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  • A Deadly Tonic
    VL McBeath
    Murder, intrigue, and an armchair sleuth. Eliza Thomson Investigates...A suspicious death, a mysterious note, and some cryptic mumbling.An early morning visitor disturbs the peace at the London townhouse of Dr Archie Thomson and his wife, Eliza.Supported by money from her wealthy father, Eliza is educated well beyond her peers, and spends her time solving the crimes she reads a...
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    8,47 €

  • 89 Manning Place
    J.B. Bass
    Adapted from the journals of Detective Chief Inspector James Bartholomew Bass..Following their honourable discharge bearing full military honours from many years of distinguished service with the British Army and Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s Covert Special Forces Unit, Major James Bartholomew Bass and Commander Alan Tiberius Blackmore are immediately recruited into the service ...
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    11,78 €

  • The Watanabe Name
    Sakura Nobeyama
    PenCraft Award 2019 Winner - Historical Fiction"...flawlessly well-written mystery with a captivating plot that offers a dark perspective on family unity.” –IndieReaderJapanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the secrets surrounding his father’s murder for many years. When a detective calls in 2002 hoping to solve the case with new information, Kenji takes im...
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    25,07 €

  • The Red Diaries
    Gary Reed
    It started with a single Red Diary. Inside it contained all the secrets that the owner had listened to and talked about with her lovers. She wrote down everything in there. Her lovers were powerful men and when she threatened to go public with it, she died. Murdered? Perhaps. But the diary went missing. The woman was Marilyn Monroe and her lovers included President John F. Kenn...
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    19,28 €

  • PRIMA FACIE
    Ruth Downie
    A tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal in Roman Gaul. A novella from the author of bestseller MEDICUS, featuring reluctant investigator Ruso and his partner Tilla.  It's AD 123 and the sun is shining on southern Gaul. Ex-military medic Ruso and his British wife Tilla are back after a long absence - but it's not the reunion anyone had hoped for.Ruso's brother has l...
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    8,01 €

  • Bones of the Innocent
    John A. Connell
    Former U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins grapples with a web of lies, secrets, and murder as he races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case as twisted as the streets of Tangier’s medina.1946. Tangier, MoroccoAfter Mason busted up a powerful crime ring in occupied Germany, a shadowy organization has put a contract out on his life. He thought he’d elud...
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    15,76 €

  • Murder at the Boat Club
    Lee Strauss
    Murder's a Bad Stroke of Luck!River Thames boat races between the London University colleges are popular events, and Mrs. Ginger Reed is excited to attend for the first time, especially since the son of a good friend of her new husband, Chief Inspector Basil Reed, is racing. When a very unusual murder presents itself at the boat club,  Lady Gold’s Investigations is hired to...
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    11,64 €

  • Walking with Ghosts on Ward's Pond
    Heidi Sprouse
    In 1906, the murder of Grace Brown rocked the nation. It was considered the trial of the century, capturing the imaginations of people coast to coast after a skirt factory worker, Grace Brown, was found dead in Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks of New York. Her lover, Chester Gillette, nephew of the owner of the Gillette Skirt Factory, was found to be the main suspect. His moti...
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    9,44 €

  • Blood on the Roses
    Robert Hays
    In 1955, at the height of alarm over the Emmett Till murder in Mississippi and after the Supreme Court ruling against school segregation, Associated Press reporter Rachel Feigen travels from Baltimore to Tennessee to report on a missing person case.Guy Saillot’s last contact with his family was a postcard from the Tennessee Bend Motel, a seedy establishment situated on beautifu...
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    20,11 €

  • The Last One to Murder
    Eric Reese
    'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves' - ConfuciusVengeance is always a double-edged sword. Once you start down that path, there is often no turning back. Xuan Lang wants revenge now. A man already dead inside - with room for nothing else.Six soldiers and their Vietnamese translator, raped and murdered his wife and daughter in cold blood. Xuan has one missi...
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    17,77 €

  • The Merchant of Menace
    Richard T Ryan
    Reluctantly, Sherlock Holmes agrees to assist Inspector Lestrade who is being hounded by an obnoxious nobleman whose jewel-encrusted dagger has gone missing. However, what Holmes initially believes to be a simple theft turns out instead to be his first encounter with a master criminal, who is as ruthless as he is brilliant, and whom Watson dubs “The Merchant of Menace.”Soon Hol...
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    27,85 €

  • The Literary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1 and 2
    Daniel D Victor
    The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature.  All have connections to the world of belles lettres, the world of literature—some to celebrated authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers . . . . Let others plumb this collection for more subtle themes.  From Maupassant to Stevenson to Fitzgerald,...
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    31,34 €

  • Flight to Destiny
    R. N. Echols / RNEchols
    Elijah Conner Pennington is a private investigator specializing in cold cases.  His published cases are based on actual events and are chronicled in his first cold case in a book titled COLT ACE, while his second adventure is presented in the author's book titled MOTOR dynasty.  Conner's cases are fast paced, with exotic vehicles rushing through the pages, along with ro...
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    18,83 €

  • The Bone Field
    Leonard Krishtalka
    New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones.  Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a des...
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    17,39 €

  • TELEPHONE LINE
    Julie Mulhern
    A killer is calling, and Ellison’s life is on the line.Ellison Russell is planning the event of the season—and she’s stressed. Why not yoga?Because the yoga instructor gets murdered during class—and Ellison’s stress level rises exponentially. Now, in addition to raising a ridiculous amount of money, she’s babysitting a deranged cat (named after the devil himself), taking ten mi...
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    15,78 €

  • The Spymaster’s Brother
    Anna Castle
    Anthony Bacon returns after thirteen years in France to live in his brother’s house at Gray’s Inn. Though seldom strong enough to leave his rooms, his gouty legs never hinder his agile mind. He’s built the most valuable intelligence service in Europe. Now the Bacon brothers are ready to offer it to the patron with the deepest pockets.Then Francis finds a body lying near Anthony...
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    14,71 €

  • Manners and Monsters
    Tilly Wallace
    A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation. Except Hannah d...
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    13,74 €

  • An Unwelcome Guest
    Emily Organ
    Which guest has committed murder?Some say the Hotel Tempesta is cursed, but its owner, Mr Gallo, refuses to believe it. When he’s brutally murdered one night, the suspicion falls on his guests. Ten suspects in total. And Penny Green is one of them.Does Mr Gallo’s murder have anything to do with the criminal mastermind on the run from America? Penny and Inspector James Blakely m...
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    23,33 €

  • Sherlock Holmes El Secreto de la Caja de Sándalo
    Ana María Trigo
    Valle de los Reyes, Egipto, 1880. Un joven arqueólogo inglés está a punto de descubrir la tumba de un importante dignatario egipcio que ha permanecido intacta durante casi tres mil años. En su interior le aguardan tesoros de un valor incalculable pero también, y sobre todo, un secreto que ha dormido durante siglos y que puede hacer realidad el mayor de sus deseos.Londres, tres ...
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    16,23 €

  • The Art of Sherlock Holmes
    Phil Growick
    The Art of Sherlock Holmes is a totally unique experience. Imagine a dozen or more of the finest artists in the U.S. creating art for some the best new short stories written by some of the finest Holmes authors in the world. Each artist has envisioned their version of one story specifically selected for them. All stories and art in one large, hardcover, coffee table presentatio...
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    75,59 €

  • The Art of Sherlock Holmes
    Steve Emecz
    The Art of Sherlock Holmes is a totally unique experience. Imagine a dozen or more of the finest artists in the U.S. creating art for some the best new short stories written by some of the finest Holmes authors in the world. Each artist has envisioned their version of one story specifically selected for them. All stories and art in one large, hardcover, coffee table presentatio...
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    68,96 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XIII
    David Marcum
    Part XIII: Derrick Belanger, Mark Mower, Brenda Seabrook, David Marcum, Robert Stapleton, S.F. Bennett, Edwin A. Enstrom, M.J.H. Simmonds, Andrew Bryant, Tim Gambrell, Tracy Revels, Hugh Ashton, Sean M. Wright, Marino C. Alvarez, Paul Hiscock, Arthur Hall, Kevin P. Thornton, Stephen Seitz, Jim French, David Friend, Shane Simmons, Peter Coe Verbica, and Mark Wardecker with a Poe...
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    55,94 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XIV
    David Marcum
    Part XIV: Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Mark Sohn, David Marcum, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard,Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Arthur Hall, GC Rosenquist. Edwin A. Enstrom, Jayantika Ganguly,C.H. Dye, Matthew Booth, Stephen Herczeg, Geri Schear, Liz Hedgecock, Carl Heifetz, Gayle Lange Puhl, Harry DeMaio, I.A. Watson, and Thomas A. Burns, Jr. with a Poem by Jacquelynn Morris ...
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    30,62 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XV
    David Marcum
    Part XV: Mark Mower, Thomas Fortenberry, Robert Perret, Tracy J. Revels, Robert Stapleton, Peter Coe Verbica, Maurice Barkley, Edward A. Enstrom, William Todd, Roger Riccard, Kelvin Jones, Arthur Hall, Jack Grochot, David Marcum, Dick Gillman, Will Murray, Tim Symonds, Mike Hogan, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, Nick Cardillo, and Darryl Webber with Two Poems by Christopher J...
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    55,76 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XV
    David Marcum
    Part XV: Mark Mower, Thomas Fortenberry, Robert Perret, Tracy J. Revels, Robert Stapleton, Peter Coe Verbica, Maurice Barkley, Edward A. Enstrom, William Todd, Roger Riccard, Kelvin Jones, Arthur Hall, Jack Grochot, David Marcum, Dick Gillman, Will Murray, Tim Symonds, Mike Hogan, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, Nick Cardillo, and Darryl Webber with Two Poems by Christopher J...
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    30,53 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XIV
    David Marcum
    Part XIV: Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Mark Sohn, David Marcum, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Arthur Hall, GC Rosenquist. Edwin A. Enstrom, Jayantika Ganguly, C.H. Dye, Matthew Booth, Stephen Herczeg, Geri Schear, Liz Hedgecock, Carl Heifetz, Gayle Lange Puhl, Harry DeMaio, I.A. Watson, and Thomas A. Burns, Jr. with a Poem by Jacquelynn Morri...
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    55,85 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XIII
    David Marcum
    Part XIII: Derrick Belanger, Mark Mower, Brenda Seabrook, David Marcum, Robert Stapleton, S.F. Bennett, Edwin A. Enstrom, M.J.H. Simmonds, Andrew Bryant, Tim Gambrell, Tracy Revels, Hugh Ashton, Sean M. Wright, Marino C. Alvarez, Paul Hiscock, Arthur Hall, Kevin P. Thornton, Stephen Seitz, Jim French, David Friend, Shane Simmons, Peter Coe Verbica, and Mark Wardecker with a Poe...
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    30,71 €

  • The Adventure of the Bloody Steps
    Hugh Ashton
    Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from a vicar's wife in Staffordshire, telling him that she has seen the ghost of a young woman who was raped and murdered some sixty years previously. The body was carried up a flight of steps from the canal where shere it was found, and local legend has it that the unfortunate woman's ghost can be seen, and that the steps are still sta...
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    3,83 €

  • The Mystery of Ruby's Roulette
    Rose Donovan
    A secret mission to Lisbon.A murder at the casino.And a killer gambling on escape.New Year's Eve, 1935.The clink of champagne flutes mingles with the rattle of the roulette ball. Fina’s on a winning streak. But just as she’s about to celebrate, someone gasps, chokes, and slides to the floor. The Portuguese police treat it as a crime passionel, but Ruby and Fina have other i...
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    12,41 €

  • The Mystery of Ruby's Roulette
    Rose Donovan
    A secret mission to Lisbon.A murder at the casino.And a killer gambling on escape.New Year's Eve, 1935.The clink of champagne flutes mingles with the rattle of the roulette ball. Fina’s on a winning streak. But just as she’s about to celebrate, someone gasps, chokes, and slides to the floor. The Portuguese police treat it as a crime passionel, but Ruby and Fina have other i...
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    13,67 €