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Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.
62) The missing heir
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London, use clues from their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook to help classmate Alice Banders, who goes missing following the announcement that she will be crowned queen of Borogovia after her thirteenth birthday.
63) The Tinderbox
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First world edition.
Description
Laurence Schofield's world was torn apart when his teenage daughter vanished. No trace was ever found. But six years later, a TV crew filming in London records a few seconds' footage of a girl who just could be her. Schofield heads for the capital. But this isn't the London of the tourist brochures: it's the Tinderbox, an area of dangerous dereliction where the homeless have created an alternative society with its own rules . . .
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look into the disappearance of her Communist sister Jessica in...
Author
Series
Lady Sherlock novels volume 6
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Charlotte Holmes comes face-to-face with her enemy when Moriarty turns to her in his hour of need in the USA Today bestselling series set in Victorian England. A most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes's doorstep: Moriarty himself. Moriarty fears that tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth. Charlotte and Mrs. Watson travel to a remote community of occult practitioners where Moriarty's daughter was...
Author
Series
Burn mark volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
In an alternate London, where witches are registered and allowed to practice, Lucas and Glory, young members of WICA (Witchkind Intelligence and Covert Affairs), are assigned to infiltrate the witch-terrorist organization called Endor but what Glory really wants is to solve the mystery of her missing mother.
Author
Publisher
Joffe Books
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Four lost friends. Four tasks to complete. One big mystery left. Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks. So for each of his four friends he decides to complete something that they left unfinished. Eighteen months before the crash, Suzanne Holland disappeared, leaving a room with traces of blood, but no other leads....
Author
Series
Oakwing volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Description
After Rowan is mysteriously transformed into a tiny fairy, she is thrust into a world of fairy clans and talking robins where, she discovers, her long-missing mother is also trapped.
69) Hunted
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First North American edition
Description
A breakout thriller from an "enthralling" (New York Times Book Review) and award-winning author : Can two parents find their lost children before disaster strikes? It's a week until the US presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter. In Florida, a mother makes a connection between her son and the bomber, fearing he has...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Many changes have happened to the Murder Squad. Rash actions have cost Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith his job, and in response he has set up his own private detective agency. Inspector Walter Day has been missing for a year, and no one knows where he is--though there is a strong suspicion that Saucy Jack has him. Hammersmith has made finding Day his primary case, and he has company--a pair of bounty hunters, a man and a woman. It is only gradually that...
72) Blood & sugar
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock - horribly tortured and branded with a slaver's mark. Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham - a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career - is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer, had been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause irreparable damage to the British slaving industry. He'd said people were...
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"After fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth--and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined"--
Author
Series
Sam Clair novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
"Normally sharp-witted, book editor Sam Clair stumbles through a post-launch-party morning with the hangover to end all hangovers. But before the Nurofen has even kicked in, she finds herself entangled in an elaborate saga of missing neighbors, suspected arson, and an odd, unidentified body"--
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Description
"When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English, their delightful children and their commitment to peace. Following a concert at Sherebury Cathedral, the Ahmads offer to host a party afterwards at the Rose and Crown pub. But Mr and Mrs Ahmad don't show up. Their children are asleep upstairs at the inn, but the parents are nowhere to be found. With suspicions of kidnap...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Description
It's 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to--the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no 7. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished...
Author
Series
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Description
Enola, hermana pequeña del famoso detective Sherlock Holmes, decide viajar hasta Londres dispuesta a encontrar alguna pista que la conduzca hasta su madre, desaparecida recientemente. Sin embargo, nadie puede prepararla para lo que la espera allí. Al pisar el asfalto de la ciudad, se verá envuelta en el secuestro de un joven marqués y deberá sortear a toda costa a sus inteligentes hermanos mayores, que pretenden llevarla a un internado. ¿Podrá...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 14
Publisher
HarperCollins, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Spring 1940. With Britons facing what has become known as "the Bore War", nothing much seems to have happened yet, Maisie Dobbs is asked to investigate the disappearance of a local lad, a young apprentice craftsman working on a "hush-hush" government contract. As Maisieś inquiry reveals a possible link to the London underworld, another mother is worried about a missing son, but this time the boy in question is one beloved by Maisie.
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