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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    23,47 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    14,74 €

  • 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 €

  • The Camera Case (Octavius Bear Book 10)
    Harry DeMaio
    Welcome back, once again, to Polar Paradise in the Shetland Islands, part-time home of Octavius Bear’s spouse Bearoness Belinda Béarnaise Bruin Bear (nee Black.)  In Book Eight – The Crank Case, we introduced you to Preston Pavel Polar, Russian movie star and matinee idol. He’s back, this time with a full-scale movie crew to shoot another one of his highly successful swasgger a...
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    18,91 €

  • The Merchant of Menace
    Richard T Ryan
    Reluctantly, Sherlock Holmes agrees to assist Inspector Lestrade who is being hounded by an obnoxious nobleman whose jewel-encrusted dagger has gone missing. However, what Holmes initially believes to be a simple theft turns out instead to be his first encounter with a master criminal, who is as ruthless as he is brilliant, and whom Watson dubs “The Merchant of Menace.”Soon Hol...
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    20,97 €

  • The Immortal Prudence Blackwood
    Stephanie Grey
    Justice watches from the shadows in this unique and suspenseful twist on a serial killer manhunt…Throughout history, the world has witnessed cruel, gruesome, and twisted murders at the hands of the most notorious serial killers. For those who were never caught—Jack the Ripper, the Atlanta Ripper, and the Cleveland Torso Murderer—their crimes will live on in infamy as their iden...
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    26,54 €

  • The Immortal Prudence Blackwood
    Stephanie Grey
    Justice watches from the shadows in this unique and suspenseful twist on a serial killer manhunt…Throughout history, the world has witnessed cruel, gruesome, and twisted murders at the hands of the most notorious serial killers. For those who were never caught—Jack the Ripper, the Atlanta Ripper, and the Cleveland Torso Murderer—their crimes will live on in infamy as their iden...
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    17,60 €

  • Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #27
    Marvin Kaye
    'The 27th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales!FEATURES:  From Watson’s Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson NON FICTION:   Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman Carnivory, Darwin, and Doyle, by O’Neill Curatolo “Someday the Truth Will Come Out”, by Chris Chan Dr. Watson and True Facts, by Br...
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    10,49 €

  • What’s Left of Kisses
    Josh Lanyon
    Out of the BlueGrieving over the death of his lover, British flying ace Bat Bryant accidentally kills the man threatening him with exposure. The Dark FarewellIt's the Roaring Twenties. Skirts are short, crime is rampant, and booze is in short supply. Prohibition has hit Little Egypt where newspaper man David Flynn is convinced Spiritualist Medium Julian Devereux is as fake....
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    17,74 €


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