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  • To Kill a Tsar
    G. K. George
    Eccentric and fiercely independent Inspector Vasiliev exposes a conspiracy by a high ranking nobleman and a top official in the secret police to assassinate the tsar in late imperial Russia. He finds unexpected help from Irina, a member of the revolutionary underground, with whom he falls in love. 'To Kill a Tsar is unique among books about Russia written by western authors: ...
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    27,98 €

  • Arsene Lupin Vs Countess Cagliostro
    Maurice Leblanc
    At long last, Arsène Lupin’s greatest epic battle is presented in English in a single omnibus volume. Countess Cagliostro (1924) marks the first great adventure of a 20-year-old Lupin, pitting him against the beautiful but deadly Countess Cagliostro, in an attempt to find the treasure of the Candlestick with Seven Branches. It is presented here for the first time in a new, unab...
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    25,13 €

  • The Problemist
    Clinton H. Stagg / Clinton HStagg
    Thornley Colton, Problemist, is a 'blind detective' from the golden age of mystery fiction. Relying on his keen senses and intelligence, he only takes the most puzzling cases, strictly for the enjoyment of unraveling a mystery. Author Clinton H. Stagg was only 26 when he died (in 1916), but left a remarkable detective for mystery enthusiasts to explore. This collection includes...
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    30,71 €

  • Knights of the Sea
    Paul Marlowe
    Beaches. Sunny walks in the country. A touch of romance. What could be more peaceful than a summer holiday in the Maritimes in 1887? A battlefield, maybe? That’s what Elliott Graven and Paisley DeLoup think after a few days of bombs, assassination attempts, and political campaigning. And then there was the vegetarianism... When a project hosted by Alexander Graham Bell threaten...
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    16,28 €

  • The Uncle Abner Mysteries
    Melville Davisson Post
    Melville Davisson Post’s famed historical detective, Uncle Abner, solved perplexing crimes of passion and greed with courage and the understanding that justice must be served. All 22 of the original Uncle Abner stories are included here. ...
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    24,67 €

  • Home to Ohio, Revised Edition
    Deborah E. Warr
    There was just something about small town America in the 1960's, especially Ohio farm country, that made one proud to have grown up there. Clean air, close knit families with happy kids and unwavering pride in the community. Everyone knew everyone, never hesitated to help a neighbor in need and no one bothered to lock their doors at night. All that changed, at least for a wh...
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    17,21 €

  • Will’s Purpose
    Randolph Kay
    Enter the End TimesWhere Religion Becomes the EnemyAnd God’s True Purpose is RevealedWill Simon, a New York City journalist, is investigating a story about religion for Global Press when, suddenly, he is pulled into a hellish place by his former fraternity brother, Adrian. As if given a cryptic message from the underworld, Will later discovers that Adrian had died that very nig...
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    16,16 €

  • Will's Purpose
    Randolph Kay
    Enter the End Times Where Religion Becomes the Enemy And God's True Purpose is Revealed Will Simon, a New York City journalist, is investigating a story about religion for Global Press when, suddenly, he is pulled into a hellish place by his former fraternity brother, Adrian. As if given a cryptic message from the underworld, Will later discovers that Adrian had died that very...
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    22,88 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    At last, we learn the history of Marguerite Sadoulas, once an obscure young actress who, through her stunning beauty and Machiavellian intelligence, overcame all obstacles and reached the pinnacle of Parisian high society, becoming the much-envied Countess de Clare, while, at the same time, rising in the criminal hierarchy of the Black Coats, to eventually be admitted into the ...
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    29,54 €

  • Hitler's Will
    Greg Causey
    1945, Berlin: In the last days of the war SS Major Jürgen Strasser is summoned to the Führerbunker for one last, desperate mission. Present Day: Antiques dealer, and ex IRA assassin, Patrick Deveraux is caught up in a race to find the answers to a decades-old puzzle. As the body count rises in Berlin, the Obersalzburg, Rothenburg and Hamburg, Patrick enlists the help of a Hamb...
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    9,30 €

  • Day of the False King
    Brad Geagley
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    15,52 €

  • Nevermore
    Harold Schechter
    Praised by Caleb Carr for his 'brilliantly detailed and above all riveting' true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the dark genius of that legendary author -- and follows a labyrinthine path into the heart of a most heinous crime. NevermoreA literary...
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    17,42 €

  • Rouletabille and the Mystery of the Yellow Room
    Gastón Leroux
    The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time. It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of The Phantom of the Opera, and is one of the first and most dramatic locked room mysteries ever published.It is the first novel star...
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    25,30 €

  • The Man Who Changed Rooms and Other Criminal Types
    Johnston D. McCulley
    This volume assembles five suspenseful stories by Johnston McCulley (the creator of Zorro). Included are 'The Man Who Changed Rooms,' 'Eternal Assets,' 'Initiating Noggins,' 'Forfearance,' and 'Demons of Disaster.' Part of the Wildside Pulp Classics series. 3 ...
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    22,25 €

  • The Lace Reader
    Brunonia Barry
    In the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale, Brunonia Barry’s bewitching gothic novel, The Lace Reader, is a phenomenon. Called '[a] richly imagined saga of passion, suspense, and magic' by Time Magazine, it is a haunting and remarkable tale told by an unforgettable, if strangely unreliable narrator--a woman from an enigmatic Salem family who can foretell the future in patterns of ...
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    12,17 €

  • California Girl
    T Jefferson Parker / T. Jefferson Parker / TJefferson Parker
    The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more--unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off ju...
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    13,17 €

  • A Fatal Waltz
    Tasha Alexander
    From New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander, a spectacular novel of historical suspense featuring the strong-minded and spirited Lady Emily AshtonAt her friend Ivy’s behest, Lady Emily Ashton reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of a man she finds odious. But the despised Lord Fortescue is not to be her greatest problem. Kristi...
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    16,24 €

  • Death of a Mill Girl
    Clyde Linsley
    Once again, after many years, here is the first book in the critically acclaimed Josiah Beede series of historical mysteries. Critics praised its 'richly realized setting and period details, impeccable plotting, and a wise hero made more appealing by his foibles.' Set in New England in 1836, the story concerns the murder of a beautiful young girl, one of many, hired to work lik...
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    19,46 €

  • Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime
    John Dunning
    Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman’s Wake, award-winning author John Dunning triumphantly returns with a riveting new thriller that takes us back to the summer of 1942, when radio was in its prime, when daylight saving time gave way to 'wartime,' when stations like WHAR on the New Jersey coast struggled to create programming that ...
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    25,70 €

  • The Paradise Mystery
    J. S. Fletcher / JSFletcher
    Joseph Fletcher was a British journalist and novelist. He wrote over 200 books on numerous subjects both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective novels during the 'Golden Age'. Many of his later stories feature the detective Ronald Camberwell. This story begins near a 13th century cathedral. 'American tourists, sure appreciators of all that i...
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    28,94 €

  • The Last Bowl of Tea
    Robert Stewart
    The genre of stories presented in this fascinating collection evolved over several millennia from the ancient tradition of oracle bone divinations, some of which dealt with the subjects of law and jurisprudence, into the casebooks that were employed by magistrates from the Song dynasty through the end of the Qing dynasty. Corollary to the official case books were the tales that...
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    28,07 €

  • The Last Bowl of Tea
    Robert Stewart
    The genre of stories presented in this fascinating collection evolved over several millennia from the ancient tradition of oracle bone divinations, some of which dealt with the subjects of law and jurisprudence, into the casebooks that were employed by magistrates from the Song dynasty through the end of the Qing dynasty. Corollary to the official case books were the tales that...
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    17,18 €

  • King Solomon’s Pilot
    Jerold Richert
    A non-stop, page-turning action-filled epic of sailing and exploration in the intriguing time of the Phoenicians. Based on historical fact and ongoing archaeological controversy. A book that explores the truth of where lies the fabled mountains and wide river that gave up its treasure for King Solomon’s temple of gold. ...
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    23,17 €

  • A Pale Horse
    Charles Todd
    The Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the spring of 1920, he’s dispatched to Berkshire to find a missing man whose war work is so secret even Rutledge cannot know its true nature. Meanwhile, miles away, an unidentified body has been discovered in the ruins of a Yorkshire abbey, c...
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    16,92 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    For over a century, the Black Coats have ransacked Europe, accumulating wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. The location of their treasure is known only by their godfather, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, but now some members of the High Council of the criminal brotherhood have banded together to form the Companions of the Treasure, a cabal-within-the-cabal which plots to wrest that sec...
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    32,94 €

  • To Ruin a Queen
    Fiona Buckley
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    20,60 €

  • Year of the Hyenas
    Brad Geagley
    Year of the Hyenas is a brilliant, original, and unique murder mystery, set in ancient Egypt at the height of that kingdom’s glory and power. It is at once a strikingly insightful portrait of a mysterious, complex, and sophisticated society, reminiscent of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings in its wonderful detail and feel for the past, and a fast-paced detective story that reads...
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    18,13 €

  • Amelia’s Secrets
    Maggie Carter-De Vries
    Passions and secrets lie panting and torrid beneath the placid surface of the lives of the genteel women and men of Amelia Island. The island’s own charms have seduced me to lay claim to this place, Fernandina, Florida, as my own.The Golden Years after the Civil War brought completion of the railroad and affluence with the influx of carpetbaggers from the North. Beauty arrived ...
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    22,74 €

  • The Winter of Her Discontent
    Kathryn Miller Haines
    It’s tough shooting for stardom when there’s a war on. But Rosie’s got enough pluck for two: she’s willing to stumble around in a Broadway dance chorus that she has no right to be a part of, in a musical that’s got 'flop' written all over it. And all the while, she’s worrying about her missing-in-action soldier boyfriend, who hasn’t written in months. Lately, she’s also been ke...
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    13,42 €

  • Queen’s Ransom
    Fiona Buckley
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    18,88 €


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