by Peabody Institute Library | Aug 1, 2011 | Mystery
Reviewed by Kim Brisbane to Julia: “We simply must do something about your penchant for blowing things up, my Lady.” Yes, The Dark Enquiry starts off with a bang. Literally as well as figuratively. Having been married now for fifteen months, Lady Julia and...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 28, 2011 | Mystery
Widely regarded as the Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie, according to publishing house HarperCollins, is the “most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare”. That may account for several things: the perennial...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 18, 2011 | Books to Movies, Mystery
The next film in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, won’t be released in theaters until this December. Who wants to wait that long to engage in some Sherlock and Watson good times? To tide you over, why not try one...
by Peabody Institute Library | May 19, 2011 | Cozy, Mystery
Publisher’s Summary: “After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing café, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly donated espresso machine. But matters really heat up when somebody is torching...
by Peabody Institute Library | Apr 4, 2011 | Fiction/Mystery, Mystery, Romance
After Lieutenant Eve Dallas suggests that her partner Detective Delia Peabody could use some practice on her footwork, Peabody decides to work out out in the NYPD’s old, rarely used gym as opposed to the new state of the art one which many of her well- toned...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jan 3, 2011 | Cozy, Mystery
Publisher’s summary: “During the local college’s annual Honor’s Day festivities, a graduate student is killed. When the English professor suspected of his murder also meets an untimely end, Tallulah Jones steps out from behind the counter of...
