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A curious beginning
by Deanna Raybourn
Receiving a warning from a mysterious baron after suffering a home invasion, Veronica Speedwell accepts the baron's shelter and teams up with an ill-tempered naturalist when her host is subsequently murdered.
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An unwilling accomplice
by Charles Todd
While home on leave, World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford finds her career, honor, and life in jeopardy when the wounded soldier she is supposed to accompany to Buckingham Palace commits murder and then disappears
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A study in scarlet women
by Sherry (Sherry M.) Thomas
When London is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte, under the assumed name Sherlock Holmes, is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name.
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Cocaine blues
by Kerry Greenwood
Spunky Phryne Fisher leaves her adopted London for 1920s Australia to investigate the desperate letters she has been receiving from well-bred Lydia, a young woman married to a low-down scoundrel.
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Maisie Dobbs
by 1955- Winspear, Jacqueline
Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations.
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Murder on Trinity Place
by Victoria (Victoria E.) Thompson
Horrified when a neighbor they spotted behaving in uncharacteristic ways is found murdered during the 1900 New Year celebrations at Trinity Church, Frank and Sarah Malloy are prompted by scandal-fearing relatives to search for answers in the victim's past.
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Queen of hearts
by Rhys Bowen
Lady Georgianna Rannoch investigates a jewel thief while travelling with her mother by steamship to America to get a quickie divorce in Nevada.
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The Mitford murders
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1920, Louisa Cannon takes a position with the Mitford family at their manor house in the Oxfordshire countryside, but when a nurse is killed on a train, Louisa and the youngest Mitford daughter, Nancy, become entangled in the murderer's crimes.
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The Paragon Hotel
by Lyndsay Faye
Fleeing to 1921 Oregon, Alice takes refuge in the city's only black hotel and helps new friends search for a missing child, hide from KKK violence and navigate painful secrets.
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The beekeeper's apprentice
by Laurie R. King
When Mary Russell meets famous detective Sherlock Holmes, she discovers that he is also a beekeeper. Soon she finds herself on the trail of kidnappers and discovers a plot to kill both Holmes and herself.
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The secrets of Wishtide
by Kate Saunders
Archdeacon's widow and private investigator Laetitia Rodd goes undercover as a governess in order to assist her barrister brother during a case involving the illicit affairs of a nobleman's son.
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The spies of Shilling Lane
by Jennifer (Jennifer L.) Ryan
A follow-up to The Chilbury Ladies' Choir finds scandalous divorcée Mrs. Braithwaite traveling to World War II London in search of her missing daughter, an effort that is complicated by a difficult secret.
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