title: Arsenic Labyrinth, The (Lake District Mysteries)
author:  Martin Edwards 
description: Edwards's crisply written third contemporary mystery set in England's Lake District (after 2005's <i>The Cipher Garden</i>) turns on the unsolved disappearance of Emma Bestwick, a woman who went missing a decade earlier. Guy Koenig, a con man recently released from prison, makes an anonymous phone call about Emma's fate to a local journalist who has just revisited her story. DCI Hannah Scarlett, who headed the original inquiry, now focuses her cold case squad on the matter. The predictable police procedurereinterviewing relatives and friends of the missing womangets underway, making little progress until the police receive a tip as to the location of Emma's body. Edwards injects cryptic excerpts of another murder mystery into the narrative and rounds out the story with hints of a frustrated attraction between Hannah and historian Daniel Kind, whose father, Ben, was her mentor. Though the suspense and resolution of the secondary mystery distract from Emma's story, this is solid fare for fans of modern British police procedurals. <i>(Jan.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Gold Trail
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER I. BOTTOMLESS SWAMP  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER II. THE PACKER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER III. THE MODEL  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. IDA'S FIRST ASCENT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER V. IDA'S CONFIDENCE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. KINNAIRD STRIKES CAMP  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. GRENFELL'S MINE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. IN THE RANGES  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IX. A FRUITLESS SEARCH  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER X. THE HOTEL-KEEPER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XI. IN THE MOONLIGHT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XII. THE COPPER-MINE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIII. STIRLING LETS THINGS SLIDE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIV. IDA ASSERTS HER AUTHORITY  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XV. THE ROCK POOL  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVI. ON THE LAKE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVII. SCARTHWAITE-IN-THE-FOREST  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVIII. WESTON'S ADVOCATE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIX. ILLUMINATION  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XX. IDA CLAIMS AN ACQUAINTANCE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XXI. THE BRÛLÉE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XXII. GRENFELL GOES ON  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XXIII. THE LODE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XXIV. A QUALIFIED SUCCESS  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XXV. STIRLING GI