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  The Adventure of the Three...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Three Students", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
  Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an interesting problem. Soames had been reviewing the galley proofs of an exam he was going to give when he left his office for an hour. When he returned, he found that his servant, Bannister, had entered the room but accidentally left his key in the lock when he left, and someone had disturbed the exam papers on his desk and left traces that show it had been partially copied. Bannister is devastated and collapses on a chair, but swears that he did not touch the papers. Soames found other clues in his office: pencil shavings, a broken pencil lead, a fresh cut in his desk surface, and a small blob of black clay speckled with sawdust.

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  Sawbones - Patrick Flint 3 — A...

  Pamela Fagan Hutchins

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  For fans of C.J. Box, Harlan Coben, and Craig Johnson — a 1977 Wyoming thriller in which a death penalty trial makes a small-town doctor's entire family a target. 
  It starts with a woman shot through the neck at the Meadowlark ski resort and ends with an ax — Patrick Flint's ax — and a burning truck hanging over Clear Creek canyon. In between: a judge who may have arranged his own wife's murder, a coach who definitely did, a conspiracy involving mineral rights and a Wyoming Senate campaign, and Perry Flint, twelve years old, who saw the shooter from the trees and didn't mention it for two weeks. 
  The upcoming trial of Billy Kemecke — the escaped killer from Switchback — is unraveling Buffalo, Wyoming one witness at a time. Judge Ellis dies in his garage. Jeannie Renkin is shot at the ski resort. Someone is picking off everyone connected to the case, and Dr. Patrick Flint's family is at the top of the list. He assembles a neighborhood security team of doctors, vets, and a mayor. The sheriff declines to help. It is not enough. 
  Meanwhile, Trish sneaks out, Brandon cheats, Perry keeps dangerous secrets, and Susanne falls down the back stairs with a head injury that makes her judgment considerably worse than usual. Patrick performs an emergency amputation with an ax in a burning truck. This is a Wednesday in Buffalo, Wyoming, 1977. 
  Sawbones is the third Patrick Flint novel, set in the Buffalo, Wyoming that author Pamela Fagan Hutchins grew up in. The ski slopes are real. The ax is fictional. Mostly. Complete series: 9 novels. 
  A death penalty trial, a sniper at the ski slope, and a mom with a head injury making the family's security decisions. Dr. Flint assembles a posse. It does not go smoothly. Complete series: 9 novels.

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  The Adventure of the Missing...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. It was originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1904 with illustrations by Sidney Paget.
  Mr. Cyril Overton of Trinity College, Cambridge, comes to Holmes seeking his help in Godfrey Staunton's disappearance. Staunton is the key man on Overton's rugby union team (who plays at the three-quarters position, hence the story's title) and they will not win the important match tomorrow against Oxford if Staunton cannot be found. Holmes has to admit that sport is outside his field, but he shows the same care he has shown to his other cases.

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  The Adventure of the Speckled...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859.  His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing.  
   
  He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’, was published in Blackwood’s Magazine.  Despite several other stories and some articles in the British Medical Journal his medical studies took priority. 
   
  When these finished he was appointed as Doctor on the Greenland whaler ‘Hope of Peterhead’ in 1880 and then, after graduation, as ship’s surgeon on the SS Mayumba on its voyage to West Africa. 
   
  1882 saw a move to Plymouth and his own independent practice. With few patients he resumed writing and completed his first novel, ‘The Mystery of Cloomber’, although most of his output was short stories based on his experiences at sea.  
   
  He married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. However, two years later he met and fell in love with Jean Elizabeth Leckie, though they remained platonic out of respect for, and loyalty to, his wife. 
   
  His literary career suddenly burst into life in November 1886 with ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the first of the fabulously successful Sherlock Holmes stories.  
   
  With two children to support he now revisited his haphazard commercial arrangements and curtailed everything save for commissions from the Strand Magazine.  
   
  As a sportsman he was remarkably proficient. He was goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club and played ten first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club as well as captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in East Sussex.  
   
  In 1891 tired of writing Holmes stories, he began a series of historical novels and even went so far as to apparently kill off Holmes in a lethal brawl with his arch-nemesis Moriarty. 
   
  Despite heavy and sustained criticism he continued to write in support of the Boer War, a fact he thought contributed to his knighthood in 1902.  The following year to great relief and acclaim he brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead in his first outing for a decade. 
   
  Sadly, his wife Louisa died from TB in 1906 and, a year later, he at last married Jean.  
   
  During the War and for several years after family deaths had left him depressed. In a search for solace and answers he alighted upon spiritualism and, such was his interest, that he wrote several books on the subject. 
   
  On 7th July 1930 Conan Doyle was discovered in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in East Sussex, clutching his chest dying of a heart attack.  He was 71.

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  The Nanny’s Lie

  Sue Fortin

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  ‘Compelling and gripping’ – Blabbering about Books 
  ‘Thoroughly gripping…full of suspense’ – Kim The Bookworm 
  She thinks she’s escaped. She thinks she’s safe… 
  Helen has had to leave everything she’s ever known behind; her home, her family, even her own name. 
  Now, returning to the UK as Ellen Newman, she moves to a small coastal village, working as a nanny for Donovan, a criminal psychologist. Attractive, caring and protective, this single father and his sweet daughter are a world away from Ellen’s brutal past. 
  But Ellen can’t shake the feeling that something’s wrong. 
  Strange incidents begin to plague her new family, and their house of calm is about to become one of suspicion and fear. 
  Who can be trusted? Who is the target? Who is closing in? 
  *Previously published as Closing In* 
  In the world of detective thrillers, Closing In stands out as a top-notch psychological mystery. As the plot thickens, it becomes evident that the danger is closing in, and trust becomes a luxury Ellen can't afford. 
  For fans of Sue Watson (The Resort), Nicole Trope (The Stepchild), Suzanne Fortin (The Lost Dressmaker of Paris), Shalini Boland (The Honeymoon), and Lisa Jewell (The Third Wife).

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  Murder in Season

  Mary Winters

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  Join Countess turned advice columnist Amelia Amesbury as she tries to juggle a new Season and a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery. 
   
   
   
  "A beautiful debutante, a wealthy widow, and a dead would-be baron. What could be more exciting?" 
   
   
   
  Countess by day, secret advice columnist by night, Amelia Amesbury has life happily balanced on a quill's edge . . . until her sister Margaret shows up in London under a blanket of scandal and Amelia is catapulted out of mourning and into the ton's unforgiving Season. 
   
   
   
  However Madge's Season debut is marred by a rather inconvenient death at the dining table as the infamous Mr Radcliffe takes ill and is later confirmed dead by poisoning. With Madge being the last person to have cross words with the soon-to-be baron, the ton's gossip mill—and the police—are looking to pin the murder on her. 
   
   
   
  Adding to the ton's troubles is a jewelery thief targeting the most lavish of Society's houses. Are the murderer and the thief one and the same? It falls to Amelia once again to uncover the secrets buried deep within the pages before her sister goes down for the crimes.

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