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Murdoch Mysteries volume 17
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English
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When an anti-progress zealot straps a bomb to a factory owner, Murdoch risks his own life to diffuse it.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 20
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English
Description
On the eve of her exoneration, Ogden attends a dinner party at the warden's home, where she's surprised to see that her combative former brother-in-law is also a guest. Their frosty exchange turns heated when the warden is stabbed with a steak knife.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
The disappearance of a visiting Parisian girl thrusts Murdoch into an odd partnership with French Detective Marcel Guillaume, a real-life inspiration for the fictional Inspector Maigret. Brackenreid, meanwhile, ponders a political career.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 1
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English
Description
A carnival turns dour after a man falls to his death beside a vaudeville impresario. As Murdoch and Crabtree investigate, they meet Charlie Chaplin, a cocksure Englishman, who says the victim was an insult comic who tussled the previous night with performer Ed Ward. Ward claims Chaplin's friend Stan Laurel was also miffed, but Murdoch begins to suspect the intended victim was actually Mr. Chaplin.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 2
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English
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After a night of drinking and carousing, a young man turns up stabbed to death, and his friend Winston Churchill is implicated in the crime. Murdoch accompanies Churchill as he attempts to recover his memory of the night's events and find the killer.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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English
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When a corpse crashes through a theatre's ceiling and lands onstage in the midst of Macbeth, Murdoch and Brackenreid delve into the backstage intrigues of the city's leading Shakespearean acting troupe.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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English
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After a woman's severed body is found on the railway tracks, Murdoch and Hart discern she was killed elsewhere. Nearby, Murdoch discovers a reformatory for wayward women. The warden claims the victim was an ideal inmate, but the other women there treat Murdoch with evasiveness or outright hostility. With his investigation stalled, he needs someone inside, and Ogden seems perfect for the job.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 11
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English
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The gang is spending a snowy Christmas at the country estate of a recently deceased toymaker, where they set out to decorate and return joy to the eclectic, neglected property, which has been bequeathed to Ogden for an orphanage. Despite their best efforts at festivity, someone, or something, is watching them, intent on preventing them from having a happy holiday.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 6
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English
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When an inventor dies under mysterious circumstances, Murdoch comes across an old acquaintance, a battery-operated vehicle, and Henry Ford in the course of his investigation.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
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English
Description
Murdoch's investigation into the murder of a defense minister raises the hackles of the detective's rival, spy Terrence Meyers. Could the inquiry ignite war with the United States? The explosive revelations put Murdoch's technical wizardry to the test in a race for Civil War booty.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
When Crabtree and Special Constable Parker break up a party for gay men, the owner of the house, an avid philatelist, is found murdered. Is the killer a jilted lover or a jealous fellow stamp collector?
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 9
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English
Description
When a young woman is rushed to the hospital after falling from a balcony, Julia must make a difficult decision. As Murdoch investigates whether or not the victim was pushed, Crabtree and Watts look into a possible theft.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
When Terrence Meyers is charged with the attempted assassination of the prime minister, Murdoch, Julia, and Brackenreid are called to give evidence at a tribunal. The case against Meyers is compelling, but Murdoch believes he is innocent and races to prove it.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 21
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English
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After a musician is found murdered in an alley with an array of wounds, Watts tells Murdoch and Hart the crime was documented in a song he heard performed the previous night at Cassiopea Bright's nightclub. But when they speak to blues guitarist Huddie Lead Belly, who sang the telling lyrics and was a close friend of the victim, he claims they were inspired by a drunken reverie.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 15
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English
Description
After the perpetrators of an anti-Semitic riot are taken to the station, the owner of Toronto's first Yiddish theatre dies onstage from a stab wound. Murdoch interviews the performers while John becomes enamored with a vaudeville singer.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
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English
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The macabre discovery of nude statues made from the bodies of murdered women leads Murdoch to suspect a sequential killer who knew the victims. The bodies had been coated in copper, pointing Murdoch and Brackenreid to an electroplating company in Toronto.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 9
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English
Description
Detective Murdoch accompanies convicted murderer James Gillies to his hanging.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 12
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English
Description
Brackenreid attends a traditional English hunt with a wealthy friend, but the dogs find a dead body instead of a fox. While Murdoch looks into a group of animal rights activists, Julia worries about their neighbor, who is acting strangely.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
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English
Description
When a man is electrocuted to death by his own invention, the investigation takes Murdoch to a spurious science emporium and an old acquaintance, Mr. Thomas Edison.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
The great science-fiction writer H.G. Wells makes an appearance as the guest of honor at a secret meeting of the Toronto Society for the Advancement of Eugenics. Murdoch has been invited by the lovely Sally Pendrick, who seems determined to enlist him in the movement.