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  • The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
    Lawrence Block
    Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure re...
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    18,23 €

  • Power on the Scent
    Henrietta Clandon
    “What you have in your mind is the possibility that someone put poison on a rose, and Mr. Morgan sniffed it up?”When stockbroker Montague Morgan—renowned among flower-growers as the creator of the “Rennavy Rose”—is found mysteriously dead in his own garden, attorney William Power is called into the case. Power invites his good friends the Mercers, Penny and Vincent, husband-and...
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    13,55 €

  • This Delicate Murder
    Henrietta Clandon
    “A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was!”The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are invited by Lionel Fonders to a shooting-party at Chustable Manor, where the other guests are mostly fellow-writers of various types. But Penny and...
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    13,54 €

  • Good by Stealth
    Henrietta Clandon
    The real trouble was, as I see since, that people do not discriminate. They lump all cases of what they consider a like nature together, and to their ill-informed minds I was in the same category as a mentally unsound woman who posts disgusting anonymous letters to her neighbours.Miss Edna Alice is a lady of moral rectitude and many other outstanding virtues. At least this is h...
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    13,51 €

  • Inquest
    Henrietta Clandon
    “There are serpents even in this Eden,” she chuckled, with a wave of her thin, much-beringed hand at something in the grass. “But now that we have a French cook, we shall be spared any dangerous mistakes.”The woman was actually pointing at a group of red spotted fungi, near the root of a beech.The setting of Inquest is that most fabled of locales in Golden Age mystery fiction: ...
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    13,56 €

  • Hanging Murder
    A JWright / A. J. Wright
    We can all stand on principles until evil pays us a visit…The year is 1894 when Mr Simeon Crosby, a retired executioner, comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk on his life’s work.Whilst he has an eager following, there are also many people who strongly object to Crosby’s profession and do not wish his melancholy shadow to be cast over their town. Protests have ...
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    13,71 €

  • Sitting Murder
    A. J. Wright / AJWright
    With a myriad of motives, the question is who?Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living.So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed ‘the Gift’ of mediumship and has received a threatening l...
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    12,78 €

  • Murder Bytes
    Gayle Carline
    P.I. Peri Min­neopa has had enough. She's clos­ing her busi­ness, mar­ry­ing her detec­tive boyfriend, and set­tling down to a life of ease-until her brother shows up, accused of a mur­der he swears he didn't com­mit. Now she's back in the thick of things, inves­ti­gat­ing the death of an engi­neer who may have been steal­ing techno-secrets from other com­pa­nies. H...
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    12,16 €

  • Murder Bytes
    Gayle Carline
    P.I. Peri Min­neopa has had enough. She's clos­ing her busi­ness, mar­ry­ing her detec­tive boyfriend, and set­tling down to a life of ease-until her brother shows up, accused of a mur­der he swears he didn't com­mit. Now she's back in the thick of things, inves­ti­gat­ing the death of an engi­neer who may have been steal­ing techno-secrets from other com­pa­nies. H...
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    20,29 €

  • The Enemy We Don’t Know
    Liz Milliron
    November, 1942. Betty Ahern is doing her part for the war, working at Bell Aircraft while her older brother and fiancé are fighting overseas, but she really wants to be a private detective like her movie idol Sam Spade. When sabotage comes to the plant, and a suspected co-worker hires her to clear her name, Betty sees it as her big chance.As her questions take her into Buffalo’...
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    12,34 €

  • A Shot To Die For
    Libby Fischer Hellmann
    In this fourth crime thriller of the Ellie Foreman series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort, Ellie befriends a woman who claims her ride abandoned her at a highway rest stop. But Ellie’s kindness is brutally cut short when a pickup truck pulls up, the rear wind...
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    15,30 €

  • Sherlock Holmes - Playing the Game
    Cenarth Fox
    The great man, Sherlock Holmes, is soon to retire. On his last night in Baker Street, the loyal landlady drops a bombshell. Holmes is staggered. Mrs Hudson has done what!? Sherlock Holmes never panics—until now. Dr Watson arrives and is stunned. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is furious. A famous author turned WW1 counter-intelligence spy is on the case. The Strand Magazine smells a sc...
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    10,12 €

  • Witchslapped in Westerham
    Dionne Lister
    Book 4 in the Paranormal Investigation Bureau Cosy Mystery series. When violent crime increases in Westerham, Lily and the PIB agents have to step in to sort things out. But nothing is quite as it seems, and danger lurks in every shadow. Just when Lily thinks she can figure things out, everyone turns against her, including those she loves most. It doesn't help that the pers...
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    14,68 €

  • Murder by All Means
    Carole True
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    12,30 €

  • El rapto de Selene
    Pablo Sampedro
    Hay dos cosas que no dejan de fascinar al famoso astrofísico Felipe Montenegro por más que medite acerca de ellas: el cielo estrellado y el intelecto y creatividad desbordantes en él. Pero por desgracia, las dos le serán arrebatadas en una misma noche. Ahora tendrá que ganarle una carrera a su vejez si quiere desenmascarar y detener a los culpables, ya que el resto de la humani...
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    18,67 €

  • Relic
    Bill Noel
    On an early-morning walk through the nature preserve on the east end of Folly Beach on their way to photograph the iconic Morris Island Lighthouse, Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler’s peaceful morning takes an abrupt turn. They encounter a woman who tells them she got separated from her husband during a storm, then claims they’d been relic hunting. Her husband can’t v...
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    19,44 €

  • Camille
    Martín Parra
    Como si la derrota no fuese un ir, sino un quedarse. A pesar de ese spleen (post)literario, hay menos aquí de Baudelaire que de Valle Inclán. Se trata más bien del relato de los contornos (necesariamente) borrosos de una pasión y no tanto el demorarse en los pliegues del erotismo efímero, pero eterno. Así, para lo que nos importa del relato, los antes y los después son los que ...
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    18,72 €

  • 3 Detectives
    Edwin D. Torgerson / Edwin DTorgerson / Guy Thorne / Victor L. Whitechurch / Victor LWhitechurch
    This volume of 3 Detectives has a railway theme, with mystery short stories from the early 1900s and a newspaper serial novel from the 1930s.'The Investigations of Godfrey Page, Railwayac' (Victor L. Whitechurch, 1903-1904): Godfrey Page is a ‘railway maniac,’ or railwayac, whose detailed knowledge of every aspect of the British rail system gives him an edge in solving ...
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    30,51 €

  • The Collected Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Short Stories
    Anna Elliott / Charles Veley
    A baffling murder. A master criminal. Have the world’s greatest detective and his intrepid American daughter finally met their match?Seven short stories published in one volume for the first time, featuring Sherlock Holmes and his long-lost daughter.Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James have become a formidable family crime-fighting team. But one murderous woman has evaded their grasp...
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    16,07 €

  • The Art of Sherlock Holmes
    Phil Growick
    The Art of Sherlock Holmes Global Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our two volumes, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach and USA, there had never been volumes where Holmes short stories were interpreted by such accomplished artists. In this first Global edition, fifteen world-class ...
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    70,98 €

  • Cold Inside
    Martine Zenna
    Following an unexpected early retirement, former detective Roosevelt (Rosie) Carter is in Florida, soaking up the sun and playing as much ice hockey as his heart desires. But when a murder strikes close to home, the cops haul him in as their number one suspect. Left with two options -- take his chances with the legal system or find the real killer -- Rosie decides his only choi...
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    11,51 €

  • A Darker World
    Lance Litherland
    When an anonymous teenage boy harbouring a valuable secret is mysteriously abandoned in a hospital, no one could have predicted the series of events that would follow.Two sisters embarking on a mammoth road trip, stumble upon a stranger at the side of the road in need of help. But things quickly spiral out of control, turning their road trip into a life or death fight for survi...
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    14,96 €

  • Miss Seeton Rocks the Cradle
    Hamilton Crane
    From her discovery of an aristocratic infant abandoned in a village telephone booth, to dark doings amongst Scottish banks and braes, it’s a rollercoaster ride for Miss Seeton in this adventure with a tartan touch.Grateful parents Lord and Lady Glenclachan sweep Miss S. northward to MacSporran Castle, their ancestral home, where, as her admiring reporter pal Amelita Forby (scen...
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    9,98 €

  • Miss Seeton Goes to Bat
    Hamilton Crane
    It’s summertime in Plummergen and cricket madness has overtaken Miss Emily Seeton’s pretty village. The pavilion urgently needs repairs, but there’s a needle match coming up against arch rivals Murreystone. Miss S’s chums Sir George Colveston and his son Nigel talk of little else, especially as the opposition’s demon bowler wrought havoc at last year’s game, while their own sta...
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    9,98 €

  • Miss Seeton Plants Suspicion
    Hamilton Crane
    Every year when the harvest moon shines, families of noisy Cockney hop-pickers descend on the bountiful countryside near the village of Plummergen, home to Miss Emily Seeton, artist and Scotland Yard aide extraordinaire.But the holiday jollity brings no cheer for local police Superintendent Brinton, who is all too aware it’s a whole year since the gruesome “Blonde in the Bag” m...
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    9,98 €

  • Watch the Wall, Miss Seeton
    Hamilton Crane
    Have the smugglers made a grave mistake?Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.As Miss Seeton sketches the most notorious tomb in Plummergen churchyard – the one built for 19th-century smuggle...
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    9,86 €

  • Starring Miss Seeton
    Hamilton Crane
    Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat – and all over England rehearsals are getting underway for the much-loved seasonal panto. In Miss Emily Seeton’s home village of Plummergen, Lady Colveden is directing an uproarious production of Cinderella, and Miss S is delighted to be offered a backstage role as set designer.Then while walking in Rytham Hall woods in search of mi...
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    10,02 €

  • Miss Seeton Undercover
    Hamilton Crane
    ‘Ibbley, obbley, onker, my first conker!’ The ancient warcry of English conker battles heralds autumn in the Kentish countryside, where Plummergen, Miss Seeton’s home village, and its great rival Murreystone, are holding their Produce Show and – this year – impromptu fisticuffs!Plus it’s Trafalgar Day, and at Admiral Buzzard’s ‘gin pennant’ party for local ex-officers there’s a...
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    9,98 €

  • The Six-Week Solution
    Paula Darnell
    Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest dies after her Cadillac plunges off Mount Rose Highway, a mountain road between Lake Tahoe and Reno, Washoe County Deputy ...
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    27,92 €

  • The Six-Week Solution
    Paula Darnell
    Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest dies after her Cadillac plunges off Mount Rose Highway, a mountain road between Lake Tahoe and Reno, Washoe County Deputy ...
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    12,30 €


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