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6181) Sherlock
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The co-creators of the hit BBC series "Sherlock" share nineteen of their favorite Sherlock Holmes stories.
6182) The escape game
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
Author
Series
(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
Publisher
National Braille Press
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Author
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
The victim was young. Female. And black. Her skull had been smashed in, her face decomposed beyond all recognition. But for Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison, the corpse that had just been found in one of London's poorest communities was only the beginning of a case that would tear apart an already divided city, and embroil the gritty cop and her force in a hotbed of racial strife, shocking accusations, and sudden, wrenching violence. But Jane...
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 5
Publisher
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess". Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive and unique responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in...
6186) The Secret garden
Publisher
CBS/FOX Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"There is no detective in fiction as shrewd as Sherlock Holmes. His dazzling analytical abilities regularly put Scotland Yard to shame. An accomplished violinist adept at a dozen obscure sciences and possessed of an acerbic wit, Holmes has had many adventures with Dr. Watson, and they have delighted readers for more than a century"--Container cover.
6188) Symptoms of death
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Nobles gather at the country estate of the fifth earl of Dunsford, where a killer stalks the gilded halls. Each of the guests has a secret vendetta against the earl, but when he's found murdered in his bed, the lords and ladies flee, placing the blame on a servant.The village's lady doctor, Alexandra Gladstone, discovers evidence to the contrary and finds herself trapped in a web of scandal, deceit, and ghostly appearances that could cost her her...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident, but Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play--a misgiving he is struggling to separate from his personal grievances toward Sir James Truelove, who is Lady Lavinia's widower and the influential academic patron of Dorcas Joliffe, whom Joe one day hopes to...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos discovered that the Icelandic translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula wasn't merely a translation--it was an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a totally reworked plot. The resulting narrative is one that is shorter, punchier, more erotic, and perhaps even more suspenseful than Stoker's Dracula.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of violent murders in London's East End...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The cast and crew of a hit British TV show are rumored to be cursed--but are these spooky deaths coincidences or murder? It's up to Bath detective Peter Diamond to find out. In the six years since the start of the hit British TV show Swift, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune, beginning with the star actress's pulling out of the show before it began. By now there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers' hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain's bed. Known to society as a rascal and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
In the early twelfth century, civil war rages between the English and the Welsh. In the battle of Lincoln, the Welsh capture the sheriff of Shropshire and barter him for a young Welsh lord, who had been captured during a misguided assault on a convent. But before the exchange can be completed, one of the prisoners mysteriously dies. Brother Cadfael suspects foul play--his theory hanging on a single thread that binds together the destinies of an unusual...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the fifth novel of the captivating Rhymes With Love series from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle, a young woman's hopes of a match encounter a wickedly handsome complication . . . Lavinia Tempest has been eagerly anticipating a spectacular season. But one disastrous pile-up on the Almack's dance floor derails all her plans. Add to that, the very stunning revelations about her mother's scandalous past have become the ton's latest...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 10
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence--and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. In the spring, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey, carrying with it many strange souls...and perhaps the knight's killer. Brother Cadfael's shrewd eyes see all: the prosperous merchant who rings false; an angelic, lame boy and his beautiful, dowerless sister; and two...
6198) The bachelors
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A barrister, a "priest", a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium (all bachelors) are first found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented-- defrauded or stolen from; blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid seances-- and then plunged, all together, into the nastiest of lawsuits.
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. From his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet,readers have loved reading about him—and writers have loved writing about him. Here, Otto Penzler collects 83 wonderful stories about Holmes and Dr. John Watson, the majority of which will be new to readers. Among these pages are tales by acclaimed Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger,...
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Join the Bridgertons, and the rest of the ton, as they pore over (and gossip about) Lady Whistledown's latest musings. The elusive Regency-era gossip columnist -- popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix - reveals society's most recent secrets in this second glittering anthology, following the New York Times bestseller, The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown....