Anthony Horowitz
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Magpie murders volume 2
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"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
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Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond's illustrious career and the formation of his identity. The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time. One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand. Its time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against organized crime. Its time...
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Magpie murders volume 1
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's...
4) Moriarty
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Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a student devoted to studying Sherlock Holmes's methods of deduction, track down the late Moriarty's dangerous would-be successor as they seek the truth behind the Reichenbach Falls catastrophe that sent both Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes tumbled to their deaths. 304pp., 100K, Auth res: London, UK
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For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.
Once again, The Game's Afoot...
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way...
Once again, The Game's Afoot...
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way...
Pub. Date
[2004]
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4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
8) Injustice
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2012
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2 videodiscs (ca. 223 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When successful London barrister William Travers suffers a nervous breakdown, he moves his family and practice to rural Suffolk. Called upon to defend an old friend, he is caught up in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the courtroom. James Purefoy stars in a taut, engrossing thriller from the creator of Foyle's War.
10) Crime traveller
Pub. Date
c2007
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3 videodiscs (ca. 390 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Detective Jeff Slade and Science Officer Holly Turner solve crimes unlike other cops. With access to a time machine, they can travel back in time to gather the crime scene evidence they need to crack their cases of murder, kidnapping and robbery. Desperate to keep the time machine a secret, the dynamic duo lie to cover up how they can be in two places at once, they dodge their skeptical boss's questions and most importantly, they must return to the...
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2010
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3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows. Mysteries include: The Russian House; Killing Time; and The Hide.
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p2010, c2000
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3 videodiscs (529 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The killings at Badger's Drift: The death of an elderly woman and the persistence of her lifelong friend draw Barnaby into a case that reveals the sordid side of this quaint village. Written in blood: Investigating the brutal murder of a Midsomer Worthy writer, Barnaby discovers that the victim had been living a fictitious life....
15) Magpie murders
Pub. Date
[2022]
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2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway's latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.
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[2008]
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3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...