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In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...
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Meg Langslow, roped into being bridesmaid for three summer weddings, is doing an admirable job of helping plan the celebrations, even finding peacocks to strut around the garden during one ceremony, but Meg is thrown off her stride when the unpleasant former sister-in-law of her soon-to-be-stepfather is found dead.
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Inspector John Rebus, overseeing plans for the seating of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, is dismayed to find his job complicated by the discovery of a long-dead body in a fireplace at Queensbury House, the mysterious suicide of a homeless man, and the murder of an up-and-coming politician.
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Ever since the death of his father, poor Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to discover that she has left him a sizable inheritance. Confused, Fell teams up with Maggie, a plain girl with a similar background, to investigate the source of the riches. But what they find is a closet full of skeletons. Is it really possible Fell's father was involved...
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 17
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It's AD 76 during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco has achieved much in his life. He's joined the equestrian rank, allowing him to marry Helena Justina, the woman he's been keeping time with the past few years. But that doesn't mean all is quiet for Falco, Helena, and their two young daughters. By trade he is an informer, a man who looks into sticky situations, and he's been hired to pry his errant brother-in-law away from a murder...
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