Misterios históricos

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  • Murder on the Boardwalk
    Lee Strauss
    Murder's such a shock!When Rosa Reed—aka WPC Reed of the Metropolitan Police—and her cousin Gloria decide to spend a fun-filled afternoon in 1956 at the fair on the boardwalk in Santa Bonita, California, they're in for a shocking surprise. After a ride assistant's death by electrocution is determined to be murder, Rosa finds herself entangled once again with her hig...
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    11,80 €

  • The Black Tower
    Louis Bayard
    From the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln. In The Black Tower, Louis Bayard deftly interweaves political intrigue, epic treachery, cover-ups, and conspiracies into a gripping portrait of family redemption--and brings to life an indelible portrait of the mighty and profane Eugène François Vidocq, history’s legendary investigator.Vidocq. Master of disguise and chief of a newly cre...
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    15,08 €

  • The Lost Boys of London
    Mary Lawrence
    In Mary Lawrence's fifth Bianca Goddard mystery set during the final years of Henry VIII's reign, the alchemist's daughter uses her skills to aid the living and helps seek justice for the dead...While her husband fights the Scots for King Henry VIII, Bianca Goddard earns her coin by concocting medicines that offer relief to London's sick. Some unfortunates, howe...
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    14,71 €

  • The Greek Coins Affair
    Rick Adelmann
    “Mallory and Garth are destined to become icons in the jazz age, historical mystery genre. They are private investigators with flair!” –Connie Shelton, USA Today bestselling author A fortune in stolen antiquities, a bag of loose diamonds, and two dead men. It’s bitter cold in February, 1918, when Pinkerton detective Sherwood Garth is assigned to team up with Major James Mallory...
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    12,72 €

  • Lady Rosamund and the Poison Pen
    Barbara Monajem
    Lady Rosamund Phipps, daughter of an earl, has a secret. Well, more than one. Such as the fact that she’s so uninterested in sex that she married a man who promised to leave her alone and stick to his mistress. And a secret only her family knows—the mortifying compulsion to check things over and over. Society condemns people like her to asylums. But when she discovers the dead ...
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    13,38 €

  • The Battling Prophet
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby. Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens - but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it was...
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    22,38 €

  • Man of Two Tribes
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Myra Thomas, apparently dressed only in nightgown and slippers, has walked off the train somewhere along the 650 kilometres of track that crosses the Nullarbor Plain. With two camels and a dog, Bony begins to search the desert in search of her. He finds more than he bargins for - only to find a group of people imprisoned in the extensive limestone caves beneath the desert plain...
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    24,73 €

  • The Will of the Tribe
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    It is in a harsh and eerie landscape - the crater formed by the meteor they called "The Stranger" - that another stranger is found... dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who was he? How had he died? No tracks around the crater and no stranger in town. It soon becomes obvious to Bony that b...
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    22,45 €

  • Big Shots and Bullet Holes
    B. David Spicer / BDavid Spicer
    Cincinnati, 1942.The secret to being a grifter is changing up the con so the rubes don’t realize they’re being taken.Kissy Lisbon’s spent years honing her skills as a con-woman, but as the war in Europe drags on, things get tough in the Queen City.Her new scheme: hiring herself out as a private eye. Her first client has a missing daughter, the missing daughter has a German boyf...
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    17,41 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Perplexed Politician
    Margaret Walsh
    When the fiancé of the sister of a Member of Parliament is found dead in mysterious circumstances, the man turns to Sherlock Holmes and John Watson to get an answer to the puzzle.  Journeying to the small Wiltshire village of Barrow-upon-Kennet, Holmes and Watson are soon deep into a murder investigation.  With few clues and a mounting death toll, Holmes and Watson realise that...
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    18,56 €

  • Crimes and Survivors
    Sarah Smith
    It's 1912, the era of Jim Crow and lynchings. A young society woman learns that her grandfather, the grandfather she barely knows, may be passing for white. She has a family. She has a child. She can't be black. It will ruin all their lives. She follows him onto the newest, safest, biggest ship in the world to find a truth she can live with. But after the iceberg, she f...
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    18,37 €

  • Crimes and Survivors
    Sarah Smith
    It's 1912. America is the land of Jim Crow, of lynchings and segregation.  And a young white concert pianist has just discovered that the grandfather she barely knows may be black. She has a family. She has a child. She can’t be black, because her brothers and sisters and son can’t be. She can’t be black, because she couldn’t play the piano in America. She follows her grand...
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    11,96 €

  • Der Rote Hügel
    David Penny / Elisabeth Mühlfeld
    Maurisches Spanien, 1482: GranadaEin Mörder, der nicht aufgehalten werden kann. Eine Bitte, die nicht abgewiesen werden kann.Der Engländer und Arzt Thomas Berrington ist ein unfreiwilliger Freund des Sultans von Granada, dem mächtigsten Mann im Königreich Al-Andalus. Als im Palast Leichen auftauchen, von denen jede einzelne Spuren eines grausamen Angriffs aufweist, wird Thomas ...
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    17,73 €

  • The Lincoln Deception (A Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery, Book 1)
    David O Stewart
    “A taut, suspenseful, terrifically well-researched historical thriller about the greatest crime of the 19th Century.” ~William Martin, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Lincoln Letter and Bound for Gold.In 1900, former Congressman John Bingham tells his doctor, Jamie Fraser, about a terrible secret he learned thirty-five years ago while prosecuting John Wilkes Booth’s co...
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    17,40 €

  • After the Scandal
    Elizabeth Essex
    In English society, the rules of engagement have stood the test of time. Until a Reckless Bride falls in deeply, scandalously in love… CAN AN INDECENT PROPOSALWhen Lady Claire Jellicoe agreed to a walk in the moonlight, she never imagined her titled companion might have brutal motives. Nor could she have dreamed up such a brave rescue by the most unexpected savior of all: an in...
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    14,46 €

  • Mrs. Hudson Takes The Stage (Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street Book 6)
    Barry Brown
    September, 1901. Fresh from a run of more than 260 performances in New York, the play, Sherlock Holmes, opens at London's Lyceum Theatre. In attendance are Mrs. Hudson, Dr. Watson and Holmes, the renowned detective attending in disguise, concerned that he is somewhat too renowned and thereby likely to be pestered for his opinion about a play he is determined to detest. As i...
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    18,47 €

  • A Death of Innocence
    David Penny
    May 1453: Lemster, the English MarchesWhen thirteen-year-old Thomas Berrington is attacked by a group of boys on his way home he believes it is just another beating he must take—until one of the boys is found dead, and Thomas is accused of the murder.Fighting to save his reputation and his life Thomas is distracted by his feelings toward a girl his father would disapprove of: t...
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    11,60 €

  • A Very English Murder
    Verity Bright
    Move over Miss Marple, there’s a new sleuth in town! Meet Eleanor Swift: distinguished adventurer, dog lover, dignified lady… daring detective? England, 1920. Eleanor Swift has spent the last few years travelling the world: taking tea in China, tasting alligators in Peru, escaping bandits in Persia and she has just arrived in England after a chaotic forty-five-day flight from S...
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    11,50 €

  • Last Man Out
    R.W. Chatman / R.WChatman
    The last weekend of May 1944, a saboteur is finalizing his plans to destroy the town of Scarlet Tanager, Kentucky, and its coal industry for the sake of his reputation, the fatherland, and the Fuhrer. The innocent will suffer, the uncommitted will cower, those who care will rally, blood will be spilt, fuses will be lit, and the Earth will shake.“Sergeant Jones,” 82nd Airborne, ...
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    17,74 €

  • Double Woods
    Wilson Roberts
    In the early spring of 1944, three nine-year-old boys bicycle to Double Woods, a patch of second and third growth woodland just beyond the borough limits of Newtown, Pennsylvania.  While playing there, they find the body of a young woman, Penny Ringle, buried under a mattress in a make-shift dump.  The town’s new police chief, Stan Burns, back from the war after being wounded i...
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    36,63 €

  • Double Woods
    Wilson Roberts
    In the early spring of 1944, three nine-year-old boys bicycle to Double Woods, a patch of second and third growth woodland just beyond the borough limits of Newtown, Pennsylvania.  While playing there, they find the body of a young woman, Penny Ringle, buried under a mattress in a make-shift dump.  The town’s new police chief, Stan Burns, back from the war after being wounded i...
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    28,84 €

  • Waiting for Sunshine
    Isabella Muir
    A glimpse of life through the eyes of a child.Libby Frobisher is just three years old when she first meets her father. He brings fun and laughter into the Frobisher household, but over the next few years his visits are so infrequent it is like waiting for Christmas to come around. Libby has so many questions about her dad, but her mum and gran seem reluctant to provide any answ...
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    4,58 €

  • 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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    55,59 €

  • 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 €

  • Rat City
    Curt Colbert
    Who is Big Ed and why does he wanmt detective Jake Rossiter Pushing up daisies? To find out. Rossiter- with the help of his able bodied girl Friday, Miss Jenkins - digs through layers of vice and violence in Seattle's seamy underbelly, until he uncovers a case of corruption and prejudice that pits him toe to-toe with hysterical dames, out of town muscle and the entire Rat C...
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    13,62 €

  • A Shot in the Dark
    Matthew Costello / Neil Richards
    Sussex, England, 1929.Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But things are about to liven up there considerably, when young Sir Harry Mortimer returns home from his government posting in Cairo, with his unconventional American wife – Kat Reilly.No sooner have the two arrived, when a jewel robbery occurs at Harry's aunt's home – Mydworth Man...
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    11,61 €

  • London Calling!
    Matthew Costello / Neil Richards
    SUSSEX, ENGLAND. 1929.Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London.  But even in this idyllic spot, crime is never far away...Luckily, the young and adventurous Sir Harry Mortimer has returned to Mydworth from his diplomatic post in Cairo with his unconventional American wife, Kat. And between them they are a match for anything – even murder.LONDON CALLING...
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    11,74 €

  • Murder Wore A Mask
    Matthew Costello / Neil Richards
    SUSSEX, ENGLAND, 1929.Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But even in this idyllic spot, crime is never far away… Luckily the young and adventurous Sir Harry Mortimer has returned to Mydworth from his diplomatic posting in Cairo, with his unconventional American wife, Kat. And between them they are a match for anything - even murder.MURDER WORE A...
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    11,69 €

  • Rossio Square N.°59
    Jeannine Johnson Maia / TBD
    April 1941: After fleeing wartime France alone, seventeen-year-old Claire arrives in Lisbon to stay with her less-than-welcoming uncle. While she waits desperately for her family and the ship they're supposed to take to America, she begins a search for two young refugee children she’d promised to take care of, who have gone missing.Antonio, an aspiring artist and occasional...
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    10,91 €

  • A Little Night Murder
    Matthew Costello / Neil Richards / TBD
    SUSSEX, ENGLAND, 1929.Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But even in this idyllic spot, crime is never far away… Luckily the young and adventurous Sir Harry Mortimer has returned to Mydworth from his diplomatic posting in Cairo, with his unconventional American wife, Kat. And between them they are a match for anything - even murder.A LITTLE NIGH...
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    11,69 €


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