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Trouble in triplicate: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1993
Three previously published short novels about the orchid-growing gourmet detective Nero Wolfe. In Before I Die, a gangster wants Wolfe…
to handle a blackmailer. Help Wanted, Male involves a client who waits too long to look for help. In Instead of Evidence, a man predicts his own murder and tells Wolfe who the murderer will beThe grub-and-stakers house a haunt
Par Alisa Craig. 1993
Widow Zilla Trott is in her kitchen making a cup of camomile tea for herself and her cat when the…
ghost of Hiram Jellyby suddenly appears. He was murdered some years ago, and he wants Zilla to find his bones and bury them decently so he can rest in peace. Hiram also wants her to look for a wooden box of gold that he buried. When Zilla and her friends begin digging, they uncover more than bones and goldDead man's island
Par Carolyn Hart. 1993
Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins (Henrie O.) is surprised to be summoned by her long-ago lover, powerful Chase Prescott.…
Chase has also invited all of his close associates and family to the island he owns to determine with Henrie O. which of them tried to murder him. This task is made more difficult when a repeat of the hurricane that gave Dead Man's Island its name occurs. Strong language and violenceFer-de-Lance
Par Rex Stout. 1934
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin make their debut in this first of many tales about the corpulent master sleuth who…
operates out of a New York brownstone office. When Wolfe receives the gift of a deadly snake, his assistant suspects that they are onto the clever person who murdered an Italian immigrant and a college president, although he cannot imagine what connection there may beStrawgirl
Par Abigail Padgett. 1994
Bo Bradley is a San Diego child-abuse investigator who is struggling with manic depression. She is assigned the case of…
Samantha, a three-year-old who dies after hemorrhaging. The police suspect the mother's live-in anthropologist boyfriend, Paul, who has taken Samantha's sister and fled. Although Paul is a member of an unusual group, Bo is uneasy with the cult motive and searches for another suspect. Strong language and some violenceA question of guilt: a novel
Par Frances Fyfield. 1988
The latest object of widowed, unloved Eileen Cartwright's adoration is her married solicitor. When she convinces financially desperate part-time P.I.…
Stanislaus Jaskowski to kill the solicitor's wife, Jaskowski is quickly caught and tells all. As prosecutor Helen West and Detective Geoffrey Bailey build their case against her, Cartwright calmly concocts a plan of revenge against her new opponents. Strong language and violenceThe silent speaker: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1946
Murder on the Potomac
Par Margaret Truman. 1994
When the body of Pauline Juris, secretary to Wendell Tierney, is found alongside the Potomac River, Tierney seeks the advice…
of law professor Mac Smith. Incriminating evidence in the form of love letters turns up in Pauline's apartment. It seems that more than one of the Tierneys is suspect. Meanwhile they all take part in a playacting group that re-creates old Washington murders. Some strong language. BestsellerDeath among the dons
Par Janet Neel. 1994
Francesca Wilson McLeish, wife of police superintendent John McLeish, is at home on maternity leave. But the baby cries all…
the time, and Francesca is miserable. When Dr. Judith Symonds, warden of Gladstone College, is murdered, the college hires Francesca as bursar to straighten out suspect accounts. Then someone else dies, and Francesca almost becomes a victim herselfThe bold thing
Par Mark Daniel. 1990
Micky Brennan was a horseman before he was sent to Her Majesty's prison for running someone down while drunk and…
drugged. Now free, Micky, shunned by old acquaintances, reluctantly agrees to go back home to Ireland to run a disabled American woman's horse farm. But Micky's troubles are not over: the woman is being pressured to pay extortion for being a "guest of Ireland." Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexDeath of a glutton
Par M. C Beaton. 1993
Excitement comes to the Scottish village of Lochdubh when a singles club visits. Run by efficient Maria Worth, the club…
attempts to find spouses for the wealthy. Maria's hopes for this group are dashed, however, when her obnoxious business partner, obese Peta Gore, decides to join the club and disgusts everyone with her over-eating and bad personality. When Peta is found murdered, policeman Hamish Macbeth is not short of suspects. Some strong languageThe mountain cat murders
Par Rex Stout. 1939
In Cody, Wyoming, young Delia Brand has a mission: to find and kill the man who murdered her father. Delia's…
mother has just committed suicide after spending the family money trying to do the same thing. But after Delia buys cartridges for her father's gun and more or less admits her plan, she can't find the gun. Then her father's business associate is shot, and things look bad for Delia. Some strong languageOver my dead body
Par Rex Stout. 1939
Wise-cracking Archie Goodwin is surprised when his overweight employer, detective Nero Wolfe, refuses to help Carla Lovchen's friend, a young…
Balkan. Carla then convinces Wolfe to help by proving that her friend (who is accused of stealing from her fencing student) is Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter. Archie is sent to investigate the robbery that quickly evolves into murder. Strong language and violenceSaratoga snapper
Par Stephen Dobyns. 1986
Charlie Bradshaw and his friend Victor Plotz live in Saratoga Springs, New York, where they work at Charlie's mother's hotel.…
Charlie is the night manager, and Victor is the hotel detective. But mostly Victor takes happy pictures of happy people. Unfortunately, someone appears to be unhappy about his picture-taking and has just hit him with his car and stolen his camera. Then the body of one of the maids is found in a laundry hamperPleading guilty
Par Scott Turow. 1993
When attorney Bert Kamin vanishes along with a large chunk of a client's money, the firm partners turn to another…
of their attorneys--ex-cop Mack Malloy--for confidential help. Secretly impressed by Kamin's daring, Malloy begins his search. A trail of frightening clues leads Malloy to believe that Kamin is in even deeper trouble than suspected--maybe even dead. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerGood night, Mr. Holmes
Par Carole Douglas. 1990
Nell Huxleigh, a parson's daughter, relates this tale of Irene Adler--opera singer and detective. Miss Adler, who has the uncanny…
ability to outsmart even Sherlock Holmes, became a detective in the early days of her operatic career. Her sleuthing results in encounters with Victorian personages such as Charles Lewis Tiffany, Oscar Wilde, and Anton Dvorak, and with the mysterious Godfrey Norton, who aids her in her search for a skein of diamondsDecked: a Regan Reilly mystery
Par Carol Clark. 1992
Regan Reilly, private investigator, has returned to Oxford for a ten-year reunion of her semester-abroad class. She wonders if her…
former roomate Athena, who mysteriously disappeared one weekend, will return for the reunion. Regan certainly does not expect to hear that Athena's body has just been found. After assisting in the investigation, Regan sets sail for home, accompanying Lady Exner. They both soon find their lives in danger. BestsellerDefend and betray
Par Anne Perry. 1992
London 1857. At a dinner party, Thaddeus Carlyon fell over a stair bannister, landing on a suit of armor. But…
it wasn't the fall that killed him--someone stabbed him after he fell. His wife Alexandra claims responsibility, but Carlyon's sister Edith does not believe her, and calls upon her friend Hester Latterly for help. Hester enlists Inspector William Monk and barrister Oliver Rathbone, who uncover shocking circumstances during the trialSons of the morning: a novel
Par DeWitt Copp. 1992
After a group of anthropologists disappears, French-Canadian pilot Montour thinks he has hit the mother lode when he finds a…
scientist's notebook left behind. The scientist refers to a discovery as being "pure gold," and Montour takes him literally. During World War II, the notebook falls into the hands of various people, each with an individual agenda for interpreting it. Now, fifty years later, the puzzle may be solved. Strong language and some violenceThe way through the woods
Par Colin Dexter. 1993
While taking a holiday, Inspector Morse can't stop himself from snooping a bit in regard to a mysterious female guest…
at the hotel. Morse's busman's holiday is cut short, however, when a newspaper prints a poem that sparks renewed interest in his year-old missing person case. The new investigation is fraught with poetry analysis, birdwatchers, and pornography, and it hinges on a surprising look-alike. Some strong language