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Jacqueline Winspear (2004) Maisie Dobbs. Penguin Books Winspear's moving stroy of Maisie Dobbs may use an outdated female role-model, but her heroine's character and intellect has more substance and depths than can be found in most present-day literature for young adults. The story vividly recreates the period before and after WWI through the experience of a young, intelligent women, who in 1929 has become a private investigator. More... 
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Ngaio Marsh (1999) Vintage Murder. (First published 1936) St. Martin's Minotaur This classical British murder mystery features Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard on vacation in New Zealand. Alleyn travels by train together with Carolyn Dacres, celebrated actress, and her theatrical company. When an after-performance celebration of the actors turns deadly the local small-town police is glad to have Inspector Alleyn at their help. More...
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Sheila Pim (2001) A Hive of Suspects: An Irish Village Mystery. Rue Morgue Press In the village of Drumclash, Ireland, Pim develops a most excentric plot, in which amateur apiarist Edward Gildea uncovers the truth of niggard beekeeper Jason Prendergast's death. A weird story. More...
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Carl Hiaasen / Bill Montalbano (1998) A Death in China. Vintage American professor traveling in China gets entangled in a web of violence, lies, treachery, and state secrets, as he investigates his friend's sudden "death by duck". Claustrophobic! More...
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Andrew Taylor (2004) An Unpardonable Crime. Hyperion Set in 1819, this Victorian-era suspenseful novel portraits Thomas Shield, a young schoolmaster in Stoke Newington near London who gets entangled with two wealthy banking families. As one of the Bankers is murdered Shield is drawn to the attractive widow. Don't buy this book if you are a slow reader, or if you crave fast-paced action. More...
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