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Author
Series
Chris Klick mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Stumptown volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast's casino operation, will clear Dex' debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne's missing granddaughter. But is this job Dex's...
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and acclaimed artist Matthew Southworth comes a NEW Stumptown mystery! Dex Parios has finally opened her own office, and her first case is to find rock star Mim Bracca's baby - her prized guitar, which disappeared after her band Tailhook's Portland show. Mim has no leads, and she doesn't want to go to the police - but Dex needs the case, and besides, it shouldn't be that hard to find a missing guitar. As...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
3088) Hardy boys adventures: 3
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Four exciting adventures take Frank and Joe Hardy across the globe to solve dangerous mysteries! The fate of the world lies in the library? It does when the two sleuthing siblings need to provide security for the children of visiting delegates! What lengths will someone go to make the most explosive radio show of all? Tune in! What happens when the Hardy Boys are split up? Danger looms! And, what is Amelia Earhart doing flying around? The Hardy Boys...
Author
Series
Laetitia Rodd mystery volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return....
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard-for-hire and a guy who's long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he's one of them, and his first big...
3091) Usotoki rhetoric
Author
Publisher
One Peace Books
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Japan, a cautious sixteen-year-old named Kanoko, discovers that her ability to hear when people are lying is a valuable asset for a struggling private detective.
3092) Ghostwriter
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This noir graphic novel, which stars a pregnant radio scriptwriter, won Spain's 2017 National Comic Award.
"Barcelona, 1943. As a scriptwriter for a popular radio advice column, Laia is embroiled in the romantic entanglements of others. Each day, letters flood in from troubled wives and girlfriends recounting their partner's abuses, and Laia tries her best to counsel them. In contrast, her own life seems perfectly ordered, with a devoted husband...
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A bizarre double murder draws the interest of Chicago's only wizard-for-hire. But as Harry Dresden begins his investigation, the clues lead to troubling conclusions about the possible perpetrator, and set him on a path that will place him in the middle of a conflict between the city's three most powerful factions"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Stumptown volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast's casino operation, will clear Dex's debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne's missing granddaughter. But is this job Dex's...
3095) Mainely fear
Author
Series
Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it." This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.
Author
Series
Sherlock Bones (Treml) volume 1
Publisher
Etch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Prehistoric skeleton and museum detective Sherlock Bones and his stuffed-parrot sidekick, Watts, outmaneuver a sneaky raccoon to track down a missing Royal Blue Diamond.
Author
Series
Auntie Poldi novels volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace - a nun leapt to her death after participating in a routine exorcism. But when a priest and a Vatican commissario turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. Even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica has just faced her greatest fears - her most dangerous enemy - and won! Surely everything is smooth sailing from here? Nope! Instead she finds a corpse in her office - the body of a woman who came to Jessica for help years ago with a case Jessica failed to solve. And now she's being framed for the woman's murder! As Jessica reopens her investigation in hopes of bringing Dia Sloane's killer to justice, she finds herself caught in the web of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The poet: "Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work--a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of 'suicide notes' drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan...
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