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Thomas Pitt is the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, has moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line, - on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one person, or are the rumors designed to distract...
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Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award
It is 1921 and Mary Russell—Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology—is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn
6) Hasty death
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Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
7) Clean cut
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 3
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
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English
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
10) Above suspicion
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
13) Farriers' lane
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
16) Now you see me
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Lacey Flint novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Stumbling onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, young detective constable Lacey Flint races against time to prevent additional deaths and realizes that the killer is taunting her with secrets from her past.
17) Dead scared
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Lacey Flint novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Going undercover as a vulnerable college student when a suspicious rash of suicides occurs at Cambridge University, DC Lacey Flint finds her tragic past and insecurities rendering her a more susceptible target than she realized.
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Anna Travis mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
20) The burning
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Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Assigned to investigate a string of killings by a serial murderer who sets his victims on fire, ambitious Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan embarks on an investigation that is complicated by the critical judgments of her male colleagues.
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