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Mimi Rutherfurt und ihre Freundin Mary wollen in Newcastle ein schönes Wochenende verbringen. Newcastle erreichen sie aber nicht, da sie vorher auf eine Leiche stoßen, die mehr als nur ein Rätsel aufgibt. Warum schweigen die Menschen, obwohl sie das Opfer kannten? Vor wem hat das Dorf Angst? Als Mimi hinter das Geheimnis zu kommen droht, bekommt auch sie es mit der Angst zu tun.

Ein hochrangiges Mitglied der gehobenen Gesellschaft wird auf seinem Landsitz tot aufgefunden. Schnell ist klar: Der Lord wurde ermordet. Der Fall erfordert besonderes Fingerspitzengefühl und so bittet ein alter Freund Mimi um ihre Mithilfe. Doch auch für die rüstige Hobbydetektivin wird dieser Fall eine Herausforderung! Der Lord war zu Lebzeiten kein angenehmer Zeitgenosse und die Liste seiner Feinde ist lang!

Mimi Rutherfurts Nachbar ist tot. Die Polizei kommt schnell auf einen Selbstmord. Doch Mimi hat Zweifel, dass der Mann, der zurückgezogen gelebt hat, freiwillig aus dem Leben geschieden ist. Sie nimmt sich der Sache selbst an und stößt damit bei Inspector Brewster auf wenig Gegenliebe. Aber Brewster merkt auch bald, dass der Tod von Mr. Crawford doch vielleicht geheimnisvoller ist, als er zunächst zugeben wollte. Doch ein Mord? Zudem ist er auf die Hilfe von Mimi Rutherfurt angewiesen.

Mimi Rutherfurt erhält unerwarteten Besuch einer verzweifelten älteren Dame. Lady Cynthia Craven glaubt ihren Verstand zu verlieren. Seit einigen Tagen scheint es auf dem Landsitz der Familie zu spuken. Warum jedoch scheint dies nur die Hausherrin zu bemerken? Versucht jemand die Dame des Hauses in den Wahnsinn zu treiben oder wird ihr Heim tatsächlich von Geistern heimgesucht? Mimi zögert nicht lang und bietet ihre Hilfe an.

Are you ready to choose the name of your baby? While other books have more on each name, this book lists many names to go through to decide the name of your child. Have fun with your significant other or on your own going through the list. Hopefully you will find the name of your next baby. This book includes over 6,000 names and is separated into boys' and girls' names and is in alphabetical order. Good luck in the search for the name of your next child.

A luminous space is restorative and nurturing. It's a place that inspires you, helps you achieve your goals, and ignites your personal power. This book will teach you how to create luminous spaces using the wisdom of the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. These natural elements will give you a stronger, deeper connection to nature and promote more joy and peace in your life.

Arianne Casterton is devastated when her father and his new wife are killed in a train accident. Despite her faith in God, Arianne's grief soon turns to despair when she discovers one-third of everything her father owned has been transferred automatically to his wife's son and heir, Jonas Prestwich - someone Arianne never knew existed. Jonas's mother married a backwoods papermaker much too soon after becoming a widow, embarrassing Jonas who lives among Philadelphia's elite.

Of all the places to visit in Manhattan, the southern tip of the island is the most historic. BrightPath Tours welcomes you to our tour of Lower Manhattan! Here you'll find the city's oldest chapel—and its first skyscrapers. Here you'll see the street that began as a barrier, extending from river to river. Today that street is known as Wall Street. Our main tour route is the old trading path that wended its way from the very bottom to the very top of Manhattan Island.

It's January 1955, and for the residents of Meadow Lane, a small community of seven terraced houses, each household has its own story.... When Sadie returns to Meadow Lane from Canada with her son and no husband, she throws the small community into turmoil. She tries to rekindle an old flame, despite him now being married with two children. Then Sadie's son, unhappy with his mother, runs away, desperate to get back to Canada to be with his father. Depressed by how life is turning out, Sadie starts drinking, with tragic consequences for those in Meadow Lane....

Best friends Francie and June thought attending a three-day acting seminar at Devil's Island Luxury Resort and Amusement Park would provide the perfect opportunity to indulge in some relaxation and entertaining girl time, but stumbling over a dead body throws a wrench into their holiday agenda. Glamorous women, gorgeous men, and unlimited access to free food, drinks, and the resort's world-renowned spa do little to distract the unwitting sleuths from their mission to uncover a murderer.

Sherlock Holmes ist ein Mensch, den nur sehr wenige Dinge aus der Bahn werfen können. Doch genau dies geschieht, als er aus der Zeitung vom Tod seines treuen Freundes Dr. Watson erfahren muss. Doch dann geschieht das Wunder - Dr. Watson erfreut sich bester Gesundheit, es wurde ein Mann des gleichen Namens ermordet. Handelt es sich um reinen Zufall, oder steckt doch mehr hinter dieser Angelegenheit? Holmes nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und sieht sich mit einem der tödlichsten Fälle seiner bisherigen Karriere konfrontiert.

The Bible often tells us who, what, and where but rarely why. There are so many questions in this romance-gone-wrong story of King David and his wife Michal. This story provides answers.

When a couple renovate a beautiful 17th-century house in the Cotswolds, they discover the ghosts of the Civil War are still in residence. As Guy and Ruth delve into the property's history, uncovering both joy and sorrow, the house finally relinquishes its secrets, revealing how closely the family from the past is intertwined with the present-day owners. Why do they seem so familiar? Have they perhaps met before?

The Colonial Williamsburg you are visiting is literally a window to the past where we can see in detail the thriving town that served as the capital of Virginia for 80 years. In part one we begin our tour at one of the famous taverns that served the men we know today as our Founding Fathers. Along our tour route, we'll see shops that still provide colonial-era goods. We'll also visit some of the public buildings where the innocent and guilty had their days in court—and where Blackbeard's pirates were jailed!

In part two of our tour of Colonial Williamsburg, we step back in time once again to get a closer look at the picturesque town and the fascinating residents who lived and worked here. On this tour we leave the elegant mansions behind and visit with the merchants, the tradesmen, and the artisans who created the everyday fabric of this historic community. We're starting at one of the earliest churches in Virginia, Bruton Parish Church.

A grisly discovery in the woods of Redimere, Maine, resurrects Police Chief Pete Novotny's old case of a missing boy - just one of the ghosts that haunts the town in the second of the Bernie O'Dea mystery series.

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history. Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking...

Driftwood House, neglected and desolate on the edge of Dartmoor, is love at first sight for Simone. Persuading her husband to buy it is only the beginning of her battle as the dark secret hidden within its walls comes to light. Can they restore happiness and harmony to the old house? What is the ghostly presence trying to tell them?

A Bride for the Boss This rich rancher needs his assistant for business and pleasure! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child Andi Beaumont has a dilemma: she's wedded to her job, when she really wants to wed her boss, Mac McCallum. The only solution: quit and save herself from...

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between...