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9) Longshot
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Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
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Hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.
11) A ruling passion
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Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Born in the lap of luxury, Valerie was rich and pampered until life dealt a losing card. Nicholas' only mistake was his marriage but now the future is looking good - until the past returns. Sybille was born hungry - for money, power and fame. Now she's about to smash her lifelong enemy into pieces.
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English
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A Kinsey Millhone mystery. In this rich, complex and gripping tale, Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested to its utmost as the private detective unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal - and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "'G' is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief, for the Grim Reaper. And 'G' is for good: very, very good indeed."
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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Description
This is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire -- from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany -- what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Jim Qwilleran and his two cats move into a possibly-haunted farmhouse to investigate the death of its owner Mrs. Cobb.
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Living quietly in her friend Dora's Miles City whorehouse, Calamity Jane is plunged back into one final, bittersweet adventure by the arrival of her old friend and rival, Buffalo Bill Cody. Yearning for excitement and good hunting, two mountain men and an old Indian scout find adventure when they meet an aging Calamity Jane and find they must resort to performing in Bill Cody's Wild West show in order to survive.
16) Coyote waits
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English
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aThe car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez--a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim...
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The colorful Casablance apartment building is in danger of demolition--but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He's determined to restore the building to its original grandeur. So he moves in with Koko and Yum Yum--and discovers that the Casablanca is steeped in history ... and mystery. In Qwill's very apartment, a glamorous art dealer met an untimely fate, and the veteran journalist and his crime-solving cats are about to reach new heights in detection...
19) The ruby knight
Author
Series
Elenium volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ehlanda, Queen of Elenia, has been poisoned. A deep enchantment sustains her life, but it will end soon. Then Sparhawk, Knight of the Queen's Champion, learns where to get to cure for the poison. He and his companions set forth on a dangerous quest to find the antidote before the queen should perish and the peace ends.
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