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Prendre sa revanche sur la vie, mais à quel prix ?
Mai 81. La France se passionne pour les prochaines présidentielles. Louka, jeune étudiant marseillais, cherche plutt une idée pour gagner un peu de fric. Une mère aux abonnés absents, un père abattu lors d'un braquage, Louka a un passé chargé, trimbalé entre foyers et familles d'accueil. Pour l'instant, il va à la Fac, vit de petits boulots et de combines en tout genre.
Mais Louka est...
1802) Weep for a Blonde
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A blonde with a rotten husband sends Mike Shayne into the past Mike Shayne isn't scared of anyone, but that doesn't mean he feels comfortable in a tuxedo. He squeezes into the monkey suit for the sake of Lucy Hamilton, his beloved secretary, and grins and bears his way through a meal at the ultra-posh Martinique. The detective is just settling into the evening when he sees a woman who stops his blood cold: Lydia Kane, a friend of his late wife. She's...
1803) Wading Into War
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Houston, 1940
Benjamin Wade is a laid back private investigator whose jobs are so mundane that he doesn't even carry a gun. He thought his latest job was going to be easy.
He thought wrong.
Hired by beguiling Lillian Saxton to find a missing reporter with knowledge of her brother's whereabouts in war-torn Europe, Wade follows a lead and knocks on a door. He gets two answers: bullets and a corpse.
Now Wade must unravel the truth about the reporter's...
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La bête est-elle réellement celle que l'on croit?
Le corps d'un notable est retrouvé égorgé en plein centre de Brive. Tout laisse à penser qu'un animal dangereux erre dans les rues de la ville. À la suite de son affectation au commissariat de la cité gaillarde, le lieutenant Gabriel Marcini est chargé de l'enquête. Après une longue période de soins, il reprend du service dans un climat tendu, d'autant qu'une seconde victime est bientt...
1805) The Shadowy Third
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The Shadowy Third, first published in 1946, is a fast-paced noir mystery centering on New York City lawyer, David Calder, and his search for a stolen priceless violin. Author Marco Page (pseudonym of Harry Kurnitz, 1908-1968) was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, writing more than 40 movie scripts during his prolific career.
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Mike Shayne finds strange secrets hidden beneath the cover of a grisly double suicide It's 10:30 pm, and Mike Shayne is sipping cognac, ruminating on the perfection of Lucy Hamilton's fried chicken, when a shotgun fires upstairs. Following the acrid stench of gunpowder to a locked door halfway down the hall, Shayne has no choice but to batter it down, tumbling face first into the scene of a particularly ugly double suicide. The woman lies on the floor...
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Une enquête pleine de suspense est menée par le major et sa brigade dans le marais Poitevin au sujet de l'homicide du jeune Tristan, tandis que des cambrioleurs en série rdent toujours...
Dans le Marais Poitevin, le major de gendarmerie André Callemin et sa brigade enquêtent sur l'homicide du jeune Tristan Sauzillon. Parallèlement, ils cherchent à identifier des cambrioleurs en série particulièrement cruels. La dernière victime desdits...
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The Clint McCall - Devon Malone Mysteries Omnibus collects the first three novels of the series: TURNABOUT IS FATAL PLAY: In this combination old-fashioned detective novel and modern romantic thriller, Portland (Oregon) private detectives Clint McCall and Devon Malone each have a client who wants to catch a cheating spouse-and the clients are married to each other! That should be complication enough, but pretty soon there are dead bodies, a local...
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Une enquête autour de trois faits divers, trois parcours cabossés, trois vies brisées.
Prier pour le meilleur, se préparer au pire ! Quel lien existe-t-il entre Kamel, jeune Marseillais d'une vingtaine d'années, Sabrina, femme de ménage à Valenciennes, et Grégor, ouvrier d'abattage près de Lorient… Entre les tragédies de notre temps et les personnages laminés par le monde d'aujourd'hui se tisse la chronique d'une époque o les destins...
1810) Sugar Got Low
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SUGAR GOT LOW contains a tale of grifters, a prequel story to the well-regarded Ania series, several trips back to River City and one to La Sombra, Texas. Enjoy a Walter Mitty homage set in San Francisco and a deadly day in Roman Britain, the heartbreaking story of a junkie and the suspenseful one of a murderer in a black car. And at the end of it all, you'll experience the dark but inspiring title story of perseverance that was only made possible...
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Un étrange jeu d'influences...
C'est la maison-refuge, votre havre, votre jardin secret. Que diriez-vous si, arrivant à l'improviste, vous découvriez qu'un inconnu s'y est installé ?
C'est ainsi que commence une cohabitation insolite entre un vagabond aux abois et une bourgeoise bohème, un brin loufoque. Au dehors, c'est le ciel changeant du Golfe du Morbihan, le cri des mouettes surfant sur les souffles de la marée montante et celui qu'on...
1812) Murder at Bayside
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Murder at Bayside, first published in 1933, is a fast-paced Crime Fiction by Raymond Robins (1873-1954), a noted expert on weaponry (especially pistols) and ballistics, major themes in solving the book's mystery. From the dust-jacket: "In a large country estate in Maryland several ugly rumors are afloat. One is to the effect that the place is a rendezvous for rum-runners, another deals with the unsavory reputation of the sons of the owner. The latter,...
1813) The Zamboni Zealot
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Young Tom Flannery thought he had it all. A great job helping out the Maintenance crews at the Pepsi Center-especially during hockey season, the best time of the year, a great girlfriend, a new car, and lots of money. But his good fortune comes to an end when he is killed and his body is dumped in a pile of snow in one of the Arena's parking lots. Sydney Morgan, and then Felicity Davenport, both come to Mark MacFarland, a former disgraced Denver detective...
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A storm is coming ...One year has passed since the unpopular second Diamond Purge began. When the trains in Bridges mysteriously stop running, tensions among the populace rise to the point that the other three Families decide something must be done.Private investigator Jacqueline Spadros gets an unusual request: mediate with Cesare Diamond so that Inventors from all Four Families may meet to find a solution to the crisis. But Jacqui has more pressing...
1815) Shoot to Kill
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Mike Shayne investigates the connection between a flirtatious wife, a husband blinded by jealousy, and a murdered boss Just 3 years ago, Ralph Larson and his wife were newlyweds, the happiest young couple in Miami. But since Larson went to work for Wesley Ames, his life has been hell. He's convinced his wife has fallen in love with his boss, and the jealousy is driving him mad. Hoping to avoid a murder, private detective Mike Shayne tells Larson's...
1816) Death Wears a Mask
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Death Wears a Mask, first published in 1935, is a 'golden-age' mystery. Set in the penthouse apartment of newly appointed police commissioner Samuel Mellon, actress Consuela Thorne is found murdered outside his door. Mellon investigates the crime with the help of his Chinese butler, assisted by Inspector Dolan of the Homicide Squad, and society sleuth Miss Livingston.
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Long before Sherlock Holmes entered the public domain as a character, a few dedicated authors "borrowed" Holmes and Watson without permission for their own work. Here are 5 classic early (and completely unauthorized) tales featuring the world's greatest detective (sometimes under not-so-cunningly disguised pseudonyms):
"WATSON!" by Captain A.E. Dingle
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, by G. F. Forrest
THE STOLEN CIGAR-CASE, by Bret Harte...
1818) The Hanged Man
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What would you sacrifice to do the right thing?New York City private investigator Gabriel Ross faces this elemental question in The Hanged Man. After seeing Gabriel confront a bigot in a controversial viral video, attorney Raymond Booth wants to hire him to probe a disturbing incident at Raymond's charitable foundation. As Gabriel is otherwise publicly scorned and losing clients, he's keen to take on Raymond's case. But then Raymond disappears. Raymond's...
1819) Madge
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For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up the missing-person case of Knox Yowell, a machinist who operates a metal lathe in a job shop. One August morning, Knox leaves for the corner bodega to buy his cigarettes and never returns home. His distraught wife, Madge Yowell, discovers Frank's business card in Knox's nightstand drawer. However, Frank has no memory of having met or spoken to Knox. The Yowells live in Hingham, a blue-collar...
1820) The Fatal Garden
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The Fatal Garden, first published in 1949, is book no. 49 in the series of mysteries featuring private detective Dr. Priestley and Scotland Yard's Superintendent Waghorn. Author John Rhode, a pen name of Cecil Street (1884-1964), was a prolific writer of mostly detective novels, publishing more than 140 books between 1924 and 1961. From the dustjacket: "Yes, the initial murder in this book was certainly committed on a path in a garden; but it is possible...
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