Misterios históricos

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  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    The political situation of the time is portrayed from different viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically. If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed t...
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    16,01 €

  • Gallows Thief (Perennial)
    Bernard Cornwell
    The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancée. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men--innocent or guilty--are hanged for the merest of crimes.When he’s offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter d...
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    16,26 €

  • Some Danger Involved
    Will Thomas
    An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London’s Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Cyrus Barker takes on the recent murder case of a young scholar in London’s Jewish ghetto, he ...
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    18,78 €

  • John Devil
    Paul Féval
    London, 1816. A mysterious criminal mastermind known as John Devil challenges the detective powers of Scotland Yard’s chief superintendent Gregory Temple. A true literary event ; this is the first time in fiction that the term 'detective' was used.JOHN DEVIL, written in 1863, is the first procedural thriller in the history of modern literature. ...
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    43,45 €

  • The Fugitive Queen
    Fiona Buckley
    It is 1568, three years since Ursula Blanchard exchanged her work as a spy in the service of her half sister, Queen Elizabeth, for the relative calm of married life. But when Elizabeth summons her, loyal Ursula senses there is more to her seemingly benign request than meets the eye. She is to pluck Penelope Mason, her inappropriately flirtatious protégé, from court and find the...
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    17,26 €

  • The Rival Queens
    Fidelis Morgan
    London 1700. The intrepid and impecunious heroines Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant, Alpiew, are scavenging for scandal for that scurrilous rag, the London Trumpet. With the bailiffs, as ever, in hot pursuit, the Countess and Alpiew escape to a philosophical lecture at the York Building’s concert hall. But their dull evening is confounded when one player staggers...
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    12,21 €

  • The 10th of August
    Robert A. Frey / Robert AFrey
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    33,66 €

  • The 10th of August
    Robert A. Frey / Robert AFrey
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    21,81 €

  • L’Art de Vivre
    Paul J. Schwartz
    Set in France in the 1930s, L’Art de vivre evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and sc...
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    9,66 €

  • L’Art de Vivre
    Paul JSchwartz
    Set in France in the 1930s, L’Art de vivre evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and sc...
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    17,98 €

  • The White Crow
    Cynthia Peale
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    17,66 €

  • Everlasting Empire
    In-hwa Yi / Young-nan Yu
    Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his “discovery” of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of problems verifying the authenticity of the manuscript, the narrator offers the book not as genuine history but as a story. This compelling tale is set at a pivotal moment in Korean histo...
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    27,76 €

  • Everlasting Empire
    In-hwa Yi / Young-nan Yu
    Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his “discovery” of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of problems verifying the authenticity of the manuscript, the narrator offers the book not as genuine history but as a story. This compelling tale is set at a pivotal moment in Korean histo...
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    16,89 €

  • Murder at Bertram’s Bower
    Cynthia Peale
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    17,66 €

  • The Arabian Pearl
    Marian J. A. Jackson
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    20,80 €

  • Road to Marrakech
    Olmond MHall
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    17,14 €

  • Bonnie Blue Murder
    H. A. Covington
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    18,46 €

  • The Death of Colonel Mann
    Cynthia Peale
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    17,59 €

  • Dark Treader
    J. T. Stockard / JTStockard
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    21,58 €

  • Unhappy Hunting Ground
    Jamie S. Eccleston
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    23,05 €

  • The Unburied
    Charles Palliser
    In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a friend from his youth, in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester. Courtine hopes to research an unsolved mystery at the cathedral library, but when Austin captivates him with the story of the town ghost -- a macabre tale of murder and deception dating back two centuries -- Courtine finds...
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    24,06 €

  • A Tear in the Silk
    Louise O'Flaherty / Louise O’Flaherty
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    14,98 €

  • The Charters Affair
    James R. Stefanie
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    23,73 €

  • Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage
    Mary Devlin
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    15,95 €

  • Murder Most Medieval
    Martin Harry Greenberg
    Murder Most Medieval is a collection of short stories set in medieval times in which murders are solved by the cleverest of methods. Included are stories by Peter Tremayne, Clayton Emery, and Ellis Peters. ...
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    33,38 €

  • Dog-Headed Death
    Ray Faraday Nelson
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    16,60 €

  • Mansion on the Hill
    Olmond M. Hall
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    13,57 €

  • The Florentine Mourners
    George Herman
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    16,72 €

  • Todo Dia Quando Acordo É Estranho
    Thiago Oliveira
    Contos e poemas do escritor Thiago Oliveira. Com um estilo entre conciso e poético, um fluxo por vezes vertiginoso, acompanhamos o eu ficcional do autor em suas desventuras urbanas, trabalhos mal remunerados e entendiantes, casos amorosos idiossincráticos, programas dominicais idiotizantes, paisagens urbanas distópicas, o advento da internet, lanchonetes nordestinas, botecos pe...
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    8,18 €

  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure—The Hound of the Baskervilles. In "The Return of Sher...
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    14,63 €


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