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  • Murder So Final
    Stanley Nelson / Ted Clifton
    Tommy Jacks, reporter/political columnist, encounters new love and old threats while covering one of the most brutal U.S. Senate races in history. With a massive oil ­fire threatening the city of Tulsa, three candidates face off, a ruthless oil baron, an idealist college professor, and a reverend running under the God Party. When the race suddenly turns deadly, the winner may b...
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    16,22 €

  • Bitter Cry
    S.L. Stoner
    Progessive History With a Mystery TwistThe eight Sage Adair Mysteries are set in 1902, Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. These adventure stories highlight the positive changes made by that era’s progressives at a time when wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of a few. One reviewer wrote: “Authentic and well-researched, these historical mysteries show a col...
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    12,66 €

  • Killer Queen
    T.S. Hunter
    THE SHOW MUST GO ONIt’s 1988. Soho is enjoying a mild summer after a turbulent political year for LGBT rights. While working as an assistant to a successful Theatre Director, Joe Stone finds himself unwittingly embroiled in another murder investigation.Lexi Goode, a young, up and coming actress has her bright future cut short when she is found murdered in her exclusive top floo...
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    6,47 €

  • A Bloody Hot Summer
    Trevor D'Silva / Trevor D’Silva
    #1 Amazon Bestseller - Contemporary British Fiction#1 Amazon Bestseller -  International Mystery & Crime'A modern interpretation of a golden age detective novel, in the spirit of Agatha Christie and other writers of crime of the interwar period. A very satisfying homage.' -Paul C.W. Beatty, award-winning author of Children of Fire and member of the Crime Writers’ AssociationIt...
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    15,81 €

  • Sherlock Holmes These Scattered Houses
    Gretchen Altabef
    A client forsworn, a threatened town, and a Goliath of unimaginable proportions . . . Sherlock Holmes has survived a three-year vendetta against him by Moriarty’s remaining henchmen. Wounded and bleeding, with Mycroft’s help he clandestinely boards an Atlantic steamship.  At the close of his great hiatus, Holmes finds sanctuary at Vassar Women’s College. This radical challenge ...
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    18,50 €

  • Crouchback (The Welsh Guard Mysteries)
    Sarah Woodbury
    **Crouchback is a medieval word derived from cross-back and indicates participation in a crusade**April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to the very pregnant Queen Eleanor of England, Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She was definitely unprepared to be confronted with murder when she got there--or to find herself face-to-face with Rhys, the childhood frie...
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    18,27 €

  • Murder at Hartigan House
    Lee Strauss
    There's a skeleton in the attic!After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger's Boston terrier, Boss, noses out a missing phalange from under the bed.It's a mystery that once again puts Ginger alon...
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    11,68 €

  • The Business of Blood
    Kerrigan Byrne
    With intriguing twists, blood-chilling discoveries, and dazzling prose, USAToday Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne shows that a woman's work is never done, even when she is sleuthing out a serial killer.London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney's trade, and business, as they say, is booming.Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her...
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    11,87 €

  • The Business of Blood
    Kerrigan Byrne
    With intriguing twists, blood-chilling discoveries, and dazzling prose, USAToday Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne shows that a woman's work is never done, even when she is sleuthing out a serial killer.London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney's trade, and business, as they say, is booming.Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her...
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    11,87 €

  • The Business of Blood
    Kerrigan Byrne
    With intriguing twists, blood-chilling discoveries, and dazzling prose, USAToday Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne shows that a woman's work is never done, even when she is sleuthing out a serial killer.London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney's trade, and business, as they say, is booming.Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her...
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    30,37 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Las Cenizas del Cielo
    MARIANO GAMBIN
    Siempre se ha pensado que el incendio de la iglesia de SanAgustín en La Laguna se debió a un cortocircuito.Nada hacía pensar que el origen del fuego fuera otro.Hasta hoy.Una extraña muerte en la catedral pone al inspector Galány a sus hombres en la senda de un asesino que busca unobjeto muy determinado, de valor incalculable, tras cuyapista se encuentra toda la policía europea....
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    20,80 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €