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Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Distraught at the loss of his inspiration, Lionel Savage, a poet from Victorian London, accidentally conjures the Devil and realizes that he has inadvertently sold his rich wife's soul to him, and plots a rescue mission to Hell with an assortment of unlikely companions.
7) Quicksilver
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Historical romance novel featuring the Arcane Society, second in The Looking Glass Trilogy"--
8) Affinity
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Language
English
Description
Visiting a grim Victorian London prison as part of rehabilitative charity work, upper-class suicide survivor Margaret Prior is drawn into the world of enigmatic spiritualist and inmate Selina Dawes and is persuaded to help her escape.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The sooty streets of Victorian London are crawling with nefarious characters, and Bridie Devine--female detective extraordinaire--must confront her most remarkable puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick. Winding her way through a mystery as labyrinthine as the city streets, Bridie won't rest until she finds Christabel, even if it means unearthing a past that she'd rather keep buried--
Author
Series
Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London's Hungarian community in search of clues but finds his inquiries stymied...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Commander William Monk has learned to live with the fact that he cannot remember the events of his life prior to a horrific carriage accident years ago. But when a ghost from his past, a man he has no recollection of, attempts to frame him for a series of murders, he must rely on the help of his wife Hester and his close friend Oliver Rathbone in order to free himself--from both the charges, and the demons that have haunted him since the accident"--...
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After the banishment of his only friend, the sorceress Amora, to Earth, a young Loki travels to nineteenth-century London to investigate a string of murders but finds much more than he expects.
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the poem "The Lady of Shalott," the seventh book in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series features the aristocratic investigator uncovering a mystery about the myth of King Arthur and probing the murder of Gabrielle Tennyson.
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013], �2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When William Monk's wife, Hester, is kidnapped from the hospital where she volunteers, Monk is desperate to rescue her. But when his investigation leads him to the remote home of the wealthy and enigmatic Bryson Radnor--and to several bodies buried on his grounds--Monk realizes there is far more to Hester's kidnapping than meets the eye. What did Hester learn that made her a danger to Radnor? What are the two doctors Hester was working with at the...
Author
Series
Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, Maisie Hitchins, a young detective who lives in her grandmother's boarding house, finds herself immersed in the excitement and glamour of the theater when she investigates the theft of a valuable necklace belonging to an actress friend of a longtime boarder.
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