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"Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover and degraded by his adoptive family, Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire, only to return wealthy, educated, and seeking retribution. Obsession, vengeance, and jealousy will pour from this tangle of lovers in Emily Bronte’s only published novel, a story of unrequited love."--
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When nude pictures of Chief Constable Jeremiah Riddle's teenage daughter turn up on a pornographic website, he turns to his rival, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to find the man who took the pictures.
3) Shirley
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Brontë's only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline who has few...
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English
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When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
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Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, injured in an explosion that has left his partner Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel near death, ignores the pleas of his wife and his friends in order to pursue the truth about the cause of the blast which leads him to a mysterious group guided by the philosophy of fighting terrorists with terrorism, and that is apparently funded by people in high places.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates an apparent suicide when a man found hanging from a tree is identified as Mark Hardcastle, the local amateur theater company's set and costume designer, and when Mark's lover is found beaten to death in his home, Annie calls in help from Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancee, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's...
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Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 20
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
557 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yorkshire Detective Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe has tried repeatedly to put ex-convict Franny Roote away again without success, and starts his pursuit once more when Roote, working a new scam as an academic, begins sending menacing letters to Pascoe connected to the Elizabethan revenge tragedy Roote purports to be studying.
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The mid-Yorkshire policemen find their impressions of village life changing when a policeman is reported missing in Enscombe.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter's Police Treatment Centre, ... DCI Banks is called in to investigate. ... It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. ... Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot ... is following up leads in Eastvale. Her investigations take her to the heart of a migrant labor scam ......
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prominent businessman Pal Maciver locked himself in his study and shot himself. It's an open-and-shut case, as far as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is concerned. Except...Maciver's father died in an almost identical manner ten years earlier, and "Fat Andy" was the investigating officer. Pal's strange and strained relationship with his beautiful, enigmatic stepmother, Kay Kafka, also raises warning flags. And the family's shady corporate dealings...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Yorkshire countryside, middle-aged accountant and financial consultant Keith Rothwell is murdered while his wife and daughter are forced to watch. Detective Inspector Alan Banks and his assistant, Constable Susan Gay, are the lead investigators on the case.
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andy Dalziel had decided he would not be able to solve the disappearance of three young girls, and after twelve years, he finally forgot about it, but now children are vanishing again and Andy knows that the two cases are connected.
16) Withering tights
Author
Series
Misadventures of Tallulah Casey volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her parents, Evangeline must succeed as a schoolteacher in a remote region of Northern England in order to claim her inheritance from her grandfather and be reunited with her younger sister, Lucy. When a local bricklayer, Dermot, offers his help, she finds herself falling in love with the Irishman"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes. On loan to a sister precinct, Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death. Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Banks has...
19) A pinch of snuff
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Collins [for] the Crime Club
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. What's playing at the Calliope Club may draw a furtive crowd, but as far as the CID's Andrew Dalziel can tell it's all perfectly legal. His partner, Peter Pascoe, begs to differ. From what he hears, an actress's violent ordeal on film looked all too real. When she turns up unharmed, it appears his suspicions were wrong . . . if Andrew...
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The past returns to haunt Chief Inspector Alan Banks in this harrowing novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.
There are human bones, buried in an open field, the remains of a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five-years ago...and scarred a guilt-ridden friend forever...A long-hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman into a past he could never truly...
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