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The title is derived from "The ABC Rail Guide" to British railways, which contains an alphabetical listing of station stops. The plot centers on finding a killer who murders victims in alphabetical order. Hercule Poirot is sent a series of letters by a murderer challenging him to try to stop a crime if he is clever enough.
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The book begins with Ben's expulsion from Vivian Durridge's stables; he's removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father's machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father's wishes. He almost always has, but he soon...
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Melanie Stokes was adopted years ago and "still considers herself lucky, until ... Until the terrifying visions begin. Until a has-been reporter starts investigating her past. Until the first note arrives saying, 'You get what you deserve.'"--Cover.
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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having a sleepover-in a castle! Dink's favorite mystery writer, Wallis Wallace, hjas invited them for a visit. But as soon they arrive they start hearing screams behind the walls. Not to worry every castle is haunted.
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Robinson renders a happy mixture of English village procedural and Canadian atmosphere. After failing to solve the murder of a wandering hiker near a Yorkshire village, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks flies to Toronto to question a key witness. The plot still revolves around several Yorkshire suspects, including an abusive social climber, a wealthy squire, an emotionally repressed innkeeper, and a bitter ex-husband--who all seem to have some...
8) Killshot
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[1989]
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Two witnesses to a crime are removed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the Federal Witness Security Program--no picnic, even though they are innocent victims rather than plea-bargaining mobsters.
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New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers—Book 1 in the series
“The toughest, funniest, wisest, private eye in the field these days.”—Houston Chronicle
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical...
“The toughest, funniest, wisest, private eye in the field these days.”—Houston Chronicle
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical...
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Nate the Great volume 14
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Yearling
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2006, c1992
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Nate the Great investigates the mysterious disappearance of the purple plastic octopus that his baseball team uses for second base.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
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Nancy encounters a mysterious saleswoman in a perfume shop, a curious man on the train, and then finds herself trying to decipher a strange code.
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Nate the Great volume 15
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Nate the Great investigates the disappearance of a homemade pillowcase belonging to Rosamond's cat Big Hex.
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"With a knack for trivia, Encyclopedia solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his detective agency. But his Dad is also the chief of police, and every night, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. Join Encyclopedia Brown as he solves ten confounding mysteries, from recovering a client's prized tooth collection to following a trail of paint to find a sneaky thief, and more. And with the clues given in each case, readers...
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
16) Endless night
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Mike and Ellie were in love. They would build their house on Gipsy's Acre, and their bright happiness would banish its evil past forever. Then the treats began. The accidents. And the terror, as their shining dream suddenly became a nightmare of fear, betrayal, and murder.
17) Heat
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"Jesse Warden is at the end of his rope. Imprisoned unjustly (or at least for the wrong crime), he spends half his time in solitary confinement and the other half fighting with convicts who want to kill him because he was once a cop."--BOOK JACKET. "Then, at his lowest ebb, he is offered a way out. To earn his freedom, he must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult in the mountains of the Idaho panhandle, a mission that turns out to be...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 18
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America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
20) Howliday Inn
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Bunnicula series volume 2
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While their human family is away, Harold the dog and Chester the cat are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow where Chester becomes increasingly alarmed by the strange behavior of his fellow guests and the sudden disappearance of one of them.