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  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure...

  Conan Doyle

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  A man named Trevor Bennett, the personal secretary of one Professor Presbury, comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is engaged to the professor's daughter, Edith, and the Professor is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, although he himself is already 61 years of age. Their impending marriage has caused no scandal, but the trouble seems to have begun at about the time of the engagement. First, the professor suddenly left home for a fortnight without telling anyone of his destination, with the family later learning that he had been to Prague. Upon returning, Presbury unprecedentedly forbid Mr Bennett from opening certain stamped letters. The professor had also brought a carved wooden box from Prague, and became very angry with Bennett for touching it. 
  The whole household also observes severe changes in the man's personality: he has become furtive and sly, with changes in his moods and habits, some of which are quite bizarre, though not impeding his functions. Bennett notes particularly strange incidents: one, in which he saw the professor crawling along the hall on his hands and feet and his master swore him off; and another, witnessed by Edith Presbury, who saw her father at two o'clock in the morning at her bedroom window on the second floor.

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  White Christmas with a Wobbly Knee

  Andrea Frazer

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  Hold on to your hats for another crazy ride in the Belchester Chronicles!! 
  A Lady Amanda Golightly Murder Mystery from the author of The Falconer Files - the second in the series featuring an outrageously ill-assorted pair of amateur sleuths. A delightful outpouring of English upper class eccentricities with the odd murder thrown in. 
  Cringe with embarrassment, as Lady Amanda Golightly acts like a bad-tempered five-year-old in the face of a family crisis. Cheer her on, as she and her live-in friend at Belchester Towers, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton Crump, plan a new business venture for the old place. Join them for Christmas, then wish them luck as they embark on a trial run of their new enterprise. 
  Then gasp at Lady Amanda's reaction (delight!) at the discovery of the body of a dead guest, found slumped on the library table, murdered FIVE TIMES!  
  Lady Amanda and Hugo are off again, on one of their madcap investigations determined to save the reputations of their batty friends, and beat the morose Inspector Moody to the unmasking of the culprit - or should that be culprits? - while her butler, Beauchamp, calmly serves cocktails (recipes at end of book!).

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  Yuletide Blend

  Kennedy Layne

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  Find out who's been naughty or nice in the next snowbound whodunit of the Paramour Bay Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Layne . . .  
   
   
   
  Stockings are hung by the chimney with care and visions of catnip dance in the air this yuletide season in Paramour Bay. The spirit of giving is in full swing, and the residents of this small coastal Connecticut town are finishing up their last-minute holiday shopping. 
   
   
   
  Raven Marigold takes a break from minding the tea shop to enjoy the winter wonderland the council members have magically created in the middle of town square. The holiday festival has everything from a lighted Christmas tree to singing elves. Even good ol' St. Nick has shown up to hear the wish lists of excited children, but the jolliness in his ho-ho-ho disappears when one of his reindeer goes missing! Is this a reindeer-napping or has the precious animal just wandered off? 
   
   
   
  Grab a plate of sugar cookies and a glass of milk as Raven and the gang attempt to unwrap the next seasonal whodunit in order to save the cheer for a Merry Christmas this year!

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  Havoc at the Hotel The: A Cozy...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  🏨 Hotel manager Penelope "Penny" Suite is proud of her family's historic Grandview Hotel, known for its impeccable service and charming atmosphere. But when a wealthy guest is found dead in the luxurious penthouse suite during the hotel's centennial celebration, Penny's reputation for hospitality is put to the ultimate test. The police suspect natural causes, but Penny notices details that don't add up—a misplaced room key, disturbed flower arrangements, and a mysterious message left on the hotel's vintage typewriter. With the hotel placed under quarantine due to a sudden snowstorm, Penny must work with her dedicated staff and a handsome visiting travel writer to investigate the guests and employees trapped inside. From secret passages between rooms to the hotel's digital key card system, every corner of the Grandview holds potential clues. But as Penny uncovers long-buried secrets about her own family's hotel, she realizes the killer is still among them—and the next vacancy might be permanent.

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  Bardd

  Sarah Woodbury

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  Rhys and Catrin become embroiled in murder when King Edward summons all the bards of Wales ... 
  September 1284. Catrin and Rhys travel with the royal court to Overton-on-Dee where King Edward has called a thousand Welsh bards to a royal eisteddfod, a music festival, in honor of his conquest of Wales. Every bardd in Wales has been commanded to attend. 
  But the menacing gaze of the king has tensions running high, since his goal is to uncover dissidence and to rein in the power of the bards. When one of the chief contestants turns up dead with a forbidden song stuffed into his mouth, it’s up to Rhys and Catrin to catch his killer—even if it means putting themselves between their people and the wrath of the English king. 
  Bardd is the fifth book in The Welsh Guard Mysteries. 
  Series so far: Crouchback, Chevalier, Paladin, Herald, Bardd

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  Takedown

  Leonard Ruhl

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  "I realized I didn’t want any part of believing my parents were murdered. I’d grown comfortable with the old narrative, however false and however bad. I was the illegitimate child of a junky mother, orphaned by her addiction. Maybe Pops was right to let sleeping dogs lie." 
  Benjamin Joel was a fatherless eleven-year-old boy when he found his mother dead of a heroin overdose in a run-down Kansas trailer home. Doing his best to shutter away her memory and his own violent past, Ben is now an attorney trying to make a life for himself and his family. While investigating a case for a client accused of murdering an ex-cop, a strung out flesh peddler named Ricky Butler tells Ben he’s the spitting image of a guy Ben has never heard of named Paco Correa. Ben shrugs off the comment as the ramblings of a burnout until Butler references the death of Ben’s mother twenty-eight years earlier in shockingly familiar terms, claiming she and Correa were murdered by dirty cops. Ben’s search for the truth about the death of his mother and a father he never knew drags him back into the dark recesses of his past and puts him in the crosshairs of a ruthless sex trafficking ring.

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