Catálogo de libros: Misterios históricos

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  • The Best Doctor in Town
    Amelia Townsend
    Set in Southwest Virginia and inspired by actual events and the story of the small town’s most revered doctor, who may just be a serial killer. A local police officer with a tarnished reputation, a reporter who manipulated facts, and the doctor’s chief intern, who may be a thief, have pieces of the puzzle. Yet no one in authority believes the great doctor could be responsible. ...
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    16,27 €

  • Bensonhurst
    B. Lawrence Goldberg / BLawrence Goldberg
    A rogue FBI agent, and a poetry-loving director of a Brooklyn funeral home.  A frayed truce among New York’s crime families, and a family of shopkeepers whose lives have come unglued. Bensonhurst is the story of people and events, real and imaginary, caught up in the June 1971 assassination attempt on Joe Colombo, the flamboyant head of New York’s reigning crime syndicate. Fast...
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    15,52 €

  • Apalachicola Mother of Pearl
    Michael Kinnett
    In the dark of a new moon, a shadowy figure passes a cryptic note beneath my door, ‘They’re coming for you.” But why? Engraved with the Agnusdei family crest and initials C.A., the note points to the estranged family of my mother, and so I am bound for New Orleans. A dangerous first encounter reveals a mystical insanity, and the search for a mysterious key. The key to a vast fo...
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    17,75 €

  • 19th Century French Mysteries
    Nina Cooper
    Paris, late 1880s…the era of “lions,” of extreme wealth versus extreme poverty, of class differences that don’t mix — or do they? And when they do? Murder, mayhem, love lost, fortunes lost… what could go wrong? The modern detective story, today the mainstay of movies, television series, and popular literature, evolved over a period of more than forty years. In the late 1880s, c...
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    10,76 €

  • Murder in Black Tie
    Sara Rosett
    LARGE PRINT EDITIONTop hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems. But when the sumptuous black tie event turns deadly, Olive’s cousin Peter becomes the main suspect. Olive must ...
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    36,40 €

  • Deadly Kin
    Lucinda Brant
    Murderous family secretsSummer 1764. Alec and Selina anxiously await the birth of their first child at their estate in Kent. It should be a time of family celebration, but the death of a young poacher has Alec investigating murder. And when renovations to his sprawling manor unearth a secret burial chamber, a shocking family secret comes to light. Everything Alec thought he kne...
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    14,42 €

  • Murder at Blackburn Hall
    Sara Rosett
    LARGE PRINT EDITIONA missing author and a sleepy English village rife with secrets . . .September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn’t found a new client. She’s taken a job as a hat model to pay for her poky boarding house room. But then a job offer comes her way—make discreet inquiries about a famous author who’s disappeared....
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    36,23 €

  • The Egyptian Antiquities Murder
    Sara Rosett
    LARGE PRINT EDITIONAn opulent London townhouse, a mummy curse . . .  . . . and a plucky lady detective. It’s October, 1923, and Olive Belgrave has a new case. Her client, Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses, and she hires Olive to prove her Egyptologist uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates and discovers the truth is much worse—it’s murder. Can Oliv...
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    36,39 €

  • The Royal Falconer
    Norbert Van De Hemn
    Following the death of her husband, a Saxon Earl more than twice her age, a young Norman lady of noble birth is allowed to return to her home in France. But that journey is fraught with danger. Conspiracy, family secrets, stolen jewellery and a raid by Welsh brigands from across the border all conspire against her. Arrested and thrown into dungeon and then threatened with tortu...
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    13,85 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVI
    David Marcum
    In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. ...
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    56,11 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVI
    David Marcum
    In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. ...
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    30,88 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVII
    David Marcum
    In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. ...
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    55,94 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVII
    David Marcum
    In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. ...
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    30,71 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVIII
    David Marcum
    In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. ...
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    56,10 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVIII
    David Marcum
    In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. ...
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    30,87 €

  • The Curse of the Blue Scarab
    Josh Lanyon
    Who or what is responsible for the gruesome deaths of members of the secret society known as the Order of Osiris?Dr. Armiston, an irascible, confirmed bachelor who believes in medicine not mysticism, is certain the deaths are only tragic accidents.But the members of the Order of Osiris suspect something more sinister is at work. They profess to believe an ancient curse has been...
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    15,12 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Molly Boy Murders
    Margaret Walsh
    London, 1889. In a city still reeling from the depredations of Jack the Ripper another killer arises.  Stalking the West End and Marylebone and striking at a seemingly unconnected group of victims, the murderer leaves fear and confusion in his wake. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, and Inspector Lestrade face a case like no other they have yet faced.  A case that will leav...
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    18,51 €

  • The Literary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volume 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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    18,67 €

  • The Art of Sherlock Holmes
    Phil Growick
    The Art of Sherlock Holmes-USA Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our first volume, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach, there had never been a volume where Holmes short stories were interpreted by such accomplished artists. In this first USA edition, thirteen world-class artists who...
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    71,73 €

  • The Art of Sherlock Holmes
    Phil Growick
    The Art of Sherlock Holmes-USA Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our first volume, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach, there had never been a volume where Holmes short stories were interpreted by such accomplished artists. In this first USA edition, thirteen world-class artists who...
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    73,78 €

  • Sherlockian Musings
    Sheldon Goldfarb
    Is Sherlock Holmes really as rational as he seems?  He talks about the importance of reasoning and logic, but why then does he sometimes seem like a “strange Buddha”?  On the other hand, why in The Sign of the Four does Watson smash a Buddha?  What is going on in The Sign of the Four, that strange tale of Empire?  What is going on in all the original sixty stories in “the canon...
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    20,77 €

  • Murder in Black Tie
    Sara Rosett
    Top hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems. But when the sumptuous black tie event turns deadly, Olive’s cousin Peter becomes the main suspect. Olive must unmask a sophistica...
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    22,40 €

  • Murder in Black Tie
    Sara Rosett
    Top hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems. But when the sumptuous black tie event turns deadly, Olive’s cousin Peter becomes the main suspect. Olive must unmask a sophistica...
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    33,82 €

  • Origin of the Vampyre
    P.J. Parker / P.JParker
    Timeless. Beautiful. Dangerous.1816 — the Year Without a Summer — resulted in two of literature’s most feared and beloved creations.Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.Doctor Polidori’s Vampyre.American biographer, Rachel Walton, attained international recognition for her Shelley bio, unearthing the horrific events which jolted Frankenstein and his wretch into existence in the peaceful...
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    21,55 €

  • One Small Life
    Anna Housego
    Does her life even matter?Grace is a mystery to herself. It’s 1924 and she’s starting out with no knowledge of her parents, no prospects, no protection. She thinks the worst is behind her at the Rescue Home, that the job at the orchard beside the Southern Ocean is her big chance. But the world she’s entering is a dangerous place.When she’s attacked at the orchard she flees into...
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    17,45 €

  • The Hollows
    C L Monaghan
    Midnight Gunn is no ordinary detective- born during a solar eclipse as Halley's Comet blazed a trail through the sky- his supernatural birthright is both a help and a hindrance when solving crimes. Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge, of Scotland Yard, is the only one who knows Gunn's secret. When the body of a young aristocrat is discovered in a backstreet alley, Gredge ...
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    16,33 €

  • The Sign of The Blood
    Laurence O'Bryan
    'Exciting and original,' SJA Turney, author of Caligula.Cool mist settles over the legion advancing toward the Persian army. Constantine, the son of an emperor, the Roman officer leading the attack, tells his men to halt - something is wrong.Before long, the battle rages. He frees a slave named Juliana. She is half Persian and half Roman. As they are pursued to Britannia over l...
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    29,82 €

  • A Matter of Love and Death
    Carmen Radtke
    Adelaide, 1931. Telephone switchboard operator Frances' life is difficult as sole provider for her mother and adopted uncle. But it's thrown into turmoil when she overhears a suspicious conversation on the phone, planning a murder.If a life is at risk, she should tell the police; but that would mean breaking her confidentiality clause and would cost her the job. And pra...
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    15,86 €

  • THE MASADA COMPLEX
    Howard J. Schwach / Howard JSchwach
    This 92,000–word novel, “The Masada Complex,” is a thriller in the mold of Nelson DeMille and Daniel Silva, with lots of drama, a touch of history and a modicum of humor, as well as a glimpse at the impasse between Israel and its Arab neighbors.When retired police detective Dave Rifkin is coerced into taking a trip to Israel with his girlfriend and her Manhattan congregation, h...
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    15,37 €

  • A Visitation of Angels
    Carolyn Haines
    Elizabeth Maslow is an educated woman living in the isolated town of 1920’s Mission, Alabama. She’s defied the town’s definition of a woman’s place—she’s unmarried and given birth to a child with webbed hands and feet. In a town fraught with superstitions and religious repression, Elizabeth is dangerous.But Elizabeth is much more than an unwed mother. Since the birth of Callie,...
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    11,97 €


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