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Based on historical events, tells the story of a polar bear's journey from Norway to England as a gift to King Henry III.

"Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books, he's ending their collaboration. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open in London's West End. The play is panned by critics--Sunday Times critic Harriet Throsby is particularly savage, especially about the writing. The next day she is stabbed in the heart by an ornamental dagger--one belonging to Anthony, and with his fingerprints all over it. When a second theatre critic is found to have died under mysterious circumstances, only one man can help him--but will Hawthorne take the call?--Adapted from jacket.

"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a . . . true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--Provided by publisher.

"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a . . . true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--Provided by publisher.

Look as at the history of the soccer club Arsenal FC.

"Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, 'What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?'--all of the questions today's woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her"--OCLC.

Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life . . . if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.

An American boy travels with his family to London for his mother to find his father, but it turns out his father was involved with something nefarious...and now so is he.

Look as at the history of the soccer club Arsenal FC.

"An illustrated, chooseable-path travel guide to London"--Provided by publisher.