Tag search:1950s

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

by Agatha Christie
Ebook, 2011
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, England, Hercule Poirot, village life, murder, wrongful conviction
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2022
Series
Ariadne Oliver (3), Hercule Poirot (24)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Copper Beech

by Maeve Binchy
Ebook, 2007
Tags
20th century, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Ireland, village life, childhood, secrets
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2022
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Trouble at the Brownstone

by Robert Goldsborough
Ebook, 2021
Tags
20th century, 1950s, America, New York City, Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe, Nazis, smuggling, human trafficking, murder
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2022
Series
Goldsborough's Nero Wolfe (15)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Rally Round the Flag, Boys!

by Max Shulman
Ebook, 2016
Tags
20th century, 1950s, American New England, Connecticut, satire, Cold War, juvenile delinquents, military
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2022
Status
Available
Call number
813.608334

Echoes

by Maeve Binchy
Ebook, 2008
Tags
contemporary romance, 20th century, 1950s, 1960s, Ireland, Castlebay (fictional), class system, women who fight for what they want, infidelity
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2021
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Ebook, 2020
Tags
contemporary fiction, 20th century, 1950s, Mexico, family saga, supernatural, creepy relatives, women who save themselves
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Archie Goes Home

by Robert Goldsborough
Ebook, 2020
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, American Midwest, Ohio, Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe, suicide that isn't, banking, small towns
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
Goldsborough's Nero Wolfe (14)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Vanishing Point

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2014
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, England, London, Miss Silver, missing persons, village life, precocious children, jewel thieves
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
Inspector Lamb (14, supporting character), Miss Silver (24)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Silent Pool

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2013
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, England, Ledshire, Miss Silver, inheritances, shifty relatives, dysfunctional families, actresses past their prime, murder
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2021
Series
Miss Silver (25)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Out of the Past

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2014
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, England, Miss Silver, murder, murder victims who had it coming, blackmail
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
Inspector Lamb (13, supporting character), Miss Silver (23)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Ladies' Bane

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2014
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, England, London, Miss Silver, attempted murder, country house shenanigans, troublesome sisters, inheritances
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
Miss Silver (22)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Benevent Treasure

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2014
Tags
mystery, gothic romance, 20th century, 1950s, England, Miss Silver, creepy country houses, dysfunctional families, inheritances, troublesome sisters, missing persons
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2021
Series
Miss Silver (26)
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

The Alington Inheritance

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2014
Tags
20th century, 1950s, England, inheritances, shady family shenanigans, family secrets, accidents that aren't accidental, unintended murder victims
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2022
Series
Miss Silver (31)
Status
Available
Call number
813

Homicide Trinity

by Rex Stout
Ebook, 1993
Tags
mystery, short fiction, 20th century, 1950s, New York City, Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe, murder in the brownstone, homicidal wives, Hattie Annis, counterfeiting
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
Nero Wolfe (36)
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK OVERDRIVE

The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn
Ebook, 2017
Tags
historical fiction, 1910s, 1940s, 1950s, England, France, World War I, World War II, espionage
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

The Huntress

by Kate Quinn
Ebook, 2019
Tags
historical fiction, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Russia, Austria, Poland, United States, World War II, Nazis — 2 more, Nazi hunters, Russian Night Witches
Collections
Read but unowned, eBooks, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith
Ebook, 2008
Tags
fiction, 20th century, 1950s, Italy, Tom Ripley, people who are not what they seem, people as prey, assumed identity
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2019
Series
Tom Ripley (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Death at the Deep End

by Patricia Wentworth
Ebook, 2011
Tags
mystery, 20th century, 1950s, England, Miss Silver, murder, governesses, undercover detectives, assumed identity
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
Miss Silver (20)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.912

Mothers and Daughters

by Evan Hunter
Ebook, 2017
Tags
contemporary fiction, 20th century, 1950s, American New England, Connecticut, New York City, women, mothers and daughters, wives and husbands
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith
Ebook, 2001
Tags
fiction, 20th century, 1950s, Texas, New York City, Connecticut, murder pact, head games
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Eleanor and Hick: The love affair that shaped a First Lady

by Susan Quinn
Ebook, 2016
Tags
nonfiction, biography, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, New York, Washington D.C., Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorena Hickok — 3 more, CATWoman Challenge April 2017: Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
973.9170924

The Zig Zag Girl

by Elly Griffiths
Ebook, 2015
Tags
fiction, mystery, 1950s, United Kingdom, England, Brighton, DI Edgar Stephens, Max Mephisto, magic, murder, dead people who don't stay dead
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2016
Series
Brighton Mysteries (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.92

Shotgun

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2011
Tags
mystery police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Bert Kling, 87th Precinct, serial killer, marriage
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
87th Precinct (23)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Fuzz

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2000
Tags
mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, 87th Precinct, Deaf Man
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Series
87th Precinct (22)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

He Who Hesitates

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 1964
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, murder
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018
Series
87th Precinct (19)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Like Love

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2011
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, Bert Kling, suicide that isn't
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018
Series
87th Precinct (16)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Empty Hours

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2011
Tags
fiction, mystery, short fiction, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, Meyer Meyer, 87th Precinct
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Short form works, Read in 2017
Series
87th Precinct (15)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Lady, Lady, I Did It!

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2012
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Bert Kling, Meyer Meyer, Willis Brown, 87th Precinct — 2 more, mass murder, anti-Semitism
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Series
87th Precinct (14)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

See Them Die

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2011
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Series
87th Precinct (13)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

The Heckler

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2013
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, 87th Precinct, The Deaf Man
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Series
87th Precinct (12), 87th: Deaf Man (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813

Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2011
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, dismemberment
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
87th Precinct (11)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

King's Ransom

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 1959
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, kid-jep, kidnapping
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
87th Precinct (10)
Status
Available
Call number
813

'Til Death

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 1959
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Bert Kling, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, weddings — 1 more, murder
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
87th Precinct (9)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Lady Killer

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 1994
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, letter-writing killers
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Series
87th Precinct (8)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Killer's Wedge

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2011
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, revenge, hostage situation
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Series
87th Precinct (7)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Killer's Payoff

by Ed McBain
Ebook, 2013
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 20th century, 1950s, fictional New York, Steve Carella, Cotton Hawes, 87th Precinct, blackmail, murder
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Series
87th Precinct (6)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Mother Night

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paper Book, 1966
Tags
classics, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, Germany, Berlin, America, New York, New York City, World War II, Nazis — 2 more, banality of evil, pseudo memoir
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2021
Status
Available
Call number
813/.5/4

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

by Gilbert King
Paperback, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1950s, American South, Florida, civil rights, criminal justice system, race relations
Collections
Your library, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
305.896

Austerity Britain, 1945-51

by David Kynaston
Ebook, 2013
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, Britain, social history, post-war society
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018
Series
Tales of a New Jerusalem (1)
Status
Available
Call number
941.0854

Firefly Summer

by Maeve Binchy
Paper Book, 1988
Tags
20th century, 1950s, 1960s, Ireland, coming of age, multiple POVs, small towns, secrets
Collections
Your library, Read in 2022
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

Before Midnight

by Rex Stout
Ebook, 2010
Tags
fiction, mystery, 20th century, 1950s, New York City, Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, murder, perfume, advertising, contests
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018
Series
Nero Wolfe (25)
Status
Available
Call number
813
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