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Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c 2003.
Language
English
Description
An expatriate American in England, Dorothy Martin finds her plans to celebrate Thanksgiving threatened when she assists at the local school after teacher Amanda Doyle, the prime suspect in the murder of her husband, mysteriously vanishes.
Author
Series
[Hilda Johansson mysteries] volume 1
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Published to great acclaim, Death in Lacquer Red was the first novel in Jeanne M. Dams's historical mystery series featuring Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the prominent Studebaker family. Against the backdrop of the ever-changing year 1900, Hilda finds herself facing not only the problems of an immigrant but also religious conflict, and international unrest, not to mention the discovery of the body...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vacationing in the English village of Broadway with her retired constable husband when they discover the body of a local farmer in a disused quarry, Dorothy Martin cannot resist getting involved after the police are unable to determine a motive for the crime.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"She was about twenty years old, with long blond hair, and her body was found a few days after she fell from the cliffs to her death on the rocks below. The action of the water and sea life made circulating a picture of her impossible, but even with a description, no one identified her; no one reported a girl gone missing from any of the nearby villages. Her death was a mystery that had haunted Alan Nesbitt, Dorothy Martin's now-retired chief constable...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Martin travels back to Hillsburg, Indiana, along with her English husband, to claim an inheritance, but "in addition to the money, Kevin Cassidy has left her a note suggesting that if he dies, he's been murdered."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While on a trip to visit a Stone Age excavation, Dorothy and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, launch an unofficial investigation into the murder of the principal donor for the archaeological dig.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, LTD
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan have been invited to rural Suffolk to take part in the christening of the newest member of the aristocratic Montcalm family. But on arriving at Dunham Manor, they discover the household in turmoil as the ceremonial dagger, used in Montcalm family christenings for generations past, has gone missing. Dorothy and Alan offer their help in locating the ancient heirloom, but when a stranger is murdered in the village...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Newbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant sculptress Gillian Roberts. However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the art department, when the lift breaks down ans a corpse is discovered at the bottom of the shaft. Dorothy and Alan become involved in the ensuing...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, they hope for a pleasant, peaceful holiday. It's not to be. Taking a walk on their very first day, they discover a body, apparently the victim of an unfortunate accident, on a precipitous hill path. The dead man, they learn, is an American named Abercrombie who had made himself both loved and hated during...
10) Blood will tell
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the historic university town of Cambridge. Dorothy Martin isn't overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St. Stephen's turns out to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by en suite facilities, Dorothy is looking forward to exploring the historic and...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sleuthing American widow Dorothy Martin goes undercover as a temporary secretary for a London computer company to solve a murder. The victim was an American director of a firm making software.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
American Anglophile Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbit, are enjoying a pleasant, albeit rain-soaked, stay in the historic university city of Durham with their old friend David Tregarth. Castle tours and cathedral services fill their days as they wander up and down the steep, cobbled lanes of the medieval city. But the holiday comes to an abrupt halt when David's elderly great-aunt is accused of the murder of a fellow...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Dorothy Martin goes to France - alone because Alan is stuck back home in Sherebury with a broken ankle - she worries about her ability to get along in a language she barely speaks, and in a country she hasn't seen for over fifty years. But by the time Alan joins her a week later, Dorothy has found herself embroiled in one mystery after another: a woman drowning in quicksand; a man suffering a nea--fatal fall in the abbey at Mont Saint Michel;...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English, their delightful children and their commitment to peace. Following a concert at Sherebury Cathedral, the Ahmads offer to host a party afterwards at the Rose and Crown pub. But Mr and Mrs Ahmad don't show up. Their children are asleep upstairs at the inn, but the parents are nowhere to be found ... With suspicions of kidnap...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband Alan are asked by some good friends to look into a series of petty crimes that are perplexing the local Mounties in the picturesque Canadian city of Victoria, they immediately jump on a plane to British Columbia and settle themselves into the heart of the local community. Drinking champagne with the local businessman and would-be politician as well as cups of tea with the local recluse, they infiltrate...
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