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Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Orphaned Beka Cooper, 16, is a trainee-a "Puppy"-in the Provost's Guard. Having spent the first half of her life in Tortall's slums, she is driven by the need to do what is right and see justice done. Paired with two of the best Guards, or "Dogs," in the organization and aided by her own gifts of magic, Beka learns her job, makes friends with two mages and a thief, and uncovers two serial killers who prey on the poor and unnoticed.
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
THE HAUNTED HOTEL
H Is for Haunted . . . A ghost has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It’s almost Halloween, and
reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn’s only hotel.
Every day, more and more guests are being scared away. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must
figure out what’s going on and catch the ghost—before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town!
THE INVISIBLE ISLAND
I Is...
H Is for Haunted . . . A ghost has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It’s almost Halloween, and
reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn’s only hotel.
Every day, more and more guests are being scared away. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must
figure out what’s going on and catch the ghost—before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town!
THE INVISIBLE ISLAND
I Is...
25) Contraband
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best, running contraband, to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian, to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart with only hours to...
27) Paris Holiday
Pub. Date
2003
Description
An American travels to Paris to buy a new play, which is actually an expose of a French counterfitting ring. Together with a beautiful spy & a Frenchman he leads a chase through Paris.
28) Contraband
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best, running contraband, to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian, to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart with only hours to...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom of $200,000. The story shows how important this beloved President remained to public so unprepared for his violent death in 1865.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
An anonymous New York investor sets in motion a hostile railroad takeover financed by more than a million dollars in counterfeit bearer bonds issued by a rival railroad. The Texas & Pacific Railroad turns to the Pinkerton Agency to stop the fraud while victimized banks retain the Great Western Detective League to recover their losses. Ace operatives Briscoe Cane and Beau Longstreet, along with Pinkerton partner Reginald Kingsley and a seductively...
Author
Series
Border empire volume 2
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Gunslinger Wes Stone, along with his fellow warrior El Lobo, is called upon to expose a secret organization of criminals that is replacing freshly minted gold with conterfeit coins--leading him closer to the men who murdered his father, the legendary Nathan Stone.
Author
Series
Wicked Trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Most women will give him anything he wants. She is not most women. As a well-known barrister and the son of a duke, Ives confines his passionate impulses to discreet affairs with worldly mistresses. A twist of fate, however, has him looking for a new lover right when a fascinating woman shows up in his chambers, asking him to help save her father from the gallows. Unfortunately, he has already been asked to serve as the prosecutor in the case, but...
37) Comic relief
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Impressed by his first case, Principal Links asks fourth-grade detective Jon Gummyshoes to find out who is selling fake comic books to the students, but Jon is not going to like where his investigation leads him.
38) Murphy's law
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Murphy's plans for semi-retirement with Sally, his newfound love, are put on hold with one call from his boss, William Burke, special assistant to the president. Counterfeit money turning up in banks all across the west could threaten the American economy and stock market. Leaving Sally at his Washington home, Murphy sets out to pick up the trail of the counterfeiter. Chasing his quarry across unforgiving mountains and deserts, Murphy is at his deadliest...
Author
Series
Crime through time volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
On board the Continental Express, traveling from New York to San Francisco in 1906, fourteen-year-old amateur detective Fitz and a new friend, Justine Pinkerton, try to unravel a dangerous plot involving disguises, arsenic poisoning, and counterfeit money.
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