Shanice Banton
1) Race
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English
Description
Jesse Owens's quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
2) Race
Language
English
Description
Jesse Owens's quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
When a construction company owner is shot dead at a barbershop, Murdoch suspects a professional assassin, despite the barber and the victim's father claiming the deceased was well liked. Meanwhile, an injured and bored Effie spies on her neighbors.
Author
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Murdoch and Ogden have been abducted, and now baby Susannah's life is at stake unless they can get the murder conviction of a socialite overturned. After ridding the station house of its corrupt leadership, Crabtree is appointed interim inspector.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Brackenreid's rowdy bachelor party for Constable Tucker takes a violent turn when a drunk patron is found dead in an oyster barrel. Making matters worse, Tucker had an altercation with the victim earlier in the evening.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
When a woman is stabbed in her university dorm room, Crabtree and Watts believe that a fellow student is responsible.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
After a man is bludgeoned aboard a ship, Murdoch learns the victim was a suspect in the recent theft of the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre. His inquiries lead him to other artistically inclined passengers, including one who spent time in a sanitorium.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
Ogden and Margaret attend a fortunetelling fair, where a raucous religious group denounces the psychic practitioners as demonic occultists. Later, when a body is found in an alley with the death tarot card, Murdoch is convinced there's a link.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 22
Language
English
Description
After a shooting lands Murdoch in a coma, he hears the team interrogate witnesses in song. As the musical accounts swoop and soar, the detective can't understand why everyone around him is singing instead of focusing on who shot him.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
Odgen's dream of a women's hospital is finally realized-and then promptly shattered, after a mysterious illness forces her to impose a quarantine right after the institution opens.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
Margaret attends a gospel revival meeting where a man renounces Satan and then promptly drops dead. Though Murdoch and Brackenreid think the preacher is a charlatan, he's only guilty of not having proper permits. But then they take a closer look.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
A dead body rolls out of Santa's toy sack at a department store Christmas parade. Stuffed into the man's mouth are $10 bills with "naughty" scrawled on them. The parade marshal blames the store's rival, but it appears the victim was quite a Scrooge.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
On a ladies' getaway in the woods, Ogden, Hart, Effie, and Louise Cherry encounter a troop of girl adventurers whose leader has been stabbed by a madman. In Toronto, Murdoch and Watts investigate a convict lured to his death by a fake love letter.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
A treasure hunter approaches Watts about a trove of Incan gold stolen by a distant relative of Watts, whose family heirloom holds the key to finding it. When the man turns up dead, Murdoch surmises that following his map will lead to his murderer.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Crabtree takes a train north to intercept his fugitive father, who is wanted for murder. But on the journey he discovers a murdered cop, and then he's nearly killed himself by a ruffian passenger before a mysterious man known as Forge saves him.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
Now appointed to the post of acting inspector, Murdoch oversees the case of a prominent medical scientist who may have faked his own death.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
When Ogden visits a country health retreat with Effie, she's skeptical yet intrigued by its alternative practices and charismatic leader. But after one of the longtime guests suddenly dies, the relaxing getaway turns into a murder mystery.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Ogden meets Hart at the stables to see her horse, Cool Million. The thoroughbred was one of the few assets Hart salvaged in her lawsuit with her late husband's family. But when another racehorse is found dead in his stall, Hart suspects foul play.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
After an up-and-coming young composer is killed by an ice pick to the ear, Murdoch suspects a rival musician may have silenced him. Murdoch and Crabtree surveil the attendees at the wake, where they are immersed in a series of musical reveries.
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Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
While sauntering through a street fair, the team are intrigued by a mechanical fortune-teller but warned that any requests they make on it will definitely come true. After Ogden wishes for fewer obligations, she gets more than she bargained for.