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  The Doings of Raffles Haw

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes, brings us the mysterious Raffles Haw. Robert McIntyre and his sister Laura have fallen on hard times. Their father has been driven into bankruptcy and near madness and alcoholism by commercial reverses and the death of his wife. The family has retreated to a house in the country, living on a small bequest from other relatives.    Changes come with the arrival of Raffles Haw, a new neighbor both exceedingly rich and exceedingly eccentric. His generosity is unquestioned. His motives are another matter. Is Raffles Haw the solution to their problems, or another source of them? Robert and Laura will find out.

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  Graveyard Shift - A Novella

  M. L. Rio

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  This program features multicast narration.The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.  A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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  Full Circle

  FJ Donohue

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  A severely wounded FBI agent reinvents himself as a private investigator. 
  When Alastair Stewart loses his wife and unborn child and is badly injured in an ambush in Miami, he moves back home to upstate New York to begin his life over. 
  He opens a private investigation agency. Along the way he rescues a dog, half-shepherd, half-husky thrown from a moving car. Sherlock becomes his faithful sidekick as he investigates an explosion in a local bluestone quarry. 
  Then a dying mother persuades him to take on a cold case the local police have been unable to close.  Her autistic son disappeared ten years ago. His investigation not only leads him to the boy, now a man, but also the drug and money laundering ring ultimately responsible for his wife and unborn child's death. 
  Read this first novel in the Endwell Investigations series to get reacquainted with characters from FJ Donohue's Upstate Mysteries and meet Alastair and Sherlock, an inseparable team.

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  The King of Clubs - A Hercule...

  Agatha Christie

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  Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has greatly distressed the Prince's fiancée, the famous dancer Valerie Saintclair. The only other witnesses seem to be a family of four who were playing bridge near an open window when she staggered in, crying ""Murder!""

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  Librivox Multilingual Short...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, fiction and non-fiction, chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. (Summary by Leni)

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  Night of Blood and Beauty - A...

  C. S. Johnson

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  Long before Amir taught Eleanora the harder truths of life, he learned them as he fell in love with her mother.  
  CONSTANTINOPLE, 1845 
   Amir Qureshi knew his life would never be the same the day he met Naděžda Ollerton-Cerná, much to his chagrin. With her sharp wit and brazen charm, Naděžda is as infuriating as she is irresistible, and Amir cannot stop himself from falling in love with her—even though they can never be together.  
  As an ally to the Order of the Crystal Daggers, under the command of Naděžda’s indomitable mother, Amir knows there is no place for love in the life of a spy.  
  When they are sent to Constantinople to investigate a missing shipment of weapons, Naděžda’s life is endangered, and Amir races to save her, knowing he cannot deny his heart any longer.  
  But Amir is not the only one who is keeping secrets ...  
  Night of Blood and Beauty is a companion novella to The Order of the Crystal Daggers, a historical spy romance series. 

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