The Moor
When Sherlock Holmes is summoned to solve an eerie murder at Baskerville Hall, the research skills of his independent young wife enhance his already superior powers.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), russell, mary (fictitious character), women detectives [X], holmes, sherlock (fictional character), russell, mary (fictional character), readers rule, historical fiction, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or, On The Segregation Of The Queen
Mary Russell, an intelligent young woman, becomes the apprentice of Sherlock Holmes.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1100
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), private investigators, women detectives [X], young women, holmes, sherlock (fictional character), england, readers rule, russell, mary (fictitious character), russell, mary (fictional character), historical fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, mystery fiction
A Spy In The House
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.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: women detectives [X], swindlers and swindling, household employees, sex role, orphans, london (england), great britain
Blood Shot
V.I. Warshawski, private investigator, uncovers a network of corruption when she goes back to her old neighborhood in Chicago.
FIC
year: 1989
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: warshawski, v. i. (fictitious character), private investigators, women detectives [X], mystery fiction, chicago (ill.), warshawski, v. i. (fictional character)
Aquarius Descending
Something tells psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase to stay away from the search for her boyfriend's ex-fiancee who disappeared two years earlier into the cult-like Bliss Project, but is not until she poses as an initiate in the community that Elizabeth realizes how much she should have listened to her instincts.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
The Body In The Library
Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), murder, women detectives [X], marple, jane (fictional character), homicide, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, fiction
The Mirror Crack'd
Miss Jane Marple investigates the poisoning death of a fan of Marina Gregg, the film star who recently took up residence in St.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), motion picture actors and actresses, marple, jane (fictional character), actors, mystery fiction, mystery, mystery & detective stories, women detectives [X], actors and actresses
Miss Marple
Contains all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), detective and mystery stories, english, women detectives [X], marple, jane (fictional character), great britain, england, short stories, mystery fiction, mystery fiction
Sleeping Murder
Although Gwenda and Giles Reed are determined to solve a macabre puzzle involving a hauntingly familiar Victorian villa and a terrifying vision of a strangled woman, Miss Jane Marple advises them not to uncover a long unreported murder.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: mystery and detective stories, audiobook, donation, marple, jane (fictitious character), women detectives [X], detective and mystery stories, marple, jane (fictional character), mystery fiction
Two For The Dough
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum stirs up a very nasty enemy, and attracts the attention of sexy vice cop Joe Morelli, when she sets out to find Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton who has just shot his best friend.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: plum, stephanie (fictitious character), women detectives [X], bail bond agents, trenton (n.j.), plum, stephanie (fictional character), mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories
Cause Of Death
Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve when she is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the murky waters of a Navy shipyard.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: scarpetta, kay (fictitious character), medical examiners (law), women detective, scarpetta, kay (fictional character), medical jurisprudence, women detectives [X], murder
Bad Things Happen
The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
2nd Chance
Detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon her friends in the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of seemingly unrelated killings jolt the San Francisco area, but the women soon find they are in over their heads, and even worse, have made themselves targets of the murderer.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives [X], women in the professions, female friendship, friendship, san francisco (calif.)
A Thousand Cuts
Detective Inspector Lucia May investigates the case of Samuel Szajkowski, a new history teacher who gunned down three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself, resisting her supervisor's pressure to make it an open-and-shut case as she uncovers a toxic school culture that contributed to the teacher's violent breakdown.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: school shootings, suicide, homicide, criminal investigation, women detectives [X], teachers, murder, mystery fiction, suicidal behavior, mystery fiction
"a" Is For Alibi
Kinsey Millhone, a female private detective, is hired by a wife who did time for her husband's murder to find out who really killed him.
FIC
year: 1987
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: millhone, kinsey (fictitious character), private investigators, women detectives [X], millhone, kinsey (fictional character), mystery fiction