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  • A Road Full of Demons
    Brick Jordan
    He gave up his throne for the woman he loved. But now the Duke of Windsor is missing.This stunning mystery proposes that England’s former king, Edward VIII, disappeared in the early months of World War II.The questions arise: Has the Duke of Windsor been kidnapped, or has he defected to Nazi Germany? Is he vying to regain his throne in an alliance with England’s enemies?Questio...
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    17,24 €

  • Sayonaraville
    Curt Colbert
    Who choped off insuance agent Henry Jamison's head with a Samurai sword? While trying to figue this out, Seattle Private eye Jake Rossiter also has to deal with his recently promoted junior partner - who iMiss Jenkins- who's about to take on the Hashimoto Family as clients for her first official case. As the clues and danger mount, Rossiter and Miss Jenkins take more tw...
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    13,96 €

  • The Mountains Have a Secret
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policeman sent to investigate has been murdered. Bonaparte visits the lonely hotel where the girls were last seen, and meets up with the suave proprietor, his strangely terrified father, an ex-US paratrooper with a penchant for knife-throwing, and a talking parrot...All in all, this is a hi...
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    22,38 €

  • Cake in the Hat Box
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Sinister stones... On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His Aboriginal tracker has disappeared. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realizes that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal tribe is seeking vengeance too...Fascinating in its treatment of outback life, and reveals cl...
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    22,48 €

  • Bony Buys a Woman
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Deep in Australia's outback, a woman has been murdered, her daughter vanished. Ole Fren Yorky, a crazy wanderer, is known to have been in the area, and his footprints have been identified near the body. When he too disappears, even the Aboriginal trackers are baffled. Bony's approach changes everything...It becomes one of Bony's great adventures... He pictures the m...
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    22,45 €

  • A Scottish Fling
    VL McBeath
    Long held secrets, revenge, and murder. Eliza Thomson Investigates...A suspicious accident, a hand-written note, and an old parish priest.A home coming doesn’t go as planned in St Giles; a small village nestled on the east coast of Scotland.Widow, mother and former beauty, Mrs Scott once walked away from all things dear to her.She’s a woman with a past, and now she’s back, dete...
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    15,95 €

  • Ghost Story
    G. V. Pearce
    John Watson loves his husband, but he'd like Sherlock Holmes to leave this case alone.They're supposed to be taking a break from London and from work, but when has Sherlock's brain ever taken a holiday? And honestly, the disappearance of Gloria Evans bothers them both - though for very different reasons.Not every case has to be high stakes.Not everything is a matter...
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    14,27 €

  • The Complete Tales of the Scientific Club
    Ray Cummings
    One of the most historically significant Twentieth Century science fiction series ever published is at last collected. A pioneer in pulp science fiction, Ray Cummings inspired an entirely-new fiction genre with his influential story originally published in 1919, The Girl in the Golden Atom, which introduced the world to a series of short stories and novels known as his “Matter,...
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    145,75 €

  • Shadow of Death
    Jean Sorrell
    1940 Louisiana. The body of Sister Mary Gretchen is discovered hanging from the balcony in a deserted mansion next to the leper colony on the banks of the Mississippi River.In New Orleans, her sister, Catherine Lyle, doesn’t want to retrieve the nun’s body. It’s not because she doesn’t love her older sister, but because she’s afraid to go outside her house. For almost twenty ye...
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    14,67 €

  • Emperor First
    Conrad Altmann / William Altmann
    As powerful as a President can become, there comes a day when he or she trembles a bit at the prospect of re-election. What to do when one’s power is threatened? When one’s hubris begins to evaporate in the heat of the day, what to do?Whatever it takes.Who watches over the powerful? What secrets do they discover? Which ones do they guard to protect the state, and which ones do ...
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    16,90 €

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished novel, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” was originally published in 1870. When Dickens died in 1870, just six of the intended twelve chapters had been completed, with no remaining plan or indication to how the story should continue. Despite this, numerous other writers have tried to complete the novel. The story revolves around the titular char...
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    36,63 €

  • Barnaby Rudge
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a serial in “Master Humphrey’s Clock” between 1840–1841, Dickens historical novel “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty” is mainly set during the Gordon Riots of 1780, several days of rioting in Great Britain sparked by anti-Catholic sentiment. Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction and the much-loved work of Charles Dickens. This cl...
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    37,72 €

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished novel, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” was originally published in 1870. When Dickens died in 1870, just six of the intended twelve chapters had been completed, with no remaining plan or indication to how the story should continue. Despite this, numerous other writers have tried to complete the novel. The story revolves around the titular char...
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    26,46 €

  • The Redacted Sherlock Holmes - Volume VI
    Orlando Pearson
    Orlando Pearson presents five more scandalously entertaining stories in his well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series;-        A Perilous Engagement: Mycroft Holmes and a Whitehall whitewash;-        Death at Tennis: The hunt for the lady who fled the ball;-        An Encirclement Thwarted: Espionage work at the outbreak of World War I;-        The Sorceress and the Sea-Lord: ...
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    18,74 €

  • The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury’s Diamonds
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of murder, mystery, passion, and intrigue – and diamonds! Penelope Adair, wife and partner of amateur sleuth Barnaby Adair, is so hugely pregnant she cannot even waddle. When Barnaby is summoned to assist Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard in investigating the violent murder of a gentleman at a house party,...
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    11,25 €

  • The Confounding Case of the Carisbrook Emeralds
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of emerging and also established love and the many facets of family, interwoven with mystery and murder. A young lady accused of theft and the gentleman who elects himself her champion enlist the aid of Stokes, Barnaby, Penelope, and friends in pursuing justice, only to find themselves tangled in a web of ...
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    15,88 €

  • The Murder at Mandeville Hall
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of unexpected romance that blossoms against the backdrop of dastardly murder. On discovering the lifeless body of an innocent ingénue, a peer attending a country house party joins forces with the lady-amazon sent to fetch the victim safely home in a race to expose the murderer before Stokes, assisted by Barnaby and P...
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    15,88 €

  • Bony and the Black Virgin
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    When Inspector Bonaparte is called to the drought-stricken outback sheep station he finds that two men have been savagely beaten to death. Clues are scarce in this sun-baked, sand-blown country, but Bony's understanding of the bush and the people who live there - both black and white - leads him inexorably towards the killer...When Upfield gets down to the point of interrac...
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    22,46 €

  • The Lake Frome Monster
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    When Eric Maidstone was found dead near Bore Ten, just west of the Dingo-proof Ffence, the first thought of those who discovered his body was that he might have been attacked by the rogue camel known as The Lake Frome Monster. But camels don't carry guns... and Maidstone had a bullet-hole in his chest which put the Monster in the clear. So who killed young Maidstone? Bony, ...
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    19,16 €

  • Bony and the Mouse
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Three times a killer has struck in Daybreak, a one-pub town in Western Australia. Why should so many people suspect the strange 'bad boy' Tony Carr? Why were the local Aboriginal tribe far away from town at the time of the murders? Inspector Bonaparte finds this small community very tight, till the arrival of a job-seeking bloke by the name of Nat Bonnar...Though lackin...
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    22,45 €

  • The Collector’s Apprentice
    B.A. Shapiro / B.AShapiro
    "A clever and complex tale of art fraud, theft, scandal, murder, and revenge.” --Publishers Weekly In this surprising, noirish page-turner, B. A. Shapiro once again takes readers into the world of art, glamour, and mystery. Accused of helping her fiancé steal her family’s fortune and her father’s art collection, Paulien Mertens has fled to France. To protect herself from the la...
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    13,27 €

  • The Curious Case of Lady Latimer’s Shoes
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of mysterious death, feuding families, star-crossed lovers—and shoes to die for.With her husband, amateur-sleuth the Honorable Barnaby Adair, decidedly eccentric fashionable matron Penelope Adair is attending the premier event opening the haut ton’s Season when a body is discovered in the gardens. A lady h...
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    15,88 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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