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  • The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes 2nd Edition
    John H. Watson / John HWatson
    The recent decease of one of the descendents of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set the most interesting adventures. This new edition includes a further discovered story - The Adventure...
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    21,14 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Texas Adventure
    Dicky Neely
    The indomitable Baker Street duo travel to the still wild areas of South Texas to investigate the puzzling disappearance of an heir to the great estate in the part of the South West known as The Wild Horse Desert. The pair travel by steamship to the Texas coast and then overland to the Rancho Royal where mystery awaits them. This is the second Sherlock Holmes pastiche from ce...
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    12,49 €

  • The Great Detective
    Gary Lovisi
    Sherlock Holmes! That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created-and with good reason. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are fascinating excursions into scientific detection with interesti...
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    16,32 €

  • Poison Pen
    PJ Quinn
    This charming sequel to PJ Quinn’s first DI Ambrose Mystery, Poison Pen, takes DI Ambrose under cover at a writers’ retreat in Chalk Heath, to determine the circumstances leading to a suspicious death on an Indian railway train. This retreat is not only a challenge to Ambrose’s investigative skills but to his culinary and writing skills too; Ambrose is also kept busy avoiding l...
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    12,89 €

  • Treasure of Saint-Lazare
    John Pearce
    An old lover brings a cryptic letter to Paris, pulling Eddie Grant reluctantly into a treacherous web of intrigue and death -- but giving him a slim chance to find the terrorists who murdered his family seven years before. It launches him on a dangerous quest through Paris and the Loire Valley for the most valuable piece of Nazi loot that remains missing, a famous Raphael sel...
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    10,47 €

  • A Single Petal
    Oliver Eade
    With minute attention to historical detail, this beautifully written novel is at once a murder mystery, a story of passionate love and a political thriller, winner of the Local Legend Spiritual Writing Competition. It is a true page-turner that builds to a terrifying and tragic climax. Teacher Feng, a middle-aged and humble widower, lives quietly in Tang Dynasty China, caring ...
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    14,02 €

  • The Lost Romanov Icon and the Enigma of Anastasia
    Carlos Mundy / Marie Stravlo
    Retired MI6 agent Rodney Mundy goes on a dangerous mission to find a lost holy icon which, if discovered, could be the key to solving one of the bloodiest and most enigmatic episodes of history - the disappearance of the Imperial Family of Russia and the fate of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last tsar Nicholas II. During his mission Rodney discovers not only the truth...
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    28,92 €

  • The Baker Street Boys
    Brian Ball / Sydney J. Bounds
    In the tradition of the Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here’s the eleventh Wildside Mystery Double: THE BAKER STREET BOYS: TWO BAKER STREET IRREGULAR NOVELLAS, by Brian Ball. If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when the Baker Street Irregulars stumbled across the mystery of the Captive Clairvoyant, then no doubt he would have given immedia...
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    16,49 €

  • The Raven’s Seal
    Andrei Baltakmens
    'Baltakmens captures the flavor and scope of classic British fiction.' --Kirkus Reviews'This atmospheric, character-driven, and plot-twisty bildungsroman is a worthy paean to Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.' --BooklistIn the fictional 18th-century city of Airenchester, England, the body of Thaddeus Grainger’s rival turns up stabbed to death in an alley just hours after the...
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    15,25 €

  • The Complete Charlie Chan - Six Unabridged Novels, the House Without a Key, the Chinese Parrot, Behind That Curtain, the Black Camel, Charlie Chan Car
    Earl Derr Biggers
    Charlie Chan is a Chinese Hero, solving mysteries with wit and courage. Biggers created the character because he disliked the negative stereotypes around Asian people at the time. S. T. Karnick writes in the National Review that Chan is 'a brilliant detective with understandably limited facility in the English language [whose] powers of observation, logic, and personal rectitud...
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    67,04 €

  • Kitsune-Tsuki
    Laura Vanarendonk Baugh
    Winner of the 2012 Luminis Prize!"Once I started reading, I could not put it down. The story is thrilling and magical." "Twisty! Turny! Magical! Wonderful!" "...I figured I knew exactly how it was going to end. I was completely wrong." "I finished it and immediate starting reading again, looking for the clues." How does one find a shapeshifter who may not even be real? The onmy...
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    8,03 €

  • Floats the Dark Shadow
    Yves Fey
    Young American painter Theodora Faraday struggles to become an artist in Belle Époque Paris. She’s tasted the champagne of success, illustrating poems for the Revenants, a group of poets led by her adored cousin, Averill. When children she knows vanish mysteriously, Theo confronts Inspecteur Michel Devaux who suspects the Revenants are involved. Theo refuses to believe the kill...
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    28,90 €

  • Case of the Dixie Ghosts
    A. A. Glynn
    America’s bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the mysterious, humpbacked Mr. Fortune, carrying a burden of secrets, slips ashore and disappears into the fog of winter. And in Lond...
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    17,80 €

  • A Moveable Feast of Murder
    Agata Stanford
    'It was only natural that I should be nervous-all right, I panicked; after all, my Uncle Martin went down with the Titanic. A February blizzard was raging fury over the East Coast as the S.S. Roosevelt was being tugged out of the harbor at Hoboken toward open seas. I shook from trepidation as I stood out on the open deck of the ship this midnight, the flurry of thick flakes, a...
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    14,15 €

  • The Sun and Stars
    Elizabeth Adair
    Isabel Holland, illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII, walks a privileged but precarious road through the intrigues of the Tudor court. When her cousin Sir Hugh Lovell is accused of stealing the prized crown known as the Sun and Stars, Isabel pits her family loyalty against the political plotting of formidable opponents Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and the ruthless Lord ...
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    25,37 €

  • The Sun and Stars
    Elizabeth Adair
    Isabel Holland, illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII, walks a privileged but precarious road through the intrigues of the Tudor court. When her cousin Sir Hugh Lovell is accused of stealing the prized crown known as the Sun and Stars, Isabel pits her family loyalty against the political plotting of formidable opponents Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and the ruthless Lord ...
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    16,04 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire
    Dean P. Turnbloom / Dean PTurnbloom
    Victorian Englands most famous consulting detective is hot on the trail of London’s most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. But in Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire, Jack is a vampire and Holmes refusal to believe it could be his undoing as the two match wits in this delightfully original first novel. ...
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    23,57 €

  • El escalón 33
    Luis Zueco
    Un viejo libro comprado por Internet esconde sorprendentes enigmas. Siete castillos unidos por un vínculo secreto. Un mensaje oculto espera ser descifrado. Silvia, gran apasionada de los libros, trabaja como restauradora en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, pero está cansada de su rutinaria vida y desea que todo cambie. Una noche descubre unos enigmáticos textos acompañados de ...
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    25,38 €

  • The Many Faces of Arsene Lupin
    Maurice Leblanc
    Arsène Lupin, the prodigious gentleman-burglar created in 1905 by Maurice Leblanc, has become an enduring myth who, like his counterpart and cherished foe, Sherlock Holmes, has inspired many pastiches over the years. This collection offers two, never before translated Arsène Lupin tales by Maurice Leblanc, plus nineteen other stories, including five written especially for this ...
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    25,25 €

  • The Detective and the Woman
    Amy Thomas
    Irene Adler, American opera singer and the one woman who outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, finds herself a widow at thirty-two, wealthy but emotionally broken. At the same time, Sherlock Holmes finds himself unable to return to England after faking his death at Reichenbach Falls and is drawn into an investigation of two men with designs on a woman they call Miss A, who is none other ...
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    21,14 €

  • Kindred Spirits
    Lucy McCarraher
    Mo Mozart, with her GP husband Jack and two youngchildren, moves from Crystal Palace to rural Norfolk inpursuit of the perfectly balanced lifestyle. Their idyllicfarmhouse, though, holds dark family secrets that date backdecades - to when Dottie Hammond moved from London tobecome a World War Two Land Girl on a farm surrounded byNorfolk’s RAF/USA Airbases.Mo’s happy country life...
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    17,15 €

  • Blood and Water
    Lucy McCarraher
    Mo Mozart has struggled as a single mother to bring upher first two children. Now they’ve flown the nest, she’sconcentrating on maintaining a career while being a goodwife to her second, younger husband, Jack, and motherto their little daughter. Mo feels she’s at last getting thebalance of her life right. Until, that is, Jack’s twin sisterasks her to help trace their birth moth...
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    17,34 €

  • Kolonie Waldner 555
    Felipe Botaya
    En 1944, un piloto accidentado misteriosamente es enviado al hospital del doctor Edward Burton en Manaos, Brasil. Un extraño anillo del paciente despertará la curiosidad de este médico norteamericano, que por su cuenta indagará el origen de todo el misterio. En 1938, Helmut Langert, un exitoso hombre de negocios alemán en Sudamérica, recibe, en Berlín, del mismísimo Reinhard He...
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    17,63 €

  • The Shanghai Box
    Howard Turk
    Shanghai, 1929. Jake Greenberg, the owner of a fashionable casino, is drawn into a daring British plot to steal a Japanese Enigma machine. The plan fails. Agents are murdered and Jake pursues the traitor who killed them. ...
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    22,18 €

  • Secrets of San Blas
    Charles Farley
    Most towns have their secrets. In the 1930s, Port St. Joe has more than its share. Old Doc Berber, Port St. Joe’s only general practitioner, thought he knew all the secrets of the sleepy town in Florida’s panhandle. But a grisly murder out at the Cape San Blas Lighthouse drags him into a series of intrigues that even he can’t diagnose. Fortunately, the wise old doctor has an ev...
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    12,94 €

  • Thirst
    Mary Donnarumma Sharnick
    Venice, July, 1613: A suspicious drowning in the Lagoon and a deadly assault on a bridge shatter the dreams of Captain Lorenzo Contarini and his fiancée, la Signorina Caterina Zanchi, members of two noble Venetian families. While Caterina's severe injuries banish her from society, her parents remove their other daughter, Leonora, from the convent to become Lorenzo's hasty wif...
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    13,54 €

  • The Uninvited Guest
    Sarah Woodbury
    It is the winter of 1143 and all is not well in the court of Owain, King of north Wales. His future in-laws are untrustworthy, the Norman lords on his eastern border are restless, and among his wedding guests lurks a cold-blooded killer. Gareth and Gwen have marriage plans of their own, but their love will have to wait while the pair race to separate truth from lies, friends fr...
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    19,18 €

  • Dancing in the Streets
    Steve P. Unger
    Now and then, you still can see the tattered remains of a bumper sticker exclaiming: 'If you remember the '60s, you weren't there!' But Steven P. Unger is an exception to the rule-he took notes. As a result, his novel Dancing in the Streets is replete with unforgotten and unforgettable images of events and scenes that have long been lost in a smoke-filled haze. From the Merr...
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    20,39 €

  • Murder in the Red Chamber
    Taku Ashibe / Tyran Grillo
    Set in the world of the original Dream of the Red Chamber, the masterwork of eighteenth-century Chinese fiction by Cao Xueqin, this murder mystery plays out Peking during the late Qing dynasty. The author is famed in Japan for not only his tight plotting and brilliant characterizations, but also his skill in adapting famous fictional locales and characters for new works. The ta...
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    18,56 €

  • The Attenbury Emeralds
    Jill Paton Walsh / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
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    17,04 €


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