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40481) Mr Campion's Memory
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Albert Campion must dig deep into his memory to solve this latest mystery involving king of construction, Sir Lachlan McIntyre.
London, 1972. Albert Campion's nephew Christopher, an aspiring public relations guru, needs his uncle's help with a client. Construction magnate Sir Lachlan McIntyre enjoyed a meteoric rise after the Second World War and is in line for a life peerage, but his reputation is in jeopardy as he becomes the prime suspect for...
40482) The Devil's Door
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Catherine LeVendeur mysteries volume 2
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1140 Anno Domini:
A wealthy countess lies dying at the Convent of the Paraclete, brutally beaten by unknown assailants. Despite entreaties, she is unwilling to name her killer. Beautiful Catherine LeVendeur, the Paraclete's most learned young novice-scholar, vows to find out the identity of the woman's attacker.
When her beloved Edgar comes to lead her from the convent to a life of the flesh, Catherine is torn between her quest for justice and the...
40483) De retour à la maison
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« Un chef-d'œuvre de thriller et de mystère. Blake Pierce est parvenu à créer des caractères avec un cté psychologique tellement bien décrit, que nous avons l'impression de pouvoir pénétrer dans leur esprit, suivre le cheminement de leurs pensées et nous réjouir de leurs réussites. Plein de rebondissements, ce livre vous tiendra en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page. »
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Washington whodunit volume 3
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The Mayflower Society is about to hold its annual meeting at Washington D.C.'s swanky gathering place for the elite, the Continental Club. That means Kit Marshall's upper-crust future in-laws, Buffy and Winston Hollingsworth, are coming for a visit. Annoyed that Kit has not set a date to marry Doug, Buffy wants her to commit to a high society wedding at the club. Kit, though chief of staff for a congresswoman, feels uncomfortable with Buffy and Winston's...
40485) Antietam Assassins
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A Civil War spy is pulled out of retirement to find a killer It's 1862, and for Harrison Raines, the Civil War is finished. Since the First Battle of Bull Run, he has served the Union Army as a spy, crisscrossing the war-torn country and witnessing more death, misery, and carnage than any man should. Although a Virginian, he loathes slavery, and is proud to have served Abraham Lincoln. But Raines has had enough killing, and wishes only to retire to...
40486) The Institute
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Professor Salvatierra, who teaches at the University of Madrid, gets a peculiar letter from his friend Professor Reimann, the director of a respected research institute in Dusseldorf. In the letter, Reimann asks Salvatierra to visit because there are internal issues and plots happening at the institute, and he needs Salvatierra's assistance. During the summer, Salvatierra and his partner Cristina, who used to be his student, decide to travel to Dusseldorf....
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La ejecución del plan maquiavélico ideado por los tres criminales, Mascarot, Hortebize y Catenac, avanza sin contratiempos y parece que nada más que un milagro podrá impedir la catástrofe. Con la minuciosidad y precisión de un orfebre, el lazo se estrecha sobre las víctimas que, imperceptiblemente y en la más perfecta ignorancia, parecen encaminarse al desastre. Solo el genio de Lecoq podrá hallar algo de luz entre tanta oscuridad... Émile...
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Donuts and Murder Cozy Mystery Collection Books 1-2 Donuts and Murder Short Story: The Gossip ColumnistWhen a gossip columnist is murdered, Annabelle finds herself caught in the web of suspects. Donuts and Murder Short Story: The MournerWhen her oldest and wealthiest customer dies, Annabelle finds herself caught in the middle of an inheritance feud which leads to murder.
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A powerful, tragic and ultimately uplifting story of a drug syndicate working in plain sight yet hidden even from those close to its cruel presence.
Inspired by amazing true events, this story follows the journey of two vulnerable young girls who are lost to the seedy underworld of drug dealers. Falling prey to its cruelty, their innocence is stolen and replaced with fear as they are controlled and manipulated by their drug bosses. Others around...
40490) Murder on Campus
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A small university in Pennsylvania has engaged Mrs. Sheila Malory to teach a course on Nineteenth-Century Women writers, and so, with some reluctance, the widow leaves her home in the charming seaside village of Taviscombe to experience academic life in America. The semester will prove even more challenging than she thought, for no sooner does she arrive than a colleague is found with a bullet in his head. The victim is particularly nasty, a man many...
40491) Daggyland #1
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Published together for the first time are 10 masterful short stories by a winner of the Derringer Award for Short Mystery Fiction.
All but one of these tales first appeared in the pages of the world's greatest mystery magazines...If you ravenously consume mystery novels by the bushel, if the annual Best American Mystery Stories anthology is among your must-reads, if you hanker to get your hands on the latest copies of Ellery Queen's or Alfred Hitchcock's...
40492) Death at King Arthur's Court
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Children's book author Lyon Wentworth must solve an impossible locked-room murder with a medieval twist-or risk landing on death row. Lyon Wentworth sprints through the woods, chest heaving, dragging a broadsword behind him. He doesn't remember why he started running, or when he picked up the sword, but he knows that if he stops, he'll die. When he trips, his attacker is upon him within seconds, but the executioner disappears before he can deliver...
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He was the smartest lawyer in New York at the mid 20th century. He was the senior partner in the largest law firm. He was well intended and betrothed into a power family. He was destined to fail! She was a simple girl! If girls or women are ever simple? She was very shy and withdrawn. She lived in a small cottage with her quirky but highly intelligent inventor father. Her mother had died at a young age...or so she was informed. What began as an innocent...
40494) The Hawkshead Hostage
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Summer has come to the Lake District town of Windermere, where Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown runs her own florist shop. But there's no time for her to stop and smell the roses with the shop struggling for money, so a contract to provide floral displays for a hotel in Hawkshead couldn't have arrived at a better moment. However, Simmy's association with the hotel soon turns sinister when she finds a body in the lake.To make matters worse, her friend, Ben...
40495) The Iron Water
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Two macabre discoveries in a single morning present an intriguing challenge for Detective Inspector Tom Harper Leeds, England. July, 1893. D.I. Tom Harper is witnessing the demonstration of a devastating new naval weapon, the torpedo, at Roundhay Park. The explosion brings up a body in the lake, a rope lashed tightly around its waist. At the same time, dredging operations in the River Aire are disrupted when a woman's severed leg floats to the...
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Berta Galbis pertenece a una familia burguesa. Desde niña ha soñado con ser inspectora de policía, deseo que finalmente ve cumplido. El comisario Abellán le asigna de compañero a Amancio Serrano, un dinosaurio de la vieja guardia acostumbrado a extralimitarse en el ejercicio de sus funciones amparado en prerrogativas atávicas y patrimoniales. Caracteres opuestos al servicio de la ley que unirán sus fuerzas para intentar dar caza a un asesino...
40497) Los nombres del juego
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"Los nombres del juego" es un libro de cuentos conformado por ocho historias, cada una con el título de un juego de video. En cada cuento los personajes, no necesariamente los protagonistas de estos videojuegos, deben enfrentar un reto que los saque del ordinario cotidiano. Con un estilo directo y sin rodeos, Aceves nos pasea por la ciudad que construye con sus relatos, una urbe sin concesiones y rica en oportunidades para aquellos mejor preparados...
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Marie Émile Maurice Leblanc est un romancier français né le 11 décembre 18641, à Rouen, et mort le 6 novembre 1941, à Perpignan. Auteur de nombreux romans policiers et d'aventures, il est le créateur du célèbre et intemporel gentleman-cambrioleur Arsène Lupin.
La série Arsène Lupin compte 17 romans et 39 nouvelles, ainsi que 5 pièces de théâtre, tous écrits de 1907 à 1941.
40499) Trouble Down Mexico Way
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Trouble has a way of finding Blanche Murninghan...
When Blanche "Bang" Murninghan visits an exhibit of ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico City, she sees that all is not ancient. One of the mummies has a pink hair clip embedded in its haylike do, and the texture of the skin is not quite right.
Blanche, a part-time journalist, starts to dig for answers and gets tangled in the mystery of the mummy at the Palacio Nacional.
Her cousin and traveling companion,...
40500) Guilty Parties
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Severn House is proud to be publishing a collection of new stories from the glittering talent of the members of the Crime Writers' Association.