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81) Harmful intent
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[1990]
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"The explosive story of a doctor accused of malpractice--a fugitive on the run who pieces together the heart of a shocking medical conspiracy.'--cover.
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Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust...
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Cat Who volume 4, 5, 6
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1993.
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Three early novels of sleuthing Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum
86) The Dain curse
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1989
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The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Alvirah Meehan and Reagan Reilly get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eight-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago.
88) The last coyote
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Taking a hard look at his life after a streak of bad luck, LAPD detective Harry Bosch decides to tackle the unsolved decades-old murder of his mother and uncovers a devastating truth.
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1987
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A collection of stories from Katherine V. Forrest, a pioneer of lesbian fiction and a four-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. From erotic speculation to incisive investigation, from moral dilemma to chilling horror, and from peril to passion, Forrest takes readers across the vivid landscape of her mind.The collection features the treasured erotic novella "O Captain, My Captain." Also includes stories featuring LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield...
93) Die Softly
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c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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While taking some clandestine photos, Herb sees a shadowy figure sneaking up on a cheerleader with a baseball bat. Was she killed in a car accident or was it murder?
95) Improbable cause
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 5
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The murder of a spouse-abusing dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain has detective J.P. Beaumont looking not for a motive, but for the one person who was finally pushed past the point of endurance.
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Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. Iit's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world- but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory...
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[2006]
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Personally selected by the author as examples of some of his best early works, a collection of short mystery tales, originally written under his legal or pseudonyms, pairs each story with individual introductions that offer insight into the writers literary development.
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The complete tales of Jules de Grandin volume Volume 4
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[2018]
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The fourth of five volumes collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.
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FBI special agent Lacey Sherlock satisfies an old grudge when she apprehends the String Killer, a man credited with murdering her sister seven years before, but a closer examination of the clues has Lacey wondering whether the String Killer is guilty of Belinda's death--and if not, who is?
Lacey Sherlock, becomes an FBI agent to help unravel the mysteries of her own past. Seven years after her sister was brutally slain by a serial killer, Lacey is...
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