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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
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English
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Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
4) Stage fright
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Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
All is not well at Cambridge University's St. Ethelreda's College. The head of the English Department is dead, and Professor Cassandra James is appointed the task of running the department. Faced with the choice of whipping her underperforming colleagues into shape or losing the much-needed funding for the program, Cassandra resigns herself to the challenge. However, when she stumbles upon the former head's private papers and realizes that the death...
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Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
All is not well at Cambridge University's St. Ethelreda's College. The head of the English Department is dead, and Professor Cassandra James is appointed the task of running the department. Faced with the choice of whipping her underperforming colleagues into shape or losing the much-needed funding for the program, Cassandra resigns herself to the challenge. However, when she stumbles upon the former head's private papers and realizes that the death...
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When someone commits crimes in his name, which leads to his suspension from the War office, Colin Morgan, Earl of Penderdale, turns to an old friend for help and is drawn to his friend's daughter, Elizabeth, who, harboring her own secret, agrees to help him clear his name.
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St. Michael's College, Cambridge, is prestigious, stately, and in frightful disrepair. To replenish its dwindling coffers, the College's Master holds a fundraising weekend for wealthy alums. But all goes awry when gorgeous, successful Lexy Durant is found strangled on the grounds. There's a lengthy list of likely suspects, and DCI St. Just weighs clashing egos, he discovers unsavory secrets... and a most shocking twist.
9) Nine lessons
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Josephine Tey mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
North American edition.
Language
English
Description
Mystery author Josephine Tey once again becomes embroiled in a real-life investigation in this “terrific . . . elegant” historical British mystery set in 1930s England (San Francisco Book Review)
Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John’s-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church’s organist...
Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John’s-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church’s organist...
10) The maidens
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly). Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and...
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(Heather M.).Emily Wilde volume 1
Language
English
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"In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
13) My Dearest Duke
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Fans of Bridgerton will fall in love with this fresh and evocative historical romance from Kristin Vayden. Get swept away to the bright society of Regency England in this beautiful romance featuring: A reluctant duke who'd rather be writing scholarly papers A lady with a unique and scandalous secret The tempting chemistry between them they can no longer deny And a truth that will either set them free or tear them apart... Lord Rowles Haywind has always...
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English
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Quirky and bumbling private investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a ghost, millions of years old, wandering the earth and disturbing its people. Dirk soon discovers this phantom yearns for more than a good haunting: it is desperately trying to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way!
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Adelia Aguilar series volume 1
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English
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In medieval Cambridge four children are murdered. The Catholics blame the Jews so they are placed under the protection of the King Henry II. The king sends for someone to do a scientific investigation into the deaths. The person sent is an Italian woman doctor, but in medieval Cambridge she must conceal her true identity to keep herself safe.
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Tara Thorpe volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a promising local artist disappears, the victim's brother begs Detective Tara Thorpe to take the case. It seems there's no evidence of foul play . . . he simply disappeared without a trace. Tara agrees to do some digging . . . never mind that her unorthodox approach to policing has got a few of her colleagues' backs up. Amongst them is her former supervisor Detective Patrick Wilkins . . . he's had enough of Tara calling the shots and will do...
19) Dear Amy
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Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. Harper paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Mary Kubica's The Good Girl and Jennifer McMahon's Island of Lost Girls, Helen Callaghan's fiction debut is a tightly-spun story of psychological suspense about a contemporary kidnapping that stirs memories of a 20 year-old crime"--
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Pub. Date
1995.
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English
Description
The Great War has ended, and the army is keen to be demobbed. But Willoughby, the new British High Commissioner in Egypt, has managed to affront the Khedive by refusing to receive rival delegations fueled by rising nationalism. Then, when some Armenians, Copts, and English civil servants are attacked, a state of emergency is declared.
Gareth Cadwallader Owen is the Mamur Zapt, the Head of the Khedive's Secret Police. Unlike his British colleagues,...
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