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A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury

Kerry Greenwood, Beth Norling · 265 pages

The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamant garters - is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This all-new collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including lists of Phryne's favourite designers, decadent cocktail recipes and other ephemera - is a gorgeously collectable, must-have treat for all Phryne fans. Lavi

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After the Armistice Ball

Catriona McPherson · 303 pages

Dandy Gilver, her husband back from the War, her children off at school and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. And what could be better than to seek out the Duffy diamonds, stolen from the Esselmont's country house, Croys, after the Armistice Ball?

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Murder Your Darlings

J.J. Murphy · 316 pages

When she stumbles over the dead body of drama critic Leland Mayflower and an aspiring writer named Billy Faulkner is accused of the murder, Dorothy Parker investigates with the aid of her fellow Algonquin Round Tablemates.

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Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

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Death Wears a Mask

Ashley Weaver · 354 pages

Amory Ames is looking forward to a tranquil period of reconnecting with reformed playboy husband Milo after an unexpected reconciliation following the murderous events at the Brightwell Hotel. Amory hopes a quiet stay at their London flat will help mend their dysfunctional relationship. However, she soon finds herself drawn into another investigation when Serena Barrington asks her to look into th

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Murder on the Flying Scotsman

Carola Dunn · 232 pages

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Murder at Hartigan House

Lee Strauss · 232 pages

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Ragtime in Simla

Barbara Cleverly · 288 pages

Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal court for the socialites. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. It is toward this country that detective

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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The Impersonator

Mary Miley · 358 pages

From amazon dot com: "In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a todd

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The Tomb of the Honey Bee

L.B. Hathaway · 248 pages

Private Detective Posie Parker is dreaming of a lazy London summer . . . But following the success of the Maharajah diamond case, she finds herself more in demand than ever. Asked to locate a world-famous explorer who has gone missing after a string of catastrophic events, Posie finds herself in murky waters yet again: an aristocratic family torn apart by hatred, a bizarre murder at an English cou

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The Lake House

Kate Morton · 495 pages

Living on her family's gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tr

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The Riddle at Gipsy's Mile

Clara Benson · 284 pages

Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured - presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London's most fashionable - and disreputable - nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking,

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No Good Deed

Nekesa Afia

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The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages

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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Laurie R. King · 368 pages

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a

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The Serpent's Daughter

Suzanne Arruda · 336 pages

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Farriers' Lane

Anne Perry · 432 pages

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The Council of the Cursed

Peter Tremayne · 307 pages

Counseling a hostile Irish delegation to the Celtic church of 670 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel is embroiled in a politically tenacious investigation when one of the delegates is found murdered, a case that is complicated by the theft of a priceless reliquary.

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