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"A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...
2) Hot ice
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English
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Rich, gorgeous Whitney MacAllister likes fast cars, vintage movies, and dangerous men. But even this jaded, high-living Manhattan socialite is taken by surprise when a stranger in black leather hijacks her Mercedes--just before the bullets start flying. International jewel thief Douglas Lord is used to living life on the run--part of the lure of his chosen profession is the thrill of the chase. But he has one iron-clad rule: he always works alone....
3) Dirty thirty
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
4) Rififi
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Just out of prison, a master thief is persuaded to orchestrate the nearly impossible robbery of an upscale jewelry store.
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Eleanor Trewynn is a widow of some years living in Port Mabyn, a small fishing village in Cornwall, England. In her younger days, she traveled the exotic parts of the world with her husband. These days, she's retired and founded the local charity shop. Her niece, Megan Pencarrow, transferred nearby, and was recently promoted to the rank of detective sergeant. Perhaps the only downside is that she is now working for a DI who doesn't approve of women...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves...
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Publisher
Mint Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Kingston, a moving picture company comes to stay at the Myrtle Bank Hotel. Among these youg actors is the beautiful Marian Braeme, the target of poor Lawrence Beaman's affections and the widowed Lady Rosedale's motherly attention. One night, when the Lady's jewels go missing, suspicions are cast over Lawrnece and a mystery begins to unfold."--
8) Dogo
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Series
Publisher
Del Nuevo Extremo
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Dagoberto Juárez, the "Ginger," was the thief who robbed the most important jewelry store in Buenos Aires. He was convicted and imprisoned, but he never confessed where he hid the stolen jewelry, and took his secret to the grave. The loot of the legendary robbery becomes a "Maltese Falcon," an object of desire. With millimetric suspense and an impeccable narrative, the author traps the reader without giving them respite.
Dagoberto Juárez, el "Locho",...
9) Smash & Grab
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with $30 million in diamonds. They are captured - not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their astonishing...
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Making her way through a Victorian London season in spite of gossip about a self-proclaimed descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, as well as the audacious thefts of several valuable objects that once belonged to the historic queen, Lady Emily Ashton finds herself targeted by a would-be killer who has murdered a fellow socialite.
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"Fall 1889: Lady Rotherton has arrived from London intent on chaperoning her niece Prudence through a New York social season to find a suitable husband. It's certainly not her niece's devilishly handsome partner in Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law. Aunt Gillian's eye for eligible suitors is surpassed only by her ability to discern genuine gems from nearly flawless fakes. At the Assembly Ball at Delmonico's, she effortlessly determines that the...
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Series
Nonna Maria series volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nonna Maria sets out to clear her goddaughter's name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery"--
A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect-- a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes...
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Chinese-American PI Lydia Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades. In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dating back to World War II. The jewelry was immediately stolen by a Chinese official who fled to New York City. Hired by a lawyer specializing in the recovery of Holocaust assets, Chin and Pilarsky are to find any and all leads to the missing...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them. In...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Ming Tea Murder serves up heists, homicides, and herbal blends in the latest in the Tea Shop mysteries. Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Fine Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew of jewelers, museums, and private collectors will be there to showcase their wares and sip some of Theo's best blends. But just as Theo settles in to enjoy the...
16) The blue diamond
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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...
17) Traitors gate
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Series
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English
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"Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run like clockwork. But this year, everything is about to change....
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English
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"Rosalind Thorne may not have a grand fortune of her own, but she possesses virtues almost as prized by the haut ton: discretion, and a web of connections that enable her to discover just about anything about anyone...Mrs. Gerald Douglas, nee Bethany Hodgeson, presents Rosalind with a particularly delicate predicament. A valuable pearl necklace has gone missing, and Bethany's husband believes the thief is Nora, Bethany's disgraced sister...The intrigue...
Author
Series
Alvirah and Willy volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly"--
20) Law and odor
Author
Series
Dinomighty! volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Crime is bubbling up in Dinotown . . . and it stinks! In this hilarious graphic novel, the Dinomighties need to sniff out their smelliest mystery yet. Will their noses lead them to the culprit? Or will the odor of their enemies prevail?" --
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