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61) Dying to sing
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Charlie Plato, the red-headed manager of Chaps country- western bar, becomes involved in a mystery murder and almost succumbs to the charms of her business partner and former television star Jake Hunter, when an earthquake shakes loose a skeleton buried in the flower bed at Chaps.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is called away from kids and his jazz piano when two murderers, operating on opposite sides of the country, strike at the same time, and one of them has abducted his niece, Naomi.
65) Break in
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jockey Kit Fielding has been riding the de Brescou's horses in a succession of triumphs on the race course. But this winning streak is about to end. Kit's twin sister, Holly, has come to him in desperation. Threatened by financial scandal, she and her husband may lose their training stables. Kit soon finds, though, that a greater danger lurks behind the threat-one that could be fatal. Narrator Simon Prebble has received enthusiastic praise for his...
66) Reflex
Author
Language
English
Description
A jockey with an interest in photography begins searching for information as to why a racetrack photographer was killed. Unwittingly he becomes the killer's next victim.
67) The mummy case
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second...
70) Monkey puzzle
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
79) Powers of arrest
Author
Language
English
Description
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"Golden age fans will be enthralled." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
'Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931.'
Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933 that has been too long neglected-until now. It is a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer.
Each December, Adrian Gray invites...
80) Taking pity
Author
Series
Detective Sergeant Mcavoy volume 4
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times hails David Mark's police thrillers as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." In Taking Pity, Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy returns for another darkly enthralling installment of this internationally acclaimed series"--
"The fourth novel in the DS McAvoy series"--
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