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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cat in a golden garland	Carole Nelson Douglas	That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there's more than merriment …	OL103227W
Remember When	Nora Roberts,ROBERTS N.	Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what eve…	OL111472W
Hot Ice	Nora Roberts	Kurzbeschreibung Verborgene Gefühle (Hot Ice) - Nora Roberts Auf seiner wilden Jagd durch Manhattan landet der smarte Meisterdieb Douglas Lord im Mercedes einer attraktiven jungen Dame, die ni…	OL111484W
The "Canary" Murder Case	S. S. Van Dine	The Canary Murder Case is a classic whodunit mystery novel which deals with the murder of a sexy nightclub singer, with Philo Vance as an investigator. The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway…	OL11158827W
Be Cool	Elmore Leonard	After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loan-shark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer is desperate for another hit... of the celluloid sort. When a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a …	OL111640W
The third deadly sin	Lawrence Sanders	Edward X. "Iron Balls" Delaney is called out of retirement by the NYPD to hunt out a random killer at large in midtown New York.	OL115515W
The ballad of West Tenth Street	Marjorie Kernan	Once upon a time in Manhattan...there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty…	OL11921988W
Angels on Toast	Dawn Powell	Written between the 1930s and the 1950s, the novels of Dawn Powell evoke a time when an artist manqué could come to New York with no money and improvise a life there within days; an era when even t…	OL11950W
The Professors' Wives' Club	Joanne Rendell	Nestled among Manhattan University's faculty housing, there is a garden where four women will meet each with a scandalous secret that could upset their lives, destroy their families, and rock the pre…	OL12035494W
Mona Lisa awakening	Sunny	From the time she was an orphan child, Mona Lisa knew she was different—but she never knew how different until a man of otherworldly beauty arrived during her night shift in the ER. Gryphon is hurtin…	OL12256656W
Every past thing	Pamela Thompson	In 1899, the streets of New York were as unsettled as the heart and mind of Mary Jane Elmer. The ideas of the transcendentalists were still in the air, and thoughts of a second revolution were rising…	OL12284500W
Silent Night	Mary Higgins Clark	When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boy…	OL13064W
While my pretty one sleeps	Mary Higgins Clark	Après "La Nuit du renard", "La Clinique du docteur H", "Un cri dans la nuit", ce nouveau thriller de Mary Higgins Clark nous plonge dans le milieu new-yorkais de la mode. Ethel Lambston, écrivain …	OL13069W
Luke on the loose	Harry Bliss	A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.	OL13609029W
The walking people	Mary Beth Keane	Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that i…	OL13691676W
Five of a Kind	Rex Stout	Includes the novels "The Rubber Band," "In The Best Families," and Three Doors to Death (short story collection: "Man Alive," "Omit Flowers," and "Door to Death").	OL137462W
Triple Jeopardy	Rex Stout	Home To Roost – a young man with public and pronounced left-wing leanings is murdered. Was he a Communist, a double agent, or neither? The FBI and the NYPD are not happy when his family hires Nero …	OL137470W
Gambit	Rex Stout	From the audio case: "In this confounding whodunit, Wolfe breaks almost all of his rules. First, he overcomes his aversion to females and agrees to help young Sally Blount clear her father of murde…	OL137499W
Under the Andes	Rex Stout	A non-Nero Wolfe novel, rather Wierd Science and pulp magazine-ish. From Goodreads: "Under the Andes is an early novel by Rex Stout, first published in the All-Story Magazine in 1914. Temptress Desi…	OL137507W
Champagne for One	Rex Stout	Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Arc…	OL137511W