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The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realize that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though,...
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On a rocky beach in the southwest of Ireland, the body of Jimmy O’Reilly, sixty-nine years old and dressed in a suit and his dancing shoes, is propped on a boulder, staring sightlessly out to sea. A cryptic message is spelled out next to the body with sixty-nine polished black stones and a discarded vial of deadly veterinarian medication lies nearby. Jimmy was a wealthy racehorse owner, known far and wide as The Dancing Man. In a town like Dingle,...
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Boxcar children volume 44
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When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.
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Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
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"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. Foscarini's son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he's...
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Marlow Murder Club volume 2
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It's been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks - AKA the Marlow Murder Club - since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, JennyPage. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there's...
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She was a Fellow and Tutor of Scone College and the world must learn that Fellows and Tutors of Scone College shall not be done to death with impunity.'
The Hon. Charlie Mortdecai, the inspiration for the character in the film Mortdecai, starring Johnny Depp, is invited to Oxford to investigate the cruel and most definitely unusual death of a don who collided with an omnibus. Though her death appears accidental, one or two things don't add up - such...
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Chicken Squad volume 2
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When a weird blue chicken comes to Chicken Squad headquarters for help, siblings Dirt, Sugar, and Sweetie help find her missing house.
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Hardy Boys adventures volume 11
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When the rodeo comes to Bayport, Joe and Frank catch the ranch hands trying to steal a prize horse. After the boys stop the theft, they're recruited to help drive the cattle back to the ranch. However, mysterious things continue to happen and the Hardy boys have to solve the mystery.
15) Liar!
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Even though Luna and her brother Cullen seem like complete opposites, they're identical in two ways: they'll never let injustice stand and they always have each other's back. Fern Michaels blends mystery, drama and a touch of romance for the third in her Lost & Found series, as the siblings set out to unravel a cold case connected to a mysterious armoire.
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Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience?s attention. Her latest story?a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal?is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner?s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a...
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Boxcar children volume 56
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The Alden children draw upon their resourcefulness to save the neighborhood firehouse from being torn down, while they also face a series of mysterious incidents connected with it.
18) Bicycle mystery
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While the four Alden children are on a bicycle trip, they become involved with the mystery of a lost show dog.
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Boxcar children volume 95
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The children are staying at the home of a famous inventor who was known for her one-of-a-kind clocks. All the clocks make noise especially at midnight, when there are enough chimes, gongs, and clangs to wake the whole house up! But the clocks aren't the only sound in the house at midnight. Someone or something is making a mysterious tapping sound. Who could be inventing trouble in the old house?
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Boxcar children volume 124
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The Boxcar Children investigate a mysterious ghost with a glowing pumpkin head at a friend's farm.
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