Search Results: Returned 6 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 6
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c2004., Soho Press Call No: 823 .92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: London Private investigator Maisie Dobbs is hoping for some relaxation after a busy year, but in the early spring of 1930, Maisie is summoned to Dulwich to find a runaway heiress whose disappearance seems to be linked to the Great War.
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c2012., Dial Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves.
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[2021]., Park Row Books Call No: Historical Fic Penner Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell finds out about her husband's infidelity, she takes a walk along the River Thames and discovers an old apothecary vial. Needing a research project for a distraction, she investigates the vial and finds a mysterious link between her vial and an unsolved 200-year-old case known as the "apothecary murders" and the mysterious woman known as Nella, who was said to have sold well-disguised poisons to downtrodden women who needed a way to get rid of the men in their lives.
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By Li, Rushang2010, c2009., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Historical Fiction Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
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By Perry, Anne2001., Ballantine Books Call No: 823 .914 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Superintendent Thomas Pitt, relieved of his Bow Street command after he unwittingly offends the powerful and secretive Inner Circle with his testimony against accused murderer John Adinett, is reassigned to the Special Branch in the dangerous Whitechapel slum, where his further investigation of Adinett leads to a deadly conspiracy.
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[2018]., Harper Call No: MYSTERY F HOR Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Hawthorne Volume: 1Summary Note: A woman is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man; and his partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz.
