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It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
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Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 22
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English
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Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo--van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover--was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger."--
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When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing a little investigating of his own. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable
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Cazalet chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
434 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Confusion
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Series
Cazalet chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Friday the thirteenth of May was most unlucky day for Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID. That day he confiscated a replica gun from his son's school briefcase and lost his life in a bank robbery--the first link in a chain of events which led to a series of deaths. When three people are discovered shot at Tancred House, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects a connection between the two apparently unrelated crimes. But only the seventeen-year-old...
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Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.
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Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1972, c1971
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Physical Desc
203 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspectors Wexford and Burden discover a complex and sordid web of blackmail, scandal, and murder during their investigation into the death of one child and the disappearance of another.
16) Wideacre
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Series
Wideacre trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
556 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As an eighteenth-century Englishwoman without property rights, Beatrice is destined to lose what she loves most--her fammily's ancestral estate, Wideacre--unless her ambitious schemes succeed.
17) Dead man's time
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Series
Roy Grace novels volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin--and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
19) Harm done
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Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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The dogged sleuth Wexford investigates the strange abductions of two young girls: Rachel, a bright middle-class student, and Lizzie, a mentally disabled 16-year-old. When both girls return home, apparently unharmed, Wexford is faced with a curious mystery: what really happened to them?
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Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Cissie Rowe, a rising star of the silent screen, is found brutally murdered in her own home in the seaside town of Shoreham-By-Sea, home to a film studio and thriving theatrical community. DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens are despatched to investigate.
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