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Murder on the prowl (Mrs. Murphy Mystery Ser.)
By Rita Mae Brown. 1998
Shortly after school begins at the exclusively private St. Elizabeth's in Crozet, Virginia, obituaries appear in the paper for Headmaster…
Roscoe Fletcher and film director Maury McKinchie. Yet both are still alive. But before long, deaths do begin occurring. Of course Mrs. Murphy, the tiger cat, with the aid of her human, investigates. 1998.Murder in the mews: and three other Poirot cases
By Agatha Christie. 1964
As Inspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot, "Good night for a murder". It was November 5th, Guy Fawkes Night, and…
the odd shot would never be noticed. Someone agreed with him: next morning young Mrs Allen was found dead in her new house. Poirot solves this and three more perplexing cases with his usual brilliance in four tales of murder most foul. 1964.Monsieur Pamplemousse (M. Pamplemousse. #1.)
By Michael Bond. 1983
In which we meet the retired French detective, who now works undercover for `The Guide', the most prestigious culinary guidebook…
in France. He is assisted by Pommes Frites, a dog, who is almost as great a connoisseur as his master. The Hotel-Restaurant La Langoustine is under scrutiny; will it receive the supreme accolade of three stockpots? 1983.Mandie and the secret tunnel (Mandie book. #1.)
By Lois Gladys Leppard. 2000
Maigret's rival
By Georges Simenon, Helen Thomson. 1979
Maigret has gone to Saint-Aubin, unofficially, as a personal favour to the examining magistrate Brejon. A local youth has been…
run over by a train and malicious rumours are circulating that Brejon's brother-in law, Etienne Naud, had murdered the young man and that Genevieve, Naud's daughter, had been his mistress. As Justin Carve, an ex-policeman turned detective, is there also, Maigret finds competition for every snippet of evidence. 1979. Uniform title: L'inspecteur Cadavre.Maigret and the toy village (A helen And Kurt Wolff Bk.)
By Georges Simenon. 1978
Old Peg-leg is murdered on the Jeanneville estate near Paris. Maigret does not know why anyone would want to kill…
and old man with a mania for keeping to himself. 1979, c1978. Uniform title: Félicie est là.Maigret and the millionaires (A helen And Kurt Wolff Bk.)
By Georges Simenon. 1974
A rich British colonel is found dead in his bath, while his mistress vanishes mysteriously from her hospital bed. Inspector…
Maigret is off to the champagne playgrounds of the wealthy on a case he would much rather avoid. 1986, c1974. Uniform title: Maigret voyage.Lord Mullion's secret (Charles Honeybath mystery. #3.)
By Michael Innes. 1981
Who has removed a valuable ancestral portrait and substituted an obvious print? And why does the undergardener resemble the family…
so closely? Charles Honeybath, R.A. puzzles out the answers with his usual skill. Sequel to “Honeybath's haven”. 1981.Death of a cad (Hamish Macbeth mystery. #2.)
By M. C Beaton. 2008
When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted -- save perhaps for…
love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett, is murdered on a grouse hunt. Sequel to "Death of a gossip". 2008.Death of a gossip (Hamish Macbeth mystery. #1)
By M C Beaton. 2008
When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling…
feathers - or should that be fins? - of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue is Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth, yet not even Hamish thinks someone would seriously want to silence Lady Jane's shrill voice permanently - until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Followed by "Death of a cad". 2008.Freddy the detective (Freddy adventure.)
By Walter R Brooks. 1998
Freddy the pig is so stimulated by reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries that he sets up his own detective bureau. When…
a model train disappears, Freddy gets his first crack at a real mystery. Grades 3-6. 1998.Honest money: and other short novels
By Erle Stanley Gardner. 1991
Hot six: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum novel. #6.)
By Janet Evanovich. 2000
In this sequel to "High five" (DC21574), bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's mentor, the dangerously appealing Ranger, is the one who…
has skipped bail. Meanwhile, Stephanie is being tailed, her apartment is tossed, her relationship with cop Joe Morelli turns interesting, and her grandmother moves in. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Followed by "Seven up". 2000. (Stephanie Plum novel ; 6)Full speed (Full novels ; #3)
By Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes. 2003
Jamie Swift, owner of a local South Carolina newspaper, and her enigmatic partner, millionaire playboy Max Holt, pose as husband…
and wife as they become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of gangsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz. Sequel to "Full tilt". 2003.Full tilt (Full series. #Bk. 2)
By Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes. 2003
Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the…
arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie's life gets shaken up. Sequel to "Full House" . 2003.Full house (Billie Pearce novels ; #1)
By Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes. 2002
Wealthy polo-playing Nicholas Kaharchek falls in love with single mother Billie Pearce. When a horse injures Billie's foot, Nick foists…
his eccentric cousins on her, ostensibly to help. Meanwhile, a burglar is targeting Billie's Virginia neighbourhood. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2002, c1989.Gin and daggers: a Murder, she wrote mystery (Murder, She Wrote Ser.)
By Donald Bain. 1989
While in London for a convention of mystery writers, Jessica Fletcher stays with her old friend, Marjorie Ainsworth, who has…
written a novel, "Gin and daggers". When Marjorie is murdered, Jessica attempts to solve the crime. 1989. Uniform title: Murder, she wrote (Television program)Free fall in crimson (The travis Mcgee Ser. #Vol. 19)
By John D MacDonald. 1981
Firefly island (Romantic sounds audio)
By Lisa Wingate. 2013
Encyclopedia Brown and the case of the dead eagles (America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers. #12.)
By Donald J Sobol. 1975