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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...
82) The Beetle
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The Beetle (1897) is a novel by Richard Marsh. Immensely popular upon publication, The Beetle was an instant bestseller and went on to inspire a 1919 silent film adaptation starring Maudie Dunham. Despite its success, the novel was largely forgotten until scholarly attention in the late-20th century highlighted its importance to the fields of gothic fiction, postcolonial criticism, and women and gender studies. "To have tramped about all day looking...
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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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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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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?
88) 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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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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"She came to me for help, Andrew, and I failed her. I failed her living, but I promise to God I won't fail her dead!"
Richard Arbuthnot is convinced that a crime will be committed. The odd behaviour of a man who shares his train to work in Kingsley raises suspicions-suspicions which soon drive Artbuthnot to contact detective Anthony Bathurst.
The next day, Bathurst is approached by Kathleen Regan to investigate the disappearance of her artist brother....
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"He says it's something serious. Might be murder."
When the well-dressed Mrs. Wilson came into his office, her business seemed simple enough-although a little odd and mysterious for a woman of her bearing. She wanted Travers to find a missing man, who used to do a second-rate Houdini act in music halls. If Travers found her man, he was not to contact Mrs. Wilson but to advertise his find in the European edition of the New York Times.
As first one...
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"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 Vincent become embroiled in a vexing murder case when their host is...
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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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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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I think murder is practically a certainty.
William Weddall was eccentric even in Ludovic Traver's wide experience. There was about him an aura of secrecy and subterfuge at odds with the quiet atmosphere of his estate. Hinchbrook Hall, show-place for his antiques and paintings. He had sent Travers to Paris on the seemingly pointless errand of mailing a letter. And Travers later saw him deliberately miss a boat.
Then William Weddall plunged from a...
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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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Tis the Season-for murder... A colorful assortment of guests at a festive holiday house party discover there is a killer in their midst when their universally reviled host is found dead-in a room locked from the inside. For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, the investigation is complicated by the fact that every guest is hiding something-throwing all their testimony into question and casting suspicion far and wide. The clever and daring crime...
99) Deadline
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To learn who killed a loathsome gossip columnist, Bognor joins the paper Staggering homeward from a banquet, St. John Derby decides it would be easier to stagger back to work instead. When he reaches his desk, the booze-addled gossip columnist treats himself to a massive tumbler of port and calls for a taxi. By the time the cab arrives, the port is spilled on the carpet, mingling with the blood leaking from Derby's cut throat. No one will mourn his...
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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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