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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
2) Hot ice
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whitney McAllister, a reckless heiress with a penchant for adventure, joins forces with Doug Lord, a professional thief with a stolen treasure map on a search for a treasure trove of priceless jewels.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The elements which make up The Moonstone--a purloined Indian jewel which carries with it a mysterious curse, a stolid British police sergeant, a drama of theft and murder in a spacious country home--have been repeated, in slightly varying guises, throughout much of the detective fiction to which Wilkie Collins' popular 1868 novel gave birth.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Unpopular Captain Sewell Is Found Battered In His Cabin Aboard The Hakota, An Old Cargo Ship, Felix Dunn Takes Command. Photographs Are Taken Before A Burial At Sea And On Arrival Back In The Uk, All Leave Is Cancelled Whilst The Police Investigate. It Seems The 'upright' Captain Had Some Diamonds Onboard - And They Are Missing.
5) Smash & Grab
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with {dollar}30 million in diamonds. They are captured – not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their...
6) Piggins
Author
Series
Piggins mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a dinner party, the lights go out and Mrs. Reynard's beautiful diamond necklace is stolen, but Piggins the butler quickly discovers the real thief.
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...
8) In too steep
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When her interest is piqued by the murder of Lewis Trenton, a beachcomber, after finding a clue in a newspaper article, Misty Bay Tearoom owner Vivian Wainwright discovers the key to finding the killer in an unlikely place and works with Detective Tony Messina to find the truth"--
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 14
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a ring is stolen from the queen, Stanley, who is on vacation in London with his family, teams up with the world-famous detectives of Scotland Yard to track it down.
Author
Series
Piggins mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Piggins, the butler at the Reynard household, solves the mystery of the missing royal wedding band.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a priceless, jewel encrusted bird statue is installed atop a skyscraper in Gotham, Catwoman and the Penguin have their eyes on the prize, and it is up to Batman to stop them from stealing the jewels.
12) The beach bandit
Author
Series
Barbie sisters mystery club volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It's perfect weather for a day at the beach! Barbie's friend Raquelle arrives dressed to impress with a diamond necklace, gold bracelet, and ruby ring. But when she takes her jewels off to go swimming. Raquelle returns to find them missing! Can Barbie and her sisters discover the true identity of the beach bandit?"--
Author
Series
Bill and Pete volume 2
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1987
Language
English
Description
Little William Everett Crocodile and his friend Pete take a class trip to a Cairo museum where they encounter a jewel thief.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Espanol
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Seis cautivadores novelas breves escritas por uno de los grandes de la novela policiaca. El autor bestseller internacional Don Winslow regresa con estas seis novelas breves hilvanadas por sus temas más explorados: el crimen, la corrupción, la venganza, la justicia, la pérdida, el engaño y la redención. Winslow recrea un mundo lleno de pillos veteranos, sinvergüenzas, policías angustiados que luchan por sobrellevar sus vidas dentro y fuera del...
Author
Series
Nonna Maria series volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nonna Maria sets out to clear her goddaughter's name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery"--
A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect-- a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1925, along Washington, DC's "Black Broadway", a malevolent entity has begun preying on Negro residents. Twenty-three-year-old Clara Johnson is determined to discover what's going on in her community. Using her natural ability to talk with spirits, she begins to investigate, but a powerful spirit tasks her with a difficult quest: steal an ancient, magical ring from the finger of a wealthy socialite. When Clara meets Israel Lee, a...
17) Exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary how she tries to discover who stole a magical ruby belonging to the visiting princess of Sharakand.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she's desperate for a break-that's...
20) Manna from Hades
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The day after collecting donations, elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a longhaired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storeroom is apparently not one of the robbers.
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