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Mistaken identity and intrigue abound in this classic mystery tale In the midst of a high-society masquerade ball, someone pulls off a daring heist. Several gold plates have been stolen, their value estimated at $15,000. Even more shocking is the fact that the crime seems to have been committed by a guest attired as a burglar, the costume complete with a loaded revolver! Hiding in plain sight, the thief escapes with his loot and drives off with his...
3) 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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Bognor braves the frost to discover who has murdered Canada's richest man In his lavish private train car, Sir Roderick Farquhar draws a bath. When it has been filled to his satisfaction, the portly captain of industry tips in three drops of bath oil and lowers himself into the steam. Within seconds, the poison in the oil has stopped his heart and ruined Simon Bognor's winter. A special investigator for Britain's Board of Trade, Bognor makes the...
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En esta emocionante continuación de la saga, el comisario Neira se sumerge en un nuevo caso relacionado con ETA: el Comando España y los guardias civiles.
Tras un devastador atentado en la plaza República Dominicana el 14 de julio de 1986, Neira se ve arrastrado a una trama de venganzas que amenaza con desestabilizarlo todo. La investigación se centra en dos sospechosos: Txomin y Troitiño. Implicando al hijo del ministro del Interior, víctima...
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El segundo misterio electrizante de la serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. Un reloj enterrado tiene la clave para descifrar un misterio de hace décadas. De vacaciones para escapar de las pesadillas de su último caso, el soldado caído en desgracia y convertido en detective privado, John «Slim» Hardy, encuentra algo enterrado en la turba de Bodmin Moor. Inacabado y dañado por el agua, el viejo reloj ofrece pistas vitales para un caso sin resolver...
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One man will stop at nothing to obtain a priceless jewel that has eluded men with dreams of riches and glory for centuries James Waring stares into the darkness of a cavern at a remote shrine in Annam. He's given his pursuers the slip and is about to behold a gem that few men have ever seen. It is a sacred stone-the only one of its kind in the world. The magnificent blue, green, red, and gold jewel is nearly within his grasp. But as his hand finally...
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Marital and extra marital relationship is nothing, just a search of love and shelter . But today people feels to give the priority of money and lust, where love is misguided. Third person comes in everyone's life like a cold wind which helps us to take a comfortable breathe but it as per the situation it doesn't take a long time to become a storm. Expectation of love and possessiveness leads to make a person monster. Swagatam Sengupta is a fiction...
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El tercer libro de la electrizante serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. Tras pasar por muy malos momentos, el soldado expulsado y convertido en investigador privado, John «Slim» Hardy es contratado por un terrateniente rico y enigmático, Oliver Ozgood, para descubrir la identidad de un misterioso chantajista. El hombre reclama una fortuna a cambio de su silencio. Afirma ser Dennis Sharp, un antiguo empleado de Ozgood y amenaza con revelar secretos...
10) The Green Inker
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English eccentric Barrington Shakeshaft has retired from a colourful life of swashbuckling adventure to live in a caravan in the paddock of his daughter's home in Sussex. He amuses himself by perpetrating benign hoaxes on gullible journalists and duping greedy art dealers with forged paintings done in the style of famous painters.When police announce a fresh appeal for witnesses on the first anniversary of the unsolved murder of a schoolboy, Shakeshaft...
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Ten guests have gathered at an isolated summer estate amid the Thousand Islands. The occasion is a surprise party to celebrate Rosa Sill's 25th birthday, the day she inherits the family fortune. But one surprise awaits them: the party quickly turns to a case of murder. Violet Cornichon, the Society-Girl Detective, is on-hand, and it is up to her to gather all the clues and point them toward the suspects…or is that the potential victims. Because...
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Lil Starling and husband Joe receive an invitation from her best childhood friend to go back to her hometown of Warsaw, NY to receive accolades for solving a fifty-one-year-old murder. Simultaneously, her friend, Federal Judge Stone, informs Lil that several federal inmates could be released from federal prison on a technicality. The technicality spawned appeals that stemmed from the prosecuting attorney that threatened Lil and Joe. She was about...
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For the sake of honey, Bognor investigates a cabal of treasonous monks As the friars of the abbey gather for group prayer, Brother Luke stays in the garden. His tardiness is not due to an overenthusiasm for his potatoes, but to the fact that he is lying face down in the dirt, strangled to death by his own crucifix. For Simon Bognor, this will prove inconvenient. A special investigator attached to the British Board of Trade, Bognor knows that Brother...
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Synopsis: In the unforgiving streets of New York, seasoned detective John Anderson is thrust into a brutal murder that rocks the city. Uncovering the victim's secret life of dark entanglements, he embarks on an investigation that plunges him into the shadows of crime and corruption. With the assistance of his steadfast partner, Detective Mark Thompson, an intrigue unfolds, leading them to confront a powerful criminal organization determined to safeguard...
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El cuarto libro de la electrizante serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. En la tarde del sábado 15 de enero de 1977, un tren de cercanías se retrasa en una pequeña estación de pueblo por una fuerte ventisca. La joven enfermera Jennifer Evans, con prisa por volver con su familia, se propone caminar los últimos kilómetros hasta su casa en un pueblo cercano. Telefonea a su hija para confirmarle que está en camino, pero nunca llegará a casa. La...
16) Hanami
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Ein tief in der japanischen Kultur verankerter Brauch ist das Hanami-Fest, bei dem man im Frühling in Parks oder an Flüssen zusammenkommt, um der Blüte der japanischen Kirschblüte (Sakura) beizuwohnen.
Wenn aus der Pandemie etwas Gutes entsprungen ist, dann die Gelegenheit, dem eigenen Leben ebenfalls ein Hanami-Fest zu widmen. Zurückzublicken auf das, was einem selbst zur Blüte verholfen hat und vielleicht auch, was einen bisweilen hat verwelken...
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Former police detective Michael McLaren is looking forward to spending Christmas at his grandfather's ancient Hall. Not only because it will be his first holiday with his grandfather and uncle, but also with his lady love, Melanie.Everything seems perfect for the Scottish Highland getaway. Even Mother Nature is contributing snow, adding a festive and romantic overtone to the gathering. But McLaren's holiday plan gets snowed under when a dead man is...
18) Pick Any Title
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Lord Clive' bought his lordship at a 'Lord of the Manor' sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, each of whom imagines himself an English lord, come to England to inspect their property Clive leaves the beautiful Jane Strachey to handle them.But Clive was careless who he sold to, and among his victims...
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A man fears his beloved is not who she claims to be in this sophisticated puzzler by John Dickson Carr, a master of the British-style detective novel. David Garth has just stepped off the train at Charing Cross when he is summoned to Scotland Yard to answer questions about a person believed to be living a double life. A neurologist, Garth is an expert on the brain, but in matters of the heart he is clueless. He has fallen in love with Betty Calder,...
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IT was a few minutes after one o'clock - the busiest hour of the day at the most popular bar in London. The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of the long, green-carpeted room. Around the bar, would-be customers were crowded three or four deep - many of them stalwart Canadians in khaki, making the most of their three days leave, and a thin sprinkling of...
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