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1) The game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great...
2) Prudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While tracking down a missing writer who has exposed the true nature of Calcutta society in 1937 India, a young soldier with few prospects, a secret political agent and a master of disguise are drawn into the mysterious Thuggee cult and its even more ominous suppression.
4) Imprudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rue and the crew of The Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend, Primrose, keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and...
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
12) Ragtime in Simla
Author
Series
Detective Joe Sandilands mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When his traveling companion is killed at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands investigates and finds himself digging into another related murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A division of the spoils : The chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of Raj--and represents the end of an era.
The towers of silence : Follows the decline of Barbie Batchelor, a one-time mission-school teacher, as the Anglo-Indian world begins to collapse around her.
Author
Series
Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 10
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1857 India, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway, with the help of two small children and a Christmas garland, defends a British medical orderly throughout a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Sam Wyndham novels volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force--Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant "Surrender-Not" Banerjee--track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in...
16) The haj
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The Middle East is the setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves.
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