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  Jackets Jack-O-Lantern & Justice

  Tonya Kappes

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  Let me be the first person to welcome you to Normal, Kentucky located in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest. I'm Mae West the owner of Happy Trails Campground. 
   
   
   
  Fall at the campground is my favorite time of the year. The bursts of orange, yellow, green, and red pop on the falling leaves, creating a colorful path along the trails for all of my guests at my campground is a real life picture that could never be captured by a camera. 
   
   
   
  Days are warm and at night you need a light sweater to enjoy the campfire or snuggle up in a cozy blanket. 
   
   
   
  The campground is full and the campers are excited to participate in Normal's annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. 
   
   
   
  It's a little spooky seeing the hundreds jack-o-lantern faces all light up with toothless or toothy smiles. 
   
   
   
  It's the dead body or two among them that chills me to the bone. Especially when one of those bodies is found in a cave and someone I love is a suspect. 
   
   
   
  And when Hanks asked me for input on the case, I knew it was important. The Laundry Club Ladies and I are once again putting our sleuthing skills to good use in hopes the tricks aren't on us!

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  Second Ascent

  Douglas Phillips

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  Hidden powers. Mind numbing geometry. But is it reality or illusion? 
   
  One year after the world's first space elevator ascent, a new megastructure is taking shape high above the equator. But for all its wonders, there's trouble brewing on this colossal ring of carbon. The people who roam its high frontier come in two distinct forms, but only one of them can Sense Beyond. 
   
  Down on the surface, Sahalie Spark carries a secret. At first glance, it's an ordinary glass prism that splits light into colors. But educational toys aren't magically delivered from space, and they certainly don't wink when you're not looking. Whatever powers this prism holds will remain hidden until she makes a second ascent. 
   
  Materials scientist Adam Estrada has his own problem. How is a three-dimensional container larger on the inside than on the outside? He's crafting an experiment to find out, but it will require cooperation from an alien who weaves exotic carbon allotropes like Nana knits baby socks.

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  The Adventure of the Norwood...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.
  Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only a day earlier and asked him to draw up his will in legal language. McFarlane saw, to his surprise, that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary and even heir to a considerable bequest, and McFarlane cannot imagine why Oldacre would do so. That business took McFarlane to Oldacre's house in Lower Norwood, where some documents had to be examined for legal purposes. They had been kept in the safe, where the murder allegedly took place. McFarlane left quite late and stayed at a local inn. He claims to have read about the murder in the newspaper the next morning on the train. The paper said quite clearly that the police were looking for him.

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  The List

  Michael Leese

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  It was just an ordinary Wednesday lunchtime when Detective Martha Munro’s life changed forever. 
   
  Her sergeant is speaking, but she barely hears what he’s telling her. 
   
  Your mother has been shot dead. Your four-year-old daughter has been taken. 
   
  There are no leads. Who would want to hurt her family? 
   
  Martha realizes it’s time to ask herself some hard questions about her late father. 
   
  He led the anti-corruption squad at Scotland Yard. It’s rumoured he kept a list of everyone who worked for him, from coppers to criminals. And just being on the list was a sure-fire way to lower your life expectancy. 
   
  Her mother was killed by someone trying to get their hands on the list. Now time is running out for Martha to get her daughter back alive. 
   
  Family is EVERYTHING. And she will do ANYTHING to keep them safe.

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  The Mystery Girl

  Carolyn Wells

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  Part of a mystery series featuring renowned detective Fleming Stone. He is called on to decide whether it was suicide or murder in the case of a future college president. Stone has remarkable ingenuity for unraveling cases. Can he do it again? A young girl student is suspected. Was she guilty or was it just rumor? Several clues point both ways. Small footprints in the snow lead to a boarding house where the mystery girl is lodging and love letters between the two point to her guilt. Listening to the unusual tale will have you thinking both ways.

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  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Agatha Christie

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  “What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.” 
  In Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King’s Abbot is still reeling from the death of the widow Ferrars from an overdose of Veronal, when not twenty-four hours later it is learned that the man she planned to marry, Roger Ackroyd, has been brutally murdered.  
  Prior to his death, Ackroyd had been reading an article in the Evening Post to discover who had been blackmailing his wife over poisoning her first husband. But before he could learn who the blackmailer was, he was stabbed through the neck in his own study. 
  Hercule Poirot is the only man with the “little grey cells” to solve this convoluted crime. This time however, it is not Hastings along for the ride. It is Dr. James Shepard, a man actually living in the small village, and one of the men to actually find Ackroyd’s body, who relates to us the terrible truths of the crime and the great deductions of our beloved Belgian detective. 
  See why the British Crime Writers’ Association voted The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as the “Best Crime Novel of All Time”!

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