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  • Grim and Proper
    Shana Hellman
    Small town etiquette columnist Hope Springs is the latest victim of a murder—only she isn’t the  one who died… Determined to celebrate her birthday with quiet decorum, Hope's peace is shattered when she witnesses the hit and run death of Eugene Schreier, the pretentious food critic at her paper, and Jezebel, his equally exasperating dog.  To make a troubling situation wor...
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    14,16 €

  • Just Another Innocent Life
    Algernon
    BASED on ACTUAL EVENTS: Masterfully crafted from the life and experiences of author Algernon, ‘Just Another Innocent Life’ fuses fact with fiction to embroil readers not only in the murder of a police detective’s daughter, but the scandal that could leave one young African American thrown behind bars for a crime he had no involvement in. That young man was Algernon, a maveric...
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    20,82 €

  • Savage Highway
    Richard Godwin
    Women are disappearing on the highway, a drifter hunts the men who raped her, and a journalist discovers law has broken down in the area.On a remote highway in Arizona women are disappearing at truck stops. Journalist Johnny Sullivan travels to the area to investigate. He encounters hitchhiker Patty, who is being hunted by violent trucker Red. Patty tells Johnny of the local my...
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    13,70 €

  • The Housewife Assassin’s Vacation to Die For
    Josie Brown
    IN BOOK 5 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:A nude sunbathing serial killer, a Lord of the Flies 'tween takeover, poison-dart throwing pygmies... Talk about a fantasy (nightmare?) island!An NSA scientist has disappeared with a deadly plague virus. Donna and Jack must find him before it is unleashed on Fantasy Island, home of three very different resorts:Like Kamp KidStuff, w...
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    18,13 €

  • Jack-in-the-Box
    J. J. Connington / JJConnington
    'Again Sir Clinton Driffield, an old favorite with Connington fans, gets into action with all his usual acumen, and the unraveling of another mystery proceeds under his suave direction to its inevitable outcome.'Jack-in-the-Box opens with the discovery of a Viking’s hoard of gold, stolen many centuries ago from a Norman abbey and accidentally unearthed during an archaeologist’s...
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    22,32 €

  • Spell Found
    Leighann Dobbs
    When the Blackmoore sisters travel to Salem Massachusetts in search of an ancient energy infused relic that has been hidden away since the 1692 Salem witch trials, they find themselves up to their elbows in witches, ghosts and cats ... not to mention murder.The sisters must depend on their paranormal detective skills to find the location of the relic before one of them becomes ...
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    8,22 €

  • And They Called It Suicide
    Miryam Tamar
    Samantha moves to Tavern County, a small town where she discovers a century's old dark secret waiting to be unleashed. Travis, devastated by a murder-deemed suicide, refuses to trust the only person that will bring to light the horrifying truth of a young woman's demise. Nathaniel, torn between the new girl in town and his inseparable twin, tries to find a way for the two to ...
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    10,70 €

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey
    Hulbert Footner
    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and...
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    23,35 €

  • The Adventures of Madame Storey
    Hulbert Footner
    "She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and...
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    23,48 €

  • One for the Money, Two for the Sluice
    Albert Noyer
    Fr. “Jake” Jakubowski, a 70-year-old Michigan priest temporarily assigned to a New Mexican village, helps Detective Sonia Mora investigate a fetus found in an irrigation sluice, which prompts reopening a cold case about the death of a wealthy rancher’s wife. The picketing of a soldier’s funeral that turns deadly; a brash anthropologist’s excavation for Civil ...
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    13,99 €

  • The Complete Adventures of Romney Pringle
    John J. Pitcairn / John JPitcairn / R. Austin Freeman / RAustin Freeman
    Romney Pringle, poor literary agent and avid cyclist, is in truth a conman of the highest caliber. The complete twelve stories are included in this volume. This criminal rogue is a well-deserved member of 'Queen’s Quorum' of influential and important mystery and crime stories. ...
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    18,72 €

  • The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 3
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This volume includes two classic G. K. Chesterton novels, and his play, Magic. The Ball and the Cross is a religio-political fantasy, as a Catholic and an atheist try to keep ahead of the law in order to fight a duel. Manalive brings a man on trial, where nothing is as it seems. (It is a brilliant commentary on a man in search of himself and what he truly values.) Magic: A Fant...
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    24,46 €

  • A Strange Discovery (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Romyn Dake
    A Strange Discovery is an 1899 novel by Charles Romyn Dake and is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket which was published in 1838. It follows the experiences of the narrator, an Englishman, during his stay in Bellevue, Illinois, and his encounter with Dirk Peters, Pym’s sailor companion in Poe’s novel. On his deathbed, Peters relates th...
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    22,22 €

  • At the Villa Rose (Esprios Classics)
    A. E. W. Mason / AEWMason
    At the Villa Rose is a 1910 detective novel by the British writer AEW Mason, the first to feature his character Inspector Hanaud. The story became Mason’s most successful novel of his lifetime. It was adapted by him as a stage play in 1920, and was used as the basis for four film adaptions between 1920 and 1940.Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was an English author and politician. H...
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    23,67 €

  • Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror (Esprios Classics)
    Richard Linthicum
    A Comprehensive and Connected Account of the Terrible Tragedy that Befell the People of Our Golden City-The Metropolis of the Golden Gate, and the Death and Ruin Dealt Many Adjacent Cities and Surrounding Country. Destroying Earthquake Comes Without Warning, in the Early Hours of the Morning; Immense Structures Topple and Crumble; Great Leland Stanford University Succumbs; Wat...
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    29,68 €

  • The Passenger From Scotland Yard (Esprios Classics)
    H. Freeman Wood / HFreeman Wood
    'The night mail for the Continent stood ready to glide out of the London terminus, the leave-taking friends assembled in small groups upon the platform before the carriage doors were reiterating last messages and once more exchanging promises to ’write, ’ when a hard-featured, thick-set gentleman who had been peering out of a second-class window drew back with a slight exclamat...
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    26,72 €

  • A Fascinating Traitor (Esprios Classics)
    Richard Henry Savage
    Richard Henry Savage was an American military officer and author who wrote more than 40 books of adventure and mystery, based loosely on his own experiences. Savage’s eloquent, witty, dashing and daring life may have been the inspiration for the pulp novel character Doc Savage. ...
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    27,49 €

  • The House by the Lock (Esprios Classics)
    A. M. Williamson / AMWilliamson
    Alice Muriel Williamson was an American-British novelist. She was born in America, the daughter of Mark Livingston of Poughkeepsie. She came to England when young. In 1894, soon after arrival in England, she married the magazine editor Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920), 'the first editor to whom she presented an introduction.' Many of her books were jointly written with her...
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    21,79 €

  • Beyond the Autumn
    Guy Burchett
    A death on the London Underground leads to the discovery in the dead man’s bag of a severed human hand. Clutched in it is a note, warning the female journalist to whom it’s addressed: ’you need to back off, so let us give you a hand.’ When the journalist disappears, her editor enlists her ex-boyfriend - a former soldier and journalist, still suffering from his physical and ment...
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    12,21 €

  • Mary Louise in the Country (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Van Dyne
    'Edith Van Dyne' is the pseudonym under which L. Frank Baum penned a popular series of novels for younger audiences. This is book 2 in the Mary Louise detective series for children. ...
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    22,93 €

  • Mary Louise and Josie O’Gorman (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Van Dyne
    Book 8 in the Mary Louise detective series for children created by L. Frank Baum. This book was written by Emma Speed Sampson, writing as Edith Van Dyne. Sampson continued the Mary Louise series of girls’ novels after the death of its creator L. Frank Baum. In this book Josie goes to great lengths to find the truth behind two young 'orphans’' claim: that their mother is still a...
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    21,46 €

  • Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Van Dyne
    'Edith Van Dyne' is the pseudonym under which L. Frank Baum penned a popular series of novels for younger audiences. In this tale, indefatigable heroine Mary Louise finds out that her beloved grandfather has been accused of treason and works tirelessly to clear his name and restore his reputation. ...
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    22,19 €

  • The Shadow Kingdom (Esprios Classics)
    Robert E. Howard / Robert EHoward
    Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural...
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    18,38 €

  • The Tomb’s Secret (Esprios Classics)
    Robert E. Howard / Robert EHoward
    Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural...
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    18,35 €

  • From Curiosity to Obsession
    Georgina Antoinette
    The more clues and pieces to the puzzle are acquired, the more stress is put on the relationship between Dimitris and Helena. Helen’s answer to any conflict with Dimi is to flee, get away to think and calm down. It doesn’t always work. Thugs and the problems they present keeps the couple on alert, for more trouble. Since the little picture of a child, which Helena bought as a s...
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    20,17 €

  • The Price of the Puzzle
    Georgina Antoinette
    Helen couldn’t stop asking questions. Threats from petty criminals to surrender the photograph, are more serious than she thought. When she finds that the crime boss and his cronies have been seen in Rhodes, her stubborn streak still wouldn’t allow her to comply with their demands.. It only made her more curious. Her relationship with Dimitris is on thin ice. She left Dimi out ...
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    21,62 €

  • The Count’s Chauffeur (Esprios Classics)
    William Le Queux
    William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927) was a British journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat and a traveler. He also was a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available. He studied painting in Paris. He was foreign editor of The Globe newspaper during the 1890s. He wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage,...
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    25,18 €

  • Nuts for Future Historians to Crack (Esprios Classics)
    Horace W. Smith / Horace WSmith
    'For some years I had been engaged in collecting material for a life of my great grandfather, the Rev. William Smith, D. D., Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and in doing so, I read all the Bibliographical and Historical works which I thought could in any way make mention of him. In no case did I find anything said against his character as a man, until I read Wm. B. R...
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    20,31 €

  • The Rosicrucian Mysteries (Esprios Classics)
    Max Heindel
    Rosicrucianism is a spiritual and cultural movement which arose in Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts which purported to announce the existence of a hitherto unknown esoteric order to the world and made seeking its knowledge attractive to many. The mysterious doctrine of the order is 'built on esoteric truths of the ancient past', which 'con...
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    20,64 €

  • Hessdalen Lights! - What’s happening in the Norwegian mountains?
    Nils Ofstad
    The Hessdalen valley, Norway - is the world’s number one UFO hotspot; nowhere else have more UFOs been seen over a longer time span. - And the sightings continue! ...
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    25,46 €