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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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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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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
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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.
4) Spider's web
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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.
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"It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill...
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