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  The Adventures of Robin Hood

  by Roger Lancelyn Green

  This is the classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by twelfth-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache.
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  Inspector Resnick: Book 3

  Cutting Edge

  by John Harvey

  As the staff members of a large teaching hospital fall prey to a maniac with a surgeon's skill--a male nurse is castrated, a surgeon's hands are destroyed--Inspector Charlie Resnick must fight bureaucracy and time to find the perpetrator. Reprint. NYT.
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  Inspector Resnick: Book 6

  Cold Light

  by John Harvey

  A cabbie’s been beaten up, there’s a drunk and disorderly in the interview room and a possible child abuser is on his way in. Just a pretty normal Christmas Holiday for Resnick and his team. Then Dana Matheison calls to report her flat mate, Nancy, missing. Pretty soon the police have proof that Nancy was kidnapped, and then — as the New Year celebrations wind down — the first tape arrives and Resnick knows... (more)
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  Cold In Hand

  by John Harvey

  It's Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl’s father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick’s partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick finds the line between the personal and the professional dangerously blurred.  Meanwhile, the Serious and... (more)
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  Outlaw

  by Angus Donald

  When he's caught stealing, young Alan Dale is forced to leave his family and go to live with a notorious band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Their leader is the infamous Robin Hood. A tough, bloodthirsty warrior, Robin is more feared than any man in the county. And he becomes a mentor for Alan; with his fellow outlaws, Robin teaches Alan how to fight - and how to win. But Robin is a ruthless man - and although he... (more)
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  Bone and Cane

  by David Belbin

  Nottingham, 1997. Sarah Bone is a Labour politician with a hidden radical past, about to face the election battle of her life. She also has a radical ex-boyfriend Nick Cane, just released from prison for growing and selling cannabis. They're brought together again when Sarah campaigns successfully for the release of Ed Clarke, a wrongfully imprisoned 'murderer', only to be sexually assaulted on the night she... (more)
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  Inspector Resnick: Book 2

  Rough Treatment: A Charlie Resnick Mystery

  by John Harvey

  A series of house break-ins that are too neat to be anything but inside jobs; a missing kilo of coke; a thief with some very nasty habits and another with too tender a heart . . . all add up to John Harvey's second complex and fast-paced police procedural featuring Charlie Resnick.
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  Inspector Resnick: Book 8

  Easy Meat

  by John Harvey

  Easy Meat is crime fiction so close to the bone it is almost like reading the newspapers--except that John Harvey's artistry with words and concern for character bring their ugly events and insoluble issues stunningly alive, transforming headlines into the stuff of human passion. "Harvey's terse style is just about perfect."--Detroit Free Press.
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  Nottingham and Sherwood Forest (Jarrold Short Walks Guides)

  by Terry Marsh

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  Robin Hood

  by Roger Lancelyn Green

  A film tie-in edition of the traditional tale of Robin Hood's life and times.
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  Living Proof

  by John Harvey

  Charlie Resnick is assigned to protect mystery writer Cathy Jordan from a stalker, and he must catch the culprit at a convention of crime writers. By the author of Cold Light. Reprint. AB.
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  Inspector Resnick: Book 10

  Last Rites

  by John Harvey

  Lorraine Preston’s brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father — and now he’s being allowed out for their mother’s funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on the streets, especially now when Resnick is struggling to contain an explosive situation on the streets, where the spread of guns has led to a frightening escalation in drug-related... (more)
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  Inspector Resnick: Book 4

  Off Minor: A Charlie Resnick Mystery

  by John Harvey

  Little Gloria Summers’ body has been found, hidden inside two plastic bin bags in a disused warehouse. Somewhere in the city, a child killer is on the loose. Then Emily Morrison vanishes and a week later there are still no clues. Years of patient police work have taught Inspector Charlie Resnick that those who jump to easy conclusions are often the last ones to solve a crime.
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  Hoods (Milo Books)

  by Carl Fellstrom

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  Tales From The Renegade City: Book 1

  Tourniquet

  by Kim Lakin-Smith

  Renegade City. Futurist Gothika. Mecca of the damned. Where über rock-band, Origin, is deified and the world's dark sub-cultures coexist under the umbrella faith of 'Belief'. But Roses, the great, Gothic messiah is dead, the tribes are in turmoil, and Renegade's own home-bred rebels, the Drifters, are quickly becoming a law unto themselves. The last thing that Druid, Origin's drummer and reclusive high lord... (more)
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  Haunted Nottingham (Haunted Britain S.) (Haunted Britain S.) (Haunted Britain S.)

  by Andrew Wright

  The streets and buildings of Nottingham are alive (if that's the right word to use) with ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. "Haunted Nottingham" explores the supernatural side of the city and its surrounding areas and finds many reports of unexplained happenings, weird goings-on and ghostly appearances. The author, Andrew James Wright, has been a ghost investigator for thirty years and has... (more)
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  The Quarry (Crime Express)

  by Clare Littleford

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  Inspector Resnick: Book 9

  Still Water: The 9th Charles Resnick Mystery (A Charles Resnick Mystery)

  by John Harvey

  "< Still Water > explores sexual violence and its devastating consequences. But Harvey presents more than a crime novel, weaving ideas as well as crimes and domestic details into a tapestry of intrigue and moral quandary. Still Water goes beyond crime fiction to provide a deeper perspective on the complexities of lust and love."- San Francisco Chronicle "It's an ugly crime that's soon connected to... (more)
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  Hugh Corbett Mysteries: Book 7

  The Assassin in the Greenwood

  by P. C. Doherty

  In a new mystery for Hugh Corbett, the fourteenth-century clerk and spy for England's Edward I, confronts a bloody secret war against France's Philip IV, a Robin Hood wannabe, a massacre of tax collectors, and a mysterious murder.
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  Lady Chatterley's Lover

  by D. H. Lawrence

  Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, Lady Chatterly's Lover joyously affirms the author's vision of individual... (more)