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  The Resident Patient

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Resident Patient, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" eighteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories....A little digging at police headquarters brings up the rest of the truth. All four of the men were once members of a criminal gang that robbed banks. Blessington's real name was Sutton, and the other three, two of whom played the Russians, were Biddle, Hayward, and Moffat. After robbing the Worthington Bank of £7,000 in 1875, Blessington (or Sutton) had turned informer, and as a result, another gang member, Cartwright, had been hanged for murdering the caretaker, and the other three had each been given 15 years in prison. Blessington's "paranoia" was indeed a very real fear, caused by news of their early release, not by some burglary, as he claimed. The murderers chose hanging as their form of execution to avenge Cartwright...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Down These Green Streets - Irish...

  Declan Burke

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  This book suggests crime fiction is now the most relevant and valid form of writing which can deal with modern Ireland in terms of the post-'Troubles' landscape and post-Celtic Tiger economic boom. The book takes a chapter by chapter approach with each chapter and author discussing a different facet of Irish crime writing for example, Declan Hughes discusses the influence of American culture on Irish crime writing and Tana French reflects on crime fiction and the post-Celtic Tiger Irish identity. This publication is aimed at both the academic and general reader.

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  Found Innocent - A Dark...

  Carolyn Arnold

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  Some crimes refuse to stay buried. 
  Some truths demand everything. 
  A pregnant young woman is found in a shallow grave in a quiet neighborhood. At first glance, how she died looks like suicide—but Detective Madison Knight knows better. The dead don’t bury themselves. 
  The victim, Lacy Rose, appeared to be rebuilding her life. But as Madison digs deeper, a darker past emerges—and the people closest to her had reasons to want her silenced. 
  An abusive ex-lover. 
  An estranged father. 
  Both had motive. Both had opportunity. 
  Then Madison uncovers a chilling link to another recent death—a man found in a motel room, his case ruled a suicide. Madison isn’t convinced. And if she’s right, the two deaths are connected in a way no one wants to acknowledge. 
  As pressure mounts, Madison’s judgment is questioned and her career put at risk. And when she pushes anyway, it becomes clear the danger isn’t just professional anymore. 
  This time, the truth could get her killed. 
  A dark, high-stakes crime thriller for readers who love relentless female detectives in their police procedurals. 
  Book four in the Detective Madison Knight series.

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  Don't Trust Her

  Cathryn Grant

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  Parker had the perfect marriage. Then Eden came home. 
   
   
   
  Twenty years have passed since Dylan's beloved sister, Celeste, was brutally murdered. Now he plans an anniversary memorial for the sister he misses to this day. 
   
   
   
  When their childhood friend, Eden, comes home to attend the memorial, Dylan invites her to stay with him and his wife, Parker. 
   
   
   
  But Parker is apprehensive. She remembers a time when Eden had designs on her husband, and she worries she still carries a torch for him. Her fears seem confirmed when Eden openly flirts with Dylan and captivates their pre-teen daughter. 
   
   
   
  As Parker desperately tries to hasten Eden's departure, Dylan resists, fondly remembering the time they spent as childhood friends. And when Eden brings up questions about who murdered Celeste, Parker's fears only escalate. She thinks her husband's mental health could suffer if Eden keeps digging. 
   
   
   
  Can Parker get rid of Eden before she destroys her family? And why has Eden really come back to town? As the two old friends circle each other, past secrets are revealed and they find themselves hurtling into a vortex of unimaginable pain and terror. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Murder in Blackfriars - A Below...

  Jennifer Ashley

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  In Victorian London, valiant cook and amateur sleuth Kat Holloway must help the man she loves solve the murder that will finally uncover his mysterious past, from the New York Times bestselling author of A Silence in Belgrave Square. 
   
  Kat Holloway’s beau, Daniel McAdam, has always had a past shrouded in mystery. He knows nothing about his origins, only that a kind man rescued him from the streets all those years ago. So when a man claiming he knows where Daniel comes from turns up dead moments before meeting with them, Daniel goes on the hunt for the killer. It soon becomes clear that to see justice served, Daniel will have to figure out who he truly is and where he came from. When Daniel asks Kat for her assistance, she readily complies, knowing she’ll do whatever it takes to protect the man she’s come to love. 
   
  The quest takes Kat and Daniel deep into the East End, where they face dangerous foes from Daniel’s rugged past, many of whom aren’t happy that Daniel now works with the police and will stop at nothing to keep Kat and Daniel from uncovering their secrets. As Kat begins to learn things about Daniel’s history she’s not certain she wants to know, she fears that the darkest secret—his true name and lineage—will tear apart the tender bonds they’ve begun to form.

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  The Adventure of the...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and is the second and final appearance of Mycroft Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" fourteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes' brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages - three are still missing - were found with Arthur Cadogan West's body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near the Aldgate tube station, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theatre tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain's enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine.

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