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Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
Lori Shepherd, freed from the restrictions of motherhood by the arrival of the beautiful nanny Francesca Sciaparelli, must call upon her ghostly Aunt Dimity for help when she becomes caught in the middle of a controversy that threatens to destroy the village as well as her nanny's budding romance with archaeologist Adrian Culver.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gripping child-in-danger story, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, investigate the kidnapping of a friend's little girl from an Italian marketplace. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she's willing to go to protect it.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Lori's plans for a second honeymoon in England go astray when her workaholic husband is delayed at the last minute. To make matters worse, her father-in-law Willis volunteers to accompany her, only to disappear minutes after their arrival, sending Lori on a backroads search that leads to scandal.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
British sleuth Sheila Malory's friend, David Beaumont, is in need of money and his brother, Francis, has refused his request for a loan leaving him dependent upon the sale of the family home which is still inhabited by his old nanny. When nanny conveniently dies, and Francis is poisoned, David is aghast to find he is the primary suspect.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems . A woman is warned by a psychic of the evil and danger in her house. On a full moon, she must watch for the signs: blue primrose means caution, blue hollyhock is danger, and blue geranium is death!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lori Shepherd, back in the village of Finch after a visit to Australia, must call on Aunt Dimity's otherworldly wisdom for help when her father-in-law moves to town in search of quiet and finds a mysterious family tree in the house he is renovating, and she and her husband get caught up in a case of deception and false identity.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Vacationing at the seaside while recuperating from injuries, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers arranges to have herself assigned to an investigation into the murder of a Pakistani immigrant that has exploded into full scale racial incident.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd and Detective Inspector Judy Hill become involved in one of the most unusual investigations of their careers when Bernard Bailey, a violent man who has married for convenience in an attempt to win an inheritance, is found murdered.
32) Miss Marple
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1987-1992
Language
English
Description
Jane Marple is vacationing in Barbados when a string of dead bodies forces the detective back to work. An American movie star comes to Miss Marple's village to shoot a picture. Murders among the cast and crew bring Miss Marple into a web of jealousies. A young couple buys a house. Soon after they move in, they are haunted by visions of a body. Jane Marple comes and unravels the past of the house to stop any more murders. A friend of Miss Marple's...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A mystery novel that casts Jane Austen as a sleuth who is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of the Earl of Scargrave, but the matter becomes urgent when the widow is accused of orchestrating her husband's death because of her love for his nephew.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this classic short story, Miss Marple steps in to investigate when her niece is accused of murdering her violent husband.
During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple's home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Miss Marple is the first to share a story . . .
Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple's niece, Mabel Denman, was married to an abusive and hot-tempered man-until he suddenly died. Was it the mushrooms he...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories . After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs Jones is found dead. Although a bout of botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club is keen to investigate further…
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When her maid asks Miss Marple to intervene in the delicate problem of her rather opinionated cousin Gladys, she doesn't think much can be done. Poor Gladys has been accused of stealing a precious brooch belonging to her employers, the reserved Misses Skinner. While one sister malingers with mysterious ailments, the other attends to her every need, and they've both decided that Gladys must go. But, one day there appears a paragon to replace her, the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, still grieving the murder of his wife, agrees to help London Metropolitan Police superintendent Isabelle Ardery investigate the killing of a young woman who recently moved from Hampshire, and uncovers a number of suspects and motives, while also developing an attachment to Isabelle.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.
But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says “I
...Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, travels to London in the summer of 1450 to purchase funeral vestments for the Duke of Suffolk, and becomes caught up in a web of intrigue and murder centered around the widowed seamstress Anne Blakhall and her lover, Daved Weir, a merchant hiding the fact that he is a Jew.
40) The rising tide
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 10
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
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