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Final curtain (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser. #14)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1998
Troy Alleyn, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn, paints a portrait of Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Ancred, a patriarch preparing to…
marry a young chorus girl. After a tense birthday dinner, Henry is found dead. Troy, finally reunited with Roderick after a prolonged separation, suspects poisoning and enlists Roderick's aid. 1947Photo finish (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser.)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 2000
Montague Reece invites Scotland Yard's Roderick Alleyn and artist wife Troy to his New Zealand estate and commissions Troy to…
paint his mistress, opera star Sommita. As Roderick tries to protect the singer from a nuisance photographer, rumors of drug involvement surface and Sommita is found murdered. 1980False scent (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser. #21)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1999
When the beloved "queen of the British theater" is murdered in a cloud of perfume, the case literally reeks with…
likely suspects. It is up to Superintendent Roderick Alleyn to sniff out the motives and bring the killer to justice. 1960When in Rome (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser.)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1999
Under cover on an international drug smuggling investigation, Scotland Yard inspector Roderick Alleyn accompanies a motley group of sightseers on…
a tour of Italian ruins. When their unscrupulous guide disappears and a postcard vendor is murdered, Alleyn advises the travelers not to leave town before the killer is apprehended. 1971Tied up in tinsel (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser.)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1972
Artist Troy Alleyn visits Hilary Bill-Tasman's estate to paint Hilary's portrait. As Hilary prepares for a Christmas pageant, one of…
his eccentric guests disappears. Troy's husband, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, arrives from London to help unravel the mystery and to interrogate Hilary's staff members--all of whom are convicted murderers. 1972A man lay dead
By Ngaio Marsh. 1934
Sir Hubert Handesley hosts a weekend house party at his country estate, during which assorted guests engage in a game…
of "murder." When a real death interrupts their parlor game, Inspector Alleyn from Scotland Yard arrives to investigate. 1934Scales of justice
By Ngaio Marsh. 1955
Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard tracks a killer in the seemingly peaceful English village of Swevenings after a body…
is found in a thicket by the trout stream. He discovers that violent death is just as gruesome among the gentry as among the working class. 1955A wreath for Rivera (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser. #15)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1998
George Settinger, Lord Pastern, joins Breezy Bellairs's band much to the chagrin of his wife, Cécile, who also disapproves of…
the relationship between the band's piano-accordionist, Carlos Rivera, and her daughter, Félicité. When Carlos is murdered during a performance attended by Inspector Roderick Alleyn, Roderick investigates. 1949Killer dolphin (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser. #24)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1999
The Dolphin, a newly restored dockside London theatre, opens with The Glove, a play inspired by the discovery of a…
genuine Shakespearean mitt. Inspector Roderick Alleyn supervises security precautions for the relic but is soon tracking a criminal when someone kills a caretaker and steals the glove. 1966Light thickens (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser.)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 2000
Members of a London acting troupe performing Shakespeare's Macbeth suspect the play is cursed after several pranks disrupt rehearsals. Their…
apprehension turns to horror when an actor is murdered onstage during a performance. Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, who happens to be in the audience, investigates. 1982Grave mistake
By Ngaio Marsh. 2000
Rich, vain, hypochondriac Sybil Foster, on a rest cure at posh Greengages, is found dead--a supposed but improbable suicide. Scotland…
Yard superintendent Roderick Alleyn investigates Foster's caddish doctor, ne'er-do-well stepson, nouveau-riche neighbor, and a Scots gardener. 1978A fatal grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #2)
By Louise Penny. 2011
Quebec. Much-disliked businesswoman and writer CC de Poitiers is electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake during a curling…
tournament in the village of Three Pines. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, from Still Life, arrives from Montreal and discovers links to another unsolved crime. Some strong language. 2006.Still life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
By Louise Penny. 2008
Shortly after elderly Jane Neal finally agrees to participate in the art show to be held in her small village…
outside of Montreal, she is killed by an arrow through the heart. As Chief Inspector Gamache investigates, he wonders if her unusual artwork provides a clue to her murder. 2006Blue lightning: A Thriller (Shetland Island Mysteries Ser. #4)
By Ann Cleeves. 2011
A woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isle's bird observatory with feathers threaded through her hair. Shetland Detective…
Jimmy Perez--with only his fiancée to help him--soon realizes that this is a murder of cold and calculated intention. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010The Lincoln Lawyer: A Richard and Judy bestseller (Mickey Haller Series #1)
By Michael Connelly. 2005
A major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey. There is no client as scary as an innocent man. From the bestselling…
author of THE GODS OF GUILT and BRASS VERDICT comes the first in the Mickey Haller legal thrillers. Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car, a Lincoln, taking whatever cases the system throws in his path. He's been a defence lawyer for a long time, and he knows just how to work the legal systems. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent.But then the case starts to fall apart, neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem - and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.Read by Michael Brandon(p) 2005 Orion Publishing GroupCoffin and the Paper Man (John Coffin Ser. #Bk. 22)
By Gwendoline Butler, St. Martin`s Press. 1991
After a young girl is raped and murdered, one of the suspects and some of his family die under suspicious…
circumstances. A series of anonymous notes signed Paper Man, and the odd actions of the rape and murder victim's grief-stricken father, are among the clues that Chief Commander Coffin must sift through to solve the case. Some violenceThe Last House: an intense psychological thriller of locked doors and family secrets
By R. G. Adams. 2022
Social worker Kit Goddard is convinced that Sandbeach Child Services have let an injured seventeen-year-old boy down, just like they'd…
done to her brother ten years earlier. Since the referral came in, it had been passed between departments, her own manager Georgia and colleague Tim brushing it off as a low risk, low priority case. But Kit can't shake the feeling that something isn't quite right.Scanning the referral, she notices that the house seventeen-year-old Dylan Meredith lives in with his 'weird' mother had been described as decrepit. The anonymous caller said he was injured, frightened and afraid to tell the truth. As Kit begins to look deeper into the history of the family, she learns that Dylan's grandmother had been an inpatient at Penlan psychiatric hospital and had died there in 2012. But as her colleague Tim had stressed, this was not a case for psychiatric services. In a bid to trace the anonymous caller for more information, Kit sets off to the small coastal town of Rock. Only to be confronted with the sense of strangeness that surrounds the Meredith family and the rumours that have troubled this small community for years. An intense psychological thriller, The Last House shows that the darkest secrets are hidden within the walls. But no matter how big you build them the truth will always find a way of breaking out. (P) 2022 Quercus Editions LimitedStrip Jack (Inspector Rebus Novels Ser. #4)
By Ian Rankin, St. Martin`s Press. 1994
When Detective Inspector John Rebus participates in a raid on an Edinburgh brothel, he is surprised to find a member…
of Parliament, Gregor Jack, among the guests. Because the press seems to have known about the raid, Rebus suspects a setup. Then Jack's wife is found murdered near their cottage in the Highlands. Some strong languageThe Last House: an intense psychological thriller of locked doors and family secrets
By R. G. Adams. 2022
'I'm completely hooked. Adams is a skilled and engaging writer' Alex MarwoodTHREE GENERATIONS OF SECRETSSocial worker Kit Goddard is convinced…
that Sandbeach Child Services have let an injured seventeen-year-old boy down, just like they'd done to her brother ten years earlier. Since the referral came in, it had been passed between departments, her own manager Georgia and colleague Tim brushing it off as a low risk, low priority case. But Kit can't shake the feeling that something isn't quite right. Scanning the referral, she notices that the house seventeen-year-old Dylan Meredith lives in with his 'weird' mother had been described as decrepit. The anonymous caller said he was injured, frightened and afraid to tell the truth. As Kit begins to look deeper into the history of the family, she learns that Dylan's grandmother had been an inpatient at Penlan psychiatric hospital and had died there in 2012. But as her colleague Tim had stressed, this was not a case for psychiatric services. In a bid to trace the anonymous caller for more information, Kit sets off to the small coastal town of Rock. Only to be confronted with the sense of strangeness that surrounds the Meredith family and the rumours that have troubled this small community for years. An intense psychological thriller, The Last House shows that the darkest secrets are hidden within the walls. But no matter how big you build them the truth will always find a way of breaking out.Black as he's painted (The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries Ser.)
By Ngaio Marsh, St. Martin`s Press. 1999
The president of an African republic plans a goodwill mission to England, but someone seems intent on including murder in…
his itinerary. Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard, a former classmate of the president, finds himself in a ticklish predicament when he's put in charge of security precautions. Some strong language. 1973