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Cynthia E. Hurst
Books in Order: 66 titles
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Oxford Snow
Why would a thief steal a china bowl, a letter opener and a handkerchief? And why have the objects then reappeared in unusual places? It's a Christmas mystery for Theo and Rose to solve in this Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries short story....
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Oxford Smoke
The Milestone Agency faces a new challenge when they are hired to pin down the source of rumors which are destroying a young playwright's reputation. Alexander Wilcox insists he did not shoot his wealthy uncle, and has no idea why anyone should...
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The Ash Cloud
Brian Connell was a photographer with a short attention span where wives were concerned; he went through three of them in five years. But that didn't mean he was guilty of murder, and it didn't stop him from dashing off to photograph an erupting volc...
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Oxford Violet
Asked to stop an elderly relative making a fool of himself by marrying a servant, Theo and Rose soon find the Milestone Agency involved in a case of murder where everyone seems to be hiding a secret. How genuine is Harold Wright's love for the young ...
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Return of a Rascal
No one expected good behavior from Marcus Alden, an artist who had always enjoyed shocking the residents of his home town. But to become involved in a murder almost as soon as he returned from a four-year absence was too much to tolerate, even for th...
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Oxford Aqua
On a rainy April day, an old school friend of Theo's comes seeking help from the Milestone Agency. Simon Cordell has found himself accidentally involved in a romantic triangle, an awkward situation that turns to tragedy when one of the parties is fou...
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Fit as a Fiddle
The Maximus Quartet of Oxford had been invited to provide an evening of cultural entertainment to the residents of a small Cotswold market town. It all went well until the interval, when the audience was shocked to learn that the second half of the p...
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The Sea Witch
Jessica Hughes never intended to be a detective. Private investigator Philip Burgess never expected to be shot while on his way to a concert. But with Philip hospitalized, Jessica agrees to step in and investigate a case where a suicide is looking mo...
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Last Seen in London
It was to be the society wedding of the season, but one crucial element was missing – the groom. The Honorable Thomas Stoddard was last seen on a rail platform in London, preparing to embark for Oxford, but he never arrived. Meanwhile, a labore...
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Oxford Jade
When Timothy Holt hailed a hansom cab in the center of Oxford, he had no idea it would be the last ride he ever took. Neither did Irene Appleby, who only learned of it when she was arrested for his murder. Hired to clear Irene's name, Milestone...
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Cream of the Crop
Humble farm worker Wilfred Hubbard just happened to die on the one day his death wouldn't be noticed. That was enough to raise the suspicions of the police in the Cotswold market town, but it was only the start. A thief, a charlatan and a runaway wif...
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Oxford Crimson
As Christmas approaches, Theo Stone and Rose Miles are house hunting, but the property they want to buy comes with some unexpected and unwelcome features. Holiday spirit is in short supply as the Milestone Agency duo discover the deadly secrets hidde...
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Ends of the Earth
Three visitors check into the best hotel in a Cotswold market town, coming from far flung destinations and with no obvious connection to each other. But only two of them will leave it alive. As the links between the trio begin to emerge, clock repair...
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Oxford Ivory
It seemed a simple job for the Milestone Investigative Agency – find an undergraduate who had failed to write home since arriving in Oxford. But nothing about student Felix Burton was quite as it first appeared, and Rose Miles and Theodore Ston...
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Out of the Ordinary
A tragic accident, murder or suicide? Amy Latimer's death was not an ordinary one, puzzling the police in her Cotswold town as they try to determine why a young woman from a wealthy family should have gone off into a forest to die. Nor was her will a...
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Oxford Brass
Truth can be stranger than fiction, as Rose Miles and Theo Stone discover when the success of Theo's first published novel leads the Milestone Investigative Agency into a case involving a packing crate with unusual contents, a runaway girl terrified ...
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Oxford Blue
Rose Miles was young, wealthy, recently widowed and bored out of her mind. Theodore Stone was trying to find a way to avoid joining the family business. When their paths crossed in dramatic fashion, it seemed logical for them to join forces -- and th...
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Grains in the Glass
The anonymous letter suggesting a respectable factory owner had broken his marriage vows was just the start. Then other letters began arriving, all hinting at misbehavior or worse, each accompanied by a drawing of a rapidly emptying hourglass.Those r...
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Heard on High
Alexandra Barton's Christmas is going to be different this year. She's accidentally traveled back in time to 1940, and the sound she hears is not church bells, but German warplanes over London. With bombs falling and a spy-hunting black marketeer as ...
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Proof of the Pudding
It was thoughtful of William and Imogen Pascoe to come to look after their Aunt Eleanor, an elderly widow in poor health. It didn't hurt that she also possessed a considerable fortune and her only son was three thousand miles away. But then things be...
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Diamond in the Dust
Having been implicated in several burglaries, the notorious Bishop brothers fled the Oxfordshire countryside to disappear into the streets of Victorian London. They might have remained more or less forgotten in their home town, but twenty years on, t...
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Zukie's Holidays
Holidays are never the same when Zukie Merlino is around. Totally tactless and seriously snoopy, Zukie celebrates her way through the year in this collection of holiday-related short stories. 'Zukie's Holidays' contains six new stories, plus 'Z...
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Otherwise Engaged
Finding a husband is the main occupation of many young ladies in 1803 Bath, and Alexandra Barton is no exception. But her situation is a little different. She is already engaged to someone, and he's waiting for her, more than 200 years in the future....
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There for the Taking
Collecting wild bird eggs seemed like a harmless enough hobby for a Victorian gentleman. But the discovery of some very rare eggs in a Cotswold woodland brings out the worst in two collectors who both want them, regardless of the price they mus...
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Because of the Bees
Businessman Hector Kirby had ambitious plans for a derelict piece of land along the River Windrush, but the current residents were determined to stop him. So was the person who had hidden something there that was never meant to be discovered. A...
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Sarah's Story
Hunger drove 13-year-old Sarah Simm to steal a valuable gold pocket watch. Kindness prompted Jacob Silver to offer her a job rather than see her jailed for the theft. Those two acts changed both their lives forever.'Sarah's Story' is a companion book...
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Letter of the Law
Alfred Sutton's past is catching up with him – in the form of the wife he thought he'd left behind twenty years earlier. But now she stands between him and the wealthy woman he wants to marry, and no one will emerge unscathed from this legal an...
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Spanish Sails
Spain threatens to invade England, and the people of Plymouth are understandably fearful. They watch for enemy sails on the horizon, and worry about spies and traitors in their midst. But one person in the city already knows how events will unfold, a...
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Sins of the Sisters
Three sisters in a quiet Cotswold town, each one hiding a secret. Three outwardly unconnected deaths. And one person silently manipulating events, as each death brings them a step closer to a potential fortune. It isn't until clock repairer Jacob Sil...
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Nothing But Her Name
Clock repairer Jacob Silver usually prefers to stand on the sidelines of life, but he gets more action than expected when he agrees to replace a missing player at a village fete 'Aunt Sally' competition. Play comes to an unexpected end when a body is...
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Spirit of the Season
In a season of peace and goodwill, it was shocking for residents of the Cotswold town to learn a stranger had been murdered in their midst. It was even more shocking that he died on the doorstep of the town's police inspector's home as he was enterta...
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Bolt from the Blue
Luke Alden had everything to live for – a good job, a loving wife and a child on the way – until the events of one stormy night destroyed it all. Some people said it was an act of God, but police in the Cotswold market town suspect it was...
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Pound to a Penny
Gideon Young was a fast-talking con man who could convince gullible people to gamble on almost anything. But even Young wouldn't have bet on being outwitted by a clock repairer and a thief turned housemaid, as his plans to fleece the residents of a C...
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Zukie's Thief
The police are chasing a ring of art thieves. The thieves are chasing Zukie Merlino's cousin Lou, who's accidentally interrupted a handover of stolen goods. And Zukie? She's causing chaos as only she can, in between baking lemon meringue pies, thw...
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Ghost on the Green
Strange things are said to happen on Twelfth Night, although few as strange as the ghost of a man believed drowned years earlier appearing in the midst of the town's celebration, vowing revenge on his killers. The sighting might have been blamed o...
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Stitched Up In Style
French dressmaker Lucille DuBois brought a touch of glamour to the provincial Cotswold market town - at least until a corpse was discovered in her elegant establishment. Now she insists she's being framed for murder, but the townspeople are saying...
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Writing on the Wall
James Leatheran was found dead at his writing desk with a pen embedded in his throat, an ironic death for a man whose acerbic newspaper column had made him so many enemies. Among the targets of his venom were a wealthy banker, a respected police i...
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Forged in the Fire
Jacob Silver's wrought iron garden gate disappears, and two lovers vanish into the night with a stolen horse and cart. There appears to be no connection between the events, until the gate reappears, along with a corpse and a terrified girl....
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Tools of the Trade
He's considered a heretic. She's a 13-year-old thief. Jacob Silver and Sarah Simm are mistrusted by the residents of their Cotswold market town even before the suspicious death of wealthy factory owner Thomas Martyn -- a man with the power to des...
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Zukie's Ghost
Twenty years ago, Gus Novak committed a crime and fled the country, only to die in the Mexican desert. But Zukie Merlino thinks she's just seen him on a downtown Seattle street, and being perpetually curious, she wants to know what he - or his gho...
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Zukie's Trail
Most people would jump at the chance of a free, relaxing vacation on a picturesque island, but not Zukie Merlino, to whom 'rest' is a four-letter word. Her outlook improves, however, when there's a death at the rustic inn where...
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Zukie's Promise
Zukie Merlino's daughter Carol is (finally) getting married, and Zukie has been told in no uncertain terms that her role at the wedding is to show up, shut up and keep smiling. That's hard enough, but when a body turns up at the...
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Zukie's Evidence
A young woman falls to her death in a crowded shopping mall during the Black Friday sales frenzy. Her family think it must have been a tragic accident. The police suspect it was suicide. But Zukie Merlino thinks Mimi Carr was mu...
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Zukie's Gift
All sorts of things had been donated for St Augustine's Christmas bazaar - books, second-hand clothes, cookies, murder weapons.'Zukie's Gift' is a Zukie Merlino Mysteries short story for the holiday season....
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Zukie's Alibi
Zukie Merlino finds it hard to settle back into her daily routine after the trip of a lifetime, so she's pleased to receive an invitation to her high school reunion. Not only will it break the boredom, but also give her the chan...
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Zukie's Detective
A chance to win $10,000 by writing a fast food slogan seems like a no-brainer to Zukie Merlino, but things go disastrously wrong when one of her co-competitors is murdered at the hotel where they're all staying for the final...
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Four by Five
The five staff members of R&P Laboratories have a bad habit of getting involved in criminal investigations when they should be pursuing scientific activities. In these four stories, they tackle mysteries involving a possibly poisoned pie, an unusual ...
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Zukie's Suspect
Everybody liked good-natured Jimmy Battista, so when he died of a heart attack, no one suspected foul play. No one, that is, except his elderly sister-in-law, who confided her suspicions to her niece Zukie. Being seriously snoopy and a magnet for...
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Zukie's Witness
Teenager Austin Barrett made a big mistake when he tried to mug Zukie Merlino, but now he's on the run after witnessing a murder and he needs her help. And why not? Whether it's helping her friends at the delicatessen to corner...
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Zukie's Burglar
Having lost both her husband and her job, Zukie Merlino has time on her hands and a mystery to solve. Night after night, someone is searching the empty house next door, whose elderly owner died following an unusually explosive F...
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Dreamwheel
When Gabriel Webb volunteered for a sleep lab experiment, he didn't expect to find himself pursued by the Grim Reaper on a racing bike. And when, on a cold October morning, Rob Mangan offered a cup of hot coffee to a shivering stranger in R&P Labs'...
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Childproof
Things are not going well at R&P Laboratories. Not only is there a body in the biology lab and a staff member suspected of murder, but someone has broken in and wrecked their most important piece of equipment -- the coffeemaker. This is one case t...
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Shellshock
It's the season of peace on earth and good will to men, except at R&P Labs, which has suddenly found itself in the middle of a feud between two Seattle seafood restaurants. A customer has died from an unusual form of food poisoning found in oysters, ...
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Sweetwater
Back in the swinging '60s, Virginia McClain and Neil Brewer were lovers. Four decades on, Neil is recovering from a heart attack and his thoughts return to Virginia, now the senior bacteriologist at Seattle's R&P Labs. He suggests a romantic reunion,...
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Boneflower
A bachelor party camping trip takes an unexpected turn when the participants discover they are sharing their mountain campsite with a skeleton -- a biologist who was murdered three decades earlier. Glen Russell had been on the trail of some extreme...
