Rhiannon
Rhiannon, a fourteen-year-old girl in twelfth-century England who lives on the bluff of Clodaghcombe with her healer mom and grandmother, enlists the aid of a handsome young monk, a mysterious French pirate, and a ghostly, little girl in an attempt to solve the murder of a stranger whose body was found close to home, and clear her friend and neighbor of suspicion.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1050
The Traitor In The Tunnel
The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: sex role, orphans, murder [X], household employees, london (england), great britain [X], historical fiction, murder investigation, detective and mystery fiction, quinn, mary (fictitious character), homicide [X], historical fiction, mystery fiction
Slammerkin
Mary Saunders, daughter of a poor seamstress and a father who died in jail, allows her desire for fine things to lead her into prostitution at a young age, and though she tries repeatedly to turn her life around, the lure of money and freedom proves difficult to resist.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: saunders, mary, women, women murderers, murder [X], homicide [X], great britain [X], london (england), monmouth (wales)
Ripper
Sent to do volunteer work at the Whitechapel Hospital in the east end of London in 1888, seventeen-year-old Abbie discovers the identity of Jack the Ripper.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jack, homicide [X], mystery fiction, historical fiction, murder [X], mystery and detective stories, london (england), great britain [X]
The Hidden Dagger
When a young boy in seventeenth-century England witnesses a lord's murder, he must find a way to reveal the killer before he becomes the next victim.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 400
subjects: murder [X], mystery and detective stories, historical fiction, homicide [X], mystery fiction, great britain [X]
Kings And Queens Of England
An account of English royal history from 1066 to the present day.
941
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: 941
lexile:
subjects: homicide [X], kings, queens, rulers, etc, murder [X], kings and rulers, scandals, great britain [X]
The Body At The Tower
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: homicide [X], orphans, sex role, murder [X], great britain [X], london (england), quinn, mary, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction
Snake Bite
"Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: murder [X], homicide [X], seafaring life, kidnapping, detective and mystery stories, great britain [X], china, shanghai (china), holmes, sherlock, detective and mystery fiction
The Soprano's Last Song
Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Ars?ene Lupin--but Ars?ene's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: holmes, sherlock, adler, irene, characters in literature, sopranos (singers), kidnapping, murder [X], mystery and detective stories, great britain [X], london (england), lupin, ars?ne (fictional character), adler, irene, holmes, sherlock (fictional character), singers, homicide [X]
Poison Is Not Polite
In 1930s England, schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home for the holidays when someone falls seriously, mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem--and everyone has a secret or two--so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth .
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: juvenile fiction / girls & women, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, chinese, murder [X], great britain [X], mystery fiction, homicide [X], friendship, mystery and detective stories
Jolly Foul Play
"Daisy and Hazel must solve another murder at Deepdean when a bullying Head Girl turns up dead on Bonfire Night"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: juvenile fiction / humorous stories, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, chinese, schools, boarding schools, bullying, murder [X], friendship, mystery and detective stories, great britain [X], homicide [X], bullies, private schools, school stories, detective and mystery fiction
Gosford Park
What starts out as a typical country party at Gosford Park turns into something more sinister when one of the guests turns up dead.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: upper class, household employees, murder [X], video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, mystery films, homicide [X], dvds, great britain [X]
Premeditated Myrtle
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighbor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.
FIC
year:
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: criminals, murder [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction, great britain [X], detective and mystery fiction
How To Get Away With Myrtle
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: railroad travel, murder [X], theft, detective and mystery stories, stealing, mystery and detective stories, great britain [X], detective and mystery fiction, homicide [X]
Cold-blooded Myrtle
Twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle returns, and now she is on the trail of a serial killer in her hometown of Swinburne.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], great britain [X], detective and mystery fiction