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Miss Seeton by Appointment (Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton mysteries #6)
by Hampton CharlesTHE BEST IN BRITISH MYSTERY Losing Her Head Miss Seeton is of! to Buckingham Palace on a secret mission... to spy on a royal retainer who might be a Russian agent! But one mystery isn’t enough for the indomitable spinster. Someone has warned her about a fabulous jewel heist in the making, and to foil the robbery she's going to risk losing the Queen’s head... and her own neck! MISS EMILY D. SEETON Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and at every turn the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.
Miss Seeton by Moonlight (Miss Seeton Mysteries #12)
by Hamilton CraneHow do you catch an art thief? With artistic bait, of course. And who else but the talented Miss Seeton would provide a painting for Scotland Yard, hoping it will get stolen? Before the trap is sprung, a second thief strikes... in one of England’s most stately homes. Now Miss Seeton-incognito-is off to the scene to draw her own conclusions... MISS EMILY D. SEETON Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and at every turn the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.
Miss Seeton's Finest Hour (Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton #22)
by Hamilton CraneTHE BEST IN BRITISH MYSTERY! Bombs away! No one can be trusted in World War II England, even an unassuming young art teacher named Miss Emily D. Seeton. Her suspicious sketches of the surrounding area call her loyalty into question. But instead of being hanged for spying, Miss Seeton is recruited for the cause by a very impressed Major Haynes. As an official War Artist, she’s sent to uncover sabotage in an airplane factory—a mission that puts her on ground zero for murder... MISS EMILY D. SEETON. When art teacher Miss Seeton answers her country’s call to duty during World War II, her life changes dramatically. Armed with only a sketch pad, She becomes the most lovable and unlikely master of detection in this her first mystery—and finest hour.
Miss Silver Comes to Stay
by Patricia WentworthJames Cray was always a cruel man . . .When he was 21 James Lessiter told Henrietta Cray that he loved her before all things and so broke Catherine Lee's heart. But James has a side to him that most people do not see. When the engagement is broken off noone is sure why and Rietta refuses to explain.Twenty years later James returns to the village an extremely wealthy man. Rietta is still unmarried and Catherine is a penniless widow living in a cottage on the Lessiter estate.Trouble is inevitable, for Catherine has started to sell some of the valuable contents of the cottage to keep up a lifestyle she cannot afford but James has his suspicions and is looking forward to exposing her. He has always enjoyed seeing someone else suffer whatever the cost.
Miss Silver Comes to Stay (Miss Silver Series)
by Patricia WentworthJames Cray was always a cruel man . . .When he was 21 James Lessiter told Henrietta Cray that he loved her before all things and so broke Catherine Lee's heart. But James has a side to him that most people do not see. When the engagement is broken off noone is sure why and Rietta refuses to explain.Twenty years later James returns to the village an extremely wealthy man. Rietta is still unmarried and Catherine is a penniless widow living in a cottage on the Lessiter estate.Trouble is inevitable, for Catherine has started to sell some of the valuable contents of the cottage to keep up a lifestyle she cannot afford but James has his suspicions and is looking forward to exposing her. He has always enjoyed seeing someone else suffer whatever the cost.
Miss Silver Comes to Stay (The Miss Silver Mysteries #16)
by Patricia WentworthThe British governess-turned-sleuth visits a small village hiding big secrets in this &“timelessly charming&” cozy mystery series (Charlotte MacLeod). The citizens of Melling are perfectly ordinary. Some might even consider them boring, but not Miss Maud Silver. It&’s been some years since she gave up work as a governess to become a detective, and her fascination with people has served her well during that time. Now, she&’s come to Melling to pay a long-postponed visit to an old school chum—but Miss Silver&’s vacations never last long. The town&’s prodigal son has returned, wealthy and not exactly nostalgic for his hometown. He intends to sell his manor house and be done with Melling forever. But this cozy English hamlet hasn&’t finished with him yet . . .
Miss Silver Comes to Stay: Miss Silver Comes To Stay, Mr. Brading's Collection, And The Ivory Dagger (The Miss Silver Mysteries #16)
by Patricia WentworthThe British governess-turned-sleuth visits a small village hiding big secrets in this &“timelessly charming&” cozy mystery series (Charlotte MacLeod). The citizens of Melling are perfectly ordinary. Some might even consider them boring, but not Miss Maud Silver. It&’s been some years since she gave up work as a governess to become a detective, and her fascination with people has served her well during that time. Now, she&’s come to Melling to pay a long-postponed visit to an old school chum—but Miss Silver&’s vacations never last long. The town&’s prodigal son has returned, wealthy and not exactly nostalgic for his hometown. He intends to sell his manor house and be done with Melling forever. But this cozy English hamlet hasn&’t finished with him yet . . .
Miss Silver Deals with Death: In The Balance, The Chinese Shawl, And Miss Silver Deals With Death (The Miss Silver Mysteries #6)
by Patricia WentworthMaud Silver, governess-turned-sleuth, investigates a case of blackmail in a once-grand London apartment house. Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue. There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived; her husband did not. Then there&’s Ivy, a sleepwalking maid with a curious past. And last there is Mrs. Underwood, a snobbish woman dreadfully embarrassed that she is being blackmailed by another resident. And all that drama in just one flat. There are many secrets in Vandeleur house, and it will take the full force of gentlewoman detective Maud Silver&’s intuition to unravel them.
Miss Silver Intervenes
by Patricia WentworthA classic mystery novel from one of the mistresses of the genre.When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged aunt with nothing but a monotonous round of bridge parties and war work to fill her days.A chance encounter restores Giles to Meade but he has lost his memory, and their rediscovered happiness is threatened by the machinations of the scheming Carola Roland, a figure from Giles's forgotten past. So when Carola is viciously murdered, Giles becomes the chief suspect and it takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to unravel the real significance of the crime and its electrifying consequences.
Miss Silver Intervenes (Miss Silver Series)
by Patricia WentworthA classic mystery novel from one of the mistresses of the genre.When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged aunt with nothing but a monotonous round of bridge parties and war work to fill her days.A chance encounter restores Giles to Meade but he has lost his memory, and their rediscovered happiness is threatened by the machinations of the scheming Carola Roland, a figure from Giles's forgotten past. So when Carola is viciously murdered, Giles becomes the chief suspect and it takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to unravel the real significance of the crime and its electrifying consequences.
Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars: A Novel
by Miranda EmmersonIn this sparkling debut novel imbued with the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson’s literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, a disparate group of Londoners plunge into a search for a missing American actress.In the dreary days of November 1965, American actress Iolanthe Green has become the toast of the West End. Charismatic, mysterious, and beautiful, she brings color and a sprinkling of glamour to the scuffed boards of Soho’s Galaxy Theatre. But one evening, after another rapturously received performance, Iolanthe walks through the stage door, out into the cold London night, and vanishes.All of London is riveted as Fleet Street speculates about the missing actress’s fate. But as time passes and the case grows colder, the public’s interest turns to the unfolding Moors Murders and erupting political scandals. Only Anna Treadway, Iolanthe’s dresser at the Galaxy, still cares. A young woman of dogged determination with a few dark secrets of her own, she is determined to solve the mystery of the missing actress. A disparate band of London émigrés—an Irish policeman, a Turkish coffee-house owner and his rebellious daughter, and a literature-loving Jamaican accountant—joins Anna in her quest, an odyssey that leads them into a netherworld of jazz clubs, backstreet doctors, police brutality, and seaside ghost towns. Each of these unusual sleuths has come to London to escape the past and forge a new future. Yet as they draw closer to uncovering the truth of Iolanthe’s disappearance, they may have to face the truth about themselves.
Miss Withers Regrets (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries #9)
by Stuart PalmerThere are lessons to be learned for retired teacher Hildegarde Withers when a society murder reveals a love triangle gone bad. The war in Europe is over, and America&’s fighting men are coming home. Lieutenant Pat Montague spent the war dreaming of a return to his beloved: society princess Helen Abbott. But when Uncle Sam finally lets him go, Pat finds that Helen has become Mrs. Huntley Cairns, and he has nothing to return to at all. He goes to see Helen at the Cairns mansion, only to stumble upon his rival&’s murdered corpse. The jealous soldier is the obvious suspect, but Pat&’s friends know he is innocent, and entreat Hildegarde Withers—elementary school teacher and talented sleuth—to clear his name. Huntley was rumored to be involved in the black market, and Miss Withers soon discovers his killer was far more sinister than a soldier with a grudge. Miss Withers Regrets is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes The Penguin Pool Murder and Murder on the Blackboard.
Miss Zukas And The Raven's Dance (Miss Zukas Mystery #4)
by Jo Dereskean invitation to murder A most unusual death has landed Helma Zukas right in the middle of another murder scene. Stanley Plummer had been cataloging a collection of Native American books for Bellehaven's new Cultural Center when his body was found in the Center's ladies room-stabbed through the heart, and clutching a Barbie doll. Miss Zukas is asked by the library to finish the cataloging. Now she's been asked by the victim-in a letter dated the day he died-to get to the bottom of the mystery. Unable to resist the urge to dig into the facts, Helma becomes convinced there's something hidden in the Center that the murderer wants-and it may be worth killing another cataloger to keep it buried...
Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence (Miss Zukas Mystery #8)
by Jo DereskeTHIS AIN'T NO GARDEN PARTY In a boldly personal move, Police Chief Wayne Gallant has arranged a meeting between his children and Bellehaven's beloved librarian Helma Zukas. But the fates have not yet smiled on this pair, as the long overdue introductions are interrupted-by murder. For not only is Helma's newest neighbor pushing up roses in her garden, her latest crop's a corpse. And when the chief's investigation has him digging too close to the truth, he's helped to a nearly fatal fall from a cliff, a potentially incriminating library book found within reach. The police demand the library turn over the borrower's name. Determined to uphold the privacy rights of library patrons, the ever mindful Miss Zukas deletes the information from library records-but not before she takes note of it. And now it's up to Helma- with teenagers in tow and an assist from bohemian buddy Ruth-to get to the bottom of this murderous mess before Wayne Gallant's assailant makes sure the evidence Miss Zukas holds is shelved...permanently.
Miss Zukas and the Island Murders (Miss Zukas Mystery #2)
by Jo Dereske[From The Back Cover] The ever-conscious Miss Helma Zukas -from Bellehaven, Washington, is not one to renig on a promise-even one made hastily. . . and too long ago to possibly remember! So when an anonymous note in the morning mail reminds her of her vow to bring her high school classmates together for a twenty-year reunion, Miss Zukas begins organizing the perfect celebration ... despite some vague and mysterious warnings about dire consequences. But when a secret saboteur disrupts her well-planned reunion trapping Helma and her old classmates on a fogbound island with a murderer in their midst-the intrepid librarian-sleuth takes charge once again. With a dubious assist from her raffish friend 'Ruth, Miss Zukas is determined to close the books on crimes both current and overdue for solution ... before the killer takes the Ilumni out of circulation permanently.
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas Mystery #1)
by Jo DereskeWhen a dead body turns up right in the middle of the fiction stacks, the police are baffled. But Helma Zukas, who never fails to make note of the slightest deviation from the norm of everyday life, is tracking some baffling questions of her own. With the help of her not-so-proper best friend, Ruth, a six-foot-tall bohemian artist with a nose for gossip and a penchant for getting into trouble, the two are soon in hot pursuit of the truth...and getting close enough to find they're about to become the killer's next victims.
Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death (Miss Zukas Mystery #3)
by Jo DereskeRACE AGAINST DEATH Civic-minded librarian Miss Helma Zukas has reluctantly agreed to use her long-dormant skills as a canoeist to paddle down Washington Bay on behalf of the Bellehaven Library relay race team. But before Helma has a chance to test her aquatic talents, she is once again matching wits with the local police over the identity of a killer. And this time it involves keeping her somewhat flaky artist friend, Ruth Winthrop, off Death Row. When the flamboyant Ruth rejected the attention of a dirty old man in a local bar she never thought it would be to put him off permanently. But when his body shows up just outside her studio, the police consider her a prime suspect. Helma, knows for sure that Ruth is no killer, but she didn't suspect that asking too many questions about the life of the unsavory dead man would unearth some long- buried Scandals...and cause someone to want to close the book on the inquisitive librarian.
Miss in a Man's World
by Anne AshleyWith her beloved godfather's death shrouded in scandal, the impetuous Miss Georgiana Grey disguises herself as a boy and heads to London to discover the truth.Being hired as the notorious Viscount Fincham's page helps Georgie's investigations, but plays havoc with her heart... She returns home, disastrously in love with her high-handed protector, only to discover she must return to London for the Season!She comes face-to-face with Fincham at a lavish ball, where her true identity and outrageous deception are unmasked...
Miss or Mrs?
by Wilkie CollinsPersons possessed of sluggish livers and tender hearts find two serious drawbacks to the enjoyment of a cruise at sea. It is exceedingly difficult to get enough walking exercise; and it is next to impossible (where secrecy is an object) to make love without being found out. Reverting for the moment to the latter difficulty only, life within the narrow and populous limits of a vessel may be defined as essentially life in public. . . .
Missile Zone
by Herbert CrowderThe breathtaking new novel of suspense and intrigue by the author of Ambush at Osirak, a New York Times bestseller. In Ambush at Osirak, Herbert Crowder introduced former counterintelligence agent David Llewellyn, a special U.S. envoy to Israel caught up in a conflict between Iraq and Israel over Saddam Hussein's attempt to develop nuclear weapons. Now Llewellyn is back in the fiery heart of the Middle East. In shipment from China to Saudi Arabia, an East Wind ballistic missile, the most powerful in the region, is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. The Saudis, aided by the U.S. Navy, implement a massive sea search and naval blockade, but to no avail. The hijackers, with their deadly cargo, manage to slip through the blockade. Certain that the missile is trained on one of their cities, the Israelis mount their own search for the hijackers as they frantically examine their defense options. They have no way of knowing what warhead-biological, chemical, or nuclear-is carried by the missile. Once it is launched, they will have only fifteen minutes or less to intercept it. In the middle of the action once again are David Llewellyn and his Israeli wife, Daniella, an agent for Mossad. Llewellyn, assigned to protect a leading peace proponent who is the target of both Palestinian and Israeli extremists, experiences near-fatal brushes with terrorists. Daniellas Mossad assignment proves no less hazardous as she pursues a link to the missile hijacking turned up by Israeli intelligence, a mysterious gold scimitar talisman. Her mission is to trace it to the terrorists. When husband and wife join forces to track down the hijackers, they are plunged into circumstances as explosive as the missile they're seeking, as every tick of the clock brings Israel's largest city one step closer to oblivion.... Missile Zone is Herbert Crowder in top form- heart-stopping military suspense with a wide range of high-tech weaponry, unsuspected twists and turns, and an intriguing cast of supporting characters. As the action shifts back and forth from Israel to Iraq to Iran to Saudi Arabia, accelerating toward its spectacular conclusion, missiles, war-planes, radar systems, and satellites converge in an authentic final showdown. Missile Zone is the stellar sequel that all fans of Ambush at Osirak have been waiting for.
Missing
by Becky CitraThea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave behind the pain of Thea's mom's death. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering days are over. At the ranch she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of an abused horse named Renegade. When Thea unearths the decades-old story of a four-year-old girl who disappeared from the ranch and was never seen again, she enlists Van to help her solve the mystery. When some disturbing facts come to light, she finally starts to come to terms with the losses in her own life.
Missing
by Erick CarballoA renowned detective receives a phone call from a famous businessman to hire his services and search for his missing daughter. Discover through this story the means detective Eliseo Arreola will use to rescue the businessman's daughter alive.
Missing
by Jonathan ValinMason Greenleaf--good teacher, good friend, fond lover--vanishes from his Mount Adams home one hot summer afternoon. For his fellow teachers, former students, and friends, his disappearance is inexplicable and tragic. For his lover, Cindy Dorn, it is a cruel blow. She calls Harry Stoner for help. Soon after, Greenleaf turns up dead in a sleazy hotel. The police call it a suicide--Stoner believes there's more to the story. As Stoner delves into the apparent suicide, disturbing questions surface about Greenleaf's past, questions about his sexual life. Greenleaf was bisexual; after the brutal Lessing case of several years past -- a case that led Stoner to cover up an act of deliberate murder -- Harry is not eager to probe into another gay man's violent death. But he can't walk away from Cindy Dorn, a woman to whom he is undeniably drawn. For Harry, an investigation that starts as a matter of conscience rapidly turns into a test of character and, through Cindy, a confrontation with what has been missing in his own life.
Missing
by Karin AlvtegenBorn into a life of privilege, Sybilla has spent many years opting instead to live on the streets of Stockholm, cadging a bed, a bath, a meal, where she can. Her favorite technique, one she permits herself only as a special treat, plays out at the Grand Hotel, where with luck she can usually charm a lonely visiting businessman into buying her dinner and a room for the night. But then she picks the wrong businessman. When his dead body is found the next morning, Sybilla becomes the prime suspect. For years, her anonymity has sheltered her; she has found a kind of home in the invisibility of homeless life. But with her anonymity shattered, Sybilla is forced into the one course of action that might allow her to go home again.