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1) Wilderness
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Newman began to run after Karl. He had closed the gap. He felt stronger, as if he could run on at this pace until he grew old and died. Karl stedied himself and aimed the .45 with both hands. He heard another click as Karl squeezed the trigger in a kind of blind panic. Newman laughed loudly and Karl heard him; it was an explosion of mirthless and savage sounds. "It's empty, you son of a 'b....' It's empty and I'm coming!"
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"Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when the kids hear gunshots at the house next door, they jump at the chance to launch their own amateur investigation--and after all, why shouldn't they? They know everything the cops do about crime scenes, having read about them in mother's novels. They know what her literary detectives would do in such...
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"When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started--to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel ... As Emily sets to work on the West papers, it begins to dawn on her that several items have gone missing from the collection. To trace their whereabouts, she gains unsupervised...
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Robin Paige Victorian-Edwardian mysteries volume 1
Victorian mystery volume 01
Victorian mysteries volume 01
Victorian mystery volume 01
Victorian mysteries volume 01
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"Kathryn Ardleigh, an outspoken, free-thinking American, accepts employment with a kindly maiden aunt living in England and finds herself investigating a mysterious death at an archaeological site and two other murders much closer to home."--from NoveList.
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Crime with the classics volume 4
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"Professor Emily Cavanaugh has left Windy Corner behind and is back at Reed College on her sabbatical, determined to finish writing her book on Dostoevsky. She is soon reunited with one of her promising students, Daniel Razumov, as well as familiar faces on the teaching staff - her friend, Marguerite Grenier, her half-brother, Oscar Lansing, the abrasive division chair, Richard McClintock, and the predatory Taylor Curzon. Known for her relentless...
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Crime with the classics volume 5
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"Retired professor Emily Cavanaugh and her husband, Luke, are taking a much-needed break from Windy Corner and spending their honeymoon five thousand miles away as paying guests at Fizhugh Manor in Oxfordshire. Quaint nearby villages and the manor's impressive turrets and arches capture Emily's Anglophile heart, but when she meets its dashing young heir, James Fitzhugh and his American wife, Allison, James's cousin Penelope, his dithering uncle Roger...
8) Night watch
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[1979]
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A young woman lies dead, strangled by a killer still prowling the sweltering run-down neighbororhood. The young wife of a police lieutenant receives threatening phone calls; the precinct's cars are sabotaged; even the puppies the officers have adopted as mascots are savagely slain. It looks like there's a psycho on the loose with a vendetta against the cops. And then the widow of a precinct cop is found horribly murdered. The "signature" of the first...
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[2000]
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Blends history and imagination in a novel in which American author O'Henry is drawn back into his past when he returns to Texas to confront the solution to a series of murders that took place when he was a young man in Austin--a killing spree that claimed the life of the woman he loved.
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