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From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes...
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-- The New York Times Stewart Bedford is willing to cooperate with a blackmailer to protect his beloved wife. But when he wakes up in a daze to find the man shot dead with Bedford’s gun and his blond escort missing, he’ll need some help from defense lawyer Perry Mason . . . This mystery is part of Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies...
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Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife-who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they'd gotten in Mexico is actually finalized.
This whodunit is part of Edgar Award—winning author Erle Stanley Gardner's classic, long-running Perry Mason series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO...
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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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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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Brilliant detective Dr. Gideon Fell embarks on an adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's suspenseful tale A vicious killer is loose aboard the majestic liner Queen Victoria and four people are determined to track him down. But they are as wholly unprepared for the heavy weather and high seas as for crime-solving and its strange circumstances-a blood-soaked stateroom, a lethally sharp razor,...
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Der Blick auf unser Leben erscheint plötzlich in einem anderen Licht. Alles verändert sich. Drei Geschichten erzählen von zufälligen Begegnungen, von Verlieren und Finden, von Sehnsucht, Hoffnung und Entscheidungen, von Geheimnissen und der Flüchtigkeit des Glücks.
Dominik ist ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, dessen Ehe nur noch von seiner kleinen Tochter Clara zusammengehalten wird. Sein Leben gerät ins Wanken, als er seine große Liebe wiedertrifft....
8) Keltenland
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Nach ihrem blutigen Einsatz in Osttirol, kehren die beiden Brüder, Sergio und Max, in ihre alte Heimat, ins schwäbische zurück. Der illusionslose, wortkarge noch Europol-Polizist Max, der das Recht vertritt, aber Gerechtigkeit sucht und der empathische, humorvolle Genussmensch Sergio, der junge Rentner. Hier im geschichtsträchtigen, beschaulichen Oberschwaben wollen sie mit ihrer Family die Rente genießen. Doch auch hier, auf dem historischen...
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Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from London to Sussex to South Africa. Mystery novelist Christopher Kent accepts a friend's outlandish bet and sets out to travel from Johannesburg to London with nothing but the cash in his wallet and the clothes on his back. He arrives with twenty-four hours to spare, his...
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Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's stylish, baffling mystery novel. The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen...
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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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This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder-then takes his own life. But where is the victim? How did it happen? "I always supposed," says Beef. "a murder case started with a corpse, and then you had to find out 'oo done it. This time we know 'oo's done it, but we can't...
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Famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin comes out of retirement to solve a crime of passion in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's sophisticated and surprising novel London lawyer Richard Curtis is sent to Paris by one of the firm's senior partners to handle a delicate case. Revelations about playboy Ralph Douglas's former mistress, the stunning redhead Rose Klonec, threaten Douglas's impending marriage. But upon Curtis's arrival in Paris,...
14) Is it Murder?
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As a result of a mysterious phone call, Sergeant Sean Begley of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Dublin is on the trail to find out what happened to the man who rang him to say that he was on the point of death. Could this all have been an accident or possibly suicide? After investigating a group of grasping relatives, a vengeful wife and a cyber blackmailer who are linked to the caller, the sergeant realizes that this might be a case...
15) Masterstroke
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After a boozy Oxford reunion, Bognor is distressed to learn one of his classmates is a killer Nothing depresses Simon Bognor like a university reunion. Every pimply-faced boy he knew two decades prior has made something of himself, while Bognor languishes at the Board of Trade, muddling along in an investigatory position for which he is hideously unqualified. Although more often than not his job requires catching murderers, he lacks even the observational...
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Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's brother Peter to prove Stewart is innocent of the murder of Dr. Benson, who has been found stabbed in the throat in the library of Peter's gloomy Victorian mansion, The...
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At a for-profit ancestral pile, Bognor seeks an earl-killing sniper As real estate moguls slice and dice the great properties of the English countryside, the rambling grounds of Abney House are kept intact by being turned into a sort of theme park of the aristocracy for the public-complete with cafeteria, sailing museum, and safari-themed shooting gallery. But the theme isn't complete until a visiting earl is felled by a sniper's bullet, giving Abney...
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A murder is yet to be committed-that much is certain-but who will be the victim? And who will be the murderer? It is Sgt. Beef's job to discover these facts, if he can, in time to prevent the deed from being done. But when he reaches the small traveling circus where the murder is to take place, he finds that practically everyone there is seething with hatred, each has a motive which might make him a killer; and any one of a dozen people could easily...
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Ein Begegnis voller Poesie entspinnt sich vor den Toren der Burg Silbleincastell. Diese birgt das Geheimnis um einen Klan, welcher sich seit alters der Hege der unnahbaren Windhunde verschrieben hat. Dessen jüngstem Abkömmling, dem gemütvollen Ugo, eignet ein besonderes Talent: Wie niemandem sonst gelingt es ihm, eine Anziehung auf die leidenschaftlichen Beutegreifer auszuüben, womit er jeden anderen Reiz in den Schatten stellt. Die Gabe ist Teil...
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