Misterios históricos

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  • An Old Money Murder in Mayfair
    Sara Rosett
    Midnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive’s school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi’s dotty grandmother fears for her life—or so she’s said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that the dowager is far from muddled. The sharp and imperious matriarch refuses to admit to her worries and sends Olive on ...
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    12,02 €

  • Masquerade of Truth
    Gary L. Kreigh / Gary LKreigh
    When Reverend Richard Fountain comes across a homeless person breathing his last after a vicious attack, his visit to New Orleans takes a disturbing turn. Realising the dying man may not be what he seems, Fountain makes enquiries of various colourful New Orleans’ characters.Though warned to leave the investigations to the police, the Reverend sets about uncovering the truth hi...
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    14,40 €

  • POPPY’S PRISON
    Thomas Riddell
    The Bootlegger Murder Mystery involves the grandfather/adopted father of the author. Below is an interview excerpt taken from the newspapers, just days after Russell Brice began serving more than twenty years in Sing Sing Prison. 'Brice is a cheerful chap, with smiling gray eyes and blonde hair. He is twenty-six years old and is not a bit ashamed of the many crimes of which h...
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    22,76 €

  • Knochenbrecher
    David Penny / Elisabeth Münfeld
    Wenn der Wahn ein Monster erschafft, gibt es nur einen Mann, der dem Morden ein Ende setzen kann. März 1483, und der Chirurg Thomas Berrington reist auf Aufforderung seines Meisters widerwillig nach Cordoba. Er rechnet damit, nur einen spanischen Prinzen zu operieren und in seine Heimat des maurischen Al-Andalus zurückzukehren. Doch das Schicksal hat noch etwas anderes für ihn ...
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    14,55 €

  • Fifty Candles
    Earl Derr Biggers
    Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, House Without a Key, and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles ...
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    12,60 €

  • Histe(ó)ricas
    Dana Hart
    Dana Hart, autora de esta publicación, es especialista en el acompañamiento de mujeres y disidentes con perspectiva feminista. Su vasta experiencia profesional la ha llevado a escribir este diario de terapia donde explora y describe con precisión y sin tapujos las vivencias más profundas de tres mujeres históricas para el feminismo que conversan con ella para liberarse, para ro...
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    7,85 €

  • The Prince’s Man
    Sarah Woodbury
    In the aftermath of Prince Rhun’s death, King Owain and King Madog agreed their children should marry as a way to seal the peace between them. Two years later, the wedding date has finally arrived, though relations between the two kingdoms have improved only to the extent that they aren’t actually at war.So when an innocent falls victim to a poisoned dish, even Queen Cristina i...
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    16,91 €

  • The Dockside Murders
    Sharon Rowse
    In 1900, sleek steamliners bridged the vast distance between the Far East and North America. On the West Coast, they brought rare goods and news to cities that still held elements of the rough and tumble frontier. Creating a perfect breeding ground for confidence men and smugglers.A challenge from a lethal gangster pits John Granville and Emily Turner against a shadowy villain ...
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    21,21 €

  • The Gang of St Bride’s
    Emily Organ
    Penny Green faces her toughest puzzle yet.London 1885. A gang of lady thieves is targeting Piccadilly’s wealthy shoppers and no one seems able to stop them. As frustrations build, the body of a young woman is pulled from the River Thames. Reporter Penny Green has a lot to write about, and she faces a new challenge when a stranger approaches her with a riddle. Could it lead to a...
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    23,49 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Cornwall Affair
    Johanna Rieke
    Do you love Cornwall, with its cliffs and breakers, sleepy fishing harbours and villages? Would you like to meet a real English Lord? And do you enjoy an authentic, well researched historical crime story? With the author you will accompany the renowned Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, on their journey to Cornwall. There, in idyllic surroundings...
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    18,77 €

  • THE TENTH SWORD OF THE PROPHET
    M J Kojack
    The “Tenth Sword of the Prophet” is a story that unravels multiple conspiracies that lie deep within the history of nascent Islam and the Judeo-Christian Heritage.  At the center of the story is Michael, a brilliant Professor at Princeton University who specializes in Middle Eastern anthropology and is an expert in ancient Semitic languages.   Right at the heels of a shocking m...
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    20,65 €

  • Dark Obsession
    Edward Glover
    A world of passion, wealth and influence from the author of The Herzberg Trilogy and The Lute Player.'Sunday the 22nd of August 1875. I saw today an enchanting young woman on the river, bathed in golden sunlight. I cannot remove her from my mind...'So begins the obsession of a man of wealth and influence, its darkening shadow spreading from southern France to Paris, to Cochinch...
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    9,08 €

  • Emperor First
    Conrad Altmann / Debora Șalgău / William Altmann
    Over the last eighty years, the office of the President of the United States has become more and more powerful, overshadowing both Congress and the Judiciary. It’s debatable whether the Founders foresaw this. The Congress is tied up in internecine warfare and accomplishes almost nothing. The courts are stuffed with judges of dubious qualification and little objectivity. With th...
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    25,19 €

  • Bony and the Kelly Gang
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot…Written by Upfield while living ...
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    22,45 €

  • Madman’s Bend
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    If any man was ever born to be murdered, it was William Lush - a hated drunk who disappeared after beating his wife to death. Plenty of men had the opportunity to murder Lush, some the means, none the motive. Jill Madden, his pretty step-daughter, had all three... When Lush disappears, Inspector Bonaparte must look for a body - and the murderer - before the Darling River rises ...
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    22,46 €

  • Death of a Lake
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Eight hundred kilometres from the sea, Lake Otway is dying. Heat, drought, and thirst-crazed animals take their toll. When Ray Gillen, lucky lottery winner, went for a swim one night and never came back, some thought it was an accident, or was it murder? As the water level drops, five men and two women wait beside the shrinking lake - for the body, the money, or neither. And wa...
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    22,41 €

  • Murder at the Races
    Carmen Radtke
    1931. Frances Palmer is overjoyed when her brother Robreturns to Adelaide as a racecourse veterinarian. But all is notwell on the turf, and when a man is murdered, there is only onesuspect – Rob.Frances and her boyfriend, charming night club owner Jack Sullivan, along with ex-vaudevillian Uncle Sal and their friends have only one chance to unmaskthe real murderer, by infiltrati...
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    12,73 €

  • FRISCO Honeymoon For Three
    Larry Rau
    Second in the Exciting Frisco Series of Neo Noir Pulp Mysteries, Honeymoon For Three – The Dead Fisherman finds our trio of Nazi Fighters swimming in the dangerous waters of Spy Infested Los Angeles. It’s the late 1930’s. Hard-boiled Detective Phil D’Bourbon, his sexy but dangerous new bride Sally, and their elegant lover Lily had hoped to have a low-key honeymoon, and to hide ...
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    17,35 €

  • The Wynnman and the Black Azalea
    Trevor PKwain
    Enrico LoTrova always wanted to move to London and open his own bakery. When he finally lands a spot at 9/b High Street in Wimbledon Village, it is a dream come true, but when he thinks his career is about to take off, a series of unfortunate and mysterious events are set into motion that will drag him to the depths of the town’s unknown history. From legendary flowers to secre...
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    14,48 €

  • Deadly Cargo
    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 post in Cairo with his unconventional American wife, Kat. And between them they are a match for anything – even murder.DEADLY CARGOMy...
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    7,30 €

  • Deadly Cargo
    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 post in Cairo with his unconventional American wife, Kat. And between them they are a match for anything – even murder.DEADLY CARGOMy...
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    13,36 €

  • Lady Gold Investigates
    Lee Strauss / Norm Strauss
    Ginger Gold has opened her own private investigation office! This short story companion series to Ginger Gold Mysteries has the clever Mrs. Ginger Reed, aka Lady Gold, and her adventurous sister-in-law Felicia taking on clients who’ve got all sorts of troubles. This first volume consists of The Case of the Boy who Vanished and The Case of the Missing Fox Stole.A companion serie...
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    7,94 €

  • Lady Gold Investigates Volume 2
    Lee Strauss / Norm Strauss
    Lady Gold Takes The Case!Join Mrs. Ginger Reed~aka Lady Gold, her adventurous sister-in-law Felicia, and her curious dog Boss, as they take these new challenging puzzles. Lady Gold Investigates Volume Two presents The Case of the Recipe Robbery and The Case of the Museum Burglary. A companion series to Ginger Gold Mysteries, each volume is approximately 20 thousand words or 95 ...
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    8,88 €

  • Murder at Netherfield
    Jann Rowland
    After the ball at Netherfield, a fault in their carriage results in the Bennet family being forced to stay at the Bingley estate, and when a blizzard blows in overnight, the Bennets find themselves stranded there. Lady Catherine de Bourgh, having heard of her nephew's interest in the second Bennet daughter, descends upon them, demanding her nephew marry her daughter, making...
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    11,39 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XX
    David Marcum
    64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories – XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is “alway...
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    30,75 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XIX
    David Marcum
    64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories – XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is “alway...
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    55,50 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XIX
    David Marcum
    64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories – XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is “alway...
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    30,27 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XX
    David Marcum
    64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories – XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is “alway...
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    55,98 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XXI
    David Marcum
    64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories – XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is “alway...
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    55,90 €

  • The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XXI
    David Marcum
    64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories – XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is “alway...
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    30,67 €


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