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Meet the brilliant French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Collected here together for the first time are four of his most famous cases. At the Villa Rose, The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel, The House of the Arrow, and The Ginger King. Thrill to over five hundred pages of mystery and mayhem. A wonderful treat for the mystery reader!
40382) Bengal Fire
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An impending wedding and two fiancées lead to murder on the Indian subcontinent in this Golden Age mystery featuring British CID Insp. Leonidas Prike.
Unsavory press agent Harrison J. Hoyt gets word that his American fiancée is arriving in Calcutta-just in time for his wedding to someone else. To diffuse the situation, he turns to gold broker Lee Marvin. After all, Marvin owes him his life; it's the least he could do. But as Marvin delivers...
40383) Bombay Mail
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"Death and fast action take place on the crack Trans-Indian Express . . . Inspector Prike . . . encounters rubies, secretaries, cobras, priests, spies." -Time
The assassination of the Governor of Bengal propels a Golden Age mystery that introduces readers to shrewd British CID Insp. Leonidas Prike. Set on a train from Calcutta to Bombay, Lawrence G. Blochman's debut novel races through the Indian landscape, giving Inspector Prike twenty-seven...
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Central Intelligence Agency Director Markus Delphy tells a short story about "The Company" Bible, a supplemental piece to the Mike McHaskell Series of Novels. This narrative follows a hand-printed Bible through its lifetime, beginning in the 1600's and progressing all the way to the present day. It is a fascinating journey that offers a unique perspective on the history of this Bible and its impact on the CIA. This book is a work of fiction.
40385) Behind God's Back
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Ariel Kafka novels volume 2
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The second in the Ariel Kafka series.There are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a Finn, and lastly a Jew. Kafka is a religiously non-observant forty-something bachelor who is such a stubborn, dedicated policeman that he's willing to risk his career to get an answer. Murky circumstances surround his investigation of a Jewish businessman's...
40386) Body in the Canal
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Private eye, Dick Maxim begrudgingly takes a cheating husband case from the sultry, long-legged beauty, Elizabeth Tully, the wife of a bank president. But then, three days later, he stood on the bridge that crosses the Ala Wai Canal in Honolulu, Hawaii and watched his client's half submerged body slowly rising up, and down on the small swells, the water pushing her lifeless form up against the rocky bank. Her long, black hair floated across her...
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Inspector Mislan mysteries volume 2
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For fans of Jo Nesbø, Ian Rankin, and John Burdett, a gripping crime thriller that is steeped in the grit and feel of the street.
In the run-up to the Eid holiday, the police department is drained of staff and the DUKE expressway jammed with vehicles, as many in Kuala Lumpur leave the capital to join their extended families and celebrate the end of Ramadan. In the slow lane, a Mercedes E200 suddenly veers to the right after several bright flashes...
40388) Mystery in Provence
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Figure out whodunnit in this exciting new 1930s crime series that whisks you away to the most gorgeous escapist destinations! A beautiful French estateA weddingA murderAnd a novice detective intent on solving her first case! Fresh from teaching at her prestigious Swiss boarding school, Miss Atalanta Ashford suddenly finds herself the most eligible young lady in society when she inherits her grandfather's substantial fortune. But with this fortune,...
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A baker's New Year's Eve catering gig on a private island winds up being a countdown to murder . . .
Devon's queen of desserts, Shilpa Solanki, has a chance to spend New Year's on a rich man's private island. All she has to do is teach a cooking class and bake an exquisite cake befitting the birthday of a spoiled young heiress.
When the birthday girl suddenly collapses like an overdone soufflé, signs point to murder. With family secrets,...
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1st place award in the 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards, Mystery/Suspense categoryWhen a top secret and powerful US surveillance technology is stolen and offered for sale on the black market, an exiled reporter races to expose the theft and untangle the plot-before the story is spiked, and he is silenced for good. Coming off a successful investigation into a major banking scandal, Newshound reporter Nik Byron arrives in Washington, DC, with high hopes...
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Inspector Mislan mysteries volume 4
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A death no one should suffer and an investigator, who won't give up-for fans of John Burdett, Ian Rankin, and Michael Connelly.
Early morning in Jalan Alor, one of the city's red light and tourist hotspots controlled by the Triads. A junkie's scream of horror and the commotion that follows brings down the police, first a patrol car, and then, after what the officers see, Inspector Mislan and Detective Sergeant Johan from Special Investigations. The...
40392) Across the Water
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Secrets can pull you under... In a remote, boat-access only house, Liz Dawson's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she watches the people who live in the three identical houses that sit side by side across the creek. But it's the middle house Liz finds herself drawn to most: the beautiful young mother, Delilah Waters, and her baby. When Dee and her baby go missing, last seen by the murky waters of Oyster Creek, it is a suspected murder-suicide....
40393) Sleepless Summer
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Seasons come and go in provincial Blaashoek, where the town's superficial harmony is upended by the arrival of a wind farm—a blessing for some, a curse for others. The irritating hum of the turbines keeps butcher Herman Bracke, known far and wide for his delicious 'summer pâté,' awake at night. He falls prey to a deadly fatigue and gradually loses control over his work, setting off a series of bloodcurdling events with fatal consequences for the...
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Four compelling and visceral tales – very different in their settings and characters, but alike in their vividness and intensity.
Crack is about the narrator's peculiar encounter with a man he meets smoking crack-cocaine in a phone box. The Prototype is a send-up to late nineteenth-century gothic horror and tells the story of a woman's mayfly resurrection. Our Fathers takes place on the day after the UK EU referendum and it explores the impacts...
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Small town justice comes with a price.
'Full of tension and suspense, I couldn't put this down. The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat. Brilliant!' Simon McCleave
'Dark, gut-punching and satisfying all at once. Expert handling of characters and pace, and a glorious evisceration of moral duty!' Rachel Lynch
Ten years ago, in the pine-shaded town of Savage Ridge, Nick, Emmy, and Pete murder their high school classmate, Sammy Saint...
40396) Beasts of London
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Darker than the night, like a piece of reality had been ripped out of the world to grant a view into the endless abyss of the void, a shape rose from the low hills of the moor, towering above all.
Sherlock Holmes, his brother Mycroft, and their associate Mary Morstan are some of the most adept mages in London, safeguarding the peace of the city. Their daily life of solving crimes is interrupted when an ancient threat rises in Dartmoor. The magical...
40398) Aftershock
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Pride comes before the fall.
DSV, the elite secret service tasked with fighting Daedalus, the descendants of the Nazis, are on the run. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, they are pursued not just by their mortal enemies, but the combined might of world government, as global public enemies number one.
Led by special operative Ethan Munroe, the broken and bruised remnants of the once brilliant task force must evade capture across the world in...
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 24
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[2016]
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The Thea sisters are off to Madagascar for Adventure Camp. While on the nature preserve, they discover that endangered animals are under threat.
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"RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is in the Turks and Caicos Islands, enjoying two weeks of leave from his job training police in Haiti with the UN. On an early-morning jog along famed Grace Bay Beach he discovers a dead man in the surf. Ray is shocked to recognize the body as that of one of his Haitian police recruits. To his wife's increasing dismay, Ray is compelled to follow the dead man's trail and finds himself plunged into the world of human trafficking...
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