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21) The Blood
Author
Series
Jem Flockhart novels volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain identify a link between a suicide and a prostitute's drowning death in a floating hospital that has dark ties to a private anatomy school and the opium dens of the waterfront.
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood. On shore a young woman, a known prostitute, is...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare. London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiance, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected...
Author
Series
World's End Bureau volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"'Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the World's End Investigation Bureau is thriving. Affairs, sex scandals, divorces... Lily Raynor is delighted to have so much work for herself and her capable assistant, Felix Wilbraham, but she can't help...
25) Acceptable loss
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later--and only a block away--Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that the crimes are connected. Was Victoria really the assassin's target? Or were both crimes part of an even more sinister plot? Field's investigation soon exposes a shocking conspiracy: the publication of Charles Darwin's controversial On...
Author
Series
Museum mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London 1895. Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton have been hired by the Natural History Museum to find out who deliberately smashed the fossilised skeleton of a small dinosaur. At first Daniel is reluctant to take the case, pointing out that they deal in murders, not vandalism. But then one of the attendants in the dinosaur room is murdered, his body found tied to a dinosaur skeleton and a note pinned to him saying 'The price of betrayal'. As Daniel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An exiled German prince falls from his horse in Victorian England and his wife is accused of murder. It's a scandal of international proportions and the man expected to sort out the truth from the lies is series sleuth William Monk. First though he must polish his manners. By the author of Cain His Brother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks of all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them. In 1893,...
31) Hollow chest
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
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