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  • The deeds of the disturber
    Author:
    Peters, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    Amelia and Emerson settle in for a quiet summer in England. When a night watchman mysteriously dies in the British Museum, Amelia is on the scene with her trusty parasol, ready to do battle with a malignant mummy and a ghost from...
  • The countess
    Author:
    Jordan, Sophie
    Summary:

    New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying...
  • The Cater Street hangman
    Author:
    Perry, Anne
    Summary:

    The Ellison sisters were proper young Victorian ladies. In the foggy streets outside their peaceful home, five women were found horribly murdered. And Police Inspector Pitt found himself wondering if the Ellisons were in fact too good...
  • The case of the missing marquess
    Author:
    Springer, Nancy
    Summary:

    Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
  • The Butcher's Hook
    Author:
    Ellis, Janet
    Summary:

    Anne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon...
  • The bride's necklace
    Author:
    Martin, Kat
    Summary:

    Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...
  • The Anubis gates
    Author:
    Powers, Tim
    Summary:

    When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But Brendan could do without being stranded...
  • The amulet of Samarkand : Bartimaeus series, book 1
    Author:
    Stroud, Jonathan
    Summary:

    The first audiobook in a thrilling new trilogy about an apprentice magician and the powerful djinni he summons. Nathaniel is a young magician with only one thing on his mind: revenge. As an apprentice to the great magician Underwood,...
  • The Alice network : a Reese's book club pick
    Author:
    Quinn, Kate
    Summary:

    Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER One of NPR's Best Books of the Year! One...
  • The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (AD Classic illustrated)
    Author:
    Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, Sidney
    Summary:

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of the first twelve short stories based on the famous detective, including the cases of The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes will need to use his...
  • Tempt me with diamonds
    Author:
    Feather, Jane
    Summary:

    Three friends who met at an elite English boarding school take on the town-and the ton-one by one, in this sparkling new series about love, loss, and lustrous gemstones, from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather ... A FINE...
  • Tattycoram
    Author:
    Thomas, Audrey
    Summary:

    Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
  • Sweetest scoundrel
    Author:
    Hoyt, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder...
  • Sweet England
    Author:
    Weiner, Steve
    Summary:

    A man of no known origin and unstable personality tries to re-enter society after a long and unexplained absence. The reader sees events through Jack's mostly uncomprehending eyes as he negotiates the margins of a London that resembles...
  • Stalking Jack the Ripper
    Author:
    Maniscalco, Kerri
    Summary:

    Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers...
  • Small pleasures : a novel
    Author:
    Chambers, Clare
    Summary:

    Now available in the US-the literary novel that has taken Britain by storm! In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett-an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the...
  • Sleeping beauty
    Author:
    Ivory, Judith
    Summary:

    In a steamy retelling of the well-known fairy tale, the beautiful courtesan Coco Wilde is famous for her ability to keep the wealthiest men in 19th century London hanging on her every smile. But she maintains a careful emotional...
  • Sherlock Holmes : a study in scarlet (AD Classic illustrated)
    Author:
    Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, Sidney
    Summary:

    A Study in Scarlet is the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, and the first work of fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as a detective tool. The story opens with Holmes and Watson meeting each other for the first time, and...
  • Shadowplay
    Author:
    O'Connor, Joseph
    Summary:

    From Irish PEN award-winning author Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay explores the characters whose loves and lives inspired Dracula. 1878. The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together. Henry Irving,...
  • Shadow of night
    Author:
    Harkness, Deborah E.
    Summary:

    Reluctant witch Diana Bishop and geneticist vampire Matthew Clairmont are surrounded by spies and secrecy in Elizabethan London. As Diana seeks a tutor to help her master magic, Matthew must face a troubled past he thought he'd left...

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