Manchester Public Library
The Reader's Connection
World Mystery Tour
featuring:
Australia
Jon Cleary - Dragons at the Party
Inspector Scobie Malone New South Wales mysteries
Jennifer Rowe - The Makeover Murders
with Sydney detectives, Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden
Botswana
Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency
with Botswanan private eye, Precious Ramotswe
Brazil
Robert Fish - Isle of the Snakes
with Captain Jose da Silva, Brazilian police liaison to
Interpol
Canada
Alisa Craig - A Pint of Murder
classic cozy mysteries with Madoc Rhys of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police
Eric Wright - The Night the Gods Smiled
Mysteries feature Toronto police Inspector Charlie Salter.
L. R. Wright - Sleep While I Sing
Series features Sergeant Karl Alberg of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police
of Vancouver, British Columbia
China
Robert Van Gulik - The Chinese Bell Murders
The Judge Dee and Sgt. Hoong series is set
in ancient China.
William Marshall - Yellowthread Street
with Detective Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee and Chief
Inspector
Harry Feiffer of the Hong Kong police Yellowthread Street Station
Denmark
Peter Hoeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow
An intrepid Greennlander heroine is featured in this chilling
thriller.
Egypt
Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank
with archaeologist, Amelia Peabody Emerson
Lynda Robinson - Murder in the Place of Anubis
Historical mysteries with Lord Meren, chief investigator
for Pharaoh Tutankhamen in ancient Egypt
France
Nicholas Freeling - Sabine
Henri Castang, Belgian born Commissaire of the Parisian
Police Judiciare
and later investigator for the European Community in Brussels,
Belgium, is featured in this classic series.
Mark Hebden - Pel is Puzzled
with Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Desire Pel of the
Burgundy
Brigade Criminelle.
Georges Simenon - Five Times Maigret
Many, many titles with the psychologically astute Parisian
police inspector, Jules Maigret. (library also has episodes on
DVD)
Germany
Philip Kerr - March Violets
Berlin Private Eye Bernhard Gunther
India
H.R. F. Keating - Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade
The charming, but persistent, Bombay Police Inspector,
Ganesh Ghote is
featured in this long-running series.
Israel
Robert Rosenberg - The Cutting Room
an Avram Cohen mystery
Italy
Michael Dibdin - Vendetta
with Aurelio Zen, investigator for Criminalpol
Donna Leon - Death in a Strange Country
Venetian mysteries with Police Commisario Guido Brunetti
Magdalen Nabb - Death of an Englishman
Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence Carabinieri
Iain Pears - The Raphael Affair
Jonathan Argyll, British art dealer and his Italian lover,
Flavia di Stefano, assistant to General Taddeo Bottando, of Rome's
Art Theft Squad
Japan
James Melville - A Sort of Samurai
with Kobe, Japan police superintendent Tetsuo Otani
Sujata Massey - The Salaryman's Wife
Tokyo mysteries with Rei Shimura, Japanese-American antiques
dealer, writer and amateur sleuth
Laura Joh Rowland - Shinju
Sano Ichiro, the Shogun's investigator, is featured in
this series
set in 17th century Japan.
Mexico
Gary Alexander - Blood Sacrifice
Netherlands
Nicolas Freeling - Criminal Conversation
with Commisaris Piet Van der Valk of the Amsterdam Police
Janwillem Van de Wetering - Outsider in Amsterdam
with Amsterdam's offbeat municipal policemen, Grijpstra
and de Gier
Russia
Stuart Kaminsky - A Cold Red Sunrise
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov mysteries
Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park
Moscow police investigator and sometime political exile,
Arkady Renko is featured in this dark thriller which was the basis
for the film of the same name.
South Africa
James McClure - The Steam Pig
Afrikaner Lt. Tromp Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Mickey Zondi
are featured in mysteries of South Africa during apartheid.
Spain
Roderic Jeffries - Troubled Deaths
Series features quietly brilliant Inspector Enrique Alvarez
of Mallorca.
Sweden
Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers
Inspector Kurt Wallander is featured in these gritty mysteries
that reflect
the ills of contemporary Swedish society.
Maj Skowall and Per Wahloo - Roseanna
with Martin Beck of the Stockholm homicide squad
Helene Tursten - Detective Inspector Huss
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