Summary: Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER TOSummary: A quiet yet cunning schoolteacher recruits an elite team of international criminals for the ultimate caper: robbing $10 million in diamonds from an impenetrable Rio De Janeiro vault at the frenzied peak of Carnival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GRAPaleo, Doug
Summary: "Crime is bubbling up in Dinotown . . . and it stinks! In this hilarious graphic novel, the Dinomighties need to sniff out their smelliest mystery yet. Will their noses lead them to the culprit? Or will the odor of their enemies prevail?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Clark, Mary Higgins
Summary: "A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLASummary: When several diamonds are stolen from a jewelry store in Marseilles, the heist bears the hallmarks of the supposedly retired Pink Panther gang. After a child is accidentally killed in their getaway, the thieves resort to desperate measures to fence the jewels. This sparks a series of events that set a British insurance-loss adjuster, a French-Algerian cop, and a Serbian soldier turned diamond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASBright, J. E.
Summary: When a priceless, jewel encrusted bird statue is installed atop a skyscraper in Gotham, Catwoman and the Penguin have their eyes on the prize, and it is up to Batman to stop them from stealing the jewels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUPChilds, Laura
Summary: "Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning's life heats up when a gala at a local jewelry store serves up heists and homicide alongside her herbal teas ... Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew of jewelers, museums, and private collectors will be there to showcase their wares and sip some of Theo's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHISummary: "In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Gentleman of leisure, ladies' man, and professional cricketer A.J. Raffles has an unusual hobby: grand larceny. Follow his mischievous adventures with his old school chum Bunny as they hobnob with, and rob, the high society of Victorian England. Includes the never-before-released pilot episode.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RAFChristie, Agatha
Summary: When Miss Katherine Grey unexpectedly inherits a small fortune, she books the famous Blue Train for a trip to the French Riviera. Her new milieu includes millionaire Ruth Kettering, Ruth's estranged husband, a French mistress, and an inquisitive foreign man with an egg-shaped head and waxed moustache. But Nice is not so nice, for on arrival the gendarmerie asks Miss Grey to ID the strangled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books/Pocket Books 1928
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRSMITH, STEVEN K.
Summary: "Something's lurking beneath the famous staircase at The Jefferson, Richmond's historic downtown hotel. Back in 1895, when the hotel opened, real alligators roamed free in the courtyard fountains. That was ages ago ... or was it? When young brothers Sam and Derek arrive the The Jefferson for an elegant wedding weekend with their parents, they love exploring the old hotel. But when the wedding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series SmithDesai, Sara
Summary: "To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DESSummary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ASPWinslow, Don
Summary: "No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken ... In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINOakley, Colleen
Summary: "A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction OakleyJobb, Dean
Summary: "A captivating true-crime caper about Arthur Barry, a jewel thief who charmed celebrities and millionaires, stole from Rockefellers and royalty, and pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists of the Jazz Age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 JOBGibbs, Stuart
Summary: While visiting a ranch near Yellowstone National Park with his parents, Summer, and her parents, Teddy Fitzroy investigates the disappearances of bison and an irreplaceable necklace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: "Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Experiencing relationship troubles with Mac during a visit to Monte Carlo, Sunny is enmeshed in a series of jewelry store robberies involving a sociopath acquaintance and a dowdy friend's makeover by movie star Allie Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLGraham, Heather.
Summary: It's a pub in lower Manhattan, run by the Finnegan family for generations and now owned by Kieran and her three brothers. Kieran Finnegan, who still works there whenever she can, has become a criminal psychologist. Meanwhile, New York's Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one's been killed, until now. FBI agent Craig Frasier is brought in to investigate; he and Kieran meet at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Graham 2016Hobbs, Roger
Summary: "It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes sideways. Within minutes the other two are dead, leaving this coldblooded psychopath to claim both the sapphires and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBKeene, Carolyn
Summary: After capsizing her rowboat on Twin Lakes, Nancy Drew sets out to help the girl who saved her life investigate the mysterious events surrounding a deserted bungalow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1988
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KEERoberts, Nora.
Summary: Whitney McAllister, a reckless heiress with a penchant for adventure, joins forces with Doug Lord, a professional thief with a stolen treasure map on a search for a treasure trove of priceless jewels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBDesai, Sara
Summary: "Diamond necklaces, billionaires, Mafia bosses, and student loans-it's all in a day's work for Simi Chopra and her ragtag heist crew in the next romantic-comedy caper from Sara Desai. It's been a year since Simi Chopra's motley crew pulled off a high-wire diamond necklace heist with the help of sexy rogue Jack Danger. After living it up on the reward money, they're back where they started,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024