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The abduction of a young woman in 1858 ends in Toronto thirty-eight years later — in murder.
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to solve. The owner of one of Toronto’s livery stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and...
In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is forcibly abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, Detective Murdoch is working on a murder case that will take all of his resourcefulness to solve. The owner of one of Toronto’s livery stables has been found dead. He has been horsewhipped and...
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In Let Loose the Dogs, Murdoch’s life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is on her deathbed. Meanwhile, Harry Murdoch, the father whom Murdoch long ago shut out of his life, has been charged with murder and calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. But, knowing his father, what is Murdoch to believe?
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William Murdoch mysteries volume 3
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Constable Oliver Wicken dies in what appears to be a suicide. However, when new evidence is discovered, Detective William Murdoch is asked to investigate further. During the investigation, he begins to suspect that the suicide is not what it seems. 2002.
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Paradise Café mystery volume 2
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Cormorant Books
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Mrs. Jessop hires the newly promoted Private Investigator Charlotte to inquire into the untimely death of her son, a veteran injured in the Great War. Then Charlotte is hired to infiltrate a small women's wear manufacturer to uncover communist agitators. When the factory supervisor is murdered on the job just as Charlotte starts to look into it, she gets seconded to the police to help find out what happened. Charlotte is left to struggle to solve...
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McClelland & Stewart
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Women rich and poor come to her, desperate and in dire need of help – and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, but although she keeps quiet about her clients’ condition, her contempt for them and her greed leaves every one of them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when this malicious woman is murdered. What is a shock, though, is that a week later a...
10) Except the dying
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McClelland & Stewart
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. Detective William Murdoch quickly finds out that more than one person connected with the girl’s simple life has something to hide.
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McClelland & Stewart
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The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a stand-alone murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War. Elsie Bates, a vivacious young Londoner, is now working in the fields of Shropshire as a member of the Land Army. A German invasion seems imminent and everyone is on edge and, at night, literally in the dark. Then Elsie's body is found by the...
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