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Beacon Street mourning: a Freemont Jones mystery
Par Dianne Day. 2000
San Francisco, 1909. Private investigator Fremont Jones and her partner, Michael Kossoff, travel to Boston to see Fremont's dying father.…
Fremont suspects that her nasty stepmother, Augusta, has caused her father's illness. But after Augusta is shot, the two investigate other possibilities. Some violence and some strong language. 2000The bat ; Bab, a Sub-deb (Essential Rinehart collection ##6)
Par Mary Roberts Rinehart. 2000
A pair of works by Rinehart. In The Bat someone, or something, is trying to scare Miss Cornelia Van Gorder,…
of New York City, to death. In Bab, a Sub-Deb, the writing assignment of a schoolgirl, who is a year away from her debut, leads to tragedy and murder. 1920The long good boy: a Rachel Alexander and Dash mystery
Par Carol Lea Benjamin. 2001
New York City private detective Rachel Alexander is hired by a trio of transvestite hookers to find who murdered one…
of their friends. With help from a dachshund, Rachel and her pit bull, Dash, infiltrate the seamy underground and discover crooked cops and drugs. Violence and strong language. 2001The wall (Zebra books)
Par Mary Roberts Rinehart. 1938
Juliette Ransom, not popular with her husband Arthur's upper-class friends, was bought off in an expensive divorce. After several years,…
she returns to his island home, starts causing trouble, and is murdered. Finding a motive isn't easy, since no one is aware the answer lies behind a plastered wall. 1938Bleeders: a "nameless detective" novel
Par Bill Pronzini. 2002
The "Nameless Detective's" innocent client is murdered, and Nameless, himself, is almost killed as well. His canvassing San Francisco's skid…
row for the culprit worries his wife and adopted daughter. He is sixty and contemplates retirement. Violence and strong language. 2002The emperor of Ocean Park
Par Stephen L Carter. 2002
African American law professor Talcott Garland is drawn into a political conspiracy after his father--a disgraced former Supreme Court nominee--dies…
suddenly. Apparently the judge left clues leading to evidence of crimes by former colleagues in high places and wants his son to exact revenge. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2002Savannah blues
Par Mary Kay Andrews. 2002
Thirty-something antiques dealer Weezie Foley is accused of murdering her ex-husband's fiancée after she discovers the body in an old…
plantation house. As Weezie and her friends and family investigate the sordid side of historic Savannah, Georgia, she falls in love with an old flame. Some strong language. 2002Maigret in Montmartre
Par Georges Simenon. 1959
A stripper warns the police that a countess is about to be killed, and then she is also murdered. Chief…
Inspector Maigret investigates the sordid underworld of drugs and prostitutes. 1951Blanche passes go
Par Barbara Neely. 2000
Blanche White returns to North Carolina from Boston. Assisting a friend in her catering business when a local girl is…
murdered, the African American maid-turned-sleuth investigates the suspect--the rich white man who had raped Blanche years ago--and confronts racial prejudice. Descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2000Prodigal father: a Father Dowling mystery
Par Ralph McInerny. 2002
Father Dowling is on a retreat at the Order of St. Athanasius--an institution wealthy in Chicago real estate but poor…
in personnel, having only seven remaining priests. When an ex-priest is murdered on the grounds, suspects include the staff, a benefactor's grandson, and the dead man's former business partner. 2002Shadows of sin: a Jessie Drake mystery
Par Rochelle Majer Krich. 2001
Los Angeles detective Jessie Drake and her partner Phil Okum investigate the murder of a prominent plastic surgeon. Suspects include…
the doctor's family and some discontented patients. Jessie is also contending with the pregnancy of her sister, a former child abuser, and studying Jewish tradition. Some violence and some strong language. 2001Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
Par Georges Simenon. 1977
One of the guests at a luxury hotel in Paris is murdered. The body is found by breakfast cook Prosper…
Donge. Superintendent Maigret questions Donge and the other hotel staff and guests to discover who among them is keeping secrets. 1977Maigret at the coroner's
Par Georges Simenon. 1980
In 1949 French Chief Superintendent Maigret is in Tucson, Arizona, on a professional junket where he attends a trial. Five…
air force men are accused of causing the death of a woman they abandoned in the desert. Cultural differences continually intrigue the detective. Some strong language. 1952The bones in the attic
Par Robert Barnard. 2002
Matt Harper, former soccer-player-turned-media-reporter, discovers a baby's skeleton in his newly bought house in Leeds. The police date the death…
to 1969 when, coincidentally, Matt stayed with his aunt in the same neighborhood. He investigates and uncovers unsavory secrets about his childhood playmates. Some strong language. 2001Winter and night
Par S. J Rozan. 2002
Private investigator Bill Smith and his partner Lydia Chin leave Manhattan to help Smith's fifteen-year-old runaway nephew, Gary. Gary's family…
lives in the New Jersey suburbs where he is suspected of killing his drug-dealing girlfriend. But Gary's dad also has a secret. Violence and strong language. 20021st to die
Par James Patterson. 2001
A serial killer of newlyweds prompts an investigation by Lindsay Boxer, a San Francisco homicide detective recently diagnosed with a…
potentially fatal blood disease. She recruits a medical examiner, a journalist, and a district attorney (all women) to help find the murderer. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001Family honor
Par Robert B Parker. 1999
Ex-cop Sunny Randall works as a Boston private detective while she completes her BFA and paints. She recently divorced her…
husband because of his family mob ties, but still cares for him. In her current case, Sunny is suspicious of the wealthy couple looking for their runaway daughter. Strong language and violence. BestsellerThe cabinet of curiosities
Par Douglas J Preston. 2002
Archaeologist Nora Kelly of the Museum of Natural History in NYC joins forces with FBI agent Pendergast and newspaper reporter…
Bill Smithback to find a murderer who's mimicking a nineteenth-century serial killer. This felon needs live victims to produce a life-extending elixir. Some violence and some strong language. 2002The importance of being Ernestine: an Ellie Haskell mystery
Par Dorothy Cannell. 2002
Lady Krumley has a family curse. Ellie Haskell and Roxie Malloy, posing as private detectives, agree to break it. Their…
task entails finding Ernestine, daughter of their elderly employer's former maid. Lady Krumley had mistreated the maid and seeks to make amends to the daughter--now forty years old. 2002Maigret bides his time
Par Georges Simenon. 1966
For twenty years, French chief superintendent Maigret has tried to catch and apprehend a jewel theft gang. When an elderly…
criminal is murdered in his wheelchair, Maigret gets a break in the case. 1965