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2014.
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217 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pâté de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters of the prestigious Institute de Préhistoire, which studies the abundant local fossils. But when a pet dog emerges from a nearby cave carrying parts of a human skeleton--by no means a fossilized one--Chief Inspector Lucien Anatole Joly puts in a call to his old friend, Gideon Oliver, the famed...
3) Icy clutches
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2014.
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222 pages ; 21 cm.
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Gideon Oliver accompanies his spouse to a lodge in Glacier Bay, Alaska, where there is a group of scientists memorializing a thirty-year-old glacial avalanche that killed three colleagues. Soon the sole survivor of the avalanche is found hanged in his room and shocked hikers discover human bones at the foot of the glacier. How fortunate for all that Dr. Oliver, the famed Skeleton Detective, is on the scene!
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Pub. Date
1991
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234 p. ; 22 cm.
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There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper dean of American forensic anthropologists after his demise in a fiery car crash But in accord with his wishes his remains a few charred bits of bone are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating if macabre exhibit All agree that it is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist until what is left of him disappears in the midst of the biannual meeting a k a the bone bash and weenie...
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Pub. Date
2005
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iv, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
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Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: after going missing ten years ago, Alex's late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island. So too have Magnus's few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit together the pieces of this mystery. But what forensic detective Gideon Oliver discovers could shake the Torkelsson family tree.
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Pub. Date
c1994
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227 p. ; 24 cm.
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Professor Gideon Oliver investigates a murder among the ruins of ancient Egypt. The story begins when skeletons turns up on the site of a film shoot for which Oliver is a commentator. One of the skeletons is 4,000 years old, which is fair enough, but another is of far more recent vintage.
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2014.
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197 pages ; 22 cm
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"Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. And whoever--or whatever--hurled it did so with seemingly superhuman force. Bigfoot "sightings" immediately crop up, but...
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Pub. Date
1982
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211 p. ; 22 cm.
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When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. Stimulating courses to teach, a decent stipend, all expenses paid, plenty of interesting European travel . . . What’s not to like? It does not take him long to find out. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black‑clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel...
11) Switcheroo
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The Skeleton Detective is back. A cold case dating from the 1960s draws forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver to the Channel Islands decades later to shine a light on the mysterious connection between two men who died there on the same night. Swapped as young boys by their fathers during the Nazi occupation, wealthy Roddy Carlisle and middle-class George Skinner had some readjusting to do after the war ended--but their lives remained linked through...
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Pub. Date
2005
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415 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: after going missing ten years ago, Alex's late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island. So too have Magnus's few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit together the pieces of this mystery. But what forensic detective Gideon Oliver discovers could shake the Torkelsson family tree.
13) Old bones
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2014.
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209 pages ; 22 cm
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"Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery novel of the year. With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau:...
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2007
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292 p. ; 24 cm.
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When forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver is invited to join an Amazon riverboat expedition with a group of research botanists, he anticipates a relaxing getaway from his academic and forensic duties in an exotic locale. But relaxation is not on the itinerary. There's stifling heat and humidity, giant bird-eating spiders, snakes, fire ants, jungle shamans, hallucinogenic plants, and corrupt military officials--all of which are expected. What isn't...
15) Skull duggery
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Pub. Date
2009
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281 p. ; 24 cm.
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Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.
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Pub. Date
2008
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417 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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When forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver is invited to join an Amazon riverboat expedition with a group of research botanists, he anticipates a relaxing getaway from his academic and forensic duties in an exotic locale. But relaxation is not on the itinerary. There's stifling heat and humidity, giant bird-eating spiders, snakes, fire ants, jungle shamans, hallucinogenic plants, and corrupt military officials--all of which are expected. What isn't...
17) Good blood
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2004
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293 p. ; 24 cm.
18) Curses!
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2014.
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189 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Mayan ruins in the Yucatán, a secret room in a tomb, age-old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton Detective, the invitation to join the archaeological excavation of Tlaloc promises two months of paradise on Earth. That is, until an ancient series of Mayan curses against desecrators of the site is unearthed. When the first one comes to pass ("The bloodsucking kinkajou will come freely among them"), it is taken by all...
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Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2008
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407 p. ; 22 cm.
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A forensic expert and his wildfire expert wife have been invited to the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall for consortium on conservation. While visiting Neolithic sites, he find a not-so Neolithic bone, and all signs point to murder.
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