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Lucy Stone mystery volume 1
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Mail-Order Murder introduces Lucy Stone, one of the most winning sleuths ever to solve a crime while coping with visiting in-laws. Tinker's Cove, Maine, is the setting of a case involving mail-order mercenaries and crimes of the heart.
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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.
66) Dark star
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Joanna Stark mysteries volume 3
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"Things seem to be going smoothly for Joanna Stark; she is beginning to get over the fear that has haunted her since her near-fatal encounter (in There Hangs the Knife) with Antony Parducci, former lover, art forger, thief. But arriving home after lunch at her son's winery-to-be in their town of Sonoma, Joanna find her house broken into and a painting--one of no value but of great significance to Joanna--has been stolen. The painting has been taken,...
67) Spider's web
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Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young stepdaughter Pippa. Worse still, the victim is the man who broke up Henry's first marriage. Moreover Henry will be arriving shortly with a V.I.P. who might take a dim view of...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 66
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The Hardy boys accompany a Canadian teenager to Los Angeles to help locate a missing rare coin, but soon become involved in an even larger case.
74) Cypress Grove
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James Sallis, author of the Lew Griffin detective stories, has been praised as one of Southern literature's most original voices. In Cypress Grove, a murder with eerie connections to the past brings a man back to his calling. Turner was a homicide cop long ago, until he got mixed up in the wrong case and ended up behind bars himself. Now retired to a cabin in a small Southern town, Turner's been recruited by the local Sheriff to help solve a bizarre...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 59
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When a ferocious, wolf-life creature appears in a small town, the Hardy boys are engaged to clear the name of a young man who has a history of werewolves in his family.
79) The swami's ring
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 61
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When an amnesia victim appears in River Heights with a royal Hindu ring in his possession, Nancy Drew is called in to help learn his identity.