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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
A carnival turns dour after a man falls to his death beside a vaudeville impresario. As Murdoch and Crabtree investigate, they meet Charlie Chaplin, a cocksure Englishman, who says the victim was an insult comic who tussled the previous night with performer Ed Ward. Ward claims Chaplin's friend Stan Laurel was also miffed, but Murdoch begins to suspect the intended victim was actually Mr. Chaplin.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
After the suicide of disreputable woman, Murdoch suspects murder and nefarious dealings involving arranged marriages. In the shadow of the Virtue Ministry, two controversial courtships continue. Violet Hart finds Arthur Carmichael's public displays of affection unnerving, while Watts is unnerved by public reaction to his liaison with Jack.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
A dashing masked robber steals from banks and gives to the poor à la Robin Hood, but Toronto is no Sherwood Forest. Undaunted by the sensational reporting of Paddy Glynn or the detective's longing for soon-to-be-wed Dr. Ogden, Murdoch doggedly probes the crimes.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
While at a roller-skating outing, Julia and Rebecca discover a woman with a broken neck. At first, Murdoch assumes the death was an accident, but her daughter claims the victim was too good a skater to fall. Meanwhile, Rebecca enters a racing competition and Crabtree has relationship problems.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
When a corpse crashes through a theatre's ceiling and lands onstage in the midst of Macbeth, Murdoch and Brackenreid delve into the backstage intrigues of the city's leading Shakespearean acting troupe.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a night of drinking and carousing, a young man turns up stabbed to death, and his friend Winston Churchill is implicated in the crime. Murdoch accompanies Churchill as he attempts to recover his memory of the night's events and find the killer.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
After a musician is found murdered in an alley with an array of wounds, Watts tells Murdoch and Hart the crime was documented in a song he heard performed the previous night at Cassiopea Bright's nightclub. But when they speak to blues guitarist Huddie Lead Belly, who sang the telling lyrics and was a close friend of the victim, he claims they were inspired by a drunken reverie.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a visiting Parisian girl thrusts Murdoch into an odd partnership with French Detective Marcel Guillaume, a real-life inspiration for the fictional Inspector Maigret. Brackenreid, meanwhile, ponders a political career.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
Toronto or Transylvania? A dead body's dramatic blood loss shines light on a vampire craze among schoolgirls inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Murdoch tracks a fanged suspect, despite lurid stories by Toronto Gazette reporter Paddy Glynn and the incredulity of Inspector Brackenreid.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
When two boys discover a body in the woods near a nudist community, Murdoch must uncover the victim's relationship to the group with Crabtree's unorthodox help. Julia, meanwhile, learns that obtaining a divorce will be harder than she had anticipated.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
Dr. Grace recognizes a stabbing victim as the hostess of a party she had attended the night before. Emily goes undercover to infiltrate the dead woman's shoplifting ring, while Inspector Brackenreid's nephew makes his mark as the station's newest constable.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
At the scene of a grisly murder, Murdoch encounters horror author H.P. Lovecraft, who had been drawing the corpse. Lovecraft becomes enamored with Mrs. Brackenreid after he notices her reading Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
As Emily and Lillian prepare to set sail for England, a shocking corpse turns up on Emily's last day as city coroner. Murdoch takes over the case, which includes a missing private investigator, secret safety deposit box, and assumed identities.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
The gang is spending a snowy Christmas at the country estate of a recently deceased toymaker, where they set out to decorate and return joy to the eclectic, neglected property, which has been bequeathed to Ogden for an orphanage. Despite their best efforts at festivity, someone, or something, is watching them, intent on preventing them from having a happy holiday.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Comedian Bert Grady is shot to death in a dark alley after a killer performance. Although Grady was a hit onstage, he was hated by his fellow vaudevillians, leaving Murdoch with a cast of suspects-including a young W.C. Fields.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
A young secretary washes up on the lakeshore, drowned and with a head wound. Soon, another educated woman is murdered in the same manner. The detectives examine the connections between the victims, starting with a mysterious symbol found with their bodies.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Murdoch's investigation into the murder of a defense minister raises the hackles of the detective's rival, spy Terrence Meyers. Could the inquiry ignite war with the United States? The explosive revelations put Murdoch's technical wizardry to the test in a race for Civil War booty.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
When an anti-progress zealot straps a bomb to a factory owner, Murdoch risks his own life to diffuse it.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her exoneration, Ogden attends a dinner party at the warden's home, where she's surprised to see that her combative former brother-in-law is also a guest. Their frosty exchange turns heated when the warden is stabbed with a steak knife.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
When an inventor dies under mysterious circumstances, Murdoch comes across an old acquaintance, a battery-operated vehicle, and Henry Ford in the course of his investigation.
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