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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
Revisiting an unfinished exhibit he had been preparing with a late fashion designer, a natural history museum curator uncovers clues to the story of the designer's remarkable family in Israel, New York, and the Latin American jungle.
Author
Series
First edition library mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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Formats
Description
"When a mysterious stranger turns up making claims that threaten Lady Fowling's legacy, Hayley Burke must dig deep into her late-benefactor's history to uncover the truth and catch a conniving killer in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling author Marty Wingate. It has been nearly a year since I took up my position as curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's collection of Golden Age of Mystery writers' first editions at her library in Middlebank...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
288 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes, fans and crinolines, and the faint mark on leather from a buckle now lost. Claire Wilcox has worked as a curator in Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum for most of her working life. Down cool, dark corridors and in quiet store rooms, she and her colleagues...
4) The square
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life forever Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
347 p.
Description
Curator and occasional sleuth Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel with a monumental task. Ariel must write a proposal for a controversial and expensive restoration project: convert an abandoned flour mill, currently used as shelter by homeless people, into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed into a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to murder. Back in Milwaukee, Chloe's love interest Roelke has been...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
ix, 353 p. : map ; 25 cm.
8) Alena
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, Alena tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod"--
Author
Formats
Description
Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire—to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only...
10) State fair
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
viii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
509 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
15) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
16) Broken dishes
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
ix, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
While visiting a friend's Western dude ranch, Benni Harper stumbles upon the remains of a long-dead murder victim buried in a shallow grave and embarks on an investigation to reveal the truth behind the terrible crime.
17) Spider web
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The Memory Festival is a celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. But when a local cop is wounded by a mysterious sharpshooter who seems to have a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for "her" loved ones, especially her police chief husband.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
viii, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Volunteered" to take over rehearsals of a children's play for the musical director of her church, Benni Harper's entertainment career comes to a dismal end when she stumbles upon the corpse of the church handyman in front of the altar.
20) Seven sisters
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
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