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  • The Monster Monroe
    Richard Null Pires
    Steven Fisher is about to be sent off to fight in World War II, but his patriotic zeal is tempered by a series of nightmares. He realizes that his psyche is trying to remind him of something-a promise he made to a deformed World War I veteran who saved his life years earlier. Steven looks back on his past, rediscovering his childhood and reflecting on the horrifying events that...
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    17,41 €

  • The Devil’s Playground
    Cynthia Sens
    It is 2011, and Mel Taylor appears to be just a regular guy—and yet he is anything but ordinary. Despite being born in 1916 and witnessing the devastation of World War II, Mel is only forty-four years old. Now this genealogist is trapped between painful memories of his past and his life in the present where he is plagued by confusing nightmares that rob him of his sleep. He is ...
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    18,46 €

  • The Devil’s Playground
    Cynthia Sens
    It is 2011, and Mel Taylor appears to be just a regular guy—and yet he is anything but ordinary. Despite being born in 1916 and witnessing the devastation of World War II, Mel is only forty-four years old. Now this genealogist is trapped between painful memories of his past and his life in the present where he is plagued by confusing nightmares that rob him of his sleep. He is ...
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    26,87 €

  • The Agony Column
    Earl Derr Biggers
    From the creator of Charlie Chan!Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an 'Agony Column' in the newspaper (what Americans would call the 'Personals'). ...
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    11,71 €

  • Entanglement of Fate
    Chris Brookes
    Sheffield, England, 1912. When a mute criminal known as ’the Street Arab’ is taken into custody, police call on court missionary, Robert Elliott, to try and unravel the enigma. With the help of Mary O’ Driscoll, a sharply perceptive nurse, Elliott reveals the prisoner to be Walter Stanford, a man with a blemished past and who is about to change their lives forever. As Elliott t...
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    16,80 €

  • Crimes of the Levee
    John Sturgeon
    "This series is perfect for fans of historical crime!" –Anne Bonny Book ReviewsIt is 1905, and Chicago is an open town. The most accessible part of town is the Levee District. It is an area of the city that's hard to tell the crooks from the cops. There are brothels, madams, opium dens, gambling joints and plenty of alcohol, but it all comes at a price in the Levee, and the...
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    11,24 €

  • Prodigal Son
    Colleen McCullough
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    17,17 €

  • Stones of Fire
    Alan Joseph
    The DaVinci Code meets the deep seas in this thrilling page-turner filled with twists, turns and ancient secrets. The discovery of an ancient amulet leads to globe trotting intrigue and the unveiling of long kept secrets. This thinking man’s thriller will send adventure seekers and conspiracy theorists alike racing to the explosive conclusion. ...
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    13,66 €

  • Sleight of Fate
    Balaji Narasimhan
    Ok, so you have won a few Sherlock Holmes quiz prizes, but what if your life depended on your knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes stories? That’s the shocking fate facing a woman who is tied to a chair - if she can’t answer, she dies. As the questions get increasingly more difficult, the reader finds themselves realising when their time would be up in this most deadly of quizzes i...
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    12,50 €

  • The Making of a Man
    John Worth
    This extraordinary story unfolds in the dim streets of Victorian London’s notorious East End. Poverty, squalor and crime fester and proliferate, blighting the lives of all who are unfortunate enough to dwell there. Yet from within the gloom, a random illumination- a beam of light. The light of human dignity; just sometimes, righteousness, decency and justice win out. In thi...
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    20,99 €

  • Unhallowed Ground
    Mel Starr
    Thomas atte Bridge, a man no one likes, is found hanging from a tree near Cow-leys Corner. All assume he has taken his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this may not be so. Many of the town had been harmed by Thomas, and Hugh is not eager to send one of them to the gallows. Then he discovers that the priest John Kellet, atte Bridge’s partner in crime in A...
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    11,97 €

  • The Adventure of the Bloody Tower
    Donald MacLachlan
    'For the very first time since I had met him, Mr. Sherlock Holmes let me down.'As a result, Dr. John H. Watson finds himself forced to accept, in 1883, a tricky challenge: to investigate the facts and fictions surrounding King Richard III.Richard III: Monster? Murderer of his brother’s young boys? Usurper? Or a legitimate but reluctant heir to the crown, and a good king who pro...
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    17,41 €

  • The Rebel
    C.J. Archer / C.JArcher
    Cole's heart is dark. He's a mystery, even to those closest to him in the Assassins Guild. All anyone really knows for sure is that he's ruthless, grim, and cares little for his own life. So when he loses his memory during an attack and thinks himself a naive eighteen year-old again, no one can really believe the transformation.But as his memory returns, so do the n...
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    16,20 €

  • The Virgin of the Wind Rose
    Glen Craney
    While investigating the murder of an American missionary in Ethiopia, young State Department lawyer Jaqueline Quartermane stumbles upon a magical word square in an underground church that guards the tomb of the biblical Adam.Drawn into a web of esoteric intrigue, she becomes the target of an elusive Pakistani opium kingpin who intends to convince the world that he is the Mahdi,...
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    24,67 €

  • Mystery at St Andrews
    Bill Lawler
    Doctor John Watson is visiting the village of St Andrews, Scotland, on a much-needed holiday. Still saddened by the loss of his good friend and companion, Sherlock Holmes, he seeks to put his life back in order. Believing that golf on the famous 'Old Course' might be just the tonic that’s required, he travels to the Kingdom of Fife and the Royal Hotel to test his remedy. Whi...
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    20,96 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady
    Marlene R. Aig / Marlene RAig
    The Lufton Lady reveals an episode from the early career of Sherlock Holmes an incident that proves the great detective had a heart as well as a brain. The story is told mostly in excerpts from the journal of an aristocrat who finds himself caught up in a dramatic encounter in 1878. The Lufton Lady is a novella by Marlene R. Aig, a noted Sherlockian and member of the Adventures...
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    12,43 €

  • Valley of The Swan
    KR Kingston
    Dado (Dado) grew up as a Viking princess in late 1100 AD. Her vicious Viking tribe, the Omkana’s, reside along the northern shores of the Baltic Sea. Dado’s world suddenly changes when her brutal and scheming father reveals the plan he had for her all along. Without foresight her life is suddenly turned upside down. Loyalty and love has gone terribly wrong, leaving her to begin...
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    22,08 €

  • Deadline Istanbul (the Elizabeth Darcy Series)
    Peggy Hanson
    Elizabeth Darcy is in the world’s most intriguing city to cover for old friend and fellow correspondent Peter Franklin, found dead in the Bosphorus. She’s convinced it wasn’t an accident.But uncovering secrets can be a dangerous business. Are spies involved? Criminals? Where does religion become politics, and vice versa? And who are those men following her? Danger stalks he...
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    16,06 €

  • Deadline Yemen (the Elizabeth Darcy Series)
    Peggy Hanson
    Called to Yemen to help her old friend Halima, correspondent Elizabeth Darcy combines work with the chance to repay an old debt. But the narrow, mysterious streets are populated with armed men and veiled women; who can tell friend from foe?Her first priority is to help Halima’s young brother Ali, who has become involved with religious extremists. But murder dogs her footsteps, ...
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    16,06 €

  • Hollywood Heat
    Arlette Lees
    The year: 1956. The place: Los Angeles, California. When six-year-old Daisy Adler vanishes from her upscale Hollywood Hills home during a crowded New Year’s Eve party, LAPD Detective Rusty Hallinan enters a case with more dangerous twists and turns than Mulholland Drive. Hallinan’s life hits a bump or two of its own when he’s dumped by his wife of eleven years, and falls hard f...
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    18,88 €

  • Charity
    Paulette Callen
    The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster’s daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else.On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and fami...
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    19,30 €

  • Worthy of Trust and Confidence
    Donald Brewer
    Worthy of Trust and Confidence is a western historical fiction book based on a mystery dective U.S. Secret Service crime in 1898.Three kids enter the Mousegate at Walt Disney World and each one becomes embedded with one of the three main characters. They see and feel the emotions of the characters. They live the history!A trio of cousins researching a family history project e...
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    18,54 €

  • The Papers of Sherlock Holmes
    David Marcum
    Spanning events over thirty years, Volume II of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates further narratives of Holmes and Watson’s days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes s supposed retirement. Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel to Yorkshire, where surprising new details of Holmes’s past are revealed, and even to the United States in 1921. Written in ...
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    21,26 €

  • The Flame and the Wind
    John Blackburn
    ’This is an historical novel in the grand manner . . . A lot of research must have gone into the work, and the result is wholly satisfactory.’ - The Guardian’The versatile John Blackburn has deserted one kind of horror for quite another, diabolism for divinity.’ - Times Literary Supplement’An accomplished writer.’ - The SpectatorThe year is 37 A.D., and Rome faces a dangerous t...
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    25,23 €

  • A Study in Regret
    Claire Daines
    What if two had perished at Reichenbach Falls? One simple, disastrous error throws Sherlock Holmes from his intended Hiatus into a tortuous journey of sorrow and remorse. Far from home, broken in body and spirit, the haunted detective fights to survive the single most tragic failure of his career - a fight he cannot win alone. With old and new companions beside him, and a threa...
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    21,16 €

  • Rest Not in Peace
    Mel Starr
    Master Hugh is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry, (with his wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants), has outstayed his welcome at Bampton Castle. The next morning after Master Hugh provides the potion, Sir Henry is found dead, eyes open, in his bed....
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    12,67 €

  • Bodie
    Anne Sweazy-Kulju
    'Blowing out the exhale, he tipped his hat at the few still-breathing horses. 'Don't worry; you'll be dead 'fore the buzzards gather to pick at ya.' Parker squinted up at the sun and saw buzzards were circling overhead already. 'I think,' he laughed cruelly.' Lara and Lainy survived foster care and all its horrors, but the experience left them incomp...
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    11,28 €

  • Maggie’s Mechanics
    Sheila J. Connolly / Sheila JConnolly
    The opening scene in this story, set in California during the early 1980s, instantly propels readers into the world of Maggie McIntyre, a woman whose occupation as an auto mechanic makes her unusual and somewhat of a mystery-especially to Bett Holman, the young lesbian who has fallen in love with her. Maggie is injured as she attempts to rescue a man caught up in a roadside exp...
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    15,39 €

  • Seven Days in April
    Steve Buster Johnson
    In the Spring of 1917, a Royal Flying Corps squadron is having more than its fair share of action on the Western Front. There is trouble within the squadron however, as spare parts and valuables have mysteriously disappeared, with no clue as to who is responsible. The squadron’s commanding officer is worried that if it gets out there’s a thief in their midst, it will adversely ...
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    13,94 €

  • Sherlock Holmes
    Lyn McConchie
    Have you ever wondered about the clients who came to the front door of 221B Baker Street: whence they derived, how they heard of Holmes, who sent them? This book answers these questions. For, as Watson said: 'I have often observed the two advantages that my friend Holmes has over most other private detectives and also the police. One is that it is very rare for him to fail, and...
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    18,63 €


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