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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
London Private investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into an terrorist investigation after the Home Secretary's office opens a threatening letter that features Maisie's name; and meanwhile, Maisie's assistant Billy Beale struggles to aid his wife, who is suffering a deep depression over the loss of their daughter.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability--and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realized...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
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In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth.
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice--Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938....
Author
Series
Blue Ant trilogy volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Amory Ames mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling to Paris with Milo to investigate the death of a famous parfumier, Amory discovers that the victim was about to release a highly anticipated new fragrance and had been targeted by industry rivals and heirs vying for control of his empire.
Author
Series
Sarah Tolerance mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1880. 'I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife...' When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are initially skeptical. How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond...
14) False wall
Author
Series
Abbot Agency mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a skeleton is unearthed in her fiancé Leon's garden after the wall between their properties collapses, Bea and Leon set out to discover more about the house's previous owners.
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be less perilous than a trip to a girls' boarding school,...
Author
Series
Lady Sherlock novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, returns in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of A Conspiracy in Belgravia and A Study in Scarlet Women, an NPR Best Book of 2016. Under the cover of "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes puts her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. Aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, Charlotte draws those in need to her and makes it her business to know what other people...
Author
Series
Lady Sherlock novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her powers of deduction to use. As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, she's had success helping with all manner of inquiries, but she's not prepared for the new client who arrives at her Upper Baker Street office. Lady Ingram, wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor, wants Sherlock Holmes to find her first love, who failed to...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.
Author
Series
Lady Sherlock novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlotte Holmes comes face-to-face with her enemy when Moriarty turns to her in his hour of need in the USA Today bestselling series set in Victorian England. A most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes's doorstep: Moriarty himself. Moriarty fears that tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth. Charlotte and Mrs. Watson travel to a remote community of occult practitioners where Moriarty's daughter was...
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