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Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When Amanda Garth was born, a mix-up caused the hospital to briefly hand her over to the prestigious Garrison family instead of to her birth parents. The error was quickly fixed, Amanda was never told, and the secret was forgotten for twenty-three years until her aunt thoughtlessly revealed it in casual conversation. But what if the initial switch never actually occurred, and what if the real accident was Amanda's being "returned" to the wrong parents?...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A classic locked room mystery from the genre's Golden Age by the renowned Australian author of the Chief Inspector Luckraft series.
On the day of his wife's funeral, Robert Turold reveals that he has completed his lifelong quest to prove his family's noble blood and restore its barony title. His brother and nephew will be his heirs, skipping over his daughter who he believes is illegitimate due to a deathbed confession from his wife. With the...
6) See Pip flap
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
With help from his friend Otto the robot, Pip the mouse tries to fly.
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people. But is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing the lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, purloined from a private collection, which Dr. Gideon Fell has just been hired to retrieve? Unlike the manuscript, the hats don't stay stolen for long; each one reappears in unexpected and conspicuous...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When Herbert Wynne is found dead, with a bullet in the forehead, the obvious explanation is murder. But how could it be when the only possible suspect is Herbert's frail Aunt Juliet? Posing as Juliet's private duty nurse, the Homicide Bureau's Hilda Adams develops grave suspicions. Why is the maid terrified of every dark corner? And if a mad killer is on the loose, who will be targeted as the next victim?"--FantasticFiction.com.
It appears the dissolute...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020, 1935.
Description
When a New York banker is discovered dead from an apparent morphine overdose in a Chicago hotel, the circumstances surrounding his untimely end are suspicious to say the least. The dead man had switched rooms the night before with a stranger he met and drank with in the hotel bar. And before that, he'd registered under a fake name at the hotel, told his drinking companion a fake story about his visit to the Windy City, and seemingly made no effort...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life...
14) Going somewhere
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Otto and Pip are off on an adventure to somewhere, but to Pip's surprise they end up nowhere.
16) Cat's paw
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022, 1931.
Description
When a wealthy bachelor is murdered in his baroque Boston mansion, a bizarre clue holds the key to whodunnit. --Amazon.com
17) Obelists at sea
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"C. Daly King's debut mystery is a tale of murder, travel, and psychiatry set aboard a luxury transatlantic liner. The smoking room on a transatlantic cruise ship is bound to be a hotbed of activity--but it's less common for it to be the site of a murder. Yet, when the lights flicker aboard the luxury Meganaut, making its way from New York to Paris, this is precisely what happens; in the darkness, a gunshot rings out, and when the light is restored,...
18) See Otto say hi!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
Otto does his utmost to befriend a bird.
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