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England London Large type books London (England) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Pitt, Charlotte (Fictitious character) Fiction Pitt, Thomas (Fictitious character) Fiction Police England London Fiction Women detectives England London Fiction Women private investigators Women private investigators England London FictionRoberts, Michèle
Summary: 2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBrittney, Lynn
Summary: "A high-profile murder propels a unique crime-fighting team into the dark environs of London's underworld--and on a terrifying quest to track a ruthless killer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She hates noise and crowds, tends to fixate on patterns, and often feels acutely aware of her surroundings even as she struggles to interpret the behavior of people around her. As a working-class girl in London's East End, she's spent her whole life learning to hide these traits. Until the day when she notices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda LAB 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PerryNee, John Shen Yen
Summary: In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERPerry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: Investigating evidence of a violent struggle at the home of Ministry of Defense member Dudley Kynaston, Pitt and the Special Branch discover the brutally murdered body of a young woman before realizing that Kynaston is not who he appears to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2014Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M PERWalliams, David
Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "One evening in 1888, Robert Anderson, the head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), appears at Barker's office with an offer. A series of murders in the Whitechapel area of London are turning the city upside down, with tremendous pressure being brought to bear on Scotland Yard and the government itself. Barker is to be named temporary envoy to the Royal Family with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "An historical novel about a young woman who finds employment as a chambermaid at London's grandest hotel after World War I and becomes torn between two men, two classes, and everything she knows and everything she dreams of"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Gaynor 2016Chevalier, Tracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chevalier 2001Selznick, Brian
Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELGable, Michelle
Summary: In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. Between the shop's brisk business and the literary salons she hosts for her eccentric friends, Nancy's life seems on the upswing. But when a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: London, 1817. The London Season is beginning once more, and Lily Adler's return to her home on Half Moon Street feels different this year. No longer a recent widow, she has a life and friends waiting for her. Lily also has new responsibilities in the form of her protégée Amelia, the sister of her longtime friend Jack Hartley, who is escaping her own brush with scandal and murder. It doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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Summary: In Victorian London, Supt. Pitt of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three apparently disparate victims: a band leader, a naval officer and a bus conductor. All three were beheaded. The case leaves him stumped, but fortunately there is his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAWeaver, Ashley
Summary: Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway. Holloway and his wife Georgina are old friends of theirs, and when Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing. However, Amory is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEAPerry, Anne.
Summary: In the years before the American Civil War, a London arms dealer finds his life in danger when two men from opposite sides of the battlefield wish to buy his wares.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERClare, Alys
Summary: "London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Late September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft. When she returns to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, tied up and gagged. Jo hurries away, but can't shake the image of the serviceman from her mind. Several days later, when Jo recounts the story to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in the latest mystery in Carola Dunn's beloved Daisy Dalrymple series. April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dunn 2018Joseph, Paterson
Summary: "A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century London and inspired by a true story. "I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more." It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023