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  • 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 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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    11,54 €

  • Shamus Dust
    Janet Roger
    Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man’s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear. It’s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora’s Box just got opened in the ruins, City Police has a vice killing on its hands, and a spooked councilor hires...
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    17,94 €

  • 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 €

  • Crazy for You
    T.S. Hunter
    THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER RUNS SMOOTHIt’s 1987, and Soho is in the grip of another hot summer. While working part-time in The Red Lion, Joe finds himself agreeing to help a notorious gangster search for her missing girlfriend.Antonia 'the Gecko' Lagorio is daughter to the ruthless but ageing gang boss, Tony 'the Lizard' Lagorio. When her girlfriend, Charlotte Fenwick, goes ...
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    5,78 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    16,10 €

  • 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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    29,90 €

  • 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 €

  • A Little Night Murder
    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.A LITTLE NIGH...
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    7,33 €

  • Death at the Workhouse
    Emily Organ
    Someone’s preying on Victorian London’s poor.Something’s not right at Shoreditch Workhouse and plucky reporter Penny Green is struggling to convince someone to listen. After spending time there undercover, she knows that more can be done for the deserving poor beneath its roof. But does anyone else care?When two workhouse inmates die in a fight, the police and the coroner accep...
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    23,46 €

  • The Bone Field
    Leonard Krishtalka
    Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert w...
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    31,02 €

  • Too Many Clues
    Dan Andriacco
    As chief spokesperson for St. Benignus University in small-town Erin, Ohio, Jeff Cody’s job responsibilities include handling “crisis communications.” And a crisis it is when veteran journalist Maggie Barton calls Jeff on the day after Thanksgiving. She wants the whole story about a dean forced to step down because of complaints of inappropriate behavior from three women who wo...
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    18,48 €

  • Murder at the Million Dollar Pier
    Gwen Mayo / Sarah E Glenn
    "Never waste good rum on a bad night." - Teddy Lawless, February 1926.There are many bad nights ahead for Teddy. Shortly after she arrives at the newly opened Vinoy Hotel in Saint Petersburg, she comes face to face with her ex-fiancé, Ansel Stevens, in the dining room. Cue the slap that was thirty years in the making.Unfortunately, her ex-fiancé dies during a yacht race shortly...
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    17,37 €

  • The Literary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volume 1
    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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    18,93 €

  • Threshold of Deceit
    Carol Pouliot
    On a sunny spring day in 1934, local lothario Frankie Russo is murdered in broad daylight. It seems no one saw anything, but things are not always what they seem in this small New York town.Tackling the investigation, Detective Steven Blackwell discovers Frankie’s little black book, a coded list of dozens of flings, affairs, and one-night stands−and a solid motive for the widow...
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    14,60 €

  • Doorway to Murder
    Carol Pouliot
    In a small New York town, secrets lurk and betrayal is just around the corner. The morning after the worst blizzard of 1934, Detective Steven Blackwell takes on a highly charged murder case. The investigation starts badly: one clue, lots of lies and alibis. To make things worse, Steven is seeing visions of a woman in his house. One night, she speaks. Her name is Olivia Watson a...
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    14,72 €

  • Son of Thunder
    Steven M. Moore
    Esther Brookstone is at it again, this time obsessing about the life and times of St. John the Divine, all triggered by the discovery of a parchment hidden in the frame of a Botticelli painting that she authenticates. As in Rembrandt’s Angel, she soon gets into trouble, and her paramour, Interpol agent Bastiann van Coevorden, again comes to her aid.  A race to find the saint’s ...
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    18,05 €

  • Without a Trace
    Mel Starr
    Lady Philippa, the wife of Sir Aymer - a knight of the realm - disappears while travelling from her husband's manor to Bampton. She and her maid are travelling in an enclosed wagon, whilst her husband and his grooms and a squire are mounted. When the party arrives at Bampton Castle neither the lady nor her maid are within the enclosed wagon: they have simply vanished.As the...
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    11,95 €

  • Dying for a Garden Party
    VL McBeath
    Two families, one man and murder. Eliza Thomson Investigates...A dead body in the study, a lifetime of memories, and an old oak tree.A garden party at Oak House, the home of Mr and Mrs Hartley, is the perfect way to bring the villagers of Moreton-on-Thames together.Retired banker and self-made man, Mr Hartley dominates everyone around him. He’s ruthless in business and frighten...
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    16,05 €


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