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Single Titles
The Stately Home Murder  Catherine Aird
Robert Barnard:
     A Corpse in a Gilded Cage 
     Death & the Princess
Three by Box  Edgar Box
Merrivale, March and Murder  John Dickson Carr
Snobbery with Violence  Marion Chesney
The Secret of Chimneys  Agatha Christie
Thirteen at Dinner in Murder-Go-Round
Dead is Forever  David Cray
King & Joker  Peter Dickinson
Next of Kin  Mignon G. Eberhart
Carnage on the Committee  Ruth Dudley Edwards
Born to the Purple  S.L. Florian
The Wild Island  Antonia Fraser
Duplicate Death  Georgette Heyer
The Butler Did It  Kasey Michaels
A Presumption of Death  (Lord Peter Wimsey)  Jill Paton Walsh
Oh! Where are Bloody Mary's Earrings?  Robert Player
The Package Included Murder  Joyce Porter
The Daughter of Time  Josephine Tey
 

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Series
(Titles below reflect the current collection. Other titles in the series or by that author may not be owned by library.)
Sir John Fielding, blind magistrate & founder of first London police by Bruce Alexander
     1.  Blind Justice
     2.  Murder in Grub Street
     3.  Watery Grave
     4.  Person or Persons Unknown
     5.  Jack, Knave and Fool
     6.  Death of a Colonial
     7.  The Color of Death
     8.  Smuggler's Moon
     9.  An Experiment in Treason
   10.  The Price of Murder
   11.  Rules of Engagement
            Other titles in series
   
Albert Campion, suave London sleuth with noble blood by Margery Allingham
     1.  The Crime at Black Dudley
     2.  Police at the Funeral
     3.  Look to the Lady
     4.  The Fear Sign (audio book)
     5.  Death of a Ghost
     6.  The Fashion in Shrouds
     7.  The Traitor's Purse (audio book)
     8.  The Tiger in the Smoke
     9.  Tether's End
   10.  The China Governess
   11.  Cargo of Eagles
   12.  The Return of Mr. Campion
          Other titles in series
   
Sir Toby Glendower, archaeologist by Margot Arnold (see Archaeology & Anthropology Mysteries)
   
Jane Austen, famous English author by Stephanie Barron (see Bibliomysteries)
   
Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I by Fiona Buckley
     1.  To Shield the Queen
     2.  The Doublet Affair
     3.  Queen's Ransom
     4.  To Ruin the Queen
     5.  Queen of Ambition
     6.  A Pawn for a Queen
     7.  The Fugitive Queen
     8.  The Siren Queen
   
The Toff, the Honorable Richard Rollison, high-living, villain-hating, law-bending by John Creasey
     1.  Kill the Toff
     2.  The Toff and the Deep Blue Sea (audiobook)
     3.  The Toff on Fire
     4.  The Toff and the Stolen Tresses
     5.  A Rocket for the Toff
          Other titles in series
   
Lord Danvers by Donna Fletcher Crow
     1.  A Most Inconvenient Death
     2.  Grave Matters
   
Lord Francis Powerscourt, Irish investigator in Victorian Enland by David Dickinson
     1.  Goodnight Sweet Prince
     2.  Death and the Jubilee
     3.  Death of an Old Master
     4.  Death of a Chancellor
   
Sir Hugh Corbett, spy for King Edward I by P.C. Doherty
     1.  Satan in St. Mary's
     2.  The Crown in Darkness
     3.  Spy in Chancery
     4.  The Angel of Death
     5.  The Prince of Darkness
     6.  Murder Wears a Cowl
     7.  The Assassin in the Greenwood
     8.  The Song of a Dark Angel
     9.  Satan's Fire
   10.  The Devil's Hunt
   11.  The Demon Archer
   12.  Corpse Candle
   
Susanna Appleton, herbalist noblewoman in Elizabethan England by Kathy Lynn Emerson
     1.  Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie
     2.  Face Down Upon an Herbal
     3.  Face Down Among the Winchester Geese
     4.  Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross
     5.  Face Down Under the Wych Elm
     6.  Face Down Across the Western Sea
     7.  Face Down Below the Banqueting House
          Other titles in series
   
Inspector Thomas Lynley, Scotland Yard Inspector in London by Elizabeth George (see British Police Mysteries)
   
Melrose Plant, Richard Jury's sidekick by Martha Grimes (see British Police Mysteries)
     1.  The Man With a Load of Mischief
     2.  The Deer Leap
     3.  The Five Bells and Bladebone
     4.  The Old Contemptibles
     5.  The Horse You Came in on
     6.  Rainbow's End
     7.  The Case has Altered
     8.  The Lamorna Wink
   
Sarah Booth Delaney & Jitty, unconventional southern belle & ghost by Carolyn Haines
     1.  Them Bones
     2.  Buried Bones
     3.  Splintered Bones
     4.  Crossed Bones
     5.  Hallowed Bones
   
Elizabeth I, 1500's England by Karne Harper
     1.  The Poyson Garden
     2.  The Tidal Pool
     3.  The Twylight Tower
     4.  The Queene's Cure
     5.  The Thorne Maze
     6.  The Queene's Christmas
     7.  The Fyre Mirror
   
Clair Conrad & Maggie Hill, reminiscent of Nero Wolf and Archie by Melodie Johson Howe
     1.  The Mother Shadow
     2.  Beauty Dies
   
Alex Plumtree, publisher in London by Julie Kaewert (see Bibliomysteries)
   
Lily Bennett, ex-detective in Roundup, Wyoming by Marne Davis Kellogg
     1.  Bad Manners
     2.  Curtsey
     3.  Tramp
     4.  Nothing But Gossip
     5.  Birthday Party
   
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales by Peter Lovesey
     1.  Bertie and the Tinman
     2.  Bertie and the Seven Bodies
     3.  Bertie and the Crime of Passion
   
Anthony Gethryn, sleuth & son of an English squire by Philip MacDonald
     1.  Warrant for X in Triple Jeopardy
     2.  List of Adrian Messenger
     3.  The Polferry Riddle in Triple Jeopardy
   
Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn, investigative couple in Boston by Charlotte MacLeod
     1.  The Family Vault
     2.  The Withdrawing Room
     3.  The Palace Guard
     4.  The Bilbao Looking Glass
     5.  The Convivial Codfish
     6.  The Plain Old Man
     7.  The Recycled Citizen
     8.  The Silver Ghost
     9.  The Gladstone Bag
   10.  The Resurrection Man
   11.  The Odd Job
   12.  The Balloon Man
   
Roderick Alleyn, police inspector & second son of a baronet by Ngaio Marsh (see British Police Mysteries)
   
Nora, Emmy & Libby Blackbird, high society detectivees by Nancy Martin
     1.  How to Murder a Millionaire
     2.  Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds
     3.  Some Like it Lethal
     4.  Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
   
Maggie Kelly, Alexander Blake & Viscount Saint, mystery writer, her books' character & his sidekick
         
by Kasey Michaels
     1.  Maggie Needs an Alibi
     2.  Maggie By the Book
     3.  Maggie Without a Clue
     4.  High Heels and Homicide
   
Sir Charles Sheridan & Kate Ardleigh, amateur detective & his wife in Victorian England by Robin Paige
     1.  Death at Bishop's Keep
     2.  Death at Gallow's Green
     3.  Death at Daisy's Folly
     4.  Death at Devil's Bridge
     5.  Death at Rottingdean
     6.  Death at Whitechapel
     7.  Death at Epsom Downs
     8.  Death at Dartmoor
     9.  Death at Blenheim Place
          Other titles in series
   
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, Victorian Police Inspector & His Wife by Anne Perry (see British Police Mysteries)
   
Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne, jaded English aristocrat & leftist journalist in 1930's London
         
by David Roberts
     1.  Sweet Poison
     2.  The Bones of the Buried
     3.  Hollow Crown
     4.  Dangerous Sea
     5.  The More Deceived
   
Lord Peter Wimsey, pianist, book collector & criminologist by Dorohty L. Sayers
     1.  Whose Body?
     2.  Clouds of Witness in Lord Peter Takes the Case
     3.  Unnatural Death in Lord Peter Takes the Case
     4.  Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club in
         
Lord Peter Takes the Case
     5.  Lord Peter Views the Body
     6.  Strong Poison
     7.  The Five Red Herrings in Lord Peter Takes the Case
     8.  Have His Carcase
     9.  Murder Must Advertise
   10.  The Nine Tailors
   11.  Gaudy Night
   12.  Busman's Honeymoon
   13.  Thrones, Dominations
   14.  In the Teeth of Evidence
   15.  Striding Folly
   16.  A Presumption of Death (w/ Jill Paton Walsh)
   
Beau Brummell, arbiter of fashion in regency era of Britain by Rosemary Stevens
     1.  Death on a Silver Tray
     2.  The Tainted Snuff Box
     3.  The Bloodied Cravat
          Other title in series
 

 

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