Whodunnit

//Whodunnit
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  • While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer.  They conclude the body must have been thrown from the train near Ackenthorpe Hall. There's only one thing for it - Miss Marple goes undercover as a housekeeper at the Hall. Based on Agatha Christie's 4.50 From Paddington. Also stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Hickson and Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/4-50-from-paddington-agatha-christie/   https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/
  • When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna's young life: a dull day job at the local water treatment plant, spiced by sidelines in prostitution and porno. She tangles with Lorna's friends: a local late-night DJ; a sweet, funny teenage hooker; Lorna's sloppy landlord and his exotic wife. But to find out which one, if any, turned killer, Kinsey will have to inhabit a netherworld from which she may never return.
  • Book XX of Brother Cadfael. November 1145 - the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has achance for reconciliation. With both sides pndering the wisdom of further conflict, they agree that a council should take place. It is hoped that the meeting will at least resolve the question prisoners of war, a number of whom were taken following the shocking defection to the King’s cousin Philip, younger son of the Earl of Gloucester. Brother Cadfael seeks leave to attend the meeting - he has learned that among the prisoners is one Olivier de Bretagne, a young man who calls upon loyalties even higher than Cadfael’s monastic vows. As Cadfael observes, ‘Before I was a brother, I was a father…’ and his determination to come to his son’s aid prompts a perplexing investigation of a uniquely personal nature.
  • Julian Reef, stock market gambler, nephew to and partner of Lord Frensham, is accused by the man known as 'the Twister' of abusing Frensham's trust with the investment of his uncle's life savings in Lulunga Oils. Lord Frensham, however, suspects the Twister to be the one manipulating the Lulunga share price and thus really the one who is responsible for his financial ruin. When Lord Frensham is found dead in his office, the conclusion is "suicide in a state of unsound mind."  Then Lulunga Oil shares rise sharply in value...
  • The skeleton of a crucified man has been unearthed in Jerusalem.  Eminent Israeli archeologist Michal Dugan urges his celebrated colleague John Lambert, a Simonite monk, to examine the find and verify what he so strongly suspects - that the body is that of Christ. Such a sensational revelation will rock the world  but before the find can be  made public, Father Lambert is found hanged, apparently a despairing suicide...

  • Maisie  Dobbs 1. Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion. When discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, Maisie is shocked when she realises that her thirst for education is supported by Lady Rowan and Dr. Maurice Blanche, a family friend. The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s education plans and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, she enlists to become a nurse. Finally, in 1929, Maisie sets up as an independent private investigator. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget.
  • Margrave is a wide place in the road in the Georgia Sunbelt. The busiest it ever gets is when school gets let out.  But there's something strange about Margrave - it's completely perfect, so perfect it's frightening. The lawns are like velvet, the trees look like they've just had a manicure. And from the laid-back barbershop to Eno's state-of-the-art diner, the local businesses thrive without customers. When drifter and ex-military cop Jack Reacher hits town, he intends to be gone by Monday. But before then Margrave has its first recorded homicide in thirty years, and as the only stranger in town, it's pinned on Reacher. And so begins the nightmare - starting with a weekend on the killing floor among the jailhouse lifers. If long-lost kin and a long-dead guitar hero could tell tales, Reacher would know just what kind of big operation he's walked into. But as the nasty secrets of the lethal conspiracy that keeps the perfect town ticking start to leak out, the body count mounts.

  • On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto Tower in L.A., the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate, a grand opening celebration is in full swing.  On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body of a beautiful young woman is discovered. The investigation begins and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisted maze of industrial intrigue - a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital piece of American technology is the fiercely coveted prize - and the Japanese saying Business is War takes on a terrifying reality.

  • When a lone gunman goes on a shooting spree aboard a packed ferry, Lt. Lindsay Boxer finds the killer gone, three people dead and her best friend fighting for life.  Then comes the news a child has been abducted, and Boxer finds that there's more than one child missing - with no ransom demands made of the families.  It's a race against time to put these pieces together.