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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
When mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington chokes on his cocktail at a dinner party thrown by Sir Charles Cartwright, it is thought by nearly all thirteen guests, including Belgian detective extraordinaire, Hercule Poirot, to be an accidental death. Shortly afterwards, a second death in suspiciously similar circumstances puts both Poirot and a team of sleuths on the trail of a murderer.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
On a quiet morning in St. Mary Mead, a maid wakes Colonel Bantry and his wife to inform them that a young woman is dead in their library. The victim is dressed in a tawdry dress, with dyed hair and heavy make-up. Mrs. Bantry knows that as long as the murder remains unsolved her husband will be the target of suspicion and gossip, so she asks Miss Marple for help. The victim is 18-year-old Ruby Keene, a dancer at the Majestic Hotel, whose body is identified...
25) Whose body?
Author
Language
English
Description
In his first murder case, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the bizarre case of a corpse in the bathtub.
Author
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Poirot arrives for dinner at the country estate of the imperious Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore to find his host in his study, shot dead. The room is locked, making it appear a suicide, but Poirot is skeptical. When the will is read, the savvy sleuths suspicions are heightened.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Six people reunite to remember beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a year before. The loving sister, the long-suffering husband, the devoted secretary, the lovers, the betrayed wife--none of them can forget Rosemary. But did one of them murder her? Previously titles Remembered Death.
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Language
English
Description
Elspeth McGillicuddy was not a woman usually given to hallucinations. But when she witnesses what appears to be a woman being strangled on a train and no-one else sees it, no-one reports it and no corpse is found she turns to her old friend Jane Marple to help solve the puzzle. Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent young acquaintance, Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the Crackenthorpe family, who seem to be at the heart of the mystery, and...
Author
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Manhattan Police Inspector Cramer asks for Wolfe?s help in solving the suspicious death of a law office clerk who has been fished out of the Hudson River. His probable homicide-causing offense? Submitting a manuscript for publication! With the manuscript missing and the only two to read it dead, the only clues are a cryptic quotation from the Bible and a list of names in the dead man?s pocket.
35) A right to die
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Language
English
Description
When Mr. Whipple objects to his son's fiancee, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin reluctantly agree to investigate her. However, she is soon found bludgeoned to death and young Duncan Whipple is arrested for the crime.
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Language
English
Description
Hilary Craven has been defeated by life. Her daughter has died, her husband has left her and she is convinced she has nothing left to live for. She has decided to leave England, and in an out-of-the-way spot in Morocco, end it all. A number of leading scientists have disappeared without a trace and concern is growing within the international community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman may hold the key to the mystery, but...
Author
Publisher
Audio Partners Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot investigates the relationship between a mysterious message not to eat any plum pudding and the disappearance of a valuable ruby ring. In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, Poirot must find out who murdered the man discovered in a chest after a prominent society member's dinner party. In his typically patient and inquisitive style, Poirot works toward solving these mysteries.
40) Striding folly
Author
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three perplexing puzzles, and three inimitable Wimsey solutions, told with wit, humor and suspense.