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  • The Unlikely Spy
    Sarah Woodbury
    August 1146. Prince Hywel has called all the bards of Wales to him for a music festival to mark the third anniversary of his rule over Ceredigion. He has invited all the lords of Wales too, including his father, his uncle, and his neighbor to the south, King Cadell. But with the highborn also come the low: thieves, spies, and other hangers-on.And when a murderer strikes as the ...
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    19,21 €

  • Murder at the Mardi Gras
    Elisabet M. Stone / Elisabet MStone
    A fast-paced whodunit set against the riotous and exciting backdrop of mid-century Mardi Gras. ...
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    13,59 €

  • Sherlock Holmes in Montague Street Volume 1
    Arthur Morrison
    In 1893, Dr. Watson and Conan Doyle published what they believed was the last Sherlock Holmes story, ’The Final Problem’. The world was stunned, and The Strand Magazine rushed to fill the vacuum. Readers were soon introduced to a new detective, Martin Hewitt, as presented by Arthur Morrison. Although initially different than Holmes, Hewitt also showed a number of interesting si...
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    20,99 €

  • Murder Story
    Agata Stanford
    He hasn't written anything new since his critically acclaimed novel debuted in 1922, and by 1927 Ernest Stringer is living in poverty with his artist lover in a drafty Greenwich Village flat when he meets Anthony Young, the prolific author of a bestselling mystery series. As regular patrons of the bohemian Romany Marie's Café, Ernest and Anthony strike up an unusual friendship....
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    16,14 €

  • The Big Hello
    Michael Lister
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    30,74 €

  • The Death Game
    Chris Longmuir
    A world of mystery and intrigue in Dundee during the year 1919. And a new sleuth unlike any other currently in print.Kirsty Campbell, former suffragette and a policewoman in Britain’s newly formed women’s police service, returns to her hometown of Dundee to become the city’s first policewoman. Her struggle for acceptance in the all-male police force is not easy, and she fights ...
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    17,23 €

  • Losing David
    Cheryl B. Dale
    In 1946, sixteen-year-old David Harmony should have inherited a fortune when his father died. Instead, he vanished at sea the same night. In 1962, an elderly attorney hires an actor to pretend to be David. He claims the man about to receive the Harmony estate killed David. The actor suspects the attorney isn't telling him everything but agrees to act as bait. Then he falls f...
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    11,88 €

  • The Red Hill
    David Penny
    A killer who can't be stopped. A request that can't be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom. When bodies start to turn up, each showing the marks of a savage attack, Thomas is asked to investigate. When one of the Sultan's wive...
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    13,42 €

  • The Poisoned Penman
    Dan Andriacco / Kieran McMullen
    London, 1922: Two years after helping Sherlock Holmes solve the Hangman Murders, American journalist Enoch Hale becomes even more intimately involved in another puzzling mystery. Langdale Pike, veteran purveyor of gossip to the trash newspapers, is poisoned while sipping tea with Hale - and apparently just as he is about to spill a secret more important than social gossip.With ...
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    14,82 €

  • The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes
    Phil Growick
    In 'The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes', all the questions left at the surprise ending in 'The Secret Journal of Dr. Watson', will finally be answered. What happened to the Romanov Imperial Family? To Reilly, 'Ace of Spies'? To Dr. Watson? But most of all, to Holmes, himself. Historical figures as disparate as King George V, Al Capone, Stalin, Babe Ruth, and Winston Churchill, al...
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    23,39 €

  • The Red-Headed League - Lego - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Sherlock Holmes, the world’s 'only unofficial consulting detective', was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.In this b...
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    14,74 €

  • The Investigations of Sherlock Holmes
    John Heywood
    It is over a century since Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance, and readers throughout the world still clamour for more of his exciting adventures. We are happy to announce that seven stories from the despatch-box of John Watson, M.D. have recently come to light. In them you will meet such characters as the Reverend Nathaniel Flowerdew, vicar of Great Mowl; Professor Hend...
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    18,61 €

  • A Bedside Book of Early Sherlockian Parodies and Pastiches
    Charles Press
    More parodies have been written targeting Sherlock Holmes than anyone else dead or alive, fictional or real. James M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, started it all back in the early 1890’s and Sherlockian parody has been coming out regularly ever since, right into the age of the internet. While Sherlock’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived, close to 400 appeared in Britain ...
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    24,43 €

  • Murdered Sleep
    R. a. Harold
    Murdered Sleep is a historical mystery in which actor Dade Wyatt, touring through Teddy Roosevelt's Washington with a prominent Shakespeare company, reluctantly resumes an old role of murder investigator when a fiery populist Congressman is found beaten to death after a very public insult to a senior conservative on the House floor. The accused is a man Wyatt has every reason t...
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    10,76 €

  • Lost Wealth
    R. G. Mann
    Our story begins during the height of Ferdinand Marcos's reign as president of the Philippines under martial law. General Rafaelito Valdez, a trusted member of the president's army, is personally delegated by the president with the formidable task of hiding a number of mysterious and valuable boxes, the contents of which are unknown to everyone but the president himself. Flash...
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    16,38 €

  • The Widow of Dartmoor
    Warwick Downing
    Beryl Stapleton felt joy, when her husband Jack was sucked into the Grimpen Mire. Free of his oppressive evil, she opened a fashionable dress shop in London. Known as The Widow of Dartmoor, her enterprise is a success . . . until she is caught, at 2am dragging the body of a murdered man into an alleyway. Who better to defend her than The Bastard, the nephew of Sherlock Holmes?...
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    21,06 €

  • A Scandal in Bohemia - Lego - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    James Macaluso
    Sherlock Holmes, the world’s 'only unofficial consulting detective', was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time.In this b...
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    14,74 €

  • The Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 1 - The Musical Murders
    John A. Little / John ALittle
    Holmes and Watson are plunged into the secret underworld of 1925 London, where a serial killer of musical (gay) men is afoot. The killer has a little list, and Sherlock is on it. Why? And what have the Bloomsbury Group and the Diogenes Club got to do with anything? Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 71-year-old, who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting. H...
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    14,92 €

  • Backfire
    Ron Boggs
    CHICAGO-THE GEM OF THE PRAIRIE-EARLY AUTUMN, 1871 The city was alive. Raw materials and finished goods moved as fast as the new railroads and lake schooners could carry them. Wisconsin white pine lumber was big business in a city composed of thousands of wooden structures connected by wooden sidewalks and wooden-block streets. Competition was fierce, ruthless, and deadly. An Ea...
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    15,42 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Affair of the Contentious Contralto
    Fiona-Jane Brown
    It is 1910, a widowed Dr Watson moves back to Baker Street to discover that age has done nothing to dim his old friend’s thirst for mystery and deduction. One morning after Watson returns from a client to find Holmes in a bright mood - the reason? Holmes and Watson have been invited to the farewell concert of celebrated former Prima Donna of the Warsaw Opera - Irene Adler. T...
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    12,43 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Escape Artist
    Fred Thursfield
    Do Spirits Return? Sherlock Holmes, Mary Watson, and Harry Houdini say ’No’ and prove it. ...
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    18,57 €

  • The Detective, the Woman and the Silent Hive
    Amy Thomas
    The mysterious death of Irene Adler’s bees leads to a consultation with Sherlock Holmes and the discovery of a sinister connection to a case many years in the past. When this threat imperils the safety of everyone the detective holds dear, he and The Woman are forced to use every ounce of their ingenuity to save their friends.Amy Thomas is one of the Baker Street Babes, the wor...
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    21,23 €

  • Charlie Milverton and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories
    Charlotte Anne Walters
    A collection of five present-day Sherlock Holmes stories that poke gentle fun at the idiosyncrasies of modern life - not to mention the eccentric detective and his world-weary friend who are at the heart of the action. Stuck in a dysfunctional marriage and the job from hell, aspiring writer Doctor John H Watson battles against the angst of a midlife crisis whilst being drawn fu...
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    14,98 €

  • The Angel of Terror
    Edgar Wallace
    'James Meredith, you have been convicted after a long andpatient trial of the awful crime of wilful murder. With the verdictof the jury I am in complete agreement. There is little doubt,after hearing the evidence of the unfortunate lady to whom youwere engaged, and whose evidence you attempted in the mostbrutal manner to refute, that, instigated by your jealousy, youshot Ferdin...
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    14,92 €

  • The Cross
    B.R. Bentley / B.R.Bentley / B.RBentley / BRBentley
    After nearly 400 years, an emerald-encrusted gold pectoral cross belonging to the Catholic Church is discovered by two salvage divers off the coast of Bermuda. Carried by an Augustinian friar on the ill-fated Spanish galleon San Pedro, which sank in 1596, the cross contains a priceless hidden key. The divers want it for the money. The Bermuda government wants it for its histori...
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    34,26 €

  • The Cross
    B.R. Bentley / B.R.Bentley / B.RBentley
    After nearly 400 years, an emerald-encrusted gold pectoral cross belonging to the Catholic Church is discovered by two salvage divers off the coast of Bermuda. Carried by an Augustinian friar on the ill-fated Spanish galleon San Pedro, which sank in 1596, the cross contains a priceless hidden key. The divers want it for the money. The Bermuda government wants it for its histori...
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    21,85 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Body Snatchers
    Dean Turnbloom
    With Baron Barlucci escaping London on his way to New York with Abigail Drake, Dr. Watson is certain they’ve seen the last of the Whitechapel Vampire; Sherlock Holmes isn’t so sure. They soon learn the Animus Lacuna, barque of the now infamous Barlucci, was reported lost at sea and a longboat carrying the body of Abigail Drake was recovered by Newfoundland fishermen. But when I...
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    23,26 €

  • Here Lies Buried
    Cathy Ann Rogers
    Looking for family among strangers, a woman finds that seeking out distant relatives can be deadly and that some Arizona mysteries are better left buried!PILAR SAGASTA steps into a world of cunning deception when she travels to Arizona to connect with her late grandfather’s sister, Virginia. Eager for details of their Mexican history before the family fled the political turbule...
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    16,40 €

  • The Sidehill Detective
    Jon Alfred Smith
    In the dynamic Western The SideHill Detective, Deputy Vern Birdwell starts his career at the early age of sixteen, using the skills to solve crimes and catch criminals that he developed hunting game for the table.Over time, Vern becomes a detective and helps bring Western law enforcement into the new century. He falls in love with the beautiful librarian Mabel Hanson, just as h...
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    13,75 €

  • Derek Christian, Antichrist
    Robert Railey
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    17,70 €


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