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Husband and wife sleuths Kate and Charles Sheridan have been invited to stay at Blenheim Palace while Kate researches a book on the affair of King Henry II and the fair Rosamund. When a Palace maid is kidnapped, then the Duke of Marlborough and his mistress disappear, Kate's writing is put aside and she must bring her investigative skills come into play.
Death at Blenheim Palace
Paige, Robin
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2005.
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Third in the series that features Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. They are purported to be adventures drawn from unpublished journals discovered at Collins' solicitor's office. In this outing, Dickens' mistress Ellen Ternan is accused of murder and the sleuths are drawn into the British feminist movement.
The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Affair of the Feminist Phantom. A Secret Victorian Journal Attributed to Wilkie Collins
Palmer, William J.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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Governess Rachel Penniston is uneasy in her new position at Talisman, on the coast of Cornwall. The arrival of a mysterious stranger exacerbates her unease.
Web of Deception
Peart, Jane
Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell, 1996.
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In Victorian London, Miriam Gardiner disappeared after a game of croquet, and hasn't been seen since. Miriam's fiance, Lucius Stourbridge asks private investigator William Monk to find Miriam. Monk enlists the aid of his new wife Hester in the search for the truth.
The Twisted Root
Perry, Anne
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.
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With this book, Perry begins a new series. British intelligence agent Matthew Reavley and his Cambridge professor brother Joseph investigate their parents' death in a car crash. Their search is driven beyond normal grief when they learn that at the time of his death, their father may have been carrying a secret document linked to national security.
No Graves as Yet: A Novel of World War I
Perry, Anne
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
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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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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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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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Cold Coffin
Quest, Erica
New York: Doubleday Crime Club, 1990.
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Ian Rankin has been awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Witch Hunt
Rankin, Ian
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1993.
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What would make a seventy-seven year old retired judge kill his seventy-eight year old former comrade in arms? Jonathan Playfair is on trial for the murder of David Trelawney. The two men had been with British Special Forces in North Africa during World War II. Could something that happened more than 50 years ago have bearing on the case? Not even Playfair's lawyer can pry the information from his client's lips.
Indictment for Murder: A Mystery
Rawlinson, Peter
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000.
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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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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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The Cross-Legged Knight: An Owen Archer Mystery
Robb, Candace
New York: Mysterious Press, 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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Intruduces Matthew Shardlake, investigator for the crown.
Dissolution
Sansom, C. .
New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
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Winner of the 2005 Crime Writers Association's Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. Second book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Sixteenth Century attorney Shardlake agrees to assist Thomas Cromwell in exchange for a 2-week reprieve for a woman sentenced to execution for a murder she didn't commit. Shardlake had defended her, and lost. His task: to find a missing store of Greek fire, an incendiary whose formula was secret. Shardlake and Jack Barak, employed by Cromwell, search throughout London, but murder and secrecy precede their every step. Illustrated endpapers.
Dark Fire
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Viking Press, 2004.
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The author's first novel, which introduces Matthew Shardlake, investigator for the crown. It's 1537. An agent of the King is found murdered, and the King's vicar-general sends lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate. Other deaths follow, and Shardlake himself becomes a target before he uncovers the murderer.
Dissolution
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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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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Fifth in the Sergeant Verity series. Sergeant William Clarence Verity is in Brighton this time, investigating the theft of the Shah Jehan clasp, an extremely valuable piece of jewelry. He thinks the case is well in hand, until his wife vanishes. What is the link between the theft and his wife's disappearance?
Sergeant Verity and the Swell Mob
Selwyn, Francis
New York: Stein and Day, 1981.
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