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Summary: When a servant girl is found dead, a supposed suicide, Victorian gentleman and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is called in by his old friend, Lady Jane, to investigate and begins to suspect that the girl has fallen victim to a rare and deadly poison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: Returning from a continental honeymoon with his wife, Lady Jane Grey, newly elected MP Charles Lenox is asked by his colleague, Ludovic Starling, to investigate the murder of his footman who was bludgeoned to death with a brick. Lenox gradually realizes that what seem to be the facts of the case may have been manipulated, and that an old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Though a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: Visiting his uncle's estate in Somerset for what he hopes will be a quiet working vacation, politician and new father Charles Lenox investigates a series of seemingly small acts of vandalism only to uncover a sinister plot by an adversary who may be targeting someone Lenox loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: It's Christmas 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have met with violent deaths--one shot, one stabbed. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case, but must leave it behind to go north to Stirrington, where he is running for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: "On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old client at Charing Cross. But when their cryptic encounter seems to lead, days later, to the murder of an innocuous country squire, this fast favor draws Lenox inexorably back into his old profession. Soon he realizes that, far from concluding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICDickens, Charles
Summary: Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICHigson, Charles
Summary: When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HIGHigson, Charles
Summary: After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HIGCumming, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEARosenberg, Charles B.
Summary: "British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCarey, Peter
Summary: Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the nature of their relationship, Catherine retreats into isolation. Delving into notebooks more than a century old, she feels a growing connection to Henry Brandling, who in 1854 gave life to a mechanical creature.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the nature of their relationship, Catherine retreats into isolation. Delving into notebooks more than a century old, she feels a growing connection to Henry Brandling, who in 1854 gave life to a mechanical creature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CARChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: "The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017