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The search for a missing child uncovers a wealthy family's darkest secrets in this 1905 mystery by the author of The Circular Study.
On the morning of August 18, six-year-old heiress Gwendolen Ocumpaugh went missing from her family's Hudson Valley estate. Now her parents are offering a fortune to anyone who can locate her, dead or alive. The distressing announcement causes a stir across New York, but it is a welcome opportunity for struggling private...
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Audrey Bedford, a small town girl, goes to London and is, arrested for, stealing the Queen of Finland's necklace. She realizes immediately that her sister is the guilty party, but family loyalty leads her to accept the charge and she does the time rather than implicate her sister. Once released from prison she takes the only job she can find and ends up embroiled in a case of murder, robbery and stolen diamonds. Because of her past, she can't afford...
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The novel that introduced the world to its deadliest villain In the Burmese rainforest, an arrow steeped in the venom of the hamadryad snake, the deadliest reptile of the East, strikes colonial police commissioner Nayland Smith. His only hope is to immediately cauterize the wound using a sharp knife, a match, and a broken cartridge. For three delirious days, he lies on the forest floor, too weak to move. When the fever finally breaks, he walks out...
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Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton's most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything...
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'I liked Ms Evans tortured detective, DI Joe Rafferty from the first page.'
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RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BOOKS 9 – 12
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Blood on the Bones #9
A Thrust to the Vitals #10
Death Dues #11
All the Lonely People #12
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BLOOD ON THE BONES
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'Clever plotting and polished prose make this a cracking good British police procedural.' BOOKLIST
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Lapsed Catholic DI Joe Rafferty's latest case is in an enclosed Catholic convent. It is anybody's guess whether he catches...
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In this classic anthology, Peter Haining has assembled a fascinating selection of Charles Dickens' detective stories. Added to the stories are extracts from the novels in which the men of the law make their mark. These law officers and the circumstances in which they work were based on Dickens' observations of the fledgling police detective force when he was a solicitor's clerk and reporter. He accompanied detectives on their nightly patrols of the...
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Dr. Edmund Bickleigh married above his station. Although popular and well respected in his little Devonshire community, he seethes with resentment at the superior social status of his domineering wife, Julia. Bickleigh soothes his inferiority complex by seducing as many of the local women as he possibly can - but with the collapse of his latest fling and a fresh dose of sneering contempt from Julia, the doctor resolves to silence his wife forever...
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Previously published in the print anthology The Mysterious Mr. Quin. When Mr. Satterthwaite's chauffeured car breaks down in isolated Kirklington Mallet, he seeks refuge at the local inn. There he finds only one other guest-the mysterious Mr. Quin. Can they both save Stephen, a local man, from being unjustly sentenced for murder?
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October on the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty, and calm-or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite different, as the arrival of famed Chanel beauty Valentine Chantry causes a ripple of malice to be felt across the island. She captivates at least one married man with her wiles and good looks, as her brooding husband watches on. Poirot senses that someone has murder in their heart, and he guesses right. As things...
91) Spiderweb
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"So Jeanne has a lover," she concluded with a touch of amused wonder. "But what a lover!"
Somehow the creature had suggested an undertaker.
Alone in Paris after arriving from America, Catherine West finds herself swiftly and dangerously involved in the mysterious case of her cousin, Madame Germaine Bender. Catherine has received a letter from one of Mme Bender's close friends, urging her to come to Paris for reasons unspecified but pressing. When...
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Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès is a collection of two stories written by Maurice Leblanc, about the adventures opposing Arsène Lupin and Herlock Sholmès. It follows Arsène Lupin, a gentleman burglar, notably in the antepenultimate short story, Herlock Sholmes arrives too late.
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Cuando el detective Florián Falomir es contratado para esclarecer el robo de una talla de la Virgen sin aparente valor, no puede imaginarse hasta qué punto se le irán a complicar las cosas. Pronto se verá envuelto en una trama desbocada y trepidante cuya clave podría esconderse años atrás, cuando tres niños de un pueblo del Maestrazgo aragonés realizaron sendos milagros tras protagonizar supuestas apariciones marianas. Los numerosos enigmas...
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Isn't it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?
Ludovic Travers has, received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a bodyguard is something new. An appointment is, made for the following day, but Travers has barely completed a few discreet enquiries concerning his new client when he receives another call. This...
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Una novela que se sumerge la vida de todos sus personajes. Los estratos socioculturales y los estilos de vida de la Gran Bretaña que se combinan entre sí. Las costumbres, las historias y los conflictos que se cuadran y se pierden dentro de la enorme propiedad de un noble acaudalado y su perversa esposa, que se entrelazan y se disipan dentro de los largos y enredados corredores de la enorme mansión: Las personas que trabajan para ellos, sus amigos...
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Previously published in the print anthology Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. The patrons and residents of the newly opened guesthouse Monkswell Manor find themselves trapped by a snowstorm and threatened by a psychotic killer. With a finite cast of characters in this "locked room" mystery, it is not long before suspicions are voiced, and, under growing pressure, even newlyweds Molly and Giles each start to suspect the other of being a killer.
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"No one could prove we had reason to suspect murder. We can afford to be thought fools. So we'll go on behaving as if such a thought never entered our minds."
"I'm sorry, gents. I thought for a moment I'd been coshed." An odd sort of way in which to thank two helpful strangers after a nasty accident in a City street, and one bound to provoke speculation, especially when the strangers happen to be Ludovic Travers and his senior operative, Mr. Hallows,...
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Depuis son divorce, Antoine vit seul avec son chat Moïse, son confident. La seule femme dans sa vie est désormais Madeleine, la concierge de l'immeuble dans lequel il vit. Pleine de bon sens, indiscrète et envahissante, elle n'a pas sa langue dans sa poche et sa chatte Noé, à bien des égards, lui ressemble, tout comme Moïse est le reflet d'Antoine.
Un jour, Antoine reçoit une lettre inquiétante et menaçante. Qui vient troubler sa quiétude...
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En seis meses, cinco mujeres han sido asesinadas en Montmartre, pero no hay una sola pista que permita descubrir al asesino. Tras conversar con un renombrado psiquiatra, Maigret sospecha que los crímenes esconden una psicología demencial y difícil de descifrar. Tal vez anunciar el arresto de un falso culpable incitaría al criminal... pero ¿hasta dónde arriesgarse para atrapar al culpable? En esta nueva entrega del comisario Maigret, Simenon...
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Un misterio británico tradicional ambientado en Dartmouth, Devon.
Tratando de olvidar sus problemas con el alcohol, el antiguo soldado convertido en detective privado John «Slim» Hardy contrata lo que tendrían que haber sido unas tranquilas vacaciones organizadas de pesca en Dartmouth, al sur de Devon. Pero cuando una violenta tragedia afecta a otro de los viajeros, Slim se encuentra persiguiendo a un posible asesino. Ambientada en los bellos...
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