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"Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with...
42) The bald bandit
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Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.
43) Family patterns
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Patchwork mystery volume 1
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Sarah Hart finds herself wrapped in a hundred-year-old mystery involving her grandfather, Noah Drayton, and an antique quilt with a hidden message which is the only clue to the disappearance of Noah's wife, Molly.
45) Trapped at sea
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 75
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The Hardy brothers travel from the highways of eastern United States to tropical islands trying to track down truckloads of precious cargo that are being hijacked.
47) Bad Liar
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"Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past? A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff's detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn't been seen since. Meanwhile,...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 33
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An unusual hex sign leads Nancy Drew to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a thief who stops at nothing to get rid of her.
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Encyclopedia Brown books volume 8
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Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective, solves ten more mysteries. The solutions are given at the end of the book.
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"Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series. July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. But...
53) Arthur accused!
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Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 5
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Arthur's friend Buster is searching for a crime to solve, so when the quarters Arthur has collected for Mrs. MacGrady's charity drive disappear, Buster is on the case. Will he be able to prove Arthur's innocence so that he can attend the class picnic?
55) The Indian bride
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Inspector Sejer mystery volume 5
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When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the Norwegian town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people...
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 6
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Cam uses her photographic memory to identify the person who stole a valuable autographed baseball.