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2461) Radio Delley
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"For three best friends, a small town, endless days of summertime fun (and boredom), and an old radio form the recipe for an unforgettable adventure. It's summer in Delley, a quiet town in the American Midwest. Perhaps too quiet for Jeremy, Stella, and Sam, three inquisitive kids with a desire to solve mysteries and seek adventure in a place, to be honest, that doesn't offer a lot of either. However, when Jeremy gets an old radio that connects him...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things that film noir could only dream of" (Chris Ware). In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph," running a back- channel clearinghouse for victims...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Appears on list
Description
Discharged from the military after suffering severe wounds, Dr. Watson unsuccessfully searches for accommodation until a chance encounter leads him to Sherlock Holmes, and 221 B Baker Street. Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician and an expert on the universal aspects of crime. He reveals to Watson that he is a consulting detective and soon draws Watson into his investigation of a bizarre murder. A new partnership begins unbeknownst to Watson...
2464) Oh! Heavenly dog
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A private eye dies on the job and goes to heaven, only to be sent back to earth to solve his own murder; however, he is sent back in the body of a small, scruffy dog.
2465) Survive the night
Author
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Description
"After losing everything, Della Jackson tries to begin again as an investigator. But she can't forget the past ... and neither can someone else. Someone who won't let anyone--even Della's best friend, former special operative Paul Mason--stand in the way. As Della is stalked and those closest to her are targeted, both Della and Paul realize there's only one way to survive. They each have to face their greatest fears, overcome the scars of the past...
2466) Ghoul goblin
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"It has been several months since Chicago's only wizard for hire, Harry Blacksone Copperfield Dresden, barely survived a case involving several packs of werewolves. And while he ultimately was able to prevent the Windy City from being completely engulfed in a bloodbath, it was no triumphant victory. The case began with the murder of his protege, saw Detective Ron Carmichael torn apart before his eyes, and ended with Harry estranged from Lt. Karrin...
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Ben Matlock is a Georgia bred, Harvard educated defense attorney. His $100,000 fee is worth every penny as he defends his clients not only in Atlanta but all over the country. He is cantankerous and gruff and often uses colorful language, but beneath it all he has a heart of gold.
2469) Silver Blaze
2470) Abducted
Author
Series
Lizzy Gardner volume 001
Pub. Date
c2011, p2012
Description
Lizzy Gardner was just seventeen when she was kidnapped by the psychopath known as Spiderman, a serial killer terrorizing her California hometown. Fourteen years later, Lizzy is a successful private investigator and self-defense instructor. Wracked with guilt over being the only victim to survive, she's devoted her life to helping others protect themselves from the horrors she endured, but a single phone call brings the terror of the past crashing...
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993
Description
The adventure of the Egyptian tomb: After an archeological dig turns deadly, Poirot must distinguish between ordinary evil and an other-worldly curse. The underdog: Hasting's passion for golf, and Poirot's for art, lead them to the scene of a baffling murder. The yellow Iris: The death of a British heiress haunts Poirot for two years before he has a chance to confront her killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Like Hercules, Hercule Poirot had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot determines to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed "Labors." Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction"--
2473) True crime
Author
Series
Nathan Heller novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Description
Private Eye Nate Heller is trying discover who the gunshot victim was, found next to the Biograph Theatre, the man the FBI confidently identified as John Dillinger. His search for the answer leads him into a confrontation with J. Edgar Hoover.
2474) Ragdoll: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Description
DS Rose and his colleagues, newly promoted DI Baxter and young American ingenue, DC Edmunds are called to a grim discovery in a block of flats: six victims have been reassembled into one gruesome body. Rose sets out on a secret investigation to find the killer before it's too late, as the serial murderer taunts them.