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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Forever Amber	Kathleen Winsor	Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve …	OL100278W
Dead Air	Iain M. Banks	Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruit from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they …	OL100778W
The Apprentices (Apprentices #1-12)	Leon Garfield	*In the year 1764, a London newspaper reported the case of a Cheapside haberdasher’s apprentice who had embezzled ten thousand pounds of his master’s money. The apprentice had not gambled with this p…	OL10538188W
Little Meg's children	Hesba Stretton	When her mother dies leaving Little Meg to care for her two young brothers in nineteenth-century London, they spend their days asking for God's blessings and trying to find enough food to keep them a…	OL10586351W
Phineas Redux	Anthony Trollope	The Palliser Novels, book 4: Phineas Redux	OL109870W
The Eustace diamonds	Anthony Trollope	The Palliser Novels, book 3: The Eustace Diamonds	OL109873W
Perlman's ordeal	Brooks Hansen	Als een in Londen werkende Oostenrijkse arts in 1906 een patiënte met een persoonlijkheidsstoornis te behandelen krijgt, raakt hij met een spiritiste verwikkeld in een strijd om de geest van het kind.	OL112073W
The River Knows	Jayne Ann Krentz	A lady with a secret past.A man in search of a killer.They thought they had nothing in common-until their first kiss	OL112338W
Bodies in a Bookshop	Ruthven Campbell Todd	> Botanist Max Boyle visits "a curious little shop in a side-street off the Tottenham Court Road" in London and is delighted with the bibliophilic treasures he finds. He also stumbles across somethin…	OL1181704W
Hocus pocus	Paul Kieve	The greatest magicians in history step out of posters of themselves to teach a young Englishman, just starting his career, some of their secrets. Includes facts about the magicians, instructions for …	OL11876583W
The Piccadilly Murder	Anthony Berkeley	Stopping in at the Piccadilly Palace Hotel for a bit of afternoon refreshment, Mr. Ambrose Chitterwick witnesses a chilling scene: an elderly lady dies of poisoning in the midst of a crowded lounge. …	OL11944240W
One across, two down	Ruth Rendell	Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. Fo…	OL12093W
The killing doll	Ruth Rendell	An intense and disturbing novel from the UK's most loved crime writerThe winter before he was sixteen, Pup sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. For t…	OL12152W
Double trouble squared	Kathryn Lasky	July and Liberty Starbuck, twins, and their family are busy exploring the streets of London where their father has accepted a new job. A voice that only the twins can hear needs their help. In their …	OL121864W
Alexander's bridge	Willa Cather	Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. He had…	OL12781W
Hammer	Sara Stockbridge	"Grace Hammer lives a life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. She keeps a clean house and a tight ho…	OL13732978W
Farewell to the Island	Gloria Whelan	In 1816, sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit her in London and experiences much of the world beyond her beloved family farm on Mackinac Island.	OL14866611W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Patricia Krapesh	Retells in simple vocabulary the classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.	OL14869595W
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries (Victorian Mystery)	Emily Brightwell	Mrs. Jeffries Victorian Mystery series #1 Is there a detective in the house? She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon...and keeps him on his toes. Everyone is astonished by the inspector's Sco…	OL14874782W
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein	Peter Ackroyd	When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only…	OL14914924W