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1) A duty to the dead

Author

Todd, Charles

Series

Bess Crawford mysteries volume 1
Bess Crawford mystery volume 1

Language

English

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WWI Mystery Stories

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Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. At the outbreak of WWI, she volunteers for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Britannic. On one voyage, she promises to a deliver a message from a dying officer to his brother. Once she's able to do so, she's disturbed at the brother's indifferent reception of the message,...

2) Belgrave square

Author

Perry, Anne

Series

Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 12
Victorian mysteries
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 12
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel

Language

English

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The death of a petty moneylender leads Inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-connected wife, Charlotte, to the doorsteps of London's most powerful citizenry, and to shocking secrets and further death.

3) A spy in the house

Author

Lee, Y. S

Series

The Agency volume 1
(Ying S.),Agency

Language

English

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GPLD Best Mystery/Thrillers for Teens

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Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

4) The traitor in the tunnel

Author

Lee, Y. S

Series

The Agency volume 3
(Ying S.),Agency volume 3

Language

English

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"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a palace maid and fending off the attentions of the Prince of Wales are challenging enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder, Mary's case becomes antything but petty. Engineer and former flame James Easton has an assignment in the sewers, where someone is making illicit...