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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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The Lighthouse
James, P. D.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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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. In the Lighthouse, Nathan Oliver, an obnoxious writer, falls to his death while at a private island retreat. Everyone on the island had a reason to disllike the man, so there is no shortage of suspects when Adam Dalgliesh arrives to investigate.
The Lighthouse
James, P. D.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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Signed by the author on the title page. Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Simon Puttock, thinking to put the recent violence of their lives behind them, are on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. But even shrines are not immune from violence. Sir Baldwin and Simon are among the first on the scene of the murder of a young girl. Then someone from Sir Baldwin's past appears, and more trouble follows.
The Templar's Penance
Jecks, Michael
London: Headline Book Publishing, 2003.
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Sophie Mendel is a wartime refugee living in London. Other refugees are dying, but the police don't take the possibility of foul play seriously. When a man living in Sophie's house dies, his son, American Bill Seago, begins to ask why. What he uncovers reveals something evil in the house, raising concerns about Sophie's safety.
The Deadly Side of the Square
Jordan, Lee
New York: Walker & Company, 1988.
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Sophie Mendel is a wartime refugee living in London. Other refugees are dying, but the police don't take the possibility of foul play seriously. When a man living in Sophie's house dies, his son, American Bill Seago, begins to ask why. What he uncovers reveals something evil in the house, raising concerns about Sophie's safety.
The Deadly Side of the Square
Jordan, Lee
New York: Walker & Company, 1988.
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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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Thorndike Large Print Popular Series edition. CID Detective Inspector William Sylvester investigates a case involving an anonymous letter and an antiques dealer. Then he wins the lottery, and leaves the police force to continue the investigation on his own.
The Rich Detective
Keating, H. R. F.
Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1993.
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Laurie R. King is the winner of an Edgar and a Macavity award. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes taken on a mission for Holmes' older brother Mycroft, and journey to India in search of a missing British agent, disguised as magicians. The man they seek is none other than Kimball O'Hara, the model for Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Ma
The Game: A Mary Russell Novel
King, Laurie R.
New York: Bantam Books, 2004.
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Dorothy Sayers has an unexpected guest--there is a dead man sitting at her typewriter. Sayers' friend and fellow writer Agatha Christie undertakes to solve the crime.
Dorothy and Agatha
Larsen, Gaylord
New York: Dutton, 1990.
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International finance has somewhat taken the place of international espionage. In Single and Single, it's British merchant bankers against the Russian mafia. John Le Carré has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Single & Single
Le Carré, John
New York: Scribners, 1999.
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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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Fifth in the series featuring G.D.H. Pringle and Mavis Bignell. A famous actress if found stabbed to death on the set of a television soap opera. G. D. H. Pringle, hired by the station to look into their finances, can't resist sticking his nose into the crime. Then another is found, and another . . .
Death in Close-Up
Livingston, Nancy
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
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Peter Lovesey has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association 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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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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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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Stories and short fiction included in this compilation are: The Big Bow Mystery, by Israel Zangwill; the Queen's Square, by Dorothy L. Sayers; The Invisible Man, by G. K. Chesterton; The Girl in the Train, by Agatha Christie; The Murder on the Lotus Pond, by Robert van Gulik; Hand Upong the Waters, by William Faulkner; The Sam Spade Stories: A Man Called Spade, They Can Only Hang You Once, and Too Many Have Lived, by Dashiell Hammett; The Hunchback Cat, by Edmund Crispin; Trouble Is My Business, by Raymond Chandler; The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue, by Ellery Queen; See No Evil, by Rex Stout; Yesterday I Lived! by Rex Stout; The Chill, by Ross Macdonald; The Murder of Santa Claus, by P. D. James; Never Shake a Family Tree, by Donald E. Westlake; Death Notes, by Ruth Rendell; Sadie When She Died, by Ed McBain.
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
McCullough, David Willis, ed.
New York: Pantheon, 1994.
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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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Includes six Rumpole stories.
Rumpole and the Angel of Death
Mortimer, John
New York: Viking Press, 1996.
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