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Author
Series
Nightside series volume 8
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a pawn ticket that leads them to London's Chinatown district, Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, retrieve a seemingly innocuous book that turns out be a rare stolen text containing martial arts secrets that are forbidden to the West.
Author
Series
Imposters volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Sir Merritt Livingstone has spent a decade serving the monarch in the field, but when pneumonia lands him behind a desk in the War Office Intelligence Division just as they're creating a new secret intelligence branch, he's intent on showing his worth. He suspects an aristocrat of leaking information to Germany as tensions mount between the two countries, but he needs someone to help him prove it, so he turns to The Imposters, Ltd. No one knows who...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1882. London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant, wealthiest yet most poverty-stricken. No sooner does March Middleton arrive to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, than a case presents itself: a young woman has been brutally murdered, and her husband is the only suspect. The victim's mother is convinced of her son-in-law's innocence, and March is so touched by her pleas she offers to cover Sidney's fee herself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an upper-class girl goes missing in the East End, rough-hewn private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, link her disappearance to the murders of five girls in Bethnal Green before receiving taunting letters from a man with possible ties to a hedonistic gang of debauched aristocrats involved with possible satanic rituals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Gabrielle Tennyson is murdered, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new reluctant bride, the fiercely independent Hero Jarvis, find themselves involved in an intrigue concerning the myth of King Arthur, Camelot, and a future poet laureate.
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be less perilous than a trip to a girls' boarding school,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Paris with Milo to investigate the death of a famous parfumier, Amory discovers that the victim was about to release a highly anticipated new fragrance and had been targeted by industry rivals and heirs vying for control of his empire.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth-century private detective Cyrus Barker teams up with Thomas Llewelyn, a young man with a murky past, to investigate the killing of a young scholar bearing a startling resemblance to artists' renderings of Jesus Christ.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1883 London, March Middleton, the niece of the city's greatest, and most cantankerous, private detective, must prove her innocence with the help of her uncle when she is accused of murdering a wealthy long-lost relative.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister...
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Series
Language
English
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"With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She'll...
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