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Regency London knows Constance Tyrone as the conspicuously celibate founder of the St. Catherine Society, dedicated to helping poor women. One wet November evening a carriage mows down Constance outside her office. Curiously, while her corpse's one foot is bare, the other is shod in a clean satin slipper despite the muddy road. Why was a gentlewoman abroad in the night? And if she died under the wheel, whose hands bruised her neck and stole her monogrammed...
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Penelope Crumb est de retour et cette fois-ci, elle s'est mise dans encore plus de trouble. Mais ce n'est pas de sa faute! Du moins, pas entièrement. Après tout, lorsque sa meilleure amie Patsy Cline commence à devenir meilleure amie avec quelqu'un d'autre, Penelope doit tout faire pour essayer de la reconquérir. Malheureusement, reconquérir Patsy implique un peu de mensonges, plus qu'un peu de vols et une tonne de déplacements furtifs et de...
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Il y a des choses que Penelope Crumb sait avec certitude : les oignons sont le pire légume parce qu'ils ressemblent à des vers lorsqu'ils sont frits. La broche en forme de lézard que mademoiselle Stunkel porte tous les vendredis est la meilleure, parce que ses yeux sont faits de rubis. Et lorsqu'une personne est mortecimetière,
elle ne peut jamais, jamais revenir à la vie. Sauf que... qu'est-ce qu'il faut faire si une personne qu'on pensait être...
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Penelope Crumb ne veut qu'une chose: être la Préférée de quelqu'un. Elle pensait qu'elle était la Préférée de son grand-papa Felix, et de sa maman, et de son amie Patsy Cline, mais elle commence à se rendre compte qu'elle ne l'est peut-être pas. Et c'est la faute de la Mauvaise Chance. Donc, puisque Penelope est une artiste exceptionnelle, elle invente un plan. Elle va être la boss de la murale que son école fera à la Résidence bienheureuse...
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Penelope Tredwell, the pen behind bestselling author, Montgomery Flinch, is cursed with writer's block. She needs a sensational new story or her magazine, the Penny Dreadful, will go under. So when a mysterious letter arrives, confessing to the impossible crime of stealing the Crown Jewels just days before the King's coronation, Penelope thinks she has found a plot to enthrall her readers, until the police charge Montgomery Flinch with the theft of...
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Protecting an heiress should be an easy job for Bow Street Runner John Chase. But the heiress - daughter of rich London merchant Hugo Garrod and a slave-housekeeper on his Jamaican property - is no conventional society miss. Educated to take a place among Regency England's upper crust and marry well, she has failed at London's social scene and lives isolated among the Garrod family in Clapham. And someone is playing her malicious tricks, some of which...
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Penelope perfect volume 1
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Aladdin
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2017.
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IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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810L
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131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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She's a famous jewel thief. He's FBI. What's that saying? Keep your friends close...and your husband closer. Being a retired jewel thief certainly has its perks. 1. Oh, wait. 2. No it doesn't. Without the thrill of the chase, life's been pretty dull. Penelope gardens, drives her gorgeous husband up the wall, and watches as her old world slowly slips away. But what's that old saying? When one thief closes the door...a copycat jimmies open a window....
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I'm a wanted jewel thief. He's FBI. What's that saying? Keep your friends close...and your husband closer. Being married to a federal agent certainly has its perks. 1. I just love the way that man looks in a suit. 2. This way I always know what the enemy is up to. Spending my days lifting jewels and my nights tracking the Bureau should have been a genius plan. But the closer I get to Grant Emerson, the more dangerous this feels. With two million dollars'...
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A fool-proof way to spice up any relationship: 1. Infiltrate a deadly ring of thieves, cons, and crooks. 2. Try to escape with your lives. Penelope Blue used to be one of the best jewel thieves in New York City―but that was before falling in love with FBI poster boy Grant Emerson. Now she works at his side, helping her former enemy catch her past-life colleagues, and she couldn't be happier. If only Grant would remember to play by the rules. Now...
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"It's love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d'Eau--The Song of Water--the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley, complete with a garden, swimming pool, and sweeping mountain vistas. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. Since taking early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, she's been an unpaid babysitter and chauffeur for...
13) Death in Avignon
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Penelope Kite novels volume 2
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Set amidst the gorgeous backdrop of Provence, Serena Kent's second book in the deliciously entertaining Penelope Kite series finds the amateur sleuth romantically linked with the mayor of St. Merlot and dashing to solve the murder of an expat artist-perfect for fans of Peter Mayle and Agatha Christie.
After an eventful first few months in Provence, it seems Penelope is finally settling into her delightful new life, complete with a gorgeous love...
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Now that she's in her fifties, Penelope Standing has life pretty well figured out. Her pet sitting business keeps her busy, her neighbors are conspiring to get her boyfriend, Jake, to propose, and she has just enough free time to make the corrupt mayor's life miserable.
Then she arrives to walk Brutus, the lovable but ill-behaved mastiff - and finds his owner, Jezza, dead.
While the police work to uncover Jezza's past, Penelope launches an investigation...
15) The Jade Tiger
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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1928. The Big Apple teems with the glitter of Bright Young Things, Prohibition, and scofflaws-the perfect place for Penelope Harris to start her life over.
As a former opera singer turned Shanghai nightclub owner, she's seen and done a lot, maybe too much. With any luck, she'll leave more than The Jade Tiger casino behind her, a murdered husband, a blackmailing torch singer, and Thom Lund, the ex-cop who stole her heart. But, Penelope...
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The Rose Garden Society's annual festival starts tomorrow. With competition so fierce the judges remain secret to avoid threats and bribes, a few broken stems could win or lose the coveted Gardener of the Year award.Dog walker Penelope Standing enjoys a nice shade tree, but that's the extent of her gardening interest. She worries more about all the dogs missing after last night's storm. Crumbling fences and high winds make a bad combination.But there...
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All-natural murder?
Penelope Standing has a lot going on. Her dog walking business is booming, mail deliveries give her a great excuse to snoop, and her husband's retirement party is shaping up to be an interesting affair.
Then she finds Hippie Harold dead in his living room.
At first glance it looks like botulism might be the cause. Penelope knows better. Town crank Howard Stone, proprietor of Homespun Harold's All-Natural Emporium, had taught...
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Bah humbug!
It's four days before Christmas, but Penelope Standing isn't feeling very festive. Her son is halfway around the world, her gift for Jake isn't finished, and she's still trying to figure out how to decorate the house without Brutus, their mastiff, eating Santa and the reindeer. To top it all off, someone is stealing neighborhood holiday ornaments.
But nothing gets Penelope down for long. If she can't decorate her own house, she can at...
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Why do you put pairs of socks in the washing machine and when you empty it there is always a single sock?
Three young girls set out on a quest to find out why their adventures take them to faraway magical lands full of strange beings and intrigue.
The Mystery of the Missing Sock escalates into a mission to save the human race, can the P S & M Detective Agency find the solution?
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