Mary Higgins Clark
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters present this delightfully chilling collection of original mystery stories. This fitting tribute to the world's most beloved crime writer, Dame Agatha Christie, showcases a house full of top contemporary writers at their very best. "Malice' is self-explanatory, I trust," writes the acclaimed Elizabeth Peters in her introduction to this outstanding collection. "Domestic
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English
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Solving crimes from coast to coast! Alvirah Meehan, the ever-resourceful former cleaning lady who struck it rich in the lottery, won the hearts of millions of readers and listeners when she narrowly survived a stalking killer in the #1 bestseller Weep No More My Lady. Now she returns with her occasionally befuddled mate Willy in this dazzling collection of interconnected stories. From the glittering streets of New York City to the shores of both California...
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English
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Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller, who keeps her readers spellbound. Now, in her first two published stories, written in the fifties, she draws on her career as a young Pan American Airway-flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue. In Stowaway, a courageous flight attendant helps a desperate young man of the underground escape the Soviet police. In Milkrun, a flight attendant becomes immersed in a web of deception when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
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English
Description
Following a nasty divorce, attorney Emily Graham buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house, in Spring Lake, New Jersey. The house was sold by Emily's ancestors in 1892 after a young girl disappeared. During renovations, the skeleton of a woman who disappeared a few years go is found. In her hand is the finger bone of another woman wearing a ring. Emily is determined to find a connection between the two deaths, but she becomes a threat to a seductive...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
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English
Description
Nancy Harmon has a new home, a loving husband and two beautiful children. The thing is, she's had all this before... Seven years ago she escaped from a volatile marriage and the devastating deaths of her first two children. Now, she's trying to start fresh. The accusations. The newspaper stories. The blame. That's all behind her. Or so she thinks. For someone has not forgotten. Somebody who is determined to bring the terror and the pain hurtling back....
68) My gal Sunday
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Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, blows up after he and his wife Nell have a quarrel, and she had told him not to come home. Nell receives messages from Adam transmitted by a medium, what she doesn't know is that she is being watched and is near to becoming the next victim of a ruthless killer.
71) STILL WATCH
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Pub. Date
1984.
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English
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A spellbinding plot which two women's ambitions collide, exploding in a terrifying confrontation that brings each of them face to face with her own past-and the mystery that connects them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Six crime stories featuring Alvirah Meehan, a former cleaning woman using the $40 million won in a lottery to sleuth for justice. Also appearing is her ex-plumber husband, Willie. By the author of Weep No More, My Lady.
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[2002]
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English
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Silent night: In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer as a hostage for a getaway to Canada. But St. Christopher spoils his plan.
All through the night: Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram...
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1995.
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English
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Where are the children: Nancy Harmon flees her disastrous marriage and the deaths of her two children to Cape Cod, where she marries again and starts a new family, but when her two new children disappear, the nightmare begins anew.--Where.
A Stranger is Watching: Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson ... yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson's death...
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Pub. Date
1991.
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English
Description
Contains three romantic suspense novels including "Weep No More, My Lady," in which a young woman searches for her sister's killer; "Stillwatch," the story of a journalist who discovers the truth about her own past while working on a political story; and "A Cry in the Night," in which a fairytale marriage turns into a nightmare.
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Pub. Date
1996.
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English
Description
Presents three murder mysteries by Mary Higgins Clark, including "While My Pretty One Sleeps," set in New York's fashion world; "Loves Music, Loves to Dance," in which a killer finds victims through the personal ads; and "All Around the Town," about a young woman who discovers she has multiple personalities.