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Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. They'll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys -- their isolated estate. But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and a sleeping guest has ended in death -- indeed, in cause for alarm.
2) Towards zero
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Lady Camilla Tressilian lives with her companion and secretary, Mary Aldin, at Gull's Point. As the late summer approaches, Lady Tressilian is hosting a series of guests. Tennis player Nevile Strange has brought his beautiful young wife Kay to Gull's Point to meet the woman who helped raised him. As it happens, Audrey, his ex-wife, arrives for her annual visit. No one can quite understand why either party would agree to this rather awkward reunion,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 34
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The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,"...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 5
Mortalis
Thomas Pitt volume 06
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 05
Mortalis
Thomas Pitt volume 06
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 05
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When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? Before his death, the victim had been violated, a fact that makes it difficult for Pitt to question the boy's friends and family. Nevertheless, Pitt is shocked when the boy's parents refuse to answer police
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 6
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Superintendent Jury, his assistant, and a policeman in Devon attempt to solve the terrifying murder of three children.
6) The red door
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While Ian Rutledge searches for a missing man, Walter Teller, he is attacked by a young man who goes on a murderous spree with victims all resembling Rutledge, but after Teller mysteriously reappears, another woman is found dead and the Teller family is implicated in her death.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 4
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 04
Thomas Pitt volume 4
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 04
Thomas Pitt volume 4
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It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab--and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy.
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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 3
William Monk novel volume 03
William Monk novel volume 3
William Monk novel volume 03
William Monk novel volume 3
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After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general's wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him-- a story she clings to even under the threat of the noose. Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and Oliver Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work...
10) A cold treachery
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In December 1919, when five members of a family are found slaughtered in the kitchen of their Lake District cottage, Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the crime as well as the disappearance of the missing youngest child in the family.
12) The dirty duck
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Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that nothing ever happens in Stratford, he doesn't imagine just how wrong he can be. Besides the stage murders performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a real one has been committed not far from a popular pub know as the Dirty Duck. And the killer has left behind a fragment of Elizabethan verse - a rhyme that could mean death with each new line...
14) Artists in crime
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On a ship traveling back to England, Miss Agatha Troy finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn tedious and dull; he thinks she's a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there's a murder in the way: No sooner has Alleyn settled in to his mother's house, eager for a relaxing end to his vacation, than he gets a call that a model has been stabbed at the artists' community down the road. And the talented Miss Troy is one of the community's most...
15) Murder is easy
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It was just Luke Fitzwilliam's luck to be stuck next to a dotty old woman like Miss Fullerton on the London-bound train---although he found himself quite entertained with her tall tales about a series of perfect murders in the quaint village of Wychwood. But when he reads the next day of the freak accident that killer her, too, Fitzwilliam's amusement turns to grave concern. A visit to the isolated village confirms his worst fears. For Wychwood seems...
16) Last ditch
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 29
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On a beautiful island off the coast of France, Ricky Alleyn finds inspiration for a novel in the death of an equestrienne who rode as recklessly as she lived.
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"A lonely woman of vanishes while out on her morning run. The police aren't alarmed. But when a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk, an old man disappears too, no one can denied that something is happening in the quiet cathedral town of Lafferton. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome"--Back cover.
19) Innocent graves
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In England, a schoolgirl is strangled on church grounds and suspicion falls on the vicar, already involved in a sex scandal. But Inspector Banks thinks that a little too obvious and his probe leads him to a schoolteacher. By the author of Final Account.
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After weeks of rain, Chief Inspector Wexford has just finished moving his books and furniture upstairs to protect them from the rising waters when the telephone rings. Two local teenagers and their babysitter have gone missing. Wexford isn't particularly worried, since these things usually sort themselves out. But as hours stretch into days, he begins to suspect he has a kidnapping on his hands. The stakes get even higher when a member of the missing...
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