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Minerva Keen's Detective Club / by Patterson, James,1947-; Graff, Keir,1969-;
"Twelve-year-old Minerva Keen forms a detective club to uncover who is poisoning residents of her storied Chicago apartment building, knowing that any one of her neighbors could be the poisoner--or the next victim."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Poisoning; Apartment houses; Criminal investigation;

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Women private investigators;
© c1998., Random House,

2 Sisters Detective Agency / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Fox, Candice,author.;
"Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During the course of the investigation, Rhonda and Baby become entangled in a dangerous case involving a group of overprivileged young adults who break laws for fun, their psychopath ringleader, and an ex-assassin victim who decides to hunt them down for revenge."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Abduction; Sisters; Women detectives; Women lawyers;

Judy Moody, girl detective / by McDonald, Megan.; Reynolds, Peter,1961-;
When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew."Ages 6-9"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Moody, Judy (Fictitious character); Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character); Lost articles; Police dogs; Puppies; Lost and found possessions; Mystery and detective stories.;
© 2011, c2010., Candlewick Press,

2nd Chance [electronic resource] : by Patterson, James.aut; cloudLibrary;
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable. A Main Selection of The Literary Guild®, of Book-of-the-Month Club®, of Doubleday Book Club®, and of The Mystery Guild®General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Thrillers; Mystery & Detective;
© 2002., Little, Brown and Company,

Betrayal at Blackthorn Park An Evelyne Redfern Mystery [electronic resource] : by Kelly, Julia.aut; cloudLibrary;
With mystery, intrigue, and the hints of romance international bestselling author Julia Kelly is known for, Evelyne Redfern returns in Betrayal at Blackthorn Park. Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent helping Britain win the war. However, when she learns her first task is performing a simple security test at Blackthorn Park, a requisitioned manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, she can’t help her initial disappointment. Making matters worse, her handler is to be David Poole, a fellow agent who manages to be both strait-laced and dashing in annoyingly equal measure. However, Evelyne soon realizes that Blackthorn Park is more than meets the eye, and an upcoming visit from Winston Churchill means that security at the secret weapons research and development facility is of the utmost importance. When Evelyne discovers Blackthorn Park’s chief engineer dead in his office, her simple assignment becomes more complicated. Evelyne must use all of her—and David’s—detection skills to root out who is responsible and uncover layers of deception that could change the course of the war.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Historical;
© 2024., St. Martin's Publishing Group,

Be a city nature detective : solving the mysteries of how plants and animals survive in the urban jungle / by Kochanoff, Peggy,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Takes readers through city streets to learn about the plants and animals with which city dwellers coexist.LSC
Subjects: Urban animals; Urban plants; Urban ecology (Biology);

Perfect silence / by Fields, Helen,1969-author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women detectives; Detectives; Serial murder investigation;

Perfect death / by Fields, Helen,1969-author.;
"There's no easy way to die ... Unknown to DI Luc Callanach and the newly promoted DCI Ava Turner, a serial killer has Edinburgh firmly in his grip. The killer is taking his victims in the coldest, most calculating way possible -- engineering slow and painful deaths by poison, with his victims entirely unaware of the drugs flooding their bloodstream until it's too late. But how do you catch a killer who hides in the shadows? A killer whose pleasure comes from watching pain from afar? Faced with their most difficult case yet, Callanach and Turner soon realise they face a seemingly impossible task ... "
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Women detectives; Detectives; Serial murder investigation;

Fractured Truth. by Furlong, Susan.;
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Subjects: Detective and mystery stories;
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