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1961) The missing piece
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only for Riley to later be released from his life sentence -...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three more gravely wounded. London's anarchists are blamed, but as Pitt and Inspector Tellman investigate they find it looks increasingly like a personal vendetta against those particular men. Did they lie about a drugs raid that went fatally wrong, and let an innocent man hang? The idea of police dishonesty cuts Tellman to the quick--he joined the force...
1963) Poison is not polite
Author
Series
Wells and Wong mystery volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In 1930s England, schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home for the holidays when someone falls seriously, mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem--and everyone has a secret or two--so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth . . . no matter the consequences.
1964) The kept woman: a novel
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 8
Language
English
Description
It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor -- the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away... and has vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest and most high-profile athlete -- a local hero protected...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A detailed historical account of the serial killer calls on never before examined primary documents to reveal how he managed to take advantage of the crowds drawn by the 1893 World's Fair to create his own castle of horrors.
Herman W. Mudgett, better known by his alias, H.H. Holmes, is considered America's first-- and most notorious-- serial killer. During the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the basement of his house in Englewood, Illinois contained...
1968) Treachery in death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Eve Dallas lets her partner Peabody take the lead in their investigation into the death of an elderly grocery store owner, but when Peabody overhears an argument between two fellow officers--Garnet and Oberman--she finds she has a bigger case to solve and Eve and Roarke--Eve's husband--all work together to find the evidence that proves the officers guilty of corruption and murder.
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She's the "invisible girl," compelled to poke into her wealthy clients' closely guarded lives. It's a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can't unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple--who might kill to keep their secret--dangerous to Kit....
1970) High anxiety
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this manic spoof of Hitchcock, a neurotic psychiatrist becomes the new head of a sanitarium and is caught up in kidnapping, murder, and mistaken identity.
1972) Design for dying
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing a gown she stole from the wardrobe department at Paramount Pictures, domain of Edith Head.Edith has yet to win the first of her eight Academy Awards; right now she's barely hanging on to her job, and a scandal is the last...
1974) The death of kings
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed John Madden series, the former Scotland Yard detective returns in a gripping post-World War II mystery that will delight fans of Philip Kerr On a hot summer day in 1938, a beautiful actress is murdered onthe grand Kent estate of Sir Jack Jessup, close friend of the Prince of Wales. The arrest of an ex-convict and his subsequent confession swiftly bring the case to a close, but in 1949, the reappearance...
1975) Death and the conjuror
Author
Series
Joseph Spector novels volume 1
Joseph Spector locked-room mystery volume 1
Joseph Spetor locked-room mystery volume 1
Joseph Spector locked-room mystery volume 1
Joseph Spetor locked-room mystery volume 1
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in...
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, as thirteen-year-old Sacha Kessler, the Inquisitor's apprentice, faces enemies old and new that threaten him and his family, he changes his mind about learning magic.
1977) Inspector of the dead
Author
Series
Thomas De Quincey mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his Confessions of an Opium-Eater, confronts London's harrowing streets to thwart the assassination of Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall ofthe English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...
1978) Murder on Fifth Avenue
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private club is murdered in nineteenth-century Manhattan.
1979) Prodigal son
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 6
Publisher
St Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed . . . As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name - The Nowhere Man -and a new mission, helping the most desperate...
1980) Song of the thin man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold. They're playing your song Nick and Nora Charles!
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