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1) King Zeno
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick
A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA Magazine
New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge-and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.
From one of the most inventive writers...
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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. "He has nerve and he has knowledge." In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper....
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English
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When Hannah Griffin was a little girl her home went up in flames killing her mother. It was the nation's worst murder scene, now 20 years later Hannah is investigating a child abuse case when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with unfinished business is on the loose and that makes Hannah's blood run cold.
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Gene Hammons novels volume 1
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English
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"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
6) Black butler
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Series
Black butler volume 4
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010-
Physical Desc
v. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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Sebastian Michaelis, the butler to Ciel Phantomhive, the twelve-year-old earl, is the perfect servant, adept at every task from preparing meals to dispatching gangsters, so good at everything he does that he cannot possibly be human.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
643 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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It's been 20 years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School in Portland, Oregon. It is a night that shattered the lives of three women. A class reunion has been scheduled, and now Lindsay, Kristen, and Rachel find themselves marked for death by the very same killer.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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5 DVDs (approximately 17hrs. 33min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This season takes novelist-turned-detective, Jessica Fletcher, from not-so-sleepy Cabot Cove to the dangerous bright lights of New York City and beyond. From uncovering false fortune seekers to tracking down two-faced killers, Jessica is always there to catch the culprit and pen the final solution to the case.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.
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English
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"For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile--young, slender, and poor. Speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens has led the U.S. government to send in criminal profilers from the FBI, but little real information about this international...
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Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
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xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...
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Distributued by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (998 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Patrick Jane is a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serial killer called Red John. Devastated, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis to help the California Bureau of Investigation. These talents make him appear psychically gifted and helps him bring killers to justice. At crime scenes across California, Patrick now...
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