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1) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
A museum director walks into work one morning to discover that the entire collection of porcelain, old documents, and paintings is gone. He calls the local police, and examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets out to learn the thief's identity. Verlaque wonders if this could have something to do with the recent robbery of Madame de Montbarbon's apartment. He is distracted by the impending of birth of his first child with his wife, Marine Bonnet....
Author
Series
Electra McDonnell novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give them...
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Physical Desc
xvii, 365 pages : portraits, photographs ; 21 cm
Description
During his 30-year career, this charmer swindled celebrities, socialites and even the mob out of over $35 million worth of fabulous jewels--yet, he spent less than three years in prison. For the first time, the shadowy and elusive Mason shares his amazing story.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Description
In the Belle �Epoque city of Severon, Sybil Clarion and Esme Rimbaud, best friends with a secret crush on each other, find themselves drawn into a risky heist proposition from a mysterious Green Faerie named Maeve, which could offer financial security but may endanger their carefully constructed lives.
After running away from home, Sybil Clarion is eager to embrace all the freedom the Belle �Epoque city of Severon has to offer. Instead, she's...
Author
Series
Amanda Black volume 6
Publisher
B De Block
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Creo que nunca había estado en una situación peor. Me explico: me han tirado al Nilo, estoy atada de pies y manos, y me estoy ahogando. Y, por si esto fuera poco, un cocodrilo enorme se acerca a mí. La tía Paula pensó que pasar unos días en El Cairo sería divertido. El plan era ver el Despertar del Nilo, un ritual único que se celebra cada doscientos años. Pero alguien ha robado la estatua de Hapi, el dios del río, y ha desatado las plagas...
10) Animal crackers
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous African explorer's welcome-home party is ruined by the mysterious disappearance of a valuable work of art.
Author
Series
Railhead volume 2
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"With superb world building, gripping action, and ruthless political intrigue, Black Light Express delivers a breathtaking adventure into the darkest depths of space and is sure to please sci-fi fans and foes alike. At the edge of the Great Network, a small-time thief and an android girl ride aboard a sentient train. They hurtle toward the unknown, ready to see what lies beyond the end of the universe. But Zen Starling and Nova leave behind worlds...
12) The ladykillers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor Marcus rents a London flat, telling his landlady that he and his friends are musicians who will be rehearsing in the flat. In reality, neither the professor nor his friends can play a note. He is a criminal mastermind, holding court over his gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Harry, the homicidal Louis and punch-drunk One-Round. The gang uses the professor's flat as a headquarters, where they conceive a daring 60,000 pound robbery....
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Series
Roman mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
195 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Description
Flavia Gemina is brilliant at finding things, so it's natural for her to solve mysteries. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she acquires a gang of three friends who help her. There is Jonathan, the Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, the African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy. Together they work out who severed the heads of the watchdogs that guard people's homes, and why he did it.
14) Thieves
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Description
What happened last night? Ella can't seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger's mansion, and she sure as heck doesn't know why she's woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie's nest of objects that aren't her own. And she can't stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can't tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania... But does Maddy have secrets of her own? Can they piece...
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 36
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with - crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate...
Author
Publisher
MR (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"M̌xico, junio de 1872. Un carruaje se estaciona frente al gran p̤rtico del sal̤n donde se celebra un baile en honor a Benito Jùrez. Una mujer misteriosa baja de ̌l, atrayendo la mirada de todos, especialmente de Sebastìn Lerdo de Tejada, ministro e ̕ntimo amigo del presidente. Ella se hace llamar Emilia, pero antes tuvo otros nombres y otras vidas. Siendo una nįa tuvo que huir tras presenciar el brutal asesinato de su madre. Desde entonces,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (646 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a team of thieves, hackers, and con artists who act as modern-day Robin Hoods, standing up for the little guy who has been victimized by the rich and powerful. The team takes on corrupt bankers, high fashion, the tabloid media, and, most shockingly, an old nemesis from their past.
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