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6981) Lon Chaney collection
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (325 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ace of Hearts (75 min.): A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society become even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Laugh, clown, laugh (73 min.): A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
The unknown (63 min.): Alonzo is an armless knife thrower and marksman for a circus, but he's hiding a secret that will lead to...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 6
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people-who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling,...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (436 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The hilariously mismatched detective duo of Luella Shakespeare and grumpy Frank Hathaway return for ten more episodes of the hit mystery/comedy- drama set in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. One might think the birthplace of William Shakespeare would be safe from fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft, and ransom, but they would be wrong.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mark Bowden has written about crime and was recognized in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting pieces-accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways technology has progressively altered criminal investigation....
6985) Lincoln's last trial
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
7 CDs (9 hrs) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lincoln's Last Trial captures the presidential hopeful's dramatic courtroom confrontations in vivid detail as he fights for his client.
6986) Twin Peaks
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1501 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Special Agent Dale Cooper as he investigates the death of Laura Palmer in the strange town of Twin Peaks.
6987) Jack and Norman: a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
240 pages
Description
"This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America. Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, whenhe struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a talented writer who deserved another chance at freedom....
Author
Series
Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
411 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Nevada newcomer Mags and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, team up with German shepherd, King, and police officer Pete to confront an ambitious politician and a corrupt power company on behalf of a homeless community.
6989) Shunning Sarah: a novel
Author
Series
Riley Spartz novel volume 5
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/ Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
311 p.
Description
When a member of a Minnesota Amish community is found brutally murdered, investigator Riley Spartz encounters cultural challenges to traditional police procedures before uncovering clues about a dark web of fraud and deception.
6990) Reykjavaik
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jaonasson, along with Katrain Jakobsdaottir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavaik. What happened to Laara? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Laara decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavaik. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. Time passes, and the mystery becomes Iceland's most infamous...
6991) 99 River Street
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When former boxer Ernie Driscoll is blamed for his wife's murder, he must track down the jewel thief she was involved with before the man leaves the country.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 299 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Recounts the criminal activities of Eli Stutzman, detailing his strict upbringing in an Amish community, his wife's suspicious death, and the spree of sex, sadomasochism, and drug use with his young son that culminated in murder.
6993) A sky for us alone
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might have found the rarest...
6994) The key to deceit
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...
6995) Chilled to the cone
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"When a surprise opportunity to launch a pop-up ice cream shop comes her way, Jules jumps at the chance to showcase Torte's signature iced drinks and cold custards. But selling the desserts of her dreams comes at a price...and, before she knows it, Jules's life swirls into a nightmare. One of the town's most colorful characters, a street performer known for wearing capes and a cone-shaped hat, turns up dead just as Torte 2.0 is set to open its doors....
Author
Series
Jordan Manning novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Appears on list
Description
When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scene in impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a master's degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts,...
6997) Anna O: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed 'Sleeping Beauty' by the tabloids, Annas condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known...
6998) Murder in a cup
Author
Series
Crystals and CuriosiTEAS volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When her first group reading ends in murder, self-taught "seer" Shay, the descendant of an Irish witch and owner of a New Age tea shop, with her assistant suspected of committing cold-blooded murder, finds her business in hot water as she works to exonerate her employee by following the signs to a manipulative murderer.
6999) In a midnight wood
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Beloved heroine Jane Lawless finds that some secrets don't stay buried forever in Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart's In a Midnight Wood, the 27th mystery in this cultishly popular series. Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless is headed to the small town of Castle Rock for a little getaway. She and Cordelia plan to visit an old friend, participate in an arts festival, and look into a cold case that has recently come on Jane's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
252 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
"From the prize-winning biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: can a novel kill? In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. The brutal murder had the whole city talking. The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence...
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