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  • 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. 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • Murder Wore A Mask
    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.MURDER WORE A...
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    7,33 €

  • The Dead on Leave
    Chris Nickson
    Leeds, Autumn 1936.During a British Union of Fascists rally, a body is found.War veteran Detective Sergeant Urban Raven is tasked with finding the killer.But with virtually no clues, no witnesses and no obvious motive, he has few leads to start the investigation.Leeds has become a shadow of its former self. Once a bright, vibrant and progressive metropolis, it has all but groun...
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    12,00 €

  • 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 €

  • Murder Must Wait
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen - all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up and the trail is cold. Then a fifth child vanishes, and the mother is found dead next to the empty cot. Inspector Bonaparte is called in, first to find the missing children, and only th...
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    22,33 €

  • The New Shoe
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the south-east coast of Australia. Inspector Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff tops, and what caused the Bully Buccaneers to deal in death. An ordinary policeman could afford to fail, but Bony, never...The story takes pl...
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    22,38 €

  • Venom House
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are co...
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    24,64 €

  • Dangerous Destiny
    Chris Longmuir
    Dundee, Scotland, 1908.Suffragettes are dying. The police aren’t interested, taking the attitude ‘good riddance to bad rubbish’.Three suffragettes band together to find the truth.Kirsty, a naïve, young girl unable to escape her controlling family and the secret of her past, lives a sheltered life with her parents in their Broughty Ferry mansion. When she becomes interested in t...
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    17,23 €

  • 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 €

  • Murder at High Tide
    Lee Strauss
    Murder's all wet!It's 1956 and WPC (Woman Police Constable) Rosa Reed has left her groom at the altar in London. Time spent with her American cousins in Santa Bonita, California is exactly what she needs to get back on her feet, though the last thing she expected was to get entangled in another murder case!  ...
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    11,77 €

  • Blood Fugue
    Amber Anthony
    Fugue: [ fyoog ]nounPsychiatry. A period during which a person suffers from loss of memory and often begins a new life.------------You think your memory stinks?Meet Harry VanAlt. An apex predator with fading memories of mortal life. Along with his memories, his exalted vampiric powers have faded to vampire-lite. Great taste, less exciting.Along comes Dr. Lizbet Mitchell, a poli...
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    14,93 €

  • Moriarty Lifts the Veil
    Anna Castle
    It began as a harmless wager. Who could solve their case first?Professor and Mrs. Moriarty have a few weeks to kill before their theater opens. Happily, two small cases drop in their respective laps. Moriarty has what looks like a scheme to swindle Army veterans out of their discharge pay. Angelina must find a missing servant by winkling her way into a circle of officers’ wives...
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    14,90 €


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