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Flavia de Luce mystery volume 1
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect.
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After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the driver's seat of a hansom cab. Even more shocking--it is the body of a peer of the realm who had been decently buried the week before. While the doctor insists Lord Fitzroy-Hammond died a natural death, the Pitts find the situation anything but natural.
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A crime novel set in Victorian London in which the family of a young murdered aristocrat, whose corpse was found in a London sewer, refuse to answer the police questions. However, Inspector Pitt and his wife determine to unravel the mystery behind the family facade. Follows BETHLEHEM ROAD.
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Charlotte Pitt's mother, Caroline, has traveled with husband Joshua Fielding and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula first touched English soil in the sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of the book, but the project is a disaster. Then a black-cloaked stranger emerges from a snowstorm who turns out to be a theatrical genius. But at the same time, a brooding evil makes itself...
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Flavia de Luce mystery volume 5
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When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in Bishop's Lacey, its shocking contents lead to another case for Flavia de Luce, where greed, pride, and murder result in old secrets coming to light.
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Flavia de Luce mystery volume 2
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Flavia de Luce applies her skills in the chemistry lab to solving the murder of a master puppeteer, a case that is further complicated by her tormenting sisters.
11) Half Moon Street
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Set in Oscar Wilde's London in 1891, Perry's new Thomas Pitt mystery is all about the importance of being earnest. Superintendent Pitt is summoned to the Thames when police discover the body of a young man dressed in a torn green velvet gown, manacled to a punt, "in parody of ecstasy and death." At first it seems the victim is Henri Bonnard, a functionary in the French embassy; eventually, Pitt and dour sidekick Sergeant Tellman identify the body...
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Promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie's 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins, "A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and is often considered the best of all the Miss Marple novels. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple who is staying nearby, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October...
14) Justice hall
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The two "Bedouin" guides from O Jerusalem are in England, caught in a mesh of honor and justice and the death of a young nephew.
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Flavia de Luce mystery volume 9
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In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, Flavia is struggling to fill her empty days. Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, something grazes Flavia's fingers as she dangles them in the water. In her grip is a human head, attached...
16) O Jerusalem
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Mycroft Holmes has a job that needs doing in 1919 Palestine, where an unfinished war is about to blow up.
17) Bedford Square
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A man found dead at the door of General Brandon Balantyne leads Inspector Pitt and his wife Charlotte to a much larger conspiracy.
18) Skin
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Detective Jack Caffery and police driver Flea Marley follow a trail of apparent suicides to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries, where someone--or something--lurks, ready to disappear into darkness or slip into houses unseen.
19) Traitors gate
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In Victorian England, superintendent Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigate murder and espionage. The case centers on traitors selling Germany documents relating to Britain's colonial plans in Africa.
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