Eye Of The Crow
In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young outcast with a Jewish father and a highborn mother, visits the scene of a woman's brutal murder, where he meets a wrongly accused young Arab and becomes a suspect himself.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), murder [X], mystery and detective stories, holmes, sherlock (fictional character), homicide [X], london (england) [X], mystery fiction
Death In The Air
Young Sherlock Holmes, committed to solving crimes after his mother's death, is visiting his father at work when an aerialist, practicing a high-trapeze performance at the legendary Crystal Palace, falls to the ground, landing at Holmes' feet, and uttering two cryptic last words that send the boy on a dangerous search for answers.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), murder [X], mystery and detective stories, london (england) [X], holmes, sherlock (fictional character), homicide [X], mystery fiction
Pastworld
In 2050, while visiting Pastworld, a Victorian London theme park, teenaged Caleb meets seventeen-year-old Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no knowledge of the modern world, and both become pawns in a murderer's diabolical plan that reveals disturbing truths about the teenagers' origins.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: amusement parks, genetic engineering, murder [X], science fiction, london (england) [X], england, homicide [X]
The Traitor In The Tunnel
The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: sex role, orphans, murder [X], household employees, london (england) [X], great britain, historical fiction, murder investigation, detective and mystery fiction, quinn, mary (fictitious character), homicide [X], historical fiction, mystery fiction
The Italian Boy
Reconstructs the events surrounding the murder of a young boy in London in 1831 and investigates the trade in human corpses carried out by body snatchers who would rob graves or commit murder to supply medical colleges with fresh cadavers.
364.1
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.1
lexile:
Jack The Ripper
Examines the unsolved case of Jack the Ripper, a killer who mutilated and murdered prostitutes in London in the late 1880s, and discusses the ongoing debate over the identity of the serial murderer.
364.15
year: 2004
copies: 6
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: jack, serial murders, serial murderers, murder [X], serial killers, homicide [X], london (england) [X]
Death And The Arrow
After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], mystery and detective stories, historical fiction, homicide [X], mystery fiction, london (england) [X]
The Madness Underneath
Having become a human terminus--a human who can eliminate ghosts just with a touch--after her encounter with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has teamed up with the Shades, London's premiere, top-secret ghost-fighting squad.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: private schools, school stories, murder [X], ghost stories, london (england) [X], england, ghosts, supernatural, homicide [X]
Slammerkin
Mary Saunders, daughter of a poor seamstress and a father who died in jail, allows her desire for fine things to lead her into prostitution at a young age, and though she tries repeatedly to turn her life around, the lure of money and freedom proves difficult to resist.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: saunders, mary, women, women murderers, murder [X], homicide [X], great britain, london (england) [X], monmouth (wales)
Ripper
Sent to do volunteer work at the Whitechapel Hospital in the east end of London in 1888, seventeen-year-old Abbie discovers the identity of Jack the Ripper.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jack, homicide [X], mystery fiction, historical fiction, murder [X], mystery and detective stories, london (england) [X], great britain
The Body At The Tower
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: homicide [X], orphans, sex role, murder [X], great britain, london (england) [X], quinn, mary, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction
The Soprano's Last Song
Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Ars?ene Lupin--but Ars?ene's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: holmes, sherlock, adler, irene, characters in literature, sopranos (singers), kidnapping, murder [X], mystery and detective stories, great britain, london (england) [X], lupin, ars?ne (fictional character), adler, irene, holmes, sherlock (fictional character), singers, homicide [X]
Dear Killer
Rule One--Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. Kit looks like your average seventeen-year-old high school student, but she has a secret--she's London's notorious "Perfect Killer.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: letters, schools, interpersonal relations, murder [X], serial murderers, england, london (england) [X], homicide [X], school stories, serial killers
Wild Boy & The Black Terror
Wild Boy and Clarissa have solved mysteries with the help of their mentor Marcus--a member of a secret league of crime-solving gentlemen--but when he is poisoned, the former sideshow freak and acrobat must race to find the culprit and a cure.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], orphans, hypertrichosis, freak shows, england, london (england) [X], homicide [X]
Wild Boy
Snatched from the slums of Victorian London, a fur-covered boy lives in misery as a side-show freak at the mercy of a cruel and abusive showman, however, Wild Boy's furry exterior conceals a sharp mind--one he uses to solve a murder and build a better life.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660