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Amiable, wisecracking Alex Rasmussen was first introduced--to great acclaim--in The Heaven Stone, which won the PWA/St. Martin's Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Now ghosts from the past and a murderous Halloween haunt his second case.
A former cop gone private, Rasmussen makes a living in the decaying New England mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts....
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Percy Andreae (1858–1924) was an English-American brewer and influential anti-prohibitionist during the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Clapham, London to a German father, Carl Andreæ of Frankfurt, and an English mother, Emilie Sillem. During the 1890s, Andreae published short stories and novels, many of which first appeared in The Windsor Magazine. His fiction drew on his roots, incorporating international mystery and suspense with...
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An egomaniac crook comes to town and issues a challenge to Nick Carter: I have come to town to do business. I give you notice before I begin, because I am quite certain you will be informed immediately after I commence operations. It really makes little difference; you cannot reach me. Really, my dear Nick, I have a contempt for the so-called detective ability. You, with your Ida, Chick, and Patsy, are a little better than the rest, but you are in...
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Krise? Welche Krise? Als Fahrradkurier hat Ex-Privatdetektiv Max Koller genug zu tun. Und wird dann doch rückfällig: Als ein Bekannter, der Schriftsteller Robert Usedom, erschossen aufgefunden wird, nutzt Koller die Vermisstenanzeige einer Lokalpolitikerin für eigene Ermittlungen. Er kommt einem Umweltskandal auf die Spur, jagt einen selbsternannten Rächer und lernt zutiefst verunsicherte Mitmenschen kennen. Die Krise ist überwunden, aber der...
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Der Großgastronom Pit Baldauf möchte einen Biergarten eröffnen - ausgerechnet am Karlsgraben bei Treuchtlingen, der unter Denkmalschutz steht. Das erhitzt die Gemüter der Anwohner sowie der Historikerin Ricarda Held, die über die Geschichte des Landstrichs forscht. Das Projekt soll zu Fall gebracht werden. Da kommt die Leiche des Hobby-Archäologen Meindl, die im Karlsgraben entdeckt wird, gerade recht. KOK Hans Wörle ermittelt: Hat die Tat...
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Was wäre die Freiburger Kantonspolizei ohne ihr ehemaliges Mitglied Jean-François Murith, der als Bruder Marius im Freiburger St.-Martins-Kloster lebt? Immer wenn es schwierig wird, greift der beleibte, kettenrauchende Inspektor Schneuwly zum Telefon, um sich bei Marius Rat zu holen. Dieses Mal ist jedoch nicht nur Marius' Rat gefragt, denn es geht um einen geheimnisvollen Mord in einem nahegelegenen Zisterzienserkloster. In einer Vollmondnacht...
8) Code 197
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One of Shell Scott's friends, a writer working on an expose, turns up dead-and his manuscript is missing. Of course, Shell Scott is hot on the case!
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Roberto Sánchez Ruiz
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2024
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Una nueva novela de Roberto Sánchez donde nada es lo que parece.
En junio de 2018 se localiza un yate varado en aguas internacionales. Está siendo consumido por el fuego. No hay rastro de sus tripulantes, los Vila Monsonís —una conocida pareja de abogados de Fotheringale—, ni del patrón del barco.
Desde ese momento, se abren
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Einstein Flint is an ex-rodeo rider, born in Brooklyn and raised in every other borough in the city. Now, he's banged-up, burnt out and back in NYC, bouncing at Boom Boom's. Dasha Bragin was smart, fearless and...remorseless as desert sun. But now she's dead and the cops are pretty sure Flint is their guy. Flint and Dasha had been a couple before the cops found her body, damaged in ways that don't allow the next breath. When word on the street...
11) Echo Murder
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In this new paranormal mystery from the author of Fallible Justice, an investigator looks into multiple murders-of the same man . . .
When private investigator Yannia Wilde returns to the conclave where she grew up-and to the deathbed of her father, the conclave's Elderman-she is soon drawn back into the Wild Folk way of life, and into a turbulent relationship with Dearon, her betrothed.
Back in London, Tim Wedgebury is surprised when police...
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Ron Reed, the ace pitcher of the L.A. Wave, the newest franchise in major league baseball, hires our "Celebrity PI" to surveille his lingerie model wife who he suspects is cheating. This fourth novel in the "Sherlock Jones" series of contemporary L.A. murder mysteries finds Sherlock, Sasha (his partner in Archer Investigations and sharpshooting lover), plus the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golfers Association) "Disreputables" (his zany yet adept rag-tag...
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Harry Starke: Books 16, 17 & 18Three more riveting Harry Starke thrillers with more than 3500 5-star ratings between them.Has Harry's past finally caught up with him?End Game Book 16: The game's afoot, only Harry has no idea… Not yet anyway.It seems his enemies are endless, and his career and life are always at stake. This time, though, he may not make it out unscathed.Unhinged Book 17: There's something strange going on at Clearwater Psychiatric...
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Valuable land, oil, and murder make strange bedfellows.
Denny McConnell, Private Investigator, is hired to research the deeds, land swaps, and old lawsuits regarding Texas ranchland and oil, the rights to which are now disputed by Wendy Axtell Shearer. Obstacles develop, in part, because of Wendy's charming but flawed character.
Denny puts to good use his engineering skills, and becomes entangled in the bitter family feud that includes murder, mayhem,...
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She was elegant, beautiful, and a cold-blooded killer...or so it appeared. She had the perfect motive. She even admitted to being at the scene of the crime. Scotland Yard was prepared to charge Louise Colton with her husband's brutal murder. Only shy, retiring Mr. Pinkerton believed her innocent.
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The Old Angel is everything an old English inn should be, with ancient beams, gleaming copper bedwarmers, pewter tankards, and platters heaped high with red roast beef. But then, as Mr. Pinkerton quickly discovers, the Old Angel also harbors some less homey items. Such as a frightened young girl, a series of secret passageways -- and a most unpleasant Knight who is suddenly killed in a most unsavory way.
The next thing he knows. Mr. Pinkerton is mixed...
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Roberto Sánchez Ruiz
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2024
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Este volumen de la serie contiene 125 historias de El Juego de los Detectives.
En la radio jugamos con ellas como tú puedes hacer con tus amigos o enemigos más cercanos.
Empezamos en 1994 el programa Si Amanece, nos vamos, donde seguimos en una segunda etapa tras el éxito de 2020, cuando se emitió en las tardes de La Ventana, también en la SER, y en las noches de
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2024
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¿Quién es el hombre que ha estado acosando y extorsionando a Marta Suárez?
Marta ha sufrido un sospechoso accidente de coche. Su amiga de toda la vida, y cómplice, Alicia Valtierra, se embarca de manera obsesiva en intentar descubrir qué ha ocurrido realmente. Para conseguirlo cuenta con muy pocos elementos: una conversación telefónica mantenida con
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The Detective MEGAPACK® presents 28 choice mysteries, spanning the Victorian age through modern times-there is something for every fan of detective tales!
Included are:
IT TORE THE LAUGH FROM MY THROAT, by Meriah L. Crawford
THE TAGGART ASSIGNMENT, by Vincent Starrett
TOMORROW'S DEAD, by David Dean
THE FLAMING PHANTOM, by Jacques Futrelle
MESSAGE IN THE SAND, by John L. French
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, by C.J. Henderson
THE RED THUMB MARK, by R....
20) Butcher
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I walked to the newspaper-wrapped bundle, looked at the mud smears on it-and at another brown stain. Then I gripped a corner of the paper and unwrapped it from the thing inside.
I didn't know what it was at first. But two minutes later, using the phone in a nearby house, I was talking to my good friend, Phil Samson, Captain of Central-Homicide. "Sam, this is Shell. Get somebody out here on Chavez Ravine Road. I think I've found a-a leg."
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