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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries
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2012 | Hoopla | Severn House Publishers | 1 online resource (224 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend finds himself in a backwater village investigating a murder in this taut police procedural. 1950s Cheshire, England. When the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is pulled in from London to investigate. An outspoken Northerner, he does his policing the old-fashioned way, and he is convinced that Margie Poole, Diane's best friend,...
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1 of 1 | MCPLD Central Fiction | Mystery SPENCER Sally |
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1999 | Severn House | 218 pages ; 23 cm | Available from another library
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2012 | Hoopla | Severn House Publishers | 1 online resource (224 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend and his loyal sergeant tackle a murder with as many suspects as there are clues in this tight puzzler. Swann's Lake, 1960. When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Chief Inspector Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate. Why was Robbie's office broken into twice on the day of his funeral? What...
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2012 | Hoopla | Severn House Publishers | 1 online resource (224 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend enters the smoky dens of Liverpool to stop a killer stuck in a deadly groove. Liverpool, 1960s. When Eddie Barnes, lead guitarist of the rising group The Seagulls is electrocuted on stage at the Cellar Club in front of three hundred adoring fans, the Liverpool Police call in Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend. But Woodend doesn't understand why Eddie's mother says that Eddie had a girlfriend, while...
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1 of 1 | MCPLD Central Fiction | Mystery SPENCER Sally |
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2001 | 1st world ed | Severn House | 186 pages ; 23 cm. | Available from another library
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2012 | Hoopla | Severn House Publishers | 1 online resource (320 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend will have to rely on his observational gifts to have a ghost of chance in solving his latest murder case. The night after the mysterious appearance of the legendary Dark Lady on the road outside Westbury Park, a German efficiency expert, Gerhard Schultz, is found battered to death in the woods and Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is faced with his most puzzling case yet. Why did Schultz seem so frightened when on...
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2012 | Hoopla | Severn House Publishers | 1 online resource (248 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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When a bobby's killed in Blackpool, Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend takes a ride through England's wild side to get to the bottom of a mystery. The investigation into the brutal murder of a Blackpool policeman during holiday season was never going to be easy, but the case is not Chief Inspector Woodend's only problem. His new boss, DS Ainsworth, is just waiting for an opportunity to stick a knife in his back; and his invaluable assistant, Bob...
6) Dead on Cue
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2012 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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With the newspapers screaming for a quick solution, this is a case no one wants to touch -- so naturally it is Chief Inspector Woodend who finds himself left holding the baby. With his usual panache, Cloggin'-it Charlie quickly immerses himself of the world of television, meeting people he has previously only seen as characters on the screen, learning that while there may be honour among thieves there does not seem to be much on the set of Maddox...
7) Red Herring
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2012 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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The discovery of the body of a young, red-haired school mistress, lying in a pig-pen with her face half-eaten away, is the beginning of a new investigation for Charlie Woodend. But it is to be an investigation he is soon ordered to abandon when Helen Dunn, the daughter of Wing Commander Dunn - and a pupil at the school where the dead woman taught - suddenly vanishes into thin air. While Woodend and Rutter race against time in the desperate hope of...
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1 of 1 | MCPLD Central Fiction | Mystery SPENCER Sally |
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2003 | Severn House | 252 pages ; 23 cm. | Available from another library
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2012 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his living room, and who on earth are the victims? Charlie Woodend isn't amused with the people who are getting under his feet as he starts to grapple with these questions, but his steps are abruptly halted when the Deputy Chief Constable decides that, this time, Woodend's high-handedness...
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1 of 1 | Pitkin County Library | FICTION S7463de |
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2003 | Severn House | 248 pages ; 23 cm | Available from another library
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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A miscarriage of justice for DCI Woodend
10) Enemy Within
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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There had never been a murder in Whitebridge like this one. What kind of man would slash the throat of a an inoffensive middle-aged widow who was already terminally ill? Why did he decide to place her lifeless body in the middle of a children's bonfire?It is the most difficult and complex case in Woodend's career, but the two people he most relies on - DI Rutter and DS Paniatowski - are being torn apart by their personal problems.As he struggles on,...
11) The Witch Maker
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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To be Witch Makers in the moorland village of Hallerton is both a great honour and a heavy burden. But this Witch Maker never lives to witness his moment of triumph and is discovered tied to the Witching Post early one morning with a length of twine wrapped tightly around his neck. Will DCI Charlie Woodend solve this mystery...
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2004 | Severn House | 256 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Bemis Fiction FICTION SPENCER |
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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With the help of Paco Ruiz - a former policeman, living in disgrace since the Spanish Civil War - Woodend embarks on an unofficial investigation which provides more questions than answers. Why was the dead man travelling under a false passport? Who are the men he was seen to associate with, but now deny all knowledge of him? Why does the local police chief seem determined to lead him up a blind alley? And, who is responsible for the three more deaths...
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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Pamela Rainsford, found on a lonely canal path in the middle of a dark night, has not only been raped and strangled, but her face has been hacked to pieces. At first it seems a random killing, but as the case progresses, Woodend begins to suspect that the death of the mild-mannered, respectable secretary may have been a result of her own secret life.And another secret life is having its consequences, too - as a result of his now-ended affair with...
14) Stone killer
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1 of 1 | MRLD Montrose Mystery | SPE |
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2005 | 1st world ed | Severn House | 217 pages ; 23 cm. | Available from another library
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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Never before has DCI Woodend had to work under such terrible and terrifying pressure. He has just a few days, at the most, to find a flaw in the weighty evidence which led to Judith Maitland's conviction as a stone-cold killer- a few days to produce the real murderer. But what if Judith really is guilty as charged? What if she did, in fact, brutally butcher her lover, Clive Burroughs, in his own office, as the facts seem to suggest.
15) A Long Time Dead
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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The latest DCI Woodend mystery. Captain Robert Kineally disappeared from Haverton American Army base in Devon in 1944. Twenty years later, a body is found. Woodend knew and liked Kineally. He knew, and heartily disliked, Douglas Coutes, the man accused of killing him. With the British determined Woodend should exonerate Coutes and the Americans set on proving his guilt, Woodend must face his past mistakes if he is to have a shot at the truth.
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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Politician spills his guts - all over the road! The discovery of Bradley Pine's body off a busy road signals the end of his bid to win a local election. But why would the killer risk dumping the body so publicly? And why should he not only reduce the victim's mouth to pulp, but partly disembowel him? With the election looming, and Woodend's old enemy Marlowe replacing Pine as candidate, Woodend is required to produce a result. Any result!
17) Dangerous games
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1 of 1 | Bemis Fiction | FICTION SPENCER |
1 of 1 | MRLD Montrose Mystery | Spe |
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2007 | Severn House | 217 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Bemis Fiction FICTION SPENCER
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend's latest case begins when a gruesome discovery is made: a decapitated body hanging from a local bridge. When the victim's head is eventually found, further investigation reveals he was dead before his hanging. When a second body is found hanging from a crane at a local building site, Woodend fears a serial killer is on the loose. After days of evaluating evidence and following up leads, Woodend and his team learn that...
18) Death Watch
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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Angela Jackson, a young girl abducted from Whitebridge Corporation Park, has been missing for over twenty-four hours and, in the opinion of Dr Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her. Woodend is aware of the damaging strains operating within his own team. Inspector Bob Rutter seems unable to control his infatuation with the unscrupulous journalist, Elizabeth Driver, while Sergeant...
19) Dying fall
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1 of 1 | Bemis Fiction | FICTION SPENCER |
1 of 1 | ASU Main (3rd floor) | PR6069.P483 D95 2008 |
1 of 1 | MCPLD Central Fiction | Mystery SPENCER Sally |
1 of 1 | MRLD Montrose Mystery | Spe |
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2008 | Severn House Paperbacks | 248 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Bemis Fiction FICTION SPENCER
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Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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A charred body is discovered in an abandoned cotton mill, and the crime scene presents DCI Woodend and his team with many questions, but very few answers. Who would want to murder a harmless old tramp, a man with no friends - or enemies - in the world? And why, of all the methods he could have chosen, did the killer decide to cruelly burn his victim to death? As Woodend attempts to solve a murder with no clues, he must also battle against a police...
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2008 | 1st world ed | Severn House | 236 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Bemis Fiction FICTION SPENCER |
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Charlie Woodend has a murder to solve. Trouble is, nobody seems to want him to solve it not Eddie, a Liverpudlian thug sent to threaten him; not DCI Bentley; not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland Yard; not even the dead girl's mother herself. But Woodend cares. He will find the murderer, he promises himself, even if that means putting his career and perhaps even his own life on the line.