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Old Scores
ISBN: 9781497643161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A notorious French art dealer is murdered in this "thoroughly entertaining" mystery by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Gideon Oliver series (Kirkus Reviews).
It is a headline-making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. Rene Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but curator Chris Norgren is wary. Vachey is notorious in art circles for perpetrating scandalous shams; not for profit but for the sheer fun of embarrassing the elite and snobbish "experts" of the art... A notorious French art dealer is murdered in this "thoroughly entertaining" mystery by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Gideon Oliver series (...
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Twenty Blue Devils
ISBN: 9781497643307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The dead man is the manager of Tahiti's Paradise Coffee Plantation, producer of the most expensive coffee bean in the world, the winey, luscious Blue Devil. Nothing tangible points to foul play behind his fall from a cliff, but FBI agent John Lau, a relative of the coffee-growing family, has his suspicions. What he needs is evidence, and who better to provide it than his friend, anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective? Gideon is willing to help, but surprisingly--and suspiciously--both the police and the other family members refuse to okay an exhumation order. As a result,...
The dead man is the manager of Tahiti's Paradise Coffee Plantation, producer of the most expensive coffee bean in the world, the winey, luscious Blue ...
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The Dark Place
ISBN: 9781497642928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Gideon Oliver earns his moniker "The Skeleton Detective" in this riveting entry to the Edgar Award-winning mystery series "that never disappoints" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. And whoever--or whatever--hurled it did so with seemingly... Gideon Oliver earns his moniker "The Skeleton Detective" in this riveting entry to the Edgar Award-winning mystery series "that never disappoints" ...
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Fellowship of Fear
ISBN: 9781497642997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. Stimulating courses to teach, a decent stipend, all expenses paid, plenty of interesting European travel . . . What's not to like?
It does not take him long to find out. On his first night, he is forced to fend off two desperate, black-clad men who have invaded his Heidelberg hotel room with intent to kill. And then there are a few trivial details that the recruiting agency forgot to mention--such as the fact that the... When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no t...
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Loot
ISBN: 9781497643093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In April 1945, the Nazis, reeling and near defeat, frantically work to hide the huge store of art treasures that Hitler has looted from Europe. Truck convoys loaded with the cultural wealth of the Western world pour in an unending stream into the compound of the vast Altaussee salt mine high in the Austrian Alps. But with the Allies closing in, the vaunted efficiency of the Nazis has broken down. At Altaussee, all is tumult and confusion. In the commotion, a single truck, its driver, and its priceless load of masterpieces vanish into a mountain snowstorm.
Half a century later, in a... In April 1945, the Nazis, reeling and near defeat, frantically work to hide the huge store of art treasures that Hitler has looted from Europe. Truck ...
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Old Bones
ISBN: 9781497643154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel: Forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver returns in this thrilling addition to the bestselling series
With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper,... Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel: Forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver returns in this thrilling addition to the bestsellin...
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Turncoat
ISBN: 9781497643291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wanted: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything is about to change.
It starts with the appearance of an old man at his door, ranting madly about money, death, and forgiveness. The man is a stranger to Pete--but not to his wife, Lily. Only later does the truth come out. The unwelcome visitor was Lily's father, who she had claimed died during World War II in their native France, executed by the... Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wanted: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly tw...
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Curses!
ISBN: 9781497642911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mayan ruins in the Yucatan . . . a secret room in a tomb . . . age-old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton Detective, the invitation to join the archaeological excavation of Tlaloc promises two months of paradise on Earth.
That is, until an ancient series of Mayan curses against desecrators of the site is unearthed. When the first one comes to pass ("The bloodsucking kinkajou will come freely among them"), it is taken by all as a practical joke. But by the time the fourth one is apparently consummated ("The one called Xecotcavach will pierce their... Mayan ruins in the Yucatan . . . a secret room in a tomb . . . age-old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton Detective, th...
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A Deceptive Clarity
ISBN: 9781497642966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake painting--and a real killer--in this mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Switcheroo.
Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Past--twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, and only recently rediscovered. But things quickly get out of hand when Chris's patrician, fastidious boss, after sensing a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the very next day--on... An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake painting--and a real killer--in this mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Switch...
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Icy Clutches
ISBN: 9781497643086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Gideon Oliver expects to be amicably bored when he takes on the role of "accompanying spouse" at a lodge in the magnificent wild country of Glacier Bay, Alaska, where his forest ranger wife, Julie, is attending a conference. But it turns out to be exactly his cup of tea. There is another group at the lodge: six scientists on a memorial journey to the site of a thirty-year-old glacial avalanche that killed three of their colleagues. Their leader is TV's most popular science personality, the unctuous M. Audley Tremaine, who is the sole survivor of the fatal avalanche. But he does not survive...
Gideon Oliver expects to be amicably bored when he takes on the role of "accompanying spouse" at a lodge in the magnificent wild country of Glacier Ba...
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Murder in the Queen's Armes
ISBN: 9781497643130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive question will not stop nagging at him: Who would want to steal a thirty-thousand-year-old parieto-occipital calvarial fragment?
Yet someone has lifted this chunk of prehistoric human skull from a musty museum in Dorchester. Then, thirty miles away, an archaeology student is murdered, increasing tension and suspicion at a dig that had already seethed with suspicion, rivalry, and mistrust. Could there be a connection between a hot bone... Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive ...
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Skeleton Dance
ISBN: 9781497643222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pate de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters of the prestigious Institute de Prehistoire, which studies the abundant local fossils. But when a pet dog emerges from a nearby cave carrying parts of a human skeleton--by no means a fossilized one--Chief Inspector Lucien Anatole Joly puts in a call to his old friend, Gideon Oliver, the famed "Skeleton Detective."
Once Gideon arrives, murder piles on murder, puzzle on puzzle, and twist follows twist in a series of unexpected events that... Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known for three things: pate de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The little village, in fact, is the headquarters ...
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Echoes from the Ozarks: Memories of the Missouri Hills
ISBN: 9798839637665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Dead Men's Hearts
ISBN: 9781497642935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An ancient skeleton tossed in a garbage dump is the first conundrum to rattle Gideon Oliver when he arrives in Egypt. There to appear in a documentary film, he expects an undemanding week of movie star treatment and a luxurious cruise up the Nile with his wife, Julie. But when Gideon discovers a tantalizing secret in the discarded bones--and violence claims a famous Egyptologist's life--he is thrust into a spotlight of a different kind. Plying his calipers as the world's foremost forensic anthropologist, Gideon's investigation of the goings-on leads him through the back alleys and bazaars of...
An ancient skeleton tossed in a garbage dump is the first conundrum to rattle Gideon Oliver when he arrives in Egypt. There to appear in a documentary...
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A Glancing Light
ISBN: 9781497643024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A museum curator travels to Italy and looks into a murder in this "fresh, funny and] thoroughly enjoyable mystery" by the author of the Gideon Oliver series (Publishers Weekly).
Mild-mannered and law-abiding, Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque art at the Seattle Art Museum, is an unlikely undercover investigator, but when a priceless Rubens portrait is discovered in a shipment of "authentic reproductions" in a local warehouse, Chris is pressed into service to find out how it got there. The quest leads him to the medieval city of Bologna, one of his... A museum curator travels to Italy and looks into a murder in this "fresh, funny and] thoroughly enjoyable mystery" by the author of the Gideon Oli...
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Make No Bones
ISBN: 9781497643116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, "dean of American forensic anthropologists," after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in accord with his wishes, his remains--a few charred bits of bone--are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating if macabre exhibit. All agree that it is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist--until what is left of him disappears in the midst of the biannual meeting (a.k.a., the "bone bash and weenie roast") of the august WAFA--the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists--in nearby Bend, Oregon.
Like his... There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, "dean of American forensic anthropologists," after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in...
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