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LP 06805 THE APE WHO GUARDS THE BALANCE
AUTHOR: PETERS, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Amelia Peabody's archaeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson,
has been ignominiously demoted to examining the most boring tombs in the
valley of the kings. But luckily for Amelia's thrill seeking detective nose, this
year the legendary land of the pharoahs will yield more than priceless
artifacts. Entering the seedy underworld of grave robbers and mythical guards
of those who have died, Amelia and company are up to their throats in a
deadly mystery.
LP 05907 ASHWORTH HALL
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: Although the gathering has the appearance of a smart autumn
house party, in fact the guests are Irish Protestants and Catholics engaged in a
reluctant parley over home rule for Ireland. When the meeting's moderator,
Ainsley Greville, is found murdered in his bath, negotiations seem doomed.
Superintendent Thomas Pitt of Scotland Yard almost despairs as the scandal
involving Irish nationalist Leader Charles Parnell and Kitty O'Shea breaks.
And, it seems that Greville himself led a questionable personal life.
LP 07258 BEDFORD SQUARE
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: London, Bedford Square, a corpse is found on the doorstep of
General Brandon Balantyne. The general denies knowledge of the victim, but
Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him. For in the dead man's pocket
is a rare snuffbox from the general's study. Pitt must tread lightly lest his
investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable
men in a web of terror. Pitt's wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in
probing an evil spawned by an unimaginable amorality.
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LP 01464 BRAT FARRAR
AUTHOR: TEY, JOSEPHINE
ABSTRACT: A twenty-year-old English orphan tries to pass himself off as the
rightful heir in a likable, horse-loving and horsebreeding family, and becomes
entangled in a murder.
LP 06765 BREACH OF PROMISE
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: London, 1860. Sir Oliver Rathbone defends a young man who
is being sued for breaking an engagement contract. Rathbone enlists the help
of nurse Hester Latterly and investigator Monk to explore the young man's
and woman's pasts. When his client is found dead, Rathbone increases his
scrutiny, convinced it was murder.
LP 06479 BRUNSWICK GARDENS
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: A century ago, Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of
evolution rocked the civilized world, and the outraged Anglican church went
to war against it. In a mansion in London's affluent Brunswick Gardens, the
battle is intense between the Reverend Ramsay Parmenter and his beautiful
assistant, Unity Bellwood - a "new woman" whose feminism and aggressive
Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles
down the stairs to her death, Commander Thomas Pitt of the Bow Street
police is certain that one of three devout men in the house committed
murder.
LP 05917 THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR
AUTHOR: COOK, THOMAS H.
ABSTRACT: On a summer morning in 1926, a young woman alights from a
bus in the tiny seacoast home of Chatham School, to become the new art
teacher. An elite academy, Chatham School is dedicated to turning boisterous
and insolent boys into dutiful and moral young men. But Elizabeth Channing
has come from a different world to her little cottage on Black Pond.
Catastrophe comes to Elizabeth, to the headmaster's young son, and to the
town itself. The sparks ignite an inferno of scandal, suicide, and murder.
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LP 09047 CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL
AUTHOR: COLLINS, MAX ALLAN
ABSTRACT: Nate Heller's A-1 Detective Agency is thriving in the fall of
1950, but there's trouble on the horizon. Heller was once friends with Al
Capone's top lieutenant, Frank Nitti, which might make him an attractive
witness for Estes Kefauver's Senate hearings on the Mafia--which, in turn,
wouldn't help his chances for a long life. When a former operative for A-1
gets gunned down prior to testifying before Kefauver, Heller launches a oneman campaign against mobsters Sam Giancana and the Fischetti brothers.
LP 07605 A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER
AUTHOR: LISS, DAVID
ABSTRACT: Benjamin Weaver, a Jew among Christians, a retired pugilist
who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in
pursuit of debtors and thieves. Now he is investigating a crime of the most
personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious
stockjobber. To find the answers, he must contend with a desperate prostitute
who knows too much about his past. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver
uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order based on stock
speculation.
LP 01503 THE DAUGHTER OF TIME
AUTHOR: TEY, JOSEPHINE
ABSTRACT: Scotland Yard's detective Alan Grant uses modern methods of
detection to reevaluate one of history's vilest crimes--the murder of the little
princes by Richard III.
LP 07131 DEATH OF A COLONIAL
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, BRUCE
ABSTRACT: A nobleman was executed and his possessions are set to go to
the Crown when his younger brother, missing for seven years, suddenly
reappears to stake his claim. But where has he been? Why does his mother
react to him so oddly? And what connection does his case have to do with the
suicide by hanging of an American in London. To find the answers, Sir John
and Jeremy must travel from London to Bath to Oxford.
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LP 09149 DEATH OF A STRANGER
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: Private enquiry agent William Monk is hired to investigate a
potential case of fraud in the construction of a new railway line. His client is
the fiancée of a man she fears is embroiled in the scheme, and Monk's
investigation causes a strange sense of déjà vu--a former policeman afflicted
with a case of amnesia concerning his prior life, Monk finds both the case and
its milieu unsettlingly familiar.
LP 09873 DIE LAUGHING
AUTHOR: DUNN, CAROLA
ABSTRACT: A toothache doesn't help matters, but when Daisy arrives at her
dentist's office, she discovers Dr. Raymond Talmadge dead in his chair, the
victim of foul play.
LP 09172 AN EXPERIMENT IN TREASON
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, BRUCE
ABSTRACT: A packet of incendiary letters is stolen from the London
residence of a prominent official, and turns up in the colony of Massachusetts.
Why are the contents so controversial? Why has a suspect in the theft turned
up dead? And what should Sir John do about his feeling that Benjamin
Franklin himself is somehow complicit? While the political tensions rise, Sir
John searches for answers and finds that justice isn't always served by the
letter of the law.
LP 02421 FARRIER'S LANE
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: Thomas and Charlotte Pitt rarely get a chance to enjoy a night
out, so it is unfortunate that Justice Samuel Stafford dies of opium poisoning
in the theater box next to theirs. While Pitt talks with colleagues of Stafford at
local gentlemen's clubs, Charlotte uncovers information at musicales and teas.
Apparently Stafford was planning to reopen the notorious Farrier's Lane case
for which a young man was hanged. Someone seems to object.
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LP 08155 FEARLESS JONES
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: Paris Minton is minding his own business-a small used-book
store when a beautiful woman walks in and asks a few questions. Before he
knows it, Paris has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his
bookstore has been burned to the ground. He's in so much trouble he has to
get his friend Fearless Jones out of jail to help him. Things get scary fast as
they look into this woman's past, and the more they learn, the harder it
gets-as black men in 1950s L.A., they have few rights, little money, and no
recourse under attack.
LP 08545 FUNERAL IN BLUE
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: In the studio of a London artist, two women have been
murdered, one of them the wife of Dr. Kristian Beck, a physician from Vienna
with whom Hester's dear friend, Lady Callandra, is secretly in love. When
Beck is charged with the murder, Callandra enlists the aid of Hester and
William.
LP 05909 THE GALLOWS MURDERS
AUTHOR: CLYNES, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: Someone is blackmailing King Henry VIII by dispatching
threatening letters from the Tower under the name and seal of Edward, one
of the princes supposedly murdered there. The King is terrified -- and also
intrigued by the mysterious and grisly murders occurring amongst the
hangmen of London. Cardinal Wolsey turns to his nephew Benjamin
Daunbey, and Daunbey's servant, Roger Shallot, to unmask the blackmailer
and end the murders.
LP 03423 THE GOLDEN CRUCIBLE
AUTHOR: STUBBS, JEAN
ABSTRACT: London's famous Victorian Inspector Linott is hired by
flamboyant magician Felix Salvador to investigate the disappearance of
Salvador's sister in San Francisco. Linott's startling discoveries coincide with
the 1906 earthquake.
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LP 07388 HALF MOON STREET
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: Inspector Thomas Pitt is called to a shocking murder scene. The
dead man lies in a small battered boat drifting on the Thames, his arms and
legs chained to the sides of the boat, dressed in a torn green gown with
flowers strewn over his battered body. Pitt's search for answers that leads him
deep into London's bohemia and into studios where masters of light and
shadow are experimenting with the new art of photography. And as always his
pursuit is relentless.
LP 07691
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY: AN AMELIA PEABODY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: PETERS, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Despite the increasing danger of an attack on Egypt, Amelia
Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson find themselves back in Egypt.
Trouble is brewing in Cairo and the headstrong young Ramses Emerson is
earning much derision from the British expatriate community. Meanwhile, the
nationalist el Wardani is fomenting insurrection. There is no standing outside
this political hurricane, so Amelia plunges directly into it. Then an artifact
uncovered at a Giza dig confirms Amelia's most unsettling suspicion.
LP 02554 HOLY THIEF: THE NINETEENTH CHRONICLE OF BROTHER
CADFAEL
AUTHOR: PETERS, ELLIS
ABSTRACT: After the Ramsey Monastary is destroyed by marauders, brother
Cadfael offers temporary shelter to unfortunate fellow monks. The visitors
busily solicit help to rebuild their abbey, yet when a storm threatens the
Abbey at Shrewsbury, willingly assist their hosts. But after the monks depart,
the disappearance of the remains of Saint Winifred is discovered, and Brother
Cadfael must deal with the thief, tragedy, and deception.
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LP 09526 THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE
AUTHOR: CLEVERLY, BARBARA.
ABSTRACT: Calcutta, 1922. Scotland Yard commander Joseph Sandilands
investigates the strange deaths of army officers' wives. The governor's niece
suspects that a serial killer is murdering them. With her help, Sandilands
discovers the culprit and his motives.
LP 06621 LITTLE COQUETTE
AUTHOR: SMITH, JOAN
ABSTRACT: Young bluestocking Lydia Trevelyn and her notable neighbor
Lord Beaumont had managed to thwart all matchmaking schemes. However,
fate conspires to bring them together through a most unfortunate means:
murder. For when Beaumont finds a body in a local river, Lydia is shocked to
discover that the deceased was, in life, her father's mistress. Shaken by the
truth about her father and by the murky circumstances of his paramour's death,
Linda sees Beaumont as an ally in solving the mystery.
LP 10436 LITTLE SCARLET
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: Los Angeles, 1965, right after the Watts Riots. When a mid30s, redheaded black woman named Nola Payne--aka "Little Scarlet"--turns
up dead in her apartment, strangled and shot and showing signs of recent
sexual contact, the cops are reluctant to storm L.A.'s minority community.
Instead, they ask PI Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins to see what he can find out.
LP 05583 A LITTLE YELLOW DOG: AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: Easy Rawlins has taken on a job as supervising custodian of
Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. Easy likes his new life, even
though he feels a little bored sometimes. Easy comes in one morning to find
one of the teachers has a dog with her and a story about a husband gone mad.
The teacher disappears, leaving Easy with her dog, while a corpse is found in
the school garden. That night a second corpse turns up. The police believe
that Easy is involved in the murders.
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LP 06532 MR. WHITE'S CONFESSION
AUTHOR: CLARK, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner is
struggling and alone after the recent death of his wife when he receives an
assignment. The body of a beautiful showgirl has been found on a hillside, and
Wesley must head the murder investigation. His chief suspect is Herbert
White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photographer who spends his days
writing gushing fan letters to Hollywood starlets.
LP 09238 MURDER AT FORD'S THEATRE
AUTHOR: TRUMAN, MARGARET
ABSTRACT: The body of Nadia Zarinski, a young woman who worked for
senator Bruce Lerner-and who volunteered at Ford's-is discovered in the alley
behind the theatre. A pair of mismatched cops-young, studious Rick Klieman
and gregarious veteran Moses "Mo" Johnson-start digging into the victim's
life, and find themselves confronting an increasing cast of suspects.
LP 07693 THE POISONED CHALICE: A CROWNER JOHN MYSTERY
AUTHOR: KNIGHT, BERNARD
ABSTRACT: The well-born ladies of Exeter are not having a good week.
First, Christina Rifford, daughter of a rich merchant, is raped, then, Lady
Adele de Courcy is found dead in one of the city's poorest areas. The common
factor is Godfrey Fizosbern, the local silversmith. But it is Sir John de Wolfe,
the county coroner, who protects Godfrey until he can find proof of his guilt.
John slowly begins to put the pieces together, but a brutal act of violence
brings a new twist to his investigation before he finally arrives at the truth.
LP 02697 POOR BUTTERFLY
AUTHOR: KAMINSKY, STUART M.
ABSTRACT: In 1942, detective Toby Peters is hired by an opera company in
San Francisco. When a workman falls to his death, a note appears accepting
responsibility and claiming to be from a new phantom. Meanwhile antiJapanese zealots protest the company's choice of "Madame Butterfly." Peters
and his strange cohorts puzzle over successive murders, while dodging
suspicious police.
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LP 07348 A PRAYER FOR THE DYING
AUTHOR: O'NAN, STEWART
ABSTRACT: In Friendship, Wisconsin, one neighbor after another succumbs
to a creeping, fatal disease. Jacob Hansen is Friendship's sheriff, undertaker,
and pastor, a man with a large heart and conscience. As the disease engulfs his
town, Jacob must find a humane way to save those he loves, short of calling a
full quarantine and boarding up the sick in their houses. And what of the
tramps slipping nightly through the tinder-dry woods, and the spiritualist from
the city camped on the edge of town with their charismatic leader, Chase?
LP 10024 RAGTIME IN SIMLA
AUTHOR: CLEVERLY, BARBARA.
ABSTRACT: Himalayas, 1922. British detective Joe Sandilands is en route to
Simla when his traveling companion is shot exactly where a year-earlier
murder occurred. He investigates local residents, including several conniving
English businesswomen--one the sister of the previous victim.
LP 07540
THE TIDAL POOLE: AN ELIZABETH I MYSTERY
AUTHOR: HARPER, KAREN
ABSTRACT: ELizabeth triumphant entrance procession into London is
marred by the brutal murder of a highborn, high-living lady of the court. The
young queen is soon investigating the crime-an investigation that leads to a
sinister plot against ELizabeth herself.
LP 08703 TO KISS A SPY
AUTHOR: FEATHER, JANE
ABSTRACT: A beautiful widow, Lady Pen Bryanston is tormented by a
mystery she can't resolve, and when sophisticated spy Owen d'Arcy
approaches her with a proposition, she strikes a devil's bargain with the
handsome, dangerous man. Pen needs Owen to uncover the truth about
the baby her vicious mother-in-law claims died at birth, but to buy Owen's
services, she must use her position as favorite lady-in-waiting to spy on
Princess Mary.
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LP 08501 TREASURE OF THE TEMPLARS
AUTHOR: CHAMPLIN, TIM
ABSTRACT: In 1898, archeology professor Roddy McGinnis is supervising a
dig in a medieval dungeon when he unearths the journal of a 16th century
Scottish named Peter Stirling. The knight had died in that dungeon after being
tortured to reveal the location of the gold treasury of the Knights Templar.
Now McGinnis has discovered a map to the treasure's resting place in the New
World, where Stirling and a group of Templar knights had been sent to hide
it. Although that ancient order of warrior monks was disbanded, a shadow
organization still survives and wants that treasure.
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