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Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
4) Icy clutches
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gideon Oliver accompanies his spouse to a lodge in Glacier Bay, Alaska, where there is a group of scientists memorializing a thirty-year-old glacial avalanche that killed three colleagues. Soon the sole survivor of the avalanche is found hanged in his room and shocked hikers discover human bones at the foot of the glacier. How fortunate for all that Dr. Oliver, the famed Skeleton Detective, is on the scene!
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Buried ceremoniously, high in a cave, lies the skeleton of a human woman, clutching the skeleton of a part-human, part-Neanderthal child. Fascinated, Professor Oliver jumps at the chance to attend a conference near there. But two deaths, possibly murders, have rocked Gibraltar. As Oliver tries to piece things together, he's about to fall for some deadly tricks. After all, unlike the Gibraltar Boy, he's only human.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, "dean of American forensic anthropologists" after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in accord with his wishes, his remains--a few charred bits of bone--are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating if macabre exhibit. All agree that it is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist--until what is left of him disappears in the midst of the biannual meeting (a.k.a., the "bone...
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery novel of the year. With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau:...
12) The dark place
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. And whoever--or whatever--hurled it did so with seemingly superhuman force. Bigfoot "sightings" immediately crop up, but...
13) Skull duggery
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.
14) Good blood
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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