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  • Kindred Spirits
    Lucy McCarraher
    Mo Mozart, with her GP husband Jack and two youngchildren, moves from Crystal Palace to rural Norfolk inpursuit of the perfectly balanced lifestyle. Their idyllicfarmhouse, though, holds dark family secrets that date backdecades - to when Dottie Hammond moved from London tobecome a World War Two Land Girl on a farm surrounded byNorfolk’s RAF/USA Airbases.Mo’s happy country life...
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    17,15 €

  • Blood and Water
    Lucy McCarraher
    Mo Mozart has struggled as a single mother to bring upher first two children. Now they’ve flown the nest, she’sconcentrating on maintaining a career while being a goodwife to her second, younger husband, Jack, and motherto their little daughter. Mo feels she’s at last getting thebalance of her life right. Until, that is, Jack’s twin sisterasks her to help trace their birth moth...
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    17,34 €

  • Kolonie Waldner 555
    Felipe Botaya
    En 1944, un piloto accidentado misteriosamente es enviado al hospital del doctor Edward Burton en Manaos, Brasil. Un extraño anillo del paciente despertará la curiosidad de este médico norteamericano, que por su cuenta indagará el origen de todo el misterio. En 1938, Helmut Langert, un exitoso hombre de negocios alemán en Sudamérica, recibe, en Berlín, del mismísimo Reinhard He...
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    17,63 €

  • The Shanghai Box
    Howard Turk
    Shanghai, 1929. Jake Greenberg, the owner of a fashionable casino, is drawn into a daring British plot to steal a Japanese Enigma machine. The plan fails. Agents are murdered and Jake pursues the traitor who killed them. ...
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    22,18 €

  • Thirst
    Mary Donnarumma Sharnick
    Venice, July, 1613: A suspicious drowning in the Lagoon and a deadly assault on a bridge shatter the dreams of Captain Lorenzo Contarini and his fiancée, la Signorina Caterina Zanchi, members of two noble Venetian families. While Caterina's severe injuries banish her from society, her parents remove their other daughter, Leonora, from the convent to become Lorenzo's hasty wif...
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    13,54 €

  • Secrets of San Blas
    Charles Farley
    Most towns have their secrets. In the 1930s, Port St. Joe has more than its share. Old Doc Berber, Port St. Joe’s only general practitioner, thought he knew all the secrets of the sleepy town in Florida’s panhandle. But a grisly murder out at the Cape San Blas Lighthouse drags him into a series of intrigues that even he can’t diagnose. Fortunately, the wise old doctor has an ev...
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    12,94 €

  • The Uninvited Guest
    Sarah Woodbury
    It is the winter of 1143 and all is not well in the court of Owain, King of north Wales. His future in-laws are untrustworthy, the Norman lords on his eastern border are restless, and among his wedding guests lurks a cold-blooded killer. Gareth and Gwen have marriage plans of their own, but their love will have to wait while the pair race to separate truth from lies, friends fr...
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    19,18 €

  • Dancing in the Streets
    Steve P. Unger
    Now and then, you still can see the tattered remains of a bumper sticker exclaiming: 'If you remember the '60s, you weren't there!' But Steven P. Unger is an exception to the rule-he took notes. As a result, his novel Dancing in the Streets is replete with unforgotten and unforgettable images of events and scenes that have long been lost in a smoke-filled haze. From the Merr...
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    20,39 €

  • Murder in the Red Chamber
    Taku Ashibe / Tyran Grillo
    Set in the world of the original Dream of the Red Chamber, the masterwork of eighteenth-century Chinese fiction by Cao Xueqin, this murder mystery plays out Peking during the late Qing dynasty. The author is famed in Japan for not only his tight plotting and brilliant characterizations, but also his skill in adapting famous fictional locales and characters for new works. The ta...
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    18,56 €

  • The Attenbury Emeralds
    Jill Paton Walsh / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
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    17,04 €

  • Death Rides the Midnight Owl
    Agata Stanford
    Bomb-throwing anarchists, reds, a famous socialist muckraker, a millionaire couple, a little old lady, and a bunch of ukulele-playing Harvard boys are passengers on the Midnight Owl train out of Boston's South Station, along with Dorothy Parker and her friends. The train whistle that announces the departure at one minute past midnight on August 23, 1927, also sounds the death ...
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    15,82 €

  • The Good Knight
    Sarah Woodbury
    Join Gareth & Gwen in their first mystery together ... Intrigue, suspicion, and rivalry among the royal princes casts a shadow on the court of Owain, king of north Wales ...The year is 1143 and King Owain seeks to unite his daughter in marriage with an allied king. But when the groom is murdered on the way to his wedding, the bride's brother tasks his two best detectives--G...
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    19,15 €

  • The Kiev Killings
    G. K. George
    This is the sequel to To Kill a Tsar. Another thrilling adventure of eccentric Inspector Vasiliev, who this time takes the readers to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. 'In this second, marvelous installment of their adventures, Alfred Rieber takes the remarkable Russian detective duo of Vasiliev and Serov to Kiev, a city gripped in the h...
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    28,08 €

  • The Charm Stone
    Lillian Stewart Carl
    Witches weren’t burned in colonial Virginia. They were hanged. But in the twenty-first century no one should be hanged from the trees of historic Williamsburg. Not even batty conspiracy theorists, however much Jean Fairbairn’s significant other, ex-Scottish cop Alasdair Cameron, might sometimes wish he could pass judgment. Especially when said dingbats may be involved in the th...
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    17,22 €

  • Victorian Villainy
    Michael Kurland
    In the tradition of the old Ace Double two-in-one books (flip one book over to read the other), here’s the seventh Wildside Mystery Double:VICTORIAN VILLAINY: A Collection of Moriarty Stories, by Michael Kurland. Among the world’s great fictional villains, Prof. James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’s chief nemesis, stands alone. But how evil was he? These four stories suggest that M...
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    17,36 €

  • Mystic Mah Jong
    Agata Stanford
    New York City, October 1926, and baseball fans across the nation are glued to their radios, while New Yorkers are packing into the new Yankee Stadium to watch Babe Ruth knock another ball out of the park in the World Series games against the St. Louis Cardinals. It is also the era of sensational newspaper coverage by sob-sister reporters dishing out trial coverage of bad gir...
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    17,06 €

  • TV-Live -- Or Dead
    Olyve Hallmark Abbott
    Lisa Warren discovers the star she replaces on the hottest TV show of the 1960s may have been murdered. When a crucial clue comes her way, her sleuthing talent can't stay dormant any more than her telepathic sensitivity. Join Lisa as she performs her heart out while hunting a murderer. Each rehearsal, each costume fitting brings her closer to a final curtain than she realizes....
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    18,25 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    1866. After the disappearance of their master, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, fourteen years earlier, the Black Coats are a mere travesty of their former selves. Taking advantage of the situation, young Saladin, nicknamed the 'Sword-Swallower,' the son of Similor, a gang member, now the wily Marquis de Rosenthal, steps into the void and becomes the new Godfather. His ambitious plan to r...
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    27,34 €

  • Sandprints of Death
    Nash Black
    A Killer Stalks an Island ResortJim Young is banished to a desolate winter beach to rebuild his smashed feet and legs. His left eye and racing career vanished like the Sandprints of Death left in the sand by the waves with each turn of the tides. His brother, Matt suffered a broken shoulder during the game before the playoffs that would have taken the Vikings to Super Bowl X. H...
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    16,23 €

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
    Loren D. Estleman / LOREN DESTLEMAN
    Another long-missing adventure from the casebooks of the world’s greatest detective rediscovered by Shamus Award-Winner Loren D. Estleman, author of Sugartown and Every Brilliant Eye. Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master slcuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectabl...
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    11,36 €

  • Contact Creede! a Novel of Old Colorado
    Barbara Marriott
    The mining boomtowns of Colorado were no place for a Boston socialite-but don't tell that to Leo Worthington The telegram read: KNOW WHERE JOHN STANTON IS STOP CONTACT ME CREEDE That was Leonarda Stanton Worthington's only clue to the father who had abandoned her twenty years ago. Now 'Leo' is on a quest to find him; not for sentimental reasons, curiosity, or even love-but ...
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    14,40 €

  • The Ghosts of Glorieta
    Albert Noyer
    Catholic priest Casimir “Fr. Jake” Jakubowski reaches the retirement age of 70, yet wishes to continue his Michigan ministry. As a favor to Santa Fe’s Prelate, the Archbishop of Detroit offers the liberal Fr. Jake a temporary post in Providencia, a New Mexican village on the Rio Grande. A local pastor, the saintly Fr. Jesús Mora, is ill, yet he and most villager...
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    14,87 €

  • Charlie Chan Carries On
    Barry Conners / Earl Derr Biggers / Philip Klein
    '''Charlie Chan Carries On'' -- the 1931 Fox motion picture starring Warner Oland as Chan-- is now considered a ''lost'' film (the original film materials were destroyed in a vault fire.) Unless a copy surfaces in some remote corner of the world, as happened with ''Charlie Chan in Paris,'' this original screenplay is the closest Chan fans will come to seeing the original film. ...
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    13,02 €

  • 31 Bond Street
    Ellen Horan
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    14,15 €

  • Miss Cayley’s Adventures
    Grant Allen
    Miss Cayley’s Adventures sees her travelling the world, meeting a range of eccentric characters. An enjoyable read, featuring one of the first female detectives, and is illustrated throughout. ...
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    12,05 €

  • The Headhunter’s Daughter
    Tamar Myers
    Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunter’s Daughter, the second book in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century--a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctor’s Wife. Raised in the Congo herself, the child of missionaries, Myers uses her intimate knowledge of the people, the culture, and the landscape to add richness t...
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    14,67 €

  • Death Wore a Redcoat
    Peter Tyzack
    London, October 1881. When Inspector Everett Parsons is recalled from leave following the assassination of a prominent politician he imagines himself joining his colleagues in a nation-wide investigation. Instead he is assigned to the murder is General Latham, the former commanding officer of an infantry regiment recently returned to London after years spent fighting native tri...
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    23,47 €

  • Heron Island
    R. a. Harold
    Summer, 1903. Widowed Rough Rider Dade Wyatt longs to cast off his shadowed past and retreat to a quiet life as a security operative for his old friend, paper tycoon Warren Dodge. But Dodge's plans to host Wyatt's old commander Teddy Roosevelt on an idyllic Vermont island, and to advance his own political ambitions, are imperiled by the sudden death of a guest. With help from a...
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    15,36 €

  • Chasing the Devil
    Agata Stanford
    It wasn't enough that the Toy Soldier should meet his disastrous end on the heels of Felix the Cat's midair explosion over Broadway at the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but to add insult to injury, Dorothy Parker comes face to face with a crazed murderer. War-weary Americans are taking a sober look at our nation's Bill of Rights at a time when no one car...
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    14,21 €

  • Conspiracy of Silence
    S. T. Joshi
    In the tradition of the old 'Ace Doubles' two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the first Wildside Mystery Double, featuring two new novels of the 1930s private eye, Joe Scintilla: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, by S. T. Joshi. When the lovely Lizbeth Crawford walks into Scintilla’s office, she tells him that her father, wealthy industrialist James Crawford...
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    17,43 €


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