James Langton
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Charles Lenox, a Victorian gentleman, is thrust into detective work when his lifelong friend, Lady Jane, asks for his help after her servant supposedly commits suicide. Lenox suspects murder by a rare poison and delves into the life of the deceased, but his detective efforts are thwarted by his rival, Scotland Yard's Inspector Exeter.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at the University of Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate, he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to the September Society. Then, just as Lenox realizes that the case may be deeper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
When, in 1931, there is a breach between this world and the Archipelago of Dreams, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, must race through history using a time travel device left by Jules Verne, and discover the identity of the Cartographer.
Author
Series
Secret histories novel volume 3
Publisher
ROC
Edition
1st Edition
Language
English
Description
Eddie Drood's evil-stomping skills have come to the attention of the legendary Alexander King, Independent Agent extraordinaire. The best of the best, King spent a lifetime working for anyone and everyone, doing anything and everything, for the right price. Now, he's on his deathbed and looking to bestow all of his priceless secrets to a successor, provided he or she wins a contest to solve the world's greatest mysteries. Eddie has to win, because...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner's
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
A picturesque Yorkshire village is dressed in its finest for the upcoming Noel. But one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday. Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal-and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley's life...and death. She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas. Leaving her past behind for a forbidden love affair, she mystified...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 1866 holiday season at the side of his fiancé, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is drawn into the double-homicide case of two reporters, an investigation that is complicated by a police ruling that the killings are unrelated.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture and an irreverent and delightful expert for the Roadshow, serves up his secrets and his best stories, blending...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First Simon & Schuster BFYR edition.
Language
English
Description
The Winter King's Shadow, having gained control of the doors from the Keep of Time and of an army of Dragon Shadows, plans to use the turmoil of World War II to conquer worlds, but all Caretakers, past and present, come together to stop him, using some unlikely weapons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First Simon & Schuster BFYR paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after facing the Dragon Shadows, John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams but their reunion with old friends is spoiled by the threat of primordial Shadow Echthroi and the apparent splintering of Time itself, and they set out on a new quest in which success and failure each carry a high cost.