
Liss, David
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
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A handsome new curate comes to Carsely. The ladies of the parish are panting after him, but the vicar isn't much pleased--attendance at services has soared, which puts the vicar's nose out of joint. The curate is found dead in the vicar's study. Who's the perp? Was it the jealous vicar? Or a jealous husband? Agatha Raisin, at loose ends since her husband left, decides to investigate.
Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate
Beaton, M. C.
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003.
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The twelfth book in the series. Agatha Raisin is not in the best of moods these days. Her husband has left her, and her best friend has gone off to get married. In an effort to cheer herself up, she takes a vacation in the South Pacific, which is only moderately successful. Back home, Agatha decides to put all that behind her. When the body of a woman wearing a bride's dress is found floating in the river, Agatha investigates--assisted by her new (and handsome) neighbor.
Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came
Beaton, M. C.
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002.
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In the ninth adventure of Sir John Fielding, the "blind beak" of London, Benjamin Franklin is a suspect in the theft of letters from the home of a British cabinet minister. The letters, which turn up in Massachusetts, may be pertinent to the colonial rebellion in America. Sir John's young assistant, Jeremy Proctor, acts as the magistrates eyes and ears, to gather information which helps Sir John solve the case.
An Experiment in Treason
Alexander, Bruce
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur edition. Pauline Brent, the Stokeworthy doctor's receptionist, is found hanging from a tree in the churchyard. Nearby, an archaeologist has found the body of a woman burried at a crossroads--in unhallowed ground--more than 500 years before. As Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson investigates, he begins to see parallels in the two women's lives. Will ancient history provide clues that will help solve Pauline Brent's murder?
An Unhallowed Grave: A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel
Ellis, Kate
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001.
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Staff Nurse Carmichael has been promoted and fallen in love, but the road to love isn't always easy.
Angel of Death
Cohen, Anthea
London: Quartet Crime, 1983.
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Lori Shepherd has known Aunt Dimity only as a long-time friend and correspondent of her mother. The two had met when Lori's mother worked in London during World War II. After her mother's death, Lori learns that Aunt Dimity has bequeathed her Cotswold cottage to Lori, along with a mysterious journal and a pink flannel bunny. Aunt Dimity Goes West is the twelfth book in the series, and finds Lori, her husband Bill, and their five-year-old twins vacationing in the mountains of Colorado. Lori, who was hoping to find peace and quiet in the mountains, soon finds the vacation spot is not so quiet, and certainly not peaceful.
Aunt Dimity Goes West
Atherton, Nancy
New York: Viking Press, 2007.
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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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Agatha Christie wrote Black Coffee as a three act play. Charles Osborne has adapted the play to a novel, thus bringing a new Hercule Poirot story to Christie's readers. Poirot is summoned to Surrey by physicist Sir Claud Amory, who thinks someone is trying to steal his latest discovery. When Poirot and Hastings arrive, however. Amory has died. Undeterred, Poirot engages his "little grey cells" to determine what happened.
Black Coffee: A Hercule Poirot Novel
Christie, Agatha, adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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That Scottish play lives up to its reputation by providing the setting for murder. Actor Philip Fletcher finds himself the chief suspect, and undertakes his own investigation to prove his innocence.
Bloody Instructions
Shaw, Simon
New York: Doubleday, 1992.
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First Pocket Books printing. Superintendent Robert Bone is on his honeymoon, making a tour of historic houses with his bride Grizel. Their visit to Roke Castle is marred by the death of a tourist who falls to her death; then Lord Roke, husband of Grizel's friend Jane, is murdered. Bone suffers the indignity of being a suspect in the murder, treated with a singular lack of respect by the local Chief Inspector. Hardly a romantic interlude for the bride and groom.
Bone Idle
Stacey, Susannah
New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
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Signed by author on title page. Ellie Haskell's grandmother has something to tell her--except her grandmother died years ago. However, her three best friends, nicknamed "The Bridesmaids," claim to have heard from her, from beyond the grave. Ellie heads off to Cambridgeshire to learn what what the bridesmaids, and her grandmother, have to say.
Bridesmaids Revisted
Cannell, Dorothy
New York: Viking Press, 200.
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