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Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no exception. However, murdering the leading man in full view of the audience is a bit over the top. Luckily, Inspector Barnaby is in that audience, and he's just the man to catch a killer. Caroline Graham, a former actress, is fully in her element here, the second novel in the "Inspector Barnaby" series.
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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The Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle has never had much luck in attracting guest speakers. Consequently, there is much surprise-and, in the case of the Circle's secretary, Gerald Hadleigh, a furious, inexplicable objection-when best-selling novelist Max Jennings accepts their invitation. Surprise turns into a variety of responses when Hadleigh is found dead the morning after Jennings' visitation. Chief Inspector Barnaby soon determines that the key...
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Julian Kestrel mysteries volume 1
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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Julian Kestrel is the walking definition of a Regency-era dandy. He cares about little beyond the perfection of his tailoring, he lives for the bon mot, and his life has the specific gravity and the fleeting charm of a soap-bubble. At least that's what he'd like you to think. In fact, it rather suits Kestrel to be perpetually underestimated, particularly when as in this instance his weekend at a glamorous country estate is spoiled by a dead girl's...
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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Marking the debut of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with his irresistibly dry sense of humor and keen insight into what makes people tick, The Killings at Badger's Drift is set in an apparently picture-perfect English village. Yet when a local spinster dies unexpectedly, the Inspector and his deputy uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments.
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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When the leader of a New Age commune, the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse, is murdered, the local rumor-mill goes into overdrive. In trying to solve the murder, Chief Inspector Barnaby learns that the residents of the Windhorse commune are all concealing complicated pasts.
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Julian Kestrel mysteries volume 3
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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Fans of Regency-era romances will love this series, featuring the dashing Julian Kestrel. But it will also be catnip for devotees of classic gentlemen-sleuth mysteries, like those by Dorothy Sayers: with his quips, his impeccable tailoring and his knack for solving "problems" that baffle the police, Kestrel is the spiritual godfather to Lord Peter Wimsey
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Julian Kestrel mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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Julian Kestrel, the dandy detective of Regency London, is most decidedly a man of the world and, through his valet, Dipper, reformed Cockney pickpocket, is not without ties to the underworld. One such connection is Dipper's sister Sally, a prostitute who accidentally happens across the possibility of murder while picking her clients' pockets. Since Sally is not quite in the position to go to the police with her knowledge, she and Julian must chase...
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Julian Kestrel mysteries volume 4
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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English
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Julian Kestrel, gentleman sleuth and dandy, becomes fascinated with the unsolved case of the murder of a Milanese aristocrat and the disappearance of his protégé, a brilliant young English opera singer. What has become of the singer's fiancée and the aristocrat's notoriously surly manservant? Could the murder be tied to Italy's tumultuous politics? Furthermore, the murdered marquis left a widow whose beauty makes Kestrel's heart skip faster.
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