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The case of the curious bride
Par Erle Gardner. 1934
Carl W. Montaine, potential heir to a fortune, has recently married Rhoda against his family's wishes. Though it is more…
than seven years since the death of Gregory Moxley, Rhoda's previous husband, she is still afraid to collect his insurance. She also wonders if she could be prosecuted if Moxley's body is ever found. Poorly disguised as Helen Crocker, Rhoda consults criminal lawyer Perry MasonSweet deal: a novel
Par John Westermann. 1992
Nassau County policeman Jack Mills's great looks gave him a career in community relations, but Jack, determined to finally do…
some "real" police work, transfers to homicide. His first big case is the murder of a newly retired cop who was hated by everyone except his police-groupie mistress. Jack's inexperience is balanced by crack detective Claire Williamson. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sex"D" is for deadbeat: a Kinsey Millhone mystery
Par Sue Grafton. 1987
Kinsey Millhone is hired by ex-con Daggett to deliver a cashier's check for $25,000 to one Tony Gahan, address unknown.…
When, a few days later, Daggett's body is washed ashore, Kinsey discovers many people with motives for murder, including Daggett's wife, who faced an intolerable marriage; his daughter, who hated him; and the families of the victims of his drunken driving. Some strong language and descriptions of sexMaigret and the burglar's wife
Par Georges Simenon. 1955
First published in France in 1951. The French detective is pitted against a surly dentist and his cunning mother. The…
wife of a respected safe-cracker has come to Maigret after her frightened husband tells her of stumbling upon a corpse while robbing the dentist's house. When the dentist and his mother deny being robbed or any knowledge of a corpse, Maigret must sharpen his interrogation skillsThe cat who wasn't there
Par Lilian Braun. 1992
Jim Qwilleran rushes home from his vacation when he learns that his librarian friend, Polly Duncan, is being bothered by…
a prowler. Polly is okay when he arrives and they decide to take a bus tour of Scotland along with several other residents of Pickax--one of whom is Jim's former lover. The trip is disrupted by the death of their guide, the group returns home to find valuable jewels and teddy bears missing and one of the group acting strangelyThe cat who played post office
Par Lilian Braun. 1987
Awakening in a hospital after a bicycle crash, amnesiac Jim Qwilleran slowly recalls the events that led up to the…
accident. While exploring their newly inherited mansion in Pickax City, Qwilleran and his two cats become curious about the apparent disappearance of the previous owner's maid. Qwilleran fails to pay the proper attention to clues his cat Koko uncovers until his own snooping leads to several suspicious deathsThe cat who had 14 tales
Par Lilian Braun. 1988
Most of the cats in Braun's stories are of the Siamese variety and vastly superior to their human companions. In…
"The Fluppie Phenomenon," cat sitters take on a kitten with a mechanical fetish, putting their appliances in danger. The protagonist of "Phut Phat Concentrates" tries to teach his humans a more advanced method of communicating. "Stanley and Spook" are a cat and boy with oddly reversed traits. Some violenceThe end of the pier
Par Martha Grimes. 1992
Maud Chadwick works as a waitress during the day, and at night she sits at the end of her pier…
drinking martinis, reading poetry, and watching the party across the water. Frequently with her is Sheriff Sam DeGheyn, who muses about the three murders that have occurred in the last four years and worries that the real killer is not the man behind bars. He also fears that Maud may be the next victim. Strong language and some violenceThe friendly persuasion
Par Jessamyn West. 1945
Jess Birdwell is an Irish nurseryman who is homesteading in Indiana with his wife, Eliza, a Quaker minister, at the…
time of the Civil War. Jess is also a music lover who enjoys fast horses--worldly desires for a Quaker. Together the Birdwell family negotiates the arrival of a new organ and the threat of Confederate soldiers with a sense of sharing and humorThe night before Christmas
Par Alex Pine. 2023
This Christmas, the hunters become the hunted... When four trail hunters go missing in the fells of Cumbria on Christmas…
Eve, the race is on to find them before nightfall – when the temperature plummets. After hours of searching, the first body is found... Not frozen in the snow, but brutally murdered and bearing a warning: the real hunt has begun. As a snowstorm descends, three lives hang in the balance. But can the killer be caught before the trail goes cold?The red carnelian
Par Phyllis Whitney. 1943
Chicago, 1943. Linell Wynn and Michael Montgomery, both employees at Cunningham department store, were engaged--that is, until Michael ran off…
and married Chris, a fellow employee. Now he is back from his honeymoon, and no one seems happy to see him. When he is murdered, Linell becomes a prime suspect. In the process of trying to prove her innocence, Linell finds that a red gemstone holds the key to the murders, for a second corpse is also foundThe criminal C.O.D
Par Phoebe Taylor. 1940
Twenty-one-year-old Jane Lennox trips over a dead body in the old sail loft and promptly rushes headlong into the path…
of Asey Mayo's speeding car. Asey, barely able to avoid hitting her, doesn't believe Jane's story about the dead body--she is a notorious prankster. But, when a body wrapped in brown paper is delivered C.O.D. to Dr. Cummings, Asey is convinced Jane was telling the truth. Some strong languageUnlived affections
Par George Shannon. 1989
Willie, seventeen, always lived with his grandmother. His mother died when he was two, and all that he knows about…
his father is that he too is dead, and was "unfit to be a father." After Grom's death Willie decides to sell the house. While cleaning out his mother's room he finds a box of letters written by his father. He learns that his father was homosexual and was never told of Willie's birth. Some strong language. For high school and older readersFour on the floor: a Father Dowling mystery quartet
Par Ralph McInerny. 1989
Four novellas set in or near St. Hilary's. In "The Ferocious Father," a salesman trying to sell Father on a…
mutually beneficial deal finds a corpse in his car trunk; in "Heart of Gold," an embezzler's stash turns up at the church; "The Dead Weight Lifter" involves the writing of a peculiar will; and in "The Dutiful Son," old sins come back to haunt a son carrying out his mother's dying wishRumpole à la carte
Par John Mortimer. 1990
Horace Rumpole is a cigar-smoking, grumpy old barrister, given to mangled Wordsworth quotations. In these six tales he plods along…
to the Old Bailey to defend what is right and moral. The old boy somehow manages to create an escapade each time he moves his case from chambers to court. And his cases, though not particularly mystifying, preserve his penchant for obtaining coincidental information that solves the mysteryNight on 'Gator Creek
Par Winnie Stewart. 1984
Based on a true story, this book was developed for adults learning to read. Mattie Jennings and his grandfather go…
on a nighttime fishing expedition on 'Gator Creek. When the boat overturns, Mattie is on his own and has to fight for survivalThe raven in the foregate
Par Ellis Peters. 1986
Christmas of 1141 A.D. is approaching, and Abbot Radulfus is summoned to London to meet the papal legate. On his…
return, Radulfus brings with him a young priest endowed with gifts of scholarship and discipline, but without humility or the common touch. When the priest is found drowned in the mill pond on Christmas morning, Brother Cadfael and his friend the sheriff find themselves conducting another inquiryPostmortem
Par Patricia Cornwell. 1990
Dr. Kay Scarpetta has two problems. The first one is that a serial killer is strangling women in their own…
bedrooms, the second is that not everyone is thrilled that a woman is chief medical examiner. She uses all the technical tools at her disposal--computers, fringerprint-matching processors, and DNA-testing equipment--to identify the killer. Violence and strong languageThe last page
Par Bob Fenster. 1989
Jessica Brody has had a bad day and doesn't bother with tact when rejecting a writer's manuscript. Then her bullet-ridden…
body is found slumped across her desk with a rejection notice stapled to her sleeve. Although a similar murder has occurred, the police captain refuses to believe the murderer is a frustrated writer. Detective Brian Skiles and editor Anne Baker construct a trap and hope it doesn't backfire. Some descriptions of sexLongshot
Par Dick Francis. 1990
John Kendall, a fledgling author of survival manuals, struggles to exist in a frigid attic. When the pipes break, he…
agrees to write a biography of champion racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers--in return for room and board and a small fee. His research into Vickers's life turns up the recent murders of two young women. When John gets close to solving the crimes, the murderer forces him to use his own survival advice. Strong language. Bestseller