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Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 2
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A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming facade. Professionally, he...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 57
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Nancy Drew and friends Bess and George track a group of swindlers and kidnappers from New York to Mexico City to Los Angeles where they finally solve the mystery of the Triple Hoax.
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Nancy Drew files volume case 7
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Nancy is abducted by terrorists when she poses as a government courier to deliver a document vital to top-secret negotiations with a country on the brink of revolution.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 64
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The art collector who suspects the Hardy boys of stealing one of his valuable paintings offers them a chance to prove their innocence by hiring them to find the painting and the real culprits.
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Encyclopedia Brown books volume 21
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America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 11
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Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to catch a thief during a department store sale.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 60
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A Japanese business tycoon mysteriously disappears and, soon after, a rare samurai sword is stolen from an art gallery. Suspecting a connection, the Hardy boys try to solve the mystery.
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Nancy Drew files volume case 10
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Nancy investigates a thirty-year-old mystery involving the bizarre death of Mayor John Harrington.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 61
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Valuable antique weathervanes are being stolen in the Pennsylvania Dutch country. A Navy employee removes a top secret document from the Pentagon. The Hardy brothers try to solve these two seemingly unrelated mysteries.
12) Remembered death
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Rosemary took a glass of champagne and died--was it suicide? The six guests begin to remember things and the killer strikes again.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 21
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While searching for the guard end of a broken saber that will solve one mystery, the Hardy brothers become involved with a gang of bank robbers.
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Tom Betterton, a young nuclear physicist, has disappeared, with no clues as to his fate. And he is just the latest British scientist to do so. His associates and wife are questioned but know nothing. When his wife dies in Morocco, the investigator on the case enlists the help of a woman on the verge of suicide to impersonate Mrs. Betterton and travel in her place. Can she pull it off? Will she find the missing scientists at the end of her journey?...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 50
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The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 22
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When two suspicious plane accidents occur near an eastern airport, the two Hardy brothers investigate the case and find themselves in greater danger than they anticipated.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 35
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In solving the mystery of two medallions missing from an inherited curio collection, the Hardys wind up in a desolate area of Guatemala at the mercy of dangerous thugs.