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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence of something amiss. Mysteries fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element...
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Series
Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 23
Mrs Jeffries volume 23
Victorian mystery volume 23
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 23
Mrs Jeffries volume 23
Victorian mystery volume 23
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 23
Language
English
Description
She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon..and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes--but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries' polished detection skills are up to the task...proving that behind every great man there's a woman..and that a crime-solver's work is never done.
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English
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"A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government."--
"Post-World War II Britain, 1947. Forty-one-year-old "Miss White," as Elinor White lives quietly and privately in Shacklehurst, a village in Kent, England. The residents have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor's war work...
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English
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Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain... until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. On Alice's 12th birthday, Nicola disappears; her body is found days later, battered and bruised. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will the truth be too much to handle when she starts to suspect her own quiet and...
6) Spider's web
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Language
English
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Presents a novelized version of Agatha Christie's 1954 play about Clarissa, a woman who discovers an unidentified dead man in her drawing room shortly before her husband is due home with an important foreign politician, and persuades her houseguests to help her hide the body until she can figure out who he is and why he is in her house.
7) Salt Lane
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Misfit London metro police officer Alexandra Cupidi investigates the case of a woman who is found dead in a marshland and a homeless woman claiming to be the same person in search of the son she gave up for adoption.
10) Malice domestic
Author
Series
Doran Fairweather mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
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