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Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
As a series of poison pen letters sweeps through the town of Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth begins to suspect a sinister motive, a suspicion that is justified when the local postmistress is found hanged, a supposed suicide.
Author
Series
Not a detective mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Grown-up, former child detective Lottie Illes is back at her old middle school as a substitute teacher where she is asked to solve a mystery.
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 4
Language
English
Description
"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Confirmed bachelor Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don begins to resign himself to being alone and left to his own devices. However, he becomes compelled to reflect on his past when he receives a mysterious pink letter by mail. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may be looking for his father. Don is urged to investigate the contents of the letter by his closest friend and neighbor,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"«Sé lo que has hecho». Este mensaje, encontrado en el bolsillo del pantalón de Alaska Sanders, cuyo cadáver apareció el 3 de abril de 1999 al borde del lago de Mount Pleasant, una pequeña localidad de New Hampshire, es la clave de la nueva y apasionante investigación que, once años después de poner entre rejas a sus presuntos culpables, vuelve a reunir al escritor Marcus Goldman y al sargento Perry Gahalowood. En esta Ocasión contarán...
Author
Series
Kurland St. Mary mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Three years after Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lucy Harrington were married, the small-village peace is disrupted when an anonymous letter arrives accusing Lucy of witchcraft. Her desire to be a mother becomes the least of her worries, especially after she learns she is not the only one to have received such a malicious letter"--
Author
Series
Marion Lane volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London, having baffled Scotland Yard. The newspapers call him The Florist because of the rose he brands on his victims. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance, and second-year Marion Lane is assigned the case. But she's already dealing with a mystery of her own, having received an unsigned letter warning her that one of the three new recruits should not...
9) Your letter
Author
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sori Lee is hoping for a fresh start at her new school--which is easier said than done when every single thing reminds her of why she transferred. As luck would have it, an anonymous letter taped to the bottom of her desk provides a perfect distraction. Little does Sori know that she's about to embark on the scavenger hunt of a lifetime! What starts off as simple curiosity becomes a healing journey as Sori discovers just how far a small act of kindness...
10) The beta test
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A soon-to-be married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, murder and infidelity in this scintillating satire.
11) The postcard
Author
Language
English
Description
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest's maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques--all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ever since an accident three years ago, Holly has been part of a lonely-hearts letter-writing club for the holidays. The tradition is something she has come to treasure: Each December, she writes to a stranger who is also spending Christmas alone and receives a letter from another lonely person. Usually, the letters go unanswered. That's the point--the letters are anonymous, and the sender writes whatever is in their heart. But this year, the letter...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Based on a stranger than fiction true story, this ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative Edith Swan and foul-mouthed Rose Gooding. When Edith begins to receive wicked letters full of hilarious profanities, Rose is charged with the crime. However, as the towns women begin to investigate themselves, they suspect that something is amiss.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through...
Series
Criterion collection volume 227
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt--Container.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar...
17) Two's a crowd
Author
Series
Real McCoys volume 2
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Moxie McCoy's friend Emily receives a suspicious anonymous letter, Moxie and her little brother Milton investigate, but they must learn to get along together to solve the case.
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