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21) Guardian angel
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Series
Language
English
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After her golden retriever has puppies, and her yuppie neighbors put them to sleep while dog-sitting, V.I. uncovers a corporate network of murder and corruption.
23) Bleeding Kansas
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English
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Description
The year of her 15th birthday is one that Lara Grellier will never forget. The first Gulf War is raging in the Middle East; her unstable mother has become increasingly erratic in her behavior; the townspeople in Lawrence, Kan., are leery of the two unmarried women who have moved into the area and are rumored to be Wiccans, and Lara's brother has run off to join the Army.
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
25) Tunnel vision
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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26) Ghost country
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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Description
A novel on the homeless in Chicago so desperate for a ray of hope they are willing to believe in miracles, this one being the Virgin's apparition. The novel features a gallery of characters, among them a former opera singer who has become an alcoholic.
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume Related works
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English
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Description
Nine stories on PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago, mostly involving friends and family. In one, at the request of an Italian cousin she searches for sheet music which belonged to her mother, in another a friend asks her aid in recovering a stolen family sculpture.
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Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Feisty Chicago private eye Vic 'V. I.' Warshawski is used to getting mixed up in complicated cases. But when three million dollars in share certificates are stolen from a Dominican priory, she really doesn't want to get involved. Because agreeing to investigate would mean doing a favour for Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, and Vic has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago.
Against her better judgement, Vic gets drawn in,
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Nancy Drew solves her first mystery when the accidental rescue of a little girl who lives with her two great-aunts leads to an adventurous search for a missing will.
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Dover giant thrift editions
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 802, 803
Modern Library giants volume G36
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 802, 803
Modern Library giants volume G36
Language
English
Description
Dostoyevsky was the son of an impoverished nobleman of Lithuanian origin. born in 1821 in Moscow, where his father held the post of resident doctor at a charity hospital. The family had small living quarters on the hospital grounds, and Fyodor became acquainted at an early age with misery, misfortune and death. Doctor Dostoyevsky, authoritarian and morose, believed in old fashioned discipline and strict religious upbringing, and Fyodor's childhood...
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Shadow sha la. pai rui si ji zuo pin volume 3
Publisher
Tian pei wen hua chu ban
Pub. Date
min 95
Language
中文
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Stories on crime by women writers. In Frances Fyfield's Nothing to Lose, an Englishwoman plots to get rid of her African husband after a mixed marriage goes sour, while Helga Anderle's Saturday Night Fever is on a journalist's reaction to a murder.
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Description
"The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are somewhere else and yearn to go back. But even in these safest...
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea. This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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