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Majoring in murder: a Murder, she wrote mystery : a novel (Murder, she wrote)
By Donald Bain, William Link, Peter S Fischer, Richard Levinson. 2003
Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is teaching a class at an Indiana college when a tornado strikes and one of two…
professors who didn't seek emergency shelter is soon discovered dead. Jessica doubts the death was accidental, instead suspecting foul play. As she investigates, Jessica becomes embroiled in campus politics. Some descriptions of violence. 2003. (Murder, she wrote) Uniform title: Murder, she wrote (Television program)Murder, she meowed (Mrs. Murphy mystery.)
By Rita Mae Brown. 1996
Postmistress Harry of Crozet, Virginia, investigates the murder of two jockeys after the steeplechase races at Montpelier, James Madison's former…
estate. But it is her pets - feline Mrs. Murphy and corgi Tee Tucker - who uncover the clues. Some violence and some strong language. 1996. (A Mrs. Murphy mystery)Aunt Dimity beats the devil (Aunt Dimity series)
By Nancy Atherton. 2000
Lori travels to a country estate near Scotland to evaluate a book collection for the owners, newlyweds Jared and Nicole.…
Eerie things begin to happen, involving a handsome stranger and a tragic wartime romance. Lori seeks her ghostly Aunt Dimity's help in banishing an evil presence from the past. 2000. (The Aunt Dimity series)Murder shoots the bull
By Anne George. 1999
Petite Patricia Anne Hollowell and her plus-size sister Mary Alice Crane are thinking about getting involved in an investment club…
with neighbour Mitzi Phizer, when Mitzi's husband is accused of murdering his first wife. In the midst of trying to help, the sisters' own families create problems too. 1999.Murder makes waves
By Anne George. 1997
Tiny retired Alabama teacher Patricia Anne decides she needs some adventure in her life and turns to her flamboyant, wealthy,…
thrice-widowed sister, Mary Alice, for help. Together with a friend and Patricia Anne's daughter, they find more than adventure when they discover a murder on their Florida vacation. Some strong language. c1997.Maigret in Holland
By Georges Simenon, Geoffrey Sainsbury. 1993
When a French scholar is suspected of murder while he's on a lecture tour in Holland, he calls for his…
friend Maigret, even though the inspector can't speak Dutch. The visiting scholar had been a guest of the victim, who was a teacher on a cadet training ship. But others were present at the time the murder was committed, and when Maigret stages a reenactment of the crime, he gets to the real story. c1993. Uniform title: Crime en Hollande.Maigret sets a trap
By Georges Simenon. 1965
In the oppressive heat of a Parisian August, Maigret baits a trap to lure the murderer who brutally knifed five…
women in the streets of Montmartre. 1965. Uniform title: Maigret tend un piège.Appointment with death
By Agatha Christie. 1972
Maigret in court
By Georges Simenon. 1961
Crooked house
By Agatha Christie. 1949
One would imagine that only a family member could have poisoned Aristide Leonides, the elderly Greek patriarch, particularly when the…
old man himself had supplied the blueprint for the murder. 1949.After the funeral
By Agatha Christie. 1970
Maigret has doubts
By Georges Simenon. 1968
All evidence points to the husband when his rich estranged wife is stabbed to death. Only inspector Maigret is willing…
to consider the man's innocence. 1980, c1968. Uniform title: Confidence de Maigret.A hundred million francs
By Paul Berna. 1955
A gang of Parisian children search for their stolen tricycle and discover much more. The basis for the Disney production,…
"The horse without a head". Followed by "Street musician." Grades 4-7. 1955.Death in the air
By Agatha Christie. 1935
Who would want to kill a little old lady like Madame Giselle? The answer becomes clear as Hercule Poirot delves…
into the past of the slain victim and discovers she was a blackmailer, a money-lender, and a woman with a lurid past. 1935.Monks' Court: a novel
By Katherine Wigmore Eyre. 1966
A young American widow sees a man in an apartment where later there is a murder. She recognizes his face…
in an old portrait, and traces him to an ancestral home. 1966.Endless night
By Agatha Christie. 1968
Murder in retrospect
By Agatha Christie. 1970
A woman is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband. Sixteen years later her daughter, armed with…
new evidence and certain of her mother's innocence, convinces M. Poirot that the guilty person has gone unpunished. 1970.Kept women can't quit
By Erle Stanley Gardner. 1960
Strong poison
By Dorothy L. Dorothy Leigh Sayers. 1930
The grand finale
By Janet Evanovich. 1988
Divorcée Berry Knudsen falls out of a tree and meets the man of her dreams, hunky first grade teacher Jake…
Sawyer. And that's just the start of their screwball courtship. Some descriptions of sex. 2009, c1988.