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The queens of crime : a novel / by Benedict, Marie,author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie's legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women. London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they're stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. Inspired by a true story in Sayers' own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976; Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982; Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947; Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957; Female friendship; Murder; Secrecy; Women authors; Women private investigators; Women;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The queens of crime [sound recording] : a novel / by Benedict, Marie,author.; Carter, Bessie,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Bessie Carter."The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie's legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women. London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they're stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. Inspired by a true story in Sayers' own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976; Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982; Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947; Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957; Female friendship; Murder; Secrecy; Women authors; Women private investigators; Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Monsieur mediocre : one American learns the high art of being everyday French / by Sothen, John von,author.;
"Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling for and marrying the French waitress he meets in New York, von Sothen follows his mother's dream and moves to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Through these essays, you'll learn about what to do when you unwittingly commit yourself to two weeks of vacation with friends who ration snacks down to the gram and who mock you mercilessly for sleeping in; how to react when French men turn to you, the American, for fashion tips such as where to find a Maine trapper vest; and how to tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or, alternately, a weird sex club. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Sothen, John von.; Americans; Authors, American;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Aeon Flux [videorecording (DVD)] / by Chung, Peter; Csokas, Marton,1966; Dryburgh, Stuart; Kusama, Karyn; Miller, Jonny Lee; Okonedo, Sophi; Postlethwaite, Pet; Revell, Graeme; Theron, Charliz; Paramount Pictures Corporatio;
Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; editors, Peter Honess, Plummy Tucker, Jeff Gullo ; music, Graeme Revell ; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor ; production designer, Andrew McAlpine.Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, Caroline Chikezie, Paterson Joseph, Frances McDormand.400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her life, in dangerCanadian Home Video Rating: 14ADVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, NTSC
Subjects: Disappeared persons; Feature film; Female assassins; Science fiction film; Utopian socialism; Video recordings for the hearing impaire;
© c2006., Paramount Pictures,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The untouchable earl / by Sandas, Amy.;
"He's a reclusive earl with a painful secret that's kept him from knowing a lover's touch. She's a sheltered debutante tired of living by society's rules. But when she's forced from the ballroom to the brothel, Lily discovers the dark thrill of falling from grace--and into the arms of a man who could destroy her as easily as he saved her"--from www.Amazon.com.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Regency fiction.; Nobility; Prostitution;
© [2016], Sourcebooks Casablanca,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nikita - complete 1st season [videorecording]. by West, Shane; Fonseca, Lyndsy; Q, Maggie;
Shane West, Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca.In this sexy and suspenseful series, Nikita has gone rogue. Division is an ultra-secret government agency whose operatives are recruited young people with severed ties to family, friends, and society. Trained to be invisible assassins, no one ever leaves Division, except the charming and deadly Nikita, who has managed to escape, making it her mission to undermine the now-corrupt organization.OFRB rating: 14A.DVD.
Subjects: Drama.; Television Series.;
© 2011., Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The scandalous widow / by Rolls, Elizabeth,author.;
"She's determined never to marry again... Is he the gentleman to change her mind? Left penniless by her late husband and disowned by her family, widow Lady Althea withdrew from polite society, and became infamous for indulging in not-so-secret liaisons with gentlemen of the ton. These days, Althea lives quietly with her beloved dog, Puck, and secretly pens salacious novels instead! Then handsome solicitor Hugo Guthrie arrives, with her orphaned nieces in tow, and turns her life upside down. For the girls need a home, and working with Hugo is making every emotion Althea thought she could live without come crashing back to life!"--Back cover.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Widows; Women authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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High Society [electronic resource] : by Kalla, Daniel.aut; cloudLibrary;
From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a twisty psychological thriller about a pioneering psychiatrist hiding dark secrets, in the vein of The Golden Couple by Hendricks and Pekkanen and Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. At sixteen, Holly Danvers barely survived the car accident that killed her father. While she has no memory of the crash, it took an ayahuasca treatment, a native plant-based psychedelic therapy, in the jungles of Peru for her to emotionally recover. Twenty years later, Holly is a sought-after psychiatrist determined to use her expertise with psychedelics to treat patients suffering from addictions. Ignoring the risks, she embarks upon an unproven new protocol with miraculous results. But her success in probing the traumas of her patients and the secrets they keep is short-lived. When one celebrity client goes public with his recovery and another overdoses after accusing Holly of improprieties, her world is turned upside down. With her career on the line, Holly reaches out to her mentor—and estranged husband—Dr. Aaron Laing, for advice and comfort. But he has a different agenda, and it soon becomes clear that it will be up to Holly alone to figure out why her clients are relapsing and dying. To accomplish that, she will have to risk her life and revisit her own deep-seated trauma.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Medical; Psychological; Suspense;
© 2024., Simon & Schuster,
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Miss Austen investigates / by Bull, Jessica,author.;
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth ... A Jane Austen-inspired murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball. But when a shocking discovery is made - a milliner's lifeless body tucked away in a linen closet - Jane finds herself embroiled in an unexpected murder mystery. As she races against the clock to clear her beloved brother Georgy's name, Jane uses her sharp wits to navigate the treacherous waters of society, unmasking secrets and unearthing hidden motives along the way. With every twist and turn, Jane's determination to solve the case deepens. Because if she fails, her brother will face the ultimate punishment - the hangman's noose.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Balls (Parties); Murder; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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See you on a starry night / by Schroeder, Lisa.;
Eleven-year-old Juliet, her newly separated mother, and her older sister have moved to a Mission Beach, where she forms an instant bond with a girl her own age, Emma, even throwing bottles with secret messages into the sea; and then an email arrives, inviting Juliet to join the Starry Night Society, and all she has to do is make someone else's wish come true--but what about her own family, whom she seems to be growing apart from?LSC
Subjects: Children of separated parents; Best friends; Mothers and daughters; Sisters; Moving, Household; Wishes; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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