Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets, but high above the mean streets, a light burns on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, where Guy Noir-hard boiled, world-weary, yet surprisingly articulate-is trying to find the answers to life's questions. In his big swivel chair under the bare bulb beside the beat-up gray file cabinet, he awaits the call of his clientele: the disappointed, the paranoid, the embittered, the rejected-and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion.
Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she's not housemaid Catriona Mitchell-even though Mallory is in Catriona's body-and Mallory is now officially an undertaker's assistant....
3) Kielgang
Author
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
Ein idyllisches Gestüt an der rauen Ostseeküste gerät zum Schauplatz eines schrecklichen Verbrechens!
Zwei junge Männer werden gefunden-der eine tot, der andere schwer verletzt und zu keiner Aussage fähig. Eine Sackgasse... und der neueste Fall für Lisa Sanders von der Mordkommission Kiel!
Die Spur führt Lisa immer tiefer ins Herz der organisierten Bandenkriminalität in Kiel. Plötzlich scheint auch ein Amoklauf eine wichtige Rolle zu spielen......
Author
Language
English
Description
It's elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries - twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater, linked by violin music interludes. The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson, and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. With three giants of the theater in such colorful roles, it's no mystery why this collection...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On June 2nd, 1894, in the wake of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot's assassination, France descends into chaos and riots in the streets of Varbourg. Many lives are lost in the mayhem, but when one lady of the night is found murdered with brutal incisions and no sign of a struggle, it is clear something is amiss. Madeleine Karno, the tenacious protagonist from Doctor Death, must ask herself the terrifying question: Do they have their very own Jack...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Quelle horreur! A French holiday leads to disaster for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin in this engaging new cozy mystery.
When Dorothy Martin goes to France-alone because Alan is stuck back home in Sherebury with a broken ankle-she worries about her ability to get along in a language she barely speaks, and in a country, she hasn't seen for over fifty years. But by the time Alan joins her a week later, Dorothy has found herself embroiled in one...
Author
Language
English
Description
A crime mystery set in Wigan
Detective inspector Steve Wicks works in the Wigan borough for the Greater Manchester Police Force. (GMP)
Along with his Major Incident team he is tasked with finding the killer of Daniel Thomas who had been found hidden in the poly-tunnel in the gardens of Greenacres, a community hub in Atherton.
Things weren't as simple as they seemed at first and with more bodies found and a member of the team disappearing during...
Author
Language
English
Description
Private Investigator Agnes Trout is seeking balance in her relationships when an old friend in England asks for help locating his aunt, who went missing over eighty years ago. Agnes relishes immersing herself in a new missing person case, but complications arise when human bones surface by her friend's canal barge home. A brutal decades-old murder unravels, plunging Agnes into a quest for answers across England and South Wales. She is joined by her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Cody Marsh's domineering, embittered mother is the only family she has ever known until her grandfather arrives on her doorstep. He brings with him the acceptance and kindness previously missing in Cody's life, and his death a short time after they meet leaves her empty and yearning.Defying her mother for the first time in her life, Cody sets out for the boyhood home of her grandfather -- Wallace, Idaho -- to find connections to him, to find her place...
10) Shy Guy
Author
Language
English
Description
When James Gearing applied for a job with Hadley and Emerson Detective Agency, its young and beautiful owner interviewed him. She met a red-faced man, who had trouble breathing and talking. "I get this way around beautiful women," he gasped, quickly leaving her office. The receptionist stopped him and handed over a phone. "Can you talk to me this way?" Cori Hadley asked.He told her he'd been a Navy Seal who'd left the service due to a back injury....
11) The Blind Trust
Author
Language
English
Description
When beautiful socialite Edwina Borning loses her sight in an acid attack, she withdraws from her promising political career and withdraws from the world. Unfortunately the assets she controls have been placed in a blind trust and are the key to the family fortune. Her sister turns to Lawton Close. LT sends his trusted associate and man-of-action Max to interview the victim of the attack, but Max in turn becomes a victim of the famous Borning charm....
Author
Language
English
Description
In the depths of the colder months of the year, the Captain is finding being stuck indoors a bit dull for his active doggy mind. Luckily, his co-investigator, the lovely Ms. Eliza Macintosh-Huffleboots, has a case to break him out of his sulk. The keen-minded pair are urgently summoned to Quellworth Manor, where one of the residents is attempting to do away with the fierce matriarch of the family,
Author
Language
English
Description
Eliza Macintosh-Huffleboots and her noble dog, the Captain, are both terribly pleased that the weather is looking up and the annual local cricket match is about to take place. However, when some very unsporting behaviour is uncovered and the Gardeners Eleven, the Captain's favourite team, appears to have been sabotaged, only the skills of Eliza and the Captain can give them a fighting chance.
14) Anna's Passion
Author
Language
English
Description
Anna's Napa Valley winery has been suffering debilitating attacks, not from other competing wineries but from an intensely troubled young man. She must take action soon or she will lose everything: the winery, the land, the vines, and the equipment. Even her identity is being threatened:"I feel it's a very personal matter. How could he try to stop me from my destiny? I was born into this life. It is all I know and all I everwanted to do. Something...
15) Finding Me
Author
Language
English
Description
Warning: this book may offend you, but in a way that holds you accountable. You will laugh your way into witnessing a man waking up without his memory. Before you roll your eyes, no, this isn't your typical amnesia story. You have no idea just how unpredictable this is. You aren't ready.
Author
Language
English
Description
"You're too slow etc" were the words Matt (Crack) Stewart did not want to hear from his boss. Within a week his life has changed, a gorgeous, sexy new boss and team, investigation, deception, a traitor or two. The search begins, from his bed in London to Hong Kong, mainland China to New Zealand. The needle in the haystack has to be found, but who and where? Who or what is the Dragon Queen? What is the scent? The beautiful Sophia and her new team cannot...
17) Reel Life Crime
Author
Language
English
Description
San Francisco detective Ed Sampas is sitting in his office when Thelonius Noble entersand says he wants to hire Sampas to recover a stolen item. It's a black statue of a bird,about a foot high, made of lead."Sounds like the Maltese falcon," Sampas jokes."It is," Noble tells him, straight-faced. "I own the prop from The Maltese Falcon, and it's worth a million dollars."And so, Sampas is hired to find the Maltese falcon.Reel Life Crime mirrors the plot...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Minnie Russell finds that she has a desperate problem on her hands, she turns to the best private investigators in the land, Ms. Eliza Macintosh-Huffleboots and her furry canine companion, the Captain. With hard work, dedication, well-ordered thinking, as well as several cups of tea, there is no mystery that the young lady and her small compatriot cannot solve.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Private Investigator Sean Sean arrives at his quiet suburban home near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on a summer afternoon and finds a blown up wheelchair, a body and several squad cars scattered across the street, he knows something's gotten seriously out of hand. He'd been planning to put his red Keds up on a footstool and have a cool beer after a long boring surveillance. But it isn't long before he learns that not every inhabitant of a nearby retirement...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Synopsis: Dos mujeres se retiran al País de Dios después de que la gran ciudad estuvo a punto de devorarlas. Lilly, una talentosa artista, corre hacia la cabaña en la montaña que sus abuelos le dejaron. Joanne, la vecina más cercana de Lilly, compró una cabaña tipo A en la pequeña comunidad de montaña después de que falleció su esposo. Cuando se conocieron, poco sabían que sus vidas dependerían de las acciones de la otra. Un maniático...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by ByWater Solutions Demo can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request