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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hunting hat, smoking pipe, coat collar turned up-- that's how we know Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective of all time. He usually investigates from London's Baker Street. But Holmes' most spectacular case leads him in a fast-paced chase from the metropolis of London across the continent to the Swiss Alps. At the roaring Reichenbach Falls there is a showdown between Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty. Who will triumph in this battle...
10302) L.A. confidential
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Three troubled cops -- Ed Exley, desperately seeking glory; vengeful Bud White, a witness to his mother's murder by his father; and Jack Vincennes, a shakedown artist with a dark secret -- tread a fine line between right and wrong in 1950s Los Angeles.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's annual sausage festival, Gretel struggles to find any clues...
10304) Snitchers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Years ago Nia lost her father to the violence plaguing her small Indiana city, but when the five-year-old boy she babysits for is killed in a drive-by shooting, she and her friends decide enough is enough and set out to find the murderer--never anticipating how close to home that investigation will lead.
10305) The extra girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mona McKee is a frustrated bit-player in 1940s Hollywood. Currently a former child actress struggling to find success, now it seems that Mona has fallen pregnant--despite being a virgin. When a collection of her personal effects falls into blogger Bryce Polk's hand, he finds himself an unlikely investigator, putting together the pieces of a deadly mystery from the past. The Extra Girl is from Killers, an EPIC Press series.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Discover Cryptids filming crew heads to Canada to investigate the Turtle Lake monster which is apparently sinking boats--but when the lake front diner burns down, they begin to think that this monster may be a lot more human than cryptid.
10307) City of dark corners
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners. Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-- a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
10308) Ciudad en llamas
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que...
10309) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths....
10310) Innocent monster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart, when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. As Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, he discovers that suspects abound beyond the usual predators and pedophiles, for it is those closest to Sashi...
Author
Series
Hunt and Hooke volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1679 -- A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt -- estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke -- is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made...
10312) Spot the Swamp lizard man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Discover Cryptids film crew travel to South Carolina to investigate reports of a Swamp lizard man, which they are convinced is a hoax, just like all the other monsters--but Gabe is not so sure.
10313) Fire in the blood: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While overseas fighting in the Afghan war, U.S. Army soldier Coop - a man haunted by the things he has seen and done in the war - is told that his wife has been killed back home in the States. The ticking of the clock begins as Coop is given a brief leave to attend to his wife's affairs. But while back in New York City, Coop discovers his wife's death was far more suspicious than anyone told him. He decides to go AWOL, using his military training...
10314) The wheel of life and death
Author
Series
Mysterium volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To discover the truth behind his parents' deaths, Danny must travel with the avant-garde Mysterium circus to Berlin, while assassins chase them and a traitor lurks among the group"--
10315) Escape velocity
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 415 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as a paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late. While she's...
10316) Cup of death
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 13
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting a friend in Japan, you learn a valuable tea bowl has been stolen. Can you retrieve the bowl before thieves spirit it out of the country?
10317) Blood heir
Author
Series
Blood heir trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
453 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the Cyrilian Empire, the gifts Affinites use to control the world are unnatural and dangerous. Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a secret and deadly Affinity to blood; it is her curse, and the reason she has lived her life behind palace walls. When Ana's father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. To clear her name, she must find her father's murderer on her...
10318) Mycroft's dangerous game
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a mysterious group of anarchists abducts Mycroft, Enola investigates his disappearance in hopes of rescuing him and of getting back something precious he took from her. With the help of Lord Tewkesbury and a young boy on the streets named Shag, she uncovers the truth behind her brother's abductions and unravels a web of mystery that takes her deep into the London underground as she tries to foil the anarchists' nefarious plot!"--
10319) 'Til death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The staff at Salem, Massachusetts's local station, WICH-TV, is looking forward to the wedding of their program director, Lee Barrett. But when Lee heads off on her Maine honeymoon, she'll be haunted by the ghosts of her own past ... Lee and Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello are finally tying the knot--and Lee is tying up loose ends before the big day. It'll be an adjustment moving out of Aunt Ibby's house, but the couple will stay nearby--after all,...
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board game CLUE! After a tragic accident that forever changed the lives of the Murder Crew--killing one of their own--the students at Blackbrook Academy are just trying to get by. As relationships evolve, strain, and break, Orchid, Green, Scarlett, Mustard, Plum, and Peacock find themselves lost. When the dark secret at the heart of Blackbrook forces its...
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