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  The Red Headed League

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Red-Headed League is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891.  Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. In this story, Holmes is presented with a perplexing mystery involving a league set up to aid and benefit men with especially vivid red hair who live in London.  Is this a crime? Of course not, but even the brilliant Holmes needs 'three pipefulls' of meditation time to penetrate the nefarious plots hidden beneath this seemingly innocuous fraternal aid society.   Listen and enjoy the beautiful way in which only the great Sherlock Holmes deals with the situation.   (summary from Wikipedia and the reader)

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  Played!

  Michael A. Kahn

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      Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for his skills, but untested in the courtroom. 
   
      Milton's younger brother, Hal, is his polar opposite-strikingly handsome, a high-school baseball legend in St. Louis who was on his way to the major leagues until he destroyed his prospects in a motorcycle accident. Hal had been, and still is, the adored Bernstein brother-worshipped by his mother, his aunts, and the rest of his family, plus all the high school and college cheerleaders. Milton has learned to live with his lower star-power while Hal unabashedly admires Milton's career and happy marriage. 
   
      Neither brilliant nor driven, Hal has to face up to earning a living. For now he's killing time as a lifeguard at an exclusive country club. His days at the pool are mostly filled with women, kids, and fantasies about the hot babe called Cherry. 
   
      But the lives of both brothers are about to change. Cherry, the bombshell third wife of St. Louis' most shark-like litigator, Leonard Pitt, unexpectedly turns Hal's advances around. They become lovers. Coincidentally, Milton becomes the attack dog behind litigation to nail Pitt for running an insurance scam on his injured clients. 
   
      Tangling with the Pitts is a game-changer for both brothers. Everyone is a tool of someone else. The players' roster widens to include a judge who's nursed a 30-year grudge against Pitt, the judge's astute clerk, and a crooked cop. Then Milton suddenly finds himself fielding Hal's arrest for kidnapping and murder. 
   
   Played! is fast-moving, fun and, at its core, a story of brotherly love and loyalty. And baseball.

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  Two Time Loser - A Samantha True...

  Kristi Rose

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  A fake fiancée. An alive deceased husband. Samantha’s life just got more complicated. 
  When Stella MacInerney asks Samantha to be her maid of honor, she's surprised. The woman has enough stepdaughters from her three previous marriages to ask one of them. Why didn’t she? Then Leo asks Samantha to be his plus one to the wedding, as his fake fiancée. What’s up with that? So when Stella is kidnapped the eve of her wedding it’s up to Samantha to get to the bottom of these mysteries. Samantha vows three things: 
  1. Find Stella’s kidnappers and make them pay. She can’t wait to use her highest voltage stun gun on this bad guy. 
  2. Discover why Leo needs a fake fiancée? Who knew he had a past with the wedding planner? And when asked, he clams up. 
  3. Track down a key eyewitness in Stella’s disappearance who is a dead ringer for Carson. Could her dead husband really be alive? 
  When Stella’s ransomed for three million dollars, Samantha has twenty-four hours to find her alive. All while pretending to be engaged to Leo to keep the smiling devil of a wedding planner at bay, never mind Samantha's facing her own matrimonial past. Samantha doesn’t know how she’ll feel if the witness turns out to be Carson. But she might just have to use her highest voltage stun gun on him, too. Unless her fake fiancée does it first. 
  Warning: May cause spontaneous laughter. This mystery offers witty banter, characters you'll want to be friends with, and is a perfect escape to the Pacific Northwest. Laughing out loud in public may cause curious glances from strangers. 
  #amateur sleuth/private investigator 
  #slow burn romance 
  #small town crime 
  #Fun friend group 
  #main character has dyslexia 
  #fake fiancee 
  #ticking clock 
  #ghost from the past 
  #a desperate need to use her stun gun

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  Sniffed Out

  Patti Benning

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  Sometimes the best detectives…Have fur.
   
  Evelyn Foster has just moved to Granite, Michigan, and at first, the town is just as she expected it to be. Small. Insular. Quiet. On the upside, she gets to spend every day working with her best friend, one of the customers at the local coffee shop was definitely flirting with her, and her two German Shepherds seem to enjoy their new rental house and its fenced back yard.Boring isn’t bad, and life could be worse.When her younger dog, Atlas, alerts on a patch of dirt while they’re out for a walk, Evelyn’s heart rate accelerates, but she tries to keep things in perspective. The pup’s job is to locate human remains, but he’s still in training, and Eve is certain he must have made a mistake, but she contacts the police just to be on the safe side.When a man, whom everyone thought had run out on his wife, is unearthed, the sleepy town suddenly wakes up and Eve finds herself reluctantly swept into a murder investigation.Will she be able to unravel the mystery and become the talk of the town? Find out in this dynamic new Canine Cozy Mystery!

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  Giants' Bread Book I - Abbots...

  Agatha Christie

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  In the first movement of Giants' Bread, Agatha Christie's haunting novel of romance, suspense, and artistic destiny opens far from the triumph of the opera house. Book I: Abbots Puissants returns to the childhood of Vernon Deyre, heir to an old English house, a sensitive boy surrounded by grand rooms, family pride, servants, silences, and the strange private kingdom of his own imagination. 
  Vernon's world is ruled by Nurse, shaped by his beautiful and possessive mother, shadowed by his restless father, and filled with secret companions only he can see. The estate of Abbots Puissants, with its abbey ruins, clipped gardens, forest paths, and hidden tensions, becomes the first landscape of his genius. A grand piano terrifies him like a living beast, yet the terror is bound to something deeper: a violent response to sound, beauty, and emotional truth. 
  As Vernon grows, the adults around him reveal a world of desire, jealousy, class, disappointment, and betrayal. A broken leg brings him under the care of Nurse Frances, one of the first people to understand his inner life without mockery. A school friendship with Sebastian Levinne opens another door, one that leads toward art, rebellion, and the complicated loyalties of youth. 
  This volume is intimate, psychologically rich, and quietly suspenseful. It does not rush toward crime or sensation. Instead, it reveals the foundations of a life that will one day produce a work of genius. For listeners who love literary suspense, character-driven drama, and the secret history behind a public triumph, Abbots Puissants is the essential beginning of Giants' Bread.

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  Unexpected Riches - What if...

  Alice, Arora

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  Have you ever wished that you didn't have to pay for anything? What if stores paid you to take their products? 
  When 13-year-old Julia Browne can't afford the things she wants, she is understandably upset and wishes that she didn't have to pay for things. But what started off as a great deal, turned into something way more disastrous..

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