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  • The Rebel
    C.J. Archer / C.JArcher
    Cole's heart is dark. He's a mystery, even to those closest to him in the Assassins Guild. All anyone really knows for sure is that he's ruthless, grim, and cares little for his own life. So when he loses his memory during an attack and thinks himself a naive eighteen year-old again, no one can really believe the transformation.But as his memory returns, so do the n...
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    16,20 €

  • The Adventure of the Bloody Tower
    Donald MacLachlan
    'For the very first time since I had met him, Mr. Sherlock Holmes let me down.'As a result, Dr. John H. Watson finds himself forced to accept, in 1883, a tricky challenge: to investigate the facts and fictions surrounding King Richard III.Richard III: Monster? Murderer of his brother’s young boys? Usurper? Or a legitimate but reluctant heir to the crown, and a good king who pro...
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    17,41 €

  • Mystery at St Andrews
    Bill Lawler
    Doctor John Watson is visiting the village of St Andrews, Scotland, on a much-needed holiday. Still saddened by the loss of his good friend and companion, Sherlock Holmes, he seeks to put his life back in order. Believing that golf on the famous 'Old Course' might be just the tonic that’s required, he travels to the Kingdom of Fife and the Royal Hotel to test his remedy. Whi...
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    20,96 €

  • The Virgin of the Wind Rose
    Glen Craney
    While investigating the murder of an American missionary in Ethiopia, young State Department lawyer Jaqueline Quartermane stumbles upon a magical word square in an underground church that guards the tomb of the biblical Adam.Drawn into a web of esoteric intrigue, she becomes the target of an elusive Pakistani opium kingpin who intends to convince the world that he is the Mahdi,...
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    24,67 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady
    Marlene R. Aig / Marlene RAig
    The Lufton Lady reveals an episode from the early career of Sherlock Holmes an incident that proves the great detective had a heart as well as a brain. The story is told mostly in excerpts from the journal of an aristocrat who finds himself caught up in a dramatic encounter in 1878. The Lufton Lady is a novella by Marlene R. Aig, a noted Sherlockian and member of the Adventures...
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    12,43 €

  • Valley of The Swan
    KR Kingston
    Dado (Dado) grew up as a Viking princess in late 1100 AD. Her vicious Viking tribe, the Omkana’s, reside along the northern shores of the Baltic Sea. Dado’s world suddenly changes when her brutal and scheming father reveals the plan he had for her all along. Without foresight her life is suddenly turned upside down. Loyalty and love has gone terribly wrong, leaving her to begin...
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    22,08 €

  • Deadline Istanbul (the Elizabeth Darcy Series)
    Peggy Hanson
    Elizabeth Darcy is in the world’s most intriguing city to cover for old friend and fellow correspondent Peter Franklin, found dead in the Bosphorus. She’s convinced it wasn’t an accident.But uncovering secrets can be a dangerous business. Are spies involved? Criminals? Where does religion become politics, and vice versa? And who are those men following her? Danger stalks he...
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    16,06 €

  • Deadline Yemen (the Elizabeth Darcy Series)
    Peggy Hanson
    Called to Yemen to help her old friend Halima, correspondent Elizabeth Darcy combines work with the chance to repay an old debt. But the narrow, mysterious streets are populated with armed men and veiled women; who can tell friend from foe?Her first priority is to help Halima’s young brother Ali, who has become involved with religious extremists. But murder dogs her footsteps, ...
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    16,06 €

  • Hollywood Heat
    Arlette Lees
    The year: 1956. The place: Los Angeles, California. When six-year-old Daisy Adler vanishes from her upscale Hollywood Hills home during a crowded New Year’s Eve party, LAPD Detective Rusty Hallinan enters a case with more dangerous twists and turns than Mulholland Drive. Hallinan’s life hits a bump or two of its own when he’s dumped by his wife of eleven years, and falls hard f...
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    18,88 €

  • Charity
    Paulette Callen
    The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster’s daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else.On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and fami...
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    19,30 €

  • Worthy of Trust and Confidence
    Donald Brewer
    Worthy of Trust and Confidence is a western historical fiction book based on a mystery dective U.S. Secret Service crime in 1898.Three kids enter the Mousegate at Walt Disney World and each one becomes embedded with one of the three main characters. They see and feel the emotions of the characters. They live the history!A trio of cousins researching a family history project e...
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    18,54 €

  • Anything but Civil
    Anna Loan-Wilsey
    Traveling secretary Hattie Davish and her trusty typewriter alight on a small town in Illinois, where the Civil War may long be over, but certain mysteries refuse to be buried. . .Hattie Davish is delighted to be ably assisting her wealthy employer, Sir Arthur Windom-Greene, an English scholar who is fluent in Civil War history and hard at work putting together a definitive b...
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    16,19 €

  • The Papers of Sherlock Holmes
    David Marcum
    Spanning events over thirty years, Volume II of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates further narratives of Holmes and Watson’s days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes s supposed retirement. Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel to Yorkshire, where surprising new details of Holmes’s past are revealed, and even to the United States in 1921. Written in ...
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    21,26 €

  • The Flame and the Wind
    John Blackburn
    ’This is an historical novel in the grand manner . . . A lot of research must have gone into the work, and the result is wholly satisfactory.’ - The Guardian’The versatile John Blackburn has deserted one kind of horror for quite another, diabolism for divinity.’ - Times Literary Supplement’An accomplished writer.’ - The SpectatorThe year is 37 A.D., and Rome faces a dangerous t...
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    25,23 €

  • A Study in Regret
    Claire Daines
    What if two had perished at Reichenbach Falls? One simple, disastrous error throws Sherlock Holmes from his intended Hiatus into a tortuous journey of sorrow and remorse. Far from home, broken in body and spirit, the haunted detective fights to survive the single most tragic failure of his career - a fight he cannot win alone. With old and new companions beside him, and a threa...
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    21,16 €

  • Rest Not in Peace
    Mel Starr
    Master Hugh is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry, (with his wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants), has outstayed his welcome at Bampton Castle. The next morning after Master Hugh provides the potion, Sir Henry is found dead, eyes open, in his bed....
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    12,67 €

  • Bodie
    Anne Sweazy-Kulju
    'Blowing out the exhale, he tipped his hat at the few still-breathing horses. 'Don't worry; you'll be dead 'fore the buzzards gather to pick at ya.' Parker squinted up at the sun and saw buzzards were circling overhead already. 'I think,' he laughed cruelly.' Lara and Lainy survived foster care and all its horrors, but the experience left them incomp...
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    11,28 €

  • Maggie’s Mechanics
    Sheila J. Connolly / Sheila JConnolly
    The opening scene in this story, set in California during the early 1980s, instantly propels readers into the world of Maggie McIntyre, a woman whose occupation as an auto mechanic makes her unusual and somewhat of a mystery-especially to Bett Holman, the young lesbian who has fallen in love with her. Maggie is injured as she attempts to rescue a man caught up in a roadside exp...
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    15,39 €

  • Seven Days in April
    Steve Buster Johnson
    In the Spring of 1917, a Royal Flying Corps squadron is having more than its fair share of action on the Western Front. There is trouble within the squadron however, as spare parts and valuables have mysteriously disappeared, with no clue as to who is responsible. The squadron’s commanding officer is worried that if it gets out there’s a thief in their midst, it will adversely ...
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    13,94 €

  • Sherlock Holmes
    Lyn McConchie
    Have you ever wondered about the clients who came to the front door of 221B Baker Street: whence they derived, how they heard of Holmes, who sent them? This book answers these questions. For, as Watson said: 'I have often observed the two advantages that my friend Holmes has over most other private detectives and also the police. One is that it is very rare for him to fail, and...
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    18,63 €

  • Coalboat
    Cliff Robinson Jr
    What is killing everyone? In 1853 a family died horribly and mysteriously while transporting coal down the D&H Canal. 160 years later people in three states begin dying in the same manner; and the problem is spreading. If the scientists, local police and museum directors cannot solve this puzzle in a few days, the government will be forced to decimate the area. But to solve the...
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    18,50 €

  • Shadows of the Opera
    Rick Lai
    'The Revenant’s bounty shall be paid by me personally. The Revenant’s killer must present her head to me.' Such was the decree of Colonel Bozzo-Corona, all-powerful master of the Black Coats. For years, the female vigilante had used the methods of her late mentor, the mysterious Phantom of the Opera, to foil the schemes of that sinister criminal conspiracy. Now they, in turn, m...
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    25,38 €

  • The Evangel of Calico
    Charles E. Miller
    • Site of a silver mine in late 1900s • Town destroyed by fire • Today a ghost town ...
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    24,29 €

  • The Evangel of Calico
    Charles E. Miller
    • Site of a silver mine in late 1900s • Town destroyed by fire • Today a ghost town ...
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    14,32 €

  • All for the Emperor
    Peter K. Hall
    At the beginning of the 20th Century, Japan was undergoing a period of rapid modernisation and industrialisation, based largely on imported Western technologies, as it began to flex its military might. In order to foster a sense of national unity, the authorities cultivated the practice of Emperor worship, and set up a secret police force to root out any unpatriotic factions. ...
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    11,85 €

  • The Shadow of Judex
    JUDEX! He whose name means 'Judge'! Created in 1917 by writer Arthur Bernède and filmmaker Louis Feuillade, Judex is the first of the dark knights, predating both The Shadow and Batman. To avenge the death of his father, young Jacques de Trémeuse has put on the dark hat and cloak of Judex and embarks on a secret war to mercilessly punish criminals.This collection of 26 stories,...
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    27,32 €

  • The Papers of Sherlock Holmes
    David Marcum
    Spanning events over thirty years, Volume I of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates narratives of Holmes and Watson’s days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes’s supposed retirement. Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel from the streets of London to the Kent countryside, to Oxford and Sussex. Written in traditional canonical style, these stories provi...
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    21,26 €

  • Holmes in Time for Christmas
    Ross K. Foad / Ross KFoad
    Sherlock Holmes has spoken little on the events following his fall and ’death’ at the Reichenbach falls, his miraculous return has always been shrouded deep in mystery .Only the scantest of details has ever been told even to his closest friend Doctor Watson. That is until one fateful Christmas day when Holmes receives a letter which prompts him to finally open up and enlighten ...
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    16,12 €

  • The Fourth Horseman
    Sarah Woodbury
    May 1144. Newly wedded, Gareth and Gwen travel across the border into England on a diplomatic mission with Prince Hywel of Wales. Within moments of their arrival, however, the mission goes awry and a murder case drops (literally) at their feet.Hindered at every turn by a climate of civil war and constantly shifting political alliances, Gareth and Gwen race to solve the murder a...
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    19,13 €

  • The Merely Mortal
    J. P. Leck / JPLeck
    If you are one who has ever suspected, even in part, that there are, truly, monsters of both human and unhuman kind shadowing the earth, then do, I implore, proceed into my story-where awaits that confirmation. Peruse with the utmost vigilance, however, and should there come a point in which you can endure no more, the reader will not be thought a coward to close this book at o...
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    23,09 €


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