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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 1
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English
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Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
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Hercule Poirot volume 42.2
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Putnam
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Nine mystery stories. In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, detective Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer, while in The Edge a woman must decide whether to follow her heart or her conscience.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours available to solve themystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed? Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met.
9) The nursery rhyme murders: including: A pocket full of rye, Hickory dickory death. The crooked house
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Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1970]
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English
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A nursery rhyme figures tantalizingly in each of these novels, but there is nothing childlike about the dark secrets and darker deeds of some of the characters, nothing innocent about the murderers. Whether the detective featured is the delightful, sharp-eyed Miss Marple, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot, or Chief Inspector Taverner of Scotland Yard each one is challenged by an adversary worthy of a master of crime. Here is Agatha Christie at her best...
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Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 8
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English
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"Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in the much anticipated new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her...
11) Rough cider
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Mysterious Press
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©1986.
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English
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The horrors of the past take on a frightening immediacy, when another murder is committed, as Alice searches for answers about a twenty-year-old crime that resulted in the hanging of her father.
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Modern Library
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2002.
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English
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"From "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to "The Five Orange Pips," in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to "The Final Problem," in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, face each other in a showdown at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories that appear in The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes bear witness to the flowering of...
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G.K. Chesterton reprint volume 2
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Darwen Finlayson
Pub. Date
1964.
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English
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The face in the target -- The vanishing prince -- The soul of the schoolboy -- The bottomless well -- The fad of the fisherman -- The hole in the wall -- The Temple of Silence -- The vengeance of the statue.
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Ungar
Pub. Date
©1979
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English
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This Agatha Christie compendium offers synopses of all Christie's novels, plays and short stories, without revealing whodunit. It also features: a portrait of Agatha Christie by Julian Symons; Christie's own comments on her work; articles on themes in her work such as a guide to Agatha's toxic agents, gossip and intuition as detective tools and the subtleties of the all-encompassing dress codes that governed her characters; articles on films, plus...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 21
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English
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Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.
Death of a Dreamer: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don't last, but it looks as if Effie Garrard has come to stay. When Constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he's amazed that...
Death of a Dreamer: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don't last, but it looks as if Effie Garrard has come to stay. When Constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he's amazed that...
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Colección Agatha Christie volume 3
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
[1995]
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Español
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Hastings, el amigo y colaborador de Poirot, se dirige en tren desde Paris a Calais y, durante el viaje, conoce a una peculiar muchacha de exotico lenguaje que dice llamarse Cenicienta. Al dia siguiente, mientras Poirot y Hastings desayunan en Londres, reciben una carta fechada en Francia y firmada por el famoso millonario Renauld que rompe su tranquilidad "... por razon de un secreto que poseo, temo diariamente por mi vida. ¡Venga por amor de Dios!"...
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Adam Dalgliesh volume 1, 2, 4
Publisher
Avenel Books
Pub. Date
1987.
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English
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Donated by the estate of Dr. Donald S. Moore.
20) Towards zero
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Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 3
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English
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Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard struggles to find the person who penned the details of a vicious murder.
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