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61) On Beulah Height
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Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel of the Yorkshire police investigate the disappearance of a girl amid mounting hysteria that a serial killer is back. Earlier, three girls disappeared and were never found.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Although he hasn't seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert's daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she'll fall prey to the ancient family curse. Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence and no...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's book that describes the experiences of ten-year-old Mary, who after coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and meeting her sickly cousin, she discovers the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story.Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancÉ, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen. Everybody knew that. Therein lay half his power. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever.
69) Elmet: a novel
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer who now wants only to be left alone to raise his children. But when a powerful landowner shows up on their doorstep, a chain of violent events is set in motion"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
London, 1929. In the darkness before dawn, a railway porter unloading a special train from Yorkshire discovers a man's body, shot and placed in a sack. There are no means of identification to be found, and as Scotland Yard hits a dead end, they call on the inimitable Kate Shackleton, a local sleuth, confident her local knowledge and investigative skills will produce results. But it's no easy task. Suspicion of political intrigue and fears of unrest...
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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Chris Lowndes built a comfortable career composing scores for films in Hollywood. But after twenty-five years abroad, and still quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, he decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. To ease the move, he buys Kilnsgate House, a rambling old mansion deep in the country.Although Chris finds Kilnsgate charming, something about the house disturbs him, a vague sensation that the long-empty rooms have...
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 18
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Andy Dalziel had decided he would not be able to solve the disappearance of three young girls, and after twelve years, he finally forgot about it, but now children are vanishing again and Andy knows that the two cases are connected.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A simplified, abridged version of a tale of early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, where the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation. Includes a short biography of Emily Bront©±, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Now that Tallulah Casey has been officially admitted to the Dother Hall performing arts program, she knows she must stay focused and ignore the boys at Woolfe Academy if she wants to win this year's grand prize for best student performance.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets--and her own.
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Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--