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Historical MysteriesSeptember 2014
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"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan, owns death." -William S. Burroughs
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Tabula rasa : a crime novel of the Roman Empire
by Ruth Downie
Tending to the reluctant builders of Hadrian's Great Wall in the aftermath of a costly rebellion, the medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, investigate the disappearances of Ruso's clerk and the son of a native family, an effort that is complicated by rising tensions between the Britons and Romans.
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Secrets of Sloane House
by Shelley Shepard Gray
Rosalind Perry has left her family's rural farm in Wisconsin to work as a housemaid at Sloane House, one of the most elegant mansions in Gilded Age Chicago, but Rosalind is not there just to earn a living and support her family—she's at Sloane House determined to discover the truth about her sister's mysterious disappearance. Original.
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The devil's workshop
by Alex Grecian
Hunting down four escaped convicts in late-19th-century London, Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith and their colleagues from Scotland Yard's Murder Squad race against time to prevent attacks on their families, an effort that turns more violent when Jack the Ripper joins the gang.
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The Lazarus curse : a Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery
by Tessa Harris
In 1780s London, Dr. Thomas Silkstone investigates the mysterious disappearance of the sole survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, which is linked to a potion that has the power to raise the dead, drawing him into a dark world of vengeance, murder and the trafficking of corpses for profit. Original.
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Henry James' Midnight Song
by Carol Dechellis Hill
The Setting: Fin de siecle Vienna - a society of almost unprecedented vitality, enlivened by new movements in music, art, fashion, literature, psychology, and love. Yet Vienna is a society on the edge of chaos. Beneath the glittering surface it seethes with conflict and ethnic tension. Divided by anti-Semitism, racism, feminism, sex, and the denial of sex, it is a society remarkably similar to our own. The Plot: The women of Vienna are dying - some by murder, some by suicide. During Dr. Freud's absence in Paris, a body is found in his study but disappears as quickly as it was discovered. Was there really a murder or was it merely hysteria on the part of Freud's wife and sister-in-law? How does this body fit into the recent epidemic of women's mysterious deaths in Vienna? Into the web of deceit, murder, and social upheaval step a variety of "real" characters, each with something to hide, who become suspects in the case: the distinguished novelist Edith Wharton, who comes to Vienna to engage in a passionate illicit affair; her friend and traveling companion Henry James, who has consulted Freud about his own secret trespasses; Freud's colleagues Dr. Jung and Dr. Fliess; and Jung's patient-lover, Sabina Spielrein.
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Cradle to grave
by Eleanor Kuhns
Heading to New York to help a friend who has gotten into trouble for kidnapping five abused children, Will Rees and Lydia encounter more challenges than anticipated when the children's mother is killed and their friend is accused. By the award-winning author of Death of a Dyer. 25,000 first printing.
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City of ghosts
by Kelli Stanley
Discovering that her long-lost mother is trapped in war-stricken 1940 England, private investigator Miranda Corbie accepts a job from the State Department that will cover her trip to Europe, where she works to expose a Nazi spy and clear her name of a wrongful murder charge.
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Vengeance is mine
by Reavis Z Wortham
A former Vegas gangster's efforts to leave his past and settle down with his girlfriend in a small East Texas community is shattered by his past associates, a boy's prophetic dreams, a corrupt sheriff, an unsolved murder and a counterfeiting ring. Simultaneous.
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