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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.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule Poirot himself heard her brag of her plan to get rid of him. But how could she have stabbed Lord Edgware in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? It's a case that almost proves to be too much for the great Poirot.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman....
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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680L
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Gypsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: 'There's no luck for them as meddles with Gypsy's...
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They were cat and mouse. Antagonists in a deadly game of survival, Ward Cameron and William Olive were linked together by the most fearful word in the West: bounty. Olive was a thrice-hardened Foreign Legionnaire turned bounty-hunter. And Cameron was a fugitive with a newly minted price on his head. An ex-Confederate officer, Cameron had murdered a carpet bagger tax-collector in a fit of rage. As if punished by the gods, he was pursued by a man seeking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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750L
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Detective Poirot becomes involved in the murder of the wife of an American archeologist at an excavation in the Iraqi desert. The woman was frightened and being cared for by a nurse. Poirot discovers that every member of the excavation team could be suspect.
10) Spanish pesos
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"Winghorse was a wide-open town where gun law was the only law and where Reece Rudabuagh's fast, highly-paid gunslingers had formed a welcoming committee, ready at a moment's notice to blast anyone who dared to defy their land hungry boss. But this kill-crazy mob faced more than just a saddle-weary, shiftless Texas ramrod in Andy Farlow. Farlow had come here on a mission -- to find 100,000 Spanish gold pesos -- and he would kill anyone who tried to...
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On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift--she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt--angry, too--but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose. The purpose turned out to be a town: Henry Adams,...
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When one of her passengers on a steamboat trip down the Mississippi si found dead, Delilah Dickinson, the owner of a literary travel agency, must get to the bottom of the mystery with the help of a handsome actor playing the role of Mark Twain in a one-man show aboard the riverboat. [LARGE PRINT READING]
13) Killer cuts
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Helen Hawthorne's latest dead-end job is in Miguel Angel's Fort Lauderdale hair salon, where a trim can cost as much as a car payment and a blowout can wipe you out. But when one of the salon's most famous clients, gossip blogger and cable-TV show host Kingman 'King" Oden is murdered at his own wedding, things get a little hairy and King becomes the prime suspect. To save her boss--and her job--Helen is determined to find the murderer. When she...
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In Harmony, Texas, twenty-year-old Reagan Truman has found her place and her family. But with her uncle taken ill and her friend Noah lost and disheartened with his life, Reagan is afraid of ending up alone again- and she's not the only one. Harmony seems to be full of people yearning to make a connection. Like funeral director Tyler Wright, who longs to take his relationship with his friend Kate to the next level, but doesn't know how. And Ronelle...
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When second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin's artistic works triple in value following his apparent suicide off the Brooklyn Bridge, Dorothy Parker smells something fishy. Enlisting the help of magician and skeptic Harry Houdini, she goes to a séance held by MacGuffin's mistress, where Ernie's ghostly voice seems hauntingly real...
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