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  • Death Rides the Midnight Owl
    Agata Stanford
    Bomb-throwing anarchists, reds, a famous socialist muckraker, a millionaire couple, a little old lady, and a bunch of ukulele-playing Harvard boys are passengers on the Midnight Owl train out of Boston's South Station, along with Dorothy Parker and her friends. The train whistle that announces the departure at one minute past midnight on August 23, 1927, also sounds the death ...
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    15,82 €

  • The Good Knight
    Sarah Woodbury
    Join Gareth & Gwen in their first mystery together ... Intrigue, suspicion, and rivalry among the royal princes casts a shadow on the court of Owain, king of north Wales ...The year is 1143 and King Owain seeks to unite his daughter in marriage with an allied king. But when the groom is murdered on the way to his wedding, the bride's brother tasks his two best detectives--G...
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    19,15 €

  • The Kiev Killings
    G. K. George
    This is the sequel to To Kill a Tsar. Another thrilling adventure of eccentric Inspector Vasiliev, who this time takes the readers to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. 'In this second, marvelous installment of their adventures, Alfred Rieber takes the remarkable Russian detective duo of Vasiliev and Serov to Kiev, a city gripped in the h...
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    28,08 €

  • The Charm Stone
    Lillian Stewart Carl
    Witches weren’t burned in colonial Virginia. They were hanged. But in the twenty-first century no one should be hanged from the trees of historic Williamsburg. Not even batty conspiracy theorists, however much Jean Fairbairn’s significant other, ex-Scottish cop Alasdair Cameron, might sometimes wish he could pass judgment. Especially when said dingbats may be involved in the th...
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    17,22 €

  • Victorian Villainy
    Michael Kurland
    In the tradition of the old Ace Double two-in-one books (flip one book over to read the other), here’s the seventh Wildside Mystery Double:VICTORIAN VILLAINY: A Collection of Moriarty Stories, by Michael Kurland. Among the world’s great fictional villains, Prof. James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’s chief nemesis, stands alone. But how evil was he? These four stories suggest that M...
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    17,36 €

  • Mystic Mah Jong
    Agata Stanford
    New York City, October 1926, and baseball fans across the nation are glued to their radios, while New Yorkers are packing into the new Yankee Stadium to watch Babe Ruth knock another ball out of the park in the World Series games against the St. Louis Cardinals. It is also the era of sensational newspaper coverage by sob-sister reporters dishing out trial coverage of bad gir...
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    17,06 €

  • TV-Live -- Or Dead
    Olyve Hallmark Abbott
    Lisa Warren discovers the star she replaces on the hottest TV show of the 1960s may have been murdered. When a crucial clue comes her way, her sleuthing talent can't stay dormant any more than her telepathic sensitivity. Join Lisa as she performs her heart out while hunting a murderer. Each rehearsal, each costume fitting brings her closer to a final curtain than she realizes....
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    18,25 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    1866. After the disappearance of their master, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, fourteen years earlier, the Black Coats are a mere travesty of their former selves. Taking advantage of the situation, young Saladin, nicknamed the 'Sword-Swallower,' the son of Similor, a gang member, now the wily Marquis de Rosenthal, steps into the void and becomes the new Godfather. His ambitious plan to r...
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    27,34 €

  • Sandprints of Death
    Nash Black
    A Killer Stalks an Island ResortJim Young is banished to a desolate winter beach to rebuild his smashed feet and legs. His left eye and racing career vanished like the Sandprints of Death left in the sand by the waves with each turn of the tides. His brother, Matt suffered a broken shoulder during the game before the playoffs that would have taken the Vikings to Super Bowl X. H...
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    16,23 €

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
    Loren D. Estleman / LOREN DESTLEMAN
    Another long-missing adventure from the casebooks of the world’s greatest detective rediscovered by Shamus Award-Winner Loren D. Estleman, author of Sugartown and Every Brilliant Eye. Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master slcuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectabl...
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    11,36 €

  • Contact Creede! a Novel of Old Colorado
    Barbara Marriott
    The mining boomtowns of Colorado were no place for a Boston socialite-but don't tell that to Leo Worthington The telegram read: KNOW WHERE JOHN STANTON IS STOP CONTACT ME CREEDE That was Leonarda Stanton Worthington's only clue to the father who had abandoned her twenty years ago. Now 'Leo' is on a quest to find him; not for sentimental reasons, curiosity, or even love-but ...
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    14,40 €

  • The Ghosts of Glorieta
    Albert Noyer
    Catholic priest Casimir “Fr. Jake” Jakubowski reaches the retirement age of 70, yet wishes to continue his Michigan ministry. As a favor to Santa Fe’s Prelate, the Archbishop of Detroit offers the liberal Fr. Jake a temporary post in Providencia, a New Mexican village on the Rio Grande. A local pastor, the saintly Fr. Jesús Mora, is ill, yet he and most villager...
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    14,87 €

  • Charlie Chan Carries On
    Barry Conners / Earl Derr Biggers / Philip Klein
    '''Charlie Chan Carries On'' -- the 1931 Fox motion picture starring Warner Oland as Chan-- is now considered a ''lost'' film (the original film materials were destroyed in a vault fire.) Unless a copy surfaces in some remote corner of the world, as happened with ''Charlie Chan in Paris,'' this original screenplay is the closest Chan fans will come to seeing the original film. ...
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    13,02 €

  • 31 Bond Street
    Ellen Horan
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    14,15 €

  • Miss Cayley’s Adventures
    Grant Allen
    Miss Cayley’s Adventures sees her travelling the world, meeting a range of eccentric characters. An enjoyable read, featuring one of the first female detectives, and is illustrated throughout. ...
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    12,05 €

  • The Headhunter’s Daughter
    Tamar Myers
    Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunter’s Daughter, the second book in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century--a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctor’s Wife. Raised in the Congo herself, the child of missionaries, Myers uses her intimate knowledge of the people, the culture, and the landscape to add richness t...
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    14,67 €

  • Death Wore a Redcoat
    Peter Tyzack
    London, October 1881. When Inspector Everett Parsons is recalled from leave following the assassination of a prominent politician he imagines himself joining his colleagues in a nation-wide investigation. Instead he is assigned to the murder is General Latham, the former commanding officer of an infantry regiment recently returned to London after years spent fighting native tri...
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    23,47 €

  • Heron Island
    R. a. Harold
    Summer, 1903. Widowed Rough Rider Dade Wyatt longs to cast off his shadowed past and retreat to a quiet life as a security operative for his old friend, paper tycoon Warren Dodge. But Dodge's plans to host Wyatt's old commander Teddy Roosevelt on an idyllic Vermont island, and to advance his own political ambitions, are imperiled by the sudden death of a guest. With help from a...
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    15,36 €

  • Chasing the Devil
    Agata Stanford
    It wasn't enough that the Toy Soldier should meet his disastrous end on the heels of Felix the Cat's midair explosion over Broadway at the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but to add insult to injury, Dorothy Parker comes face to face with a crazed murderer. War-weary Americans are taking a sober look at our nation's Bill of Rights at a time when no one car...
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    14,21 €

  • Conspiracy of Silence
    S. T. Joshi
    In the tradition of the old 'Ace Doubles' two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the first Wildside Mystery Double, featuring two new novels of the 1930s private eye, Joe Scintilla: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, by S. T. Joshi. When the lovely Lizbeth Crawford walks into Scintilla’s office, she tells him that her father, wealthy industrialist James Crawford...
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    17,43 €

  • A Knight at Sea
    R. J. Raskin
    On the 12th of April, 1955 Raymond Chandler boarded the Mauritania in New York setting sail for the England of his youth. A Knight at Sea is a fictional account of that voyage. Woven like a film noir, this is a Chandleresque tale of bizarre friendship coupled with intrigue and murder. R J Raskin is one of the pen names used by novelist and mystery writer, Bob Biderman, whose pr...
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    19,34 €

  • Steel Town
    Howard Turk
    1952. In the heat of a labor election, a leading candidate and a local reporter are murdered. The police arrest Max Eisen, a young and poor Jewish immigrant working in a steel mill. But Max finds allies. A famous lawyer helps him and his beautiful daughter takes an interest in his cause. Plus, an odd collection underworld characters and Max’s labor gang friends stand with him a...
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    22,09 €

  • The Noon Lady of Towitta
    Patricia Sumerling
    Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm thirty-six hours later, but by the time an Aboriginal tracker can start his work, a gale has blown all clues away. An inquest sends her elder sister Mary to trial. But why would sh...
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    20,43 €

  • Yu; A Ross Lamos Mystery
    Joy Shayne Laughter
    Forbidden love, the Imperial Court of the Han Dynasty,jades worth millions on the black market ... Ross Lamos, 21stCentury Karmic Detective, knows that somehow, the history of the three jades is his as well. Yü, the Stone of Heaven, jade art born from the genius of ancient China. Lamos has built his career dealing Asian art and antiquities by hiding his very useful psychic Touc...
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    11,53 €

  • The Removal Company
    S. T. Joshi
    Katharine Vance had supposedly committed suicide in 1932, but when she surfaces under another name a year later, with no memory of her previous life, private eye Joe Scintilla is hired to investigate. He must travel from his native New York to Los Angeles to Italy, to uncover the nefarious schemes of 'The Removal Company.' A thrill-a-minute hard-boiled adventure, the first of a...
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    16,58 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    Marguerite Sadoulas continues her efforts to wrest the fabulous fortune of the de Clares by ensnaring its rightful heirs, one-armed Clément and circus girl Lirette, in a murderous conspiracy. Meanwhile, the deadly sociopath Cadet-l’Amour has stepped into the vacuum created by the destruction of the High Council and seeks the Treasure of the Black Coats. But he is thwarted by th...
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    25,13 €

  • The Queen's Sword
    David Glenn
    December 1599. A grimy, plague-ridden London is beginning its painful emergence into a great city; but there is treachery afoot as yet another plot is developing to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I. Young, impetuous Michael de Subermore, is summoned to Whitehall palace, ordered to infiltrate the suspected conspirators, and uncover their plans. Amid plots, counter-plots, bouts ...
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    13,36 €

  • The Queen's Jewels
    David Glenn
    A lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth I is murdered. Later, the Queen discovers some of her jewels are missing. These are obviously two unrelated events-or are they? Sir Michael de Subermore, the Queen's sworn defender, and his ally, private investigator George Monty, are charged with solving both crimes. One by one, suspects are eliminated; and, unless another candidate is...
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    13,36 €

  • Kapu
    Victoria Heckman
    Ancient Hawai'i is the setting for Coconut Man, a nomadic basket weaver, to learn of a plot against the village. How can he prevent a murder, much less a war, when he is a stranger to this closeknit community? ...
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    14,47 €

  • The Broadway Murders
    Agata Stanford
    When a Broadway producer is found dead in his luxurious apartment it is believed he choked on a cherry tomato. That he was not murdered is a surprise to the denizens of the Great White Way. The first of Agata Stanford's Dorothy Parker Mystery Series, takes you on a pictorial tour as you romp through the Manhattan of 1924 alongside real-life characters, writer and wit, Dorothy P...
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    14,30 €


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