Detective and mystery fiction

  • The bone collector

    Creator

    Deaver, Jeffery

    Abstract

    Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminologist until a job accident left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger. He no longer wants to live until he sees the crime-scene report of a buried corpse.

    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Viking

    Non spécifié
  • Bury him darkly

    Creator

    Ormerod, Roger

    Abstract

    The daughter of a detective, Philipa Lowe finds herself thrown into a mystery that would have challenged even her father.

    Having sold up her employment agency in New York, Lowe is returning home to England on the QE2.

    A wealthy woman, she need never work again, but already she is finding herself bored.

    Then she meets Bella Fields, better known as the TV star Roma Felucci.

    Bella’s infectious personality and intrusive behaviour leaves Philipa wondering what lies beneath this challenging woman.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • Hard eight

    Creator

    Evanovich, Janet

    Abstract

    Hired to find a missing child, Stephanie soon wonders if she's working on the right side of the law. And complications have arisen in her relationship with Morelli.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • Blotto, Twinks and the ex-king's daughter

    Creator

    Brett, Simon

    Abstract

    "It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, and rather stupid son (known to all as Blotto) to drive off to the rescue. Luckily, he's aided by his brilliant sister, Twinks. Plus, he's got a really swell car."--Back cover.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Non spécifié
  • The moneylender of Toulouse : a Fools' Guild mystery

    Creator

    Gordon, Alan

    Abstract

    When Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fools' Guild, travels to Toulouse in 1204 to pressure the local bishop to resign, he becomes involved in a murder.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • Died in the wool

    Creator

    Marsh, Ngaio

    Abstract

    One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • 7th heaven : a novel

    Creator

    Patterson, James

    Abstract

    A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.

    As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • Paul Temple and the Curzon Case

    Creator

    Durbridge, Francis

    Abstract

    An aeroplane crashes on the cliffs of Dulworth Bay, and two boys disappear from a public school in the same village. Are the two events connected?

    And, who is the mysterious Curzon? His name first appears etched on a cricket bat owned by one of the missing Baxter boys, but nobody at the school, in the village or the boys' father has heard of him.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • Curtain : Poirot's last case : a Hercule Poirot mystery

    Creator

    Christie

    Abstract

    The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case.

    Audience
    General**
    Non spécifié
  • No trace : a Brock and Kolla mystery

    Creator

    Maitland, Barry

    Abstract

    In a London neighbourhood known for its artists and bohemian style, six year-old Tracey Rudd is abducted from home without any warning, or sign of intrusion. Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla hunt for the kidnapper.

    Audience
    General**
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