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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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