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Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"1930. Frances Black is worried - divorce proceedings are under way and her solicitor has learnt of a spiteful letter sent to the court claiming that there is more to her friendship with her sleuthing partner, Tom Dod, than meets the eye. Fran takes Tom's advice to get away, travelling down to Devon to help the Edgertons with their family mystery. After meeting the charismatic Eddie Edgerton and arriving at their residence, Sunnyside House, Fran soon...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she's desperate for a break-that's...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the summer of 1925, along Washington, DC's "Black Broadway", a malevolent entity has begun preying on Negro residents. Twenty-three-year-old Clara Johnson is determined to discover what's going on in her community. Using her natural ability to talk with spirits, she begins to investigate, but a powerful spirit tasks her with a difficult quest: steal an ancient, magical ring from the finger of a wealthy socialite. When Clara meets Israel Lee, a...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Victor Cale never imagined that his sweet, shy bride, Isabella, would use her talent for creating exquisite imitation jewels in a criminal way. But there's no denying that Isa's handiwork was used in the brazen heist of the Dutch royal family's diamonds after she disappeared into the night. Ten years later, still reeling from her betrayal and enraged that her duplicitous side was so undetectable, Victor is sent to Edinburgh to investigate a wealthy...
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English
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"When the daughter of a well-respected family is being poisoned, Rosalind Thorn and Bow Street officer Adam Harkness work together to solve this dangerous case that is rife with politics, jealousy, jewel thieves--and a romance between them that would be frowned upon by society"--
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"A cache of diamonds is stolen in Phoenix. The prime suspect is former Maricopa County sheriff Mike Peralta, now a private investigator. Disappearing into Arizona's mountainous high country, Peralta leaves his business partner and longtime friend David Mapstone with a stark choice: he can cooperate with the FBI, or strike out on his own to find Peralta and what really happened."--
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Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Sheikh Haroun al Muntazir was honor-bound to recover a priceless family jewel... but what was lovely operative Mariel de Vouvray's mission? Until her motives were made plain, he had to keep her close-yet at a distance. But with one stolen kiss Haroun's resistance turned to air. Was Mariel's melting surrender a trap of ultimate danger... or a precious haven offered by his future beloved wife?
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English
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"Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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The author of the Looking for Trouble travel book series, Poke Rafferty is ready to settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let him go; it's back in Poke's life with a vengeance, in the guise of his long-estranged father, Frank, the last person he ever wanted to see again. And Frank hasn't come empty-handed, arriving with a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers,...
51) The moonstone
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English
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"Rachel Verinder finds herself inheriting a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday as a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond, associated with the Hindu moon god, is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and there are whispers of a curse placed upon it. Sure enough, the stone is stolen from Rachel's bedroom later that night. and a period of turmoil, unhappiness,...
52) King of thieves
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on the infamous true events." --
Special features: King of thieves: A bloody good idea.
53) The blue diamond
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English
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"The fate of the allied forces lies in the hands of Joanna and the Watsons in the next Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery from USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg. During a critical stage in World War One, the Governor-General of South Africa journeys to London for a meeting of The Imperial War Conference. Days prior to the conference, the Governor-General is scheduled to have an audience at Buckingham Palace at which time a most precious...
54) West 47th
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
PI Mitch Laughton is hired by an insurance company to find $6 million worth of jewelry, stolen from Iranians. The probe takes him into New York's low and high societies, his wife being a rich and well-connected woman. She is a blind guitarist. Surprise comes when the loot turns out to contain unreported items. By the author of 18mm Blues.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this exciting adventure, Kangaroo Jack is kidnapped and his friends chase after the poachers to try and rescue him. While trying to save Kangaroo Jack, the group stumbles upon a jewel heist and now the FBI thinks that they are the crooks!
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Series
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E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
Several men find themselves stranded by a flooding river on Bleeker's Island. The jewels known as Cleopatra's Tears are missing, and one of the men is believed to be Actor Hart, notorious killer and thief - maybe even the one who stole the jewels. Can the sheriff figure out which one is Hart - and make sure he's the one without a life jacket when the dam upriver gives way?
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The cynical Colonel Jack Durant and the dazzlingly beautiful Lieutenant Kathleen Nash uncover the crown jewels of Germany: more diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and pearls than are gathered in any one place outside the Tower of London. Nash and Durant manage to get the gems to New York, where they must deal with gangsters to fence the loot. To make matters worse for the two renegade officers, Princess Sophie discovers the theft of her jewels...
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English
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"A young lady accused of theft and the gentleman who elects himself her champion enlist the aid of Stokes, Barnaby, Penelope, and friends in pursuing justice, only for the investigators to find themselves tangled in a web of inter-family tensions and secrets. When Miss Cara Di Abaccio is accused of stealing the Carisbrook emeralds by the infamously arrogant Lady Carisbrook and marched out of her guardian's house by Scotland Yard's finest, Barnaby...
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Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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A knotty investigation begins with a late-night summons that takes Holmes and Dr. Watson from the cozy Victorian comforts of 221-B Baker Street. Aboard the Orient Express they travel the breadth of fin-de-siecle Europe to exotic Constantinople. But danger' afoot, for death, too, is traveling first class.
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