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  • The Complete Dr. Thorndyke - Volume III
    R. Austin Freeman / RAustin Freeman
    Volume III contains the remaining half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. These, along with the contents of 2018’s Volume II (with the first half of the short stories and a few rare Apocryphal items), presents the complete short Thorndyke mysteries for a new generation.In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six books. This volume contains all twenty-five...
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    35,59 €

  • Angels & Imperfection
    Dan Arnold
    JOHN WESLEY TUCKER IS NEITHER AN ORDINARY DETECTIVE NOR AN ORDINARY MAN. Private Investigator John Wesley Tucker is hired to do a routine background check for a wealthy oil man, an aspiring politician. His investigation is complicated by his involvement in other cases and events which may be tied to a person associated with his client.His partner, Christine, finds herself strug...
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    16,29 €

  • Strange Currents
    J.C. Bruce / J.CBruce
    Alexander Strange lives and works aboard a fishing trawler in Naples, Florida writing about news of the weird. His laid-back lifestyle is disrupted when a feisty author of conspiracy books insists he investigate the death of her brother in Key West. Her name is Silver, and the cops think her brother's death was an accident, a scuba diving mishap caused by nitrogen narcosis....
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    12,18 €

  • El malcaso
    Jesús Romé
    La violenta muerte, envuelta en misterio, del matrimonio de una de las mejores familias de la ciudad de Telunia del Río, conmueve y trastorna a sus habitantes.El tiempo pasa sin que la investigación oficial consiga descubrir las causas y al culpable o culpables del trágico suceso. Dos amigos, de mentalidad lógica uno de ellos y el otro más dado a la intuición y a la sentimental...
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    17,63 €

  • Florida Man
    J.C. Bruce / J.CBruce
    Alexander Strange wants to get to Florida in the worst way. So he arrives in a coffin. And why not? He writes about news of the weird for a living, so what could be crazier than that? Well, things do get more bizarre when he hooks up with an old college friend. She's being blackmailed by a mad rhymester who sends her on a scavenger hunt across the state to a series of oddly...
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    25,66 €

  • The Last Kind Word
    David Housewright
    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with his FBI pal Harry, make McKenzie an offer he can’t refuse—no matter how hard he tries: take on the identity of a wanted fugitive, escape to the upper reaches of Minnesota and infiltrate a crew of armed robbers known as “The Iron Range Bandits.” His mission—help retrieve a cache of stolen weapons before they’re ...
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    14,46 €

  • Le Rival de Sherlock Holmes
    Hector Fleischmann
    Le célèbre détective anglais Sherlock Holmes a un rival, il est américain et se nomme William Hopkins. Il est secondé par un civil (ici, un ex-ingénieur) qui sera également le conteur des aventures. « le rival de Sherlock Holmes » nous propose de suivre les périgrinations des deux partenaires à travers trois enquêtes particulièrement éprouvantes (dont, notamment, la dernière). ...
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    9,15 €

  • The Ordained
    Terence Faherty
    In The Lost Keats, Owen Keane was a young seminarian in rural Indiana whose encounter with murder, and his search for an unknown Keats sonnet, changed the path of his life forever. Now, twenty years later, Owen returns to Indiana for the parole hearing of the man he helped send to prison. Still haunted and restless, still in search of answers to the doubts that ended his dream ...
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    9,95 €

  • Stardust Trail
    J.R. Sanders
    Against his better judgment, Hollywood-hating private investigator Nate Ross takes on a Tinseltown case in the spring of 1938. It sounds like a milk run: find an alcoholic screenwriter whose absence is stalling production on Republic Pictures’ latest Western.But when the missing rummy turns up dead, and Nate learns that somebody’s going to lethal lengths to keep Stardust Trail ...
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    13,53 €

  • Utterly Dredged
    Pauline Manders / TBD
    Book 9 in the Utterly Crime Series.On Maundy Thursday 2014, DI Clive Merry is called to a man found dead with his head submerged in a moat about to be dredged near Eye. Could something as harmless as laughing gas be a murder weapon?The killer moves like a shadow as old friends Chrissie, Nick and Matt welcome a relocated carpentry apprentice. But the repair of an old apothecary ...
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    11,16 €

  • Deceit
    Mark R Hopkins
    The events in room 201 of the Red Cove Travel Inn, in Fleetham, were about to turn the small, sleepy, Texas town into a hotbed of police activity.  When local prostitute, Tessie Johanan, is found brutally murdered, it leaves Sheriff Robert Binder and Detective Alison Chaney with a gruesome mystery to solve. With no obvious motive, scarcely any clues, and even fewer suspects, cr...
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    11,93 €

  • Betrayal at Ravenswick
    Kelly Oliver
    What’s the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course.Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he’s a crack huntsma...
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    13,40 €

  • Deceit
    Mark R Hopkins
    The events in room 201 of the Red Cove Travel Inn, in Fleetham, were about to turn the small, sleepy, Texas town into a hotbed of police activity. When local prostitute, Tessie Johanan, is found brutally murdered, it leaves Sheriff Robert Binder and Detective Alison Chaney with a gruesome mystery to solve. With no obvious motive, scarcely any clues, and even few suspects, crimi...
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    24,08 €

  • Curse of the Jade Lily
    David Housewright
    Daring thieves steal the 200-year-old Jade Lily from a Minneapolis art museum and then offer to sell it back for one-third of its insured value—$1,300,000. But there’s a catch. They demand that unlicensed P. I. Rushmore McKenzie act as go-between. McKenzie reluctantly agrees partly out of curiosity—why did the thieves pick him to deliver the ransom?—and partly because he feels ...
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    14,44 €

  • Breezy Friends and Bodies
    Anne R. Tan
    Raina Sun thought cleaning her grandma's house in San Francisco to prepare for Chinese New Year would be a breeze. Instead, she finds her deceased grandfather’s secret journal and ends up French kissing the train tracks in a mugging incident. After putting the move on her grandma, her grandfather’s BFF took an elevator ride straight to the Heavenly Gates. And the second tim...
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    14,09 €

  • Gusty Lovers and Cadavers
    Anne R. Tan
    Graduate student Raina Sun is in for a season of mayhem and murder. When she volunteered to take the new foreign exchange student shopping on the last weekend before Christmas, she ended up in a riot for the last hot toy of the season and an abandoned baby. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be a Good Samaritan.But calling the mysterious phone number in the diaper bag leads to mor...
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    13,95 €

  • One Way Ticket
    Jay Forman
    Somebody tried to kill me.Travel writer Lee Smith experiences a bumpy landing when she returns to Canada from a Caribbean cruise. A text from her best friend, billionaire Jack Hughes, appears on her phone before her plane has even reached the gate in Toronto—Somebody tried to kill me.Even worse, it happened at Berkshire, the prestigious school where they first met.Twenty years ...
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    12,18 €

  • Swindle
    Shirley Burton
    Swindle: Mystery at Sea is another book in the Inspector Furnace Mysteries series. In this light-hearted, old-fashioned British whodunit, Inspector Furnace and his new wife Martha depart from their Inn in England's countryside for a transatlantic sailing on the luxurious Queen Elizabeth ship to New York City. A delightful array of characters become suspects of a crime on th...
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    19,00 €

  • Swindle
    Shirley Burton
    Swindle: Mystery at Sea is another book in the Inspector Furnace Mysteries series.  In this light-hearted, old-fashioned British whodunit, Inspector Furnace and his new wife Martha depart from their Inn in England's countryside for a transatlantic sailing on the luxurious Queen Elizabeth ship to New York City. A delightful array of characters become suspects of a crime on t...
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    18,70 €

  • Bullseye
    Skye Taylor
    Bullseye is the debut book of the new whodunit Jesse Quinn Detective Series. A. E. Howe, author of the Larry Macklin Mysteries says that Bullseye is, “A fast paced whodunit with lots of surprises! Deputy Jesse Quinn is a welcome new addition for mystery lovers.”Jesse Quinn, the only female detective on the major crimes squad in St. John’s County Florida, and her partner Rafe ar...
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    10,68 €

  • The Belfry Murder
    Moray Dalton
    “If I meet any dragons I’ll run away.”When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War, she brings with her jewels belonging to the ill-fated Romanoffs, including a famous emerald, the Eye of Nero. Mary dies of pneumonia a few days after reaching England, in a room over her brother’s antique shop. What has become of th...
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    13,40 €

  • The Belgrave Manor Crime
    Moray Dalton
    “It is believed locally that her death was accidental, but I’m afraid—”Our story begins with psychic investigator Cosmo Thor meeting Madame Luna, a fortune teller down on her luck. Madame Luna shortly tries to make desperate contact with Thor, but without success. Concerned, Thor consults his friend, Hugh Collier of Scotland Yard, and learns that Madame Luna may be a woman foun...
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    13,61 €

  • The Condamine Case
    Moray Dalton
    “’Tes a queer place seemingly. . . . Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks, hair blowing like smoke in the gale. ’T’esn’t a place to be out alone at night.”In London, rising young movie director Stephen Latimer learns of a gentrified family in Somerset with an old history of witchcraft and haunting. Scenting an excellent subjec...
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    13,52 €

  • The Case of Alan Copeland
    Moray Dalton
    “I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?”“There was death in it.”The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed bag. The schoolmistress is an artist manqué, her quick brain wasted for lack of opportunity. There is old Mrs. Simmons at the filling station, gloating over her discreditable past, and bullying her flighty young daughter. The fastidious Rev...
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    13,48 €

  • Death and the Professor
    E. & M.A. Radford
    “Tell me, did he commit suicide, or was he killed in his room; and if so how a murderer killed and vanished leaving no trace within a minute?”The Dilettantes Club is a gathering of five savants who dine once a fortnight in Soho, and debate any problem besetting mankind. One evening, into this distinguished company, there intrudes a Professor of Logic and Philosophy, an odd litt...
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    13,57 €

  • The Heel of Achilles
    E. & M.A. Radford
    It was at that moment that Jack knew he had to kill.The trouble began during a holiday in Paignton. When Jack met Mary, his future wife, he also met James Sprogson, a charming villain bent on destroying the couple’s happiness. Mary distrusted Sprogson but Jack regarded him as a good fellow who drank and gambled a little too much, perhaps, but was harmless and likeable. However,...
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    13,35 €

  • Death of a Frightened Editor
    E. & M.A. Radford
    Alexis Mortensen rose from his chair in the first-class Pullman and walked into the corridor.None of the remaining occupants noticed that he had left them until after Death, travelling at 60 miles an hour, had reached out for him . . .Seven men and a woman were in the first-class coach of a train from London to Brighton. They had travelled together each evening for months. That...
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    13,50 €

  • The Burglar in Short Order
    Lawrence Block
    Four decades ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced the world to one of his most beloved and enduring creations: Bernie Rhodenbarr, the clever, nimble-fingered star of novels such as Burglars Can't Be Choosers, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, and The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. Called “the Heifetz of the picklock” by the New York ...
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    15,25 €

  • The Burglar in Short Order
    Lawrence Block
    Four decades ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced the world to one of his most beloved and enduring creations: Bernie Rhodenbarr, the clever, nimble-fingered star of novels such as Burglars Can't Be Choosers, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, and The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. Called “the Heifetz of the picklock” by the New York ...
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    22,13 €

  • The Art School Murders
    Moray Dalton
    “I’m worried. . . .This damned black-out. I’m afraid of what may happen in the dark.”Artists’ model Althea Greville was, in life, known as something of a femme fatale. But the phrase becomes only too literal. What initially appears to be red paint leads instead to Althea’s dead body, murdered in Morosini’s renowned school of art. Hugh Collier of Scotland Yard is called in, but ...
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    13,52 €


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