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2) Seven Dials
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Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. One of the suspects is the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who is found standing near the body. The other suspect is senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson, rumored to be Ayesha's lover, and who claims he and his lady are innocent. Now Pitt has to solve the mystery...
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 15
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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420 p. ; 24 cm.
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 14
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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390 p. ; 24 cm.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 12
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
c1992
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361 p. ; 25 cm.
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When low-life moneylender William Weems is found murdered, there are few to mourn his passing. But when Inspector Pitt finds a list containing the names of some of London's most distinguished gentlemen in the murdered man's office, he recognizes the smell of blackmail.
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In the spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest ouside of London. Called in to lead the investigation, DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard is under urgent orders from his supervisor at the Yark to accomplish two things: solve the mystery quickly, and keep his wife, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher far away from the case.
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
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v, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
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In 1924, while visiting an old school friend's home for the annual Guy Fawkes celebration, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is stunned by the supposed suicide of the tyrannical head of the family, who may also have killed a guest.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 26
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
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306 p. ; 25 cm.
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Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
13) Blindman's bluff
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 18
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Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
14) Walking shadows
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"On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a resident of the neighboring town of Hamilton, had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time, and attended community college. But as Detective Peter Decker learns, the clean-cut kid is linked to the criminal world. When Brady was a baby, his father,...
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Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
16) Bone box
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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294 p. ; 22 cm.
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Daisy Dalrymple and her Scotland Yard detective husband, Alec Fletcher, are delighted to move into a home on the outskirts of London they have inherited from Alec's late uncle, until a corpse turns up in their garden bushes amid rumors of a liquor smuggling ring. And it's up to Daisy--well, Alec with some help from Daisy--to find out who the dead man is, why he was murdered and who did him in!
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2021.
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"Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finallypregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely...
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"It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queens confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majestys request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems...
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