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3) Curtain
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
c1975
Physical Desc
238 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In Poirot's last case he returns to Styles Court, the scene of his first English adventure in crime, to track down the person responsible for several murders.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral when one of the candidates is found murdered in his own church.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
While on a trip to visit a Stone Age excavation, Dorothy and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, launch an unofficial investigation into the murder of the principal donor for the archaeological dig.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Vacationing in the English village of Broadway with her retired constable husband when they discover the body of a local farmer in a disused quarry, Dorothy Martin cannot resist getting involved after the police are unable to determine a motive for the crime.
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 338 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
This mystery finds Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his first case from thirty years earlier when the descendant of Lord Attenbury begs his help in proving the ownership of a priceless cache of emeralds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
354 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
11) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend at a lovingly restored old mansion, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have known better, but even she could not have anticipated the terror that is unleashed by an epic storm and the discovery of a body among the roots of a fallen oak tree. Rendered...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 28
Formats
Description
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village celebration, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery featuring a Murder Hunt, hosted by mystery writer Ariadne Oliver. One need only follow the game's make-believe clues to be the first to find the body. Only this time, it isn't a game, and the clues lead to a genuine corpse. Ariadne needs the help of her old friend, Hercule Poirot.
15) The fifth heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
618 pages
Description
"In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus--his three-year absence after Reichenbach...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agatha's marriage isn't what she expected, James is critical and suspects that he has been visiting his ex-lovers, Melissa's company. When James disappears and Melissa is violently murdered Agatha enlists the help of her ex-lover Sir Charles Fraith to help search for James and find the killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"An intricate plot in the post-WWI English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) combine in this absorbing mystery perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie. Dead one minute... Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they rush off quickly to look for some help. Alive the next? When...
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Series
Description
"1910. Joanna Blalock's keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse, one of the few professions that allow her to use her finely-tuned brain. But when she and her ten-year-old son witness a man fall to his death, apparently by suicide, they are visited by the elderly Dr. John Watson and his charming, handsome son, Dr. John Watson Jr. Impressed by her forensic and deductive skills, they invite her to become the third...
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 33
Description
Agatha investigates after a naked man bursts out of the woods claiming to have seen a dead body near a sight supposedly once used for sacrifices in the latest addition to the series following Down the Hatch.
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