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Martha's Vineyard mystery volume 03
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[1992]
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Former Boston cop Jeff Jackson finds his anticipated enjoyment of an idyllic summer on Martha's Vineyard threatened by the arrival of a royal potentate in search of a stolen necklace, the kidnapping of his friend Zee Madieras, and murder.
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In Martha's Vineyard, a feud starts between hunters and animal rights activists and there is a murder. Former policeman J.W. Jackson and his fiancee, nurse Zee Madieras, interrupt their fishing and romancing to restore peace and catch the man responsible. By the author of Cliff Hanger.
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Returning home from a clamming expedition, J.W. Jackson finds that his wife Zee and young daughter had been attacked by intruders, which led to the fatal shooting of one of the perpetrators; discovers that the crime has ties to Tom Rimini, the troubled husband of J.W.'s first wife, Carla; and becomes caught up in the conflict with a deadly adversary.
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 2
Martha's Vineyard Mystery
Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 2
Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 02
Martha's Vineyard Mystery
Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 2
Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 02
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"Victoria Trumbull is a feisty ninety-two-year-old who refuses to let her age stop her from having fun--or investigating crime. When Victoria's knowledge of her native Martha's Vineyard helped to solve a murder in Deadly Nightshade, she earned her own baseball cap emblazoned with "West Tisbury Police Deputy". Now the authorities will turn to her again to help uncover another scandal on the idyllic island. Phoebe Eldridge, a short-tempered woman who...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 13
Marhta's Vineyard mystery volume 13
Martha's Vineyard mystery volume 13
Marhta's Vineyard mystery volume 13
Martha's Vineyard mystery volume 13
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Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James's fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies. Combining formal analysis and close reading with theoretical and historical approaches and focusing on key novels and tales from across James's career, Andrew Cutting explores five instances of Jamesian death: sacrifice, the corpse,...
12) The cemetery yew
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Victoria Trumbull, the astute, 92-year-old Vineyard native and deputy police officer, takes on her most bizarre case yet, in Riggs's third appealing Vineyard mystery (after 2002's The Cranefly Orchid Murders). An empty grave, a misplaced coffin and a missing hearse driver are the harbingers of a series of grotesque murders, whose victims turn out to share an odd South American connection involving smuggling and an exotic bird.
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When islanders clash with Saberfox, a powerful development agency, year-round residents J.W. Jackson and his wife Zee become embroiled in the conflict. After someone tries to kill a top company executive, J.W. begins to scrutinize the inner workings of Saberfox.
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"A small town, even one detached from the mainland, has its share of unpleasant residents. When a developer with an unhappy wife, a bullish attitude toward women, and a much frowned upon plan is murdered, not many tears are shed. The case naturally falls to Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old sharp-witted sheriff's deputy. Served by her in-depth knowledge of the island and her indomitable drive, Victoria is on the trail again, bunions, lilac-bough...
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J.W. Jackson and irascible environmentalist Henry Highsmith come to blows when J.W. parks his SUV too close to Highsmith's expensive bicycle--and when J.W. finds Highsmith's body in the sandtrap at a local golf course, he has to act fast to find the real culprit.
20) Indian pipes
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"Victoria Trumbull, a ninety-two-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, and her granddaughter, Elizabeth, spot a man in trouble near the top of a cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant on the proposed building of a controversial casino. The police call it an accident, but his death is just the first in what becomes a series of baffling murders. Victoria, now a deputy police...
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