wyszukanych pozycji: 13
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Fracking The Fylde
ISBN: 9781490930046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. They said fracking would make Blackpool a boom town. They said it would bring jobs and money. It did. For the whores, the drug dealers, the foreign cheap labourers, the local politicians, the ambulance-chasing lawyers. And for me, PI Mike Grady. I'm not saying I'm proud of it. It just happened that way. It started when Mrs Hall walked into my office. Her husband had drowned in the frackers' water reservoir. The coroner recorded an open verdict. Mrs Hall wasn't happy. I started digging. I came up with more than I bargained for. Pulp meets fracking, greed and corruption in the third in Alan...
They said fracking would make Blackpool a boom town. They said it would bring jobs and money. It did. For the whores, the drug dealers, the foreign ch...
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37,55 |
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Cole And The Clairvoyant: The Martin Cole Novels
ISBN: 9781478272465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Martin is called in by a local businessman to look into a series of thefts from his warehouse. But the investigation is interrupted by the killing of one of the suspects. Are the thefts and the murder related? Are the police right in thinking there is a drug connection? Or should Martin follow clairvoyant Delia's advice to look for a mysterious triangle?
Martin is called in by a local businessman to look into a series of thefts from his warehouse. But the investigation is interrupted by the killing of ...
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35,97 |
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Payback Call
ISBN: 9781490929989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Steve Latham left Blackpool with a bullet hole in his arm and a determination never to return. He ran to the capital, changed his name, became a PI and never looked back. Now, twenty years later, a chance encounter in a London street leads to a plea for him to come back to the seaside town, to look for a missing girl. A daughter he never knew he had. Steve's return rakes up the past, revealing a tale of drugs, deception, long-held grudges and murder. Alan Tootill's second Blackpool Novel continues his fictional vision of a town fuelled by crime, greed and lust.
Steve Latham left Blackpool with a bullet hole in his arm and a determination never to return. He ran to the capital, changed his name, became a PI an...
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40,43 |
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Frackworld: A Blackpool Novel
ISBN: 9781499533866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When he walked into my office it took me a while to recognise Charles Foster.Then I twigged. He was a fracking ambulance chaser. I thought the no-win no-fee lawyer was handing me an easy job for good money. All I had to do was carry out basic background checks on a few prospective clients.I found he'd left out a few things. He didn't tell me Paul Spencer was dead. He didn't tell me I was Paul's stand-in. He didn't tell me about Jessica's long legs. He didn't tell me he was going to disappear. To be fair, he didn't know that himself. Noir meets pulp meets fracking, greed and corruption in the...
When he walked into my office it took me a while to recognise Charles Foster.Then I twigged. He was a fracking ambulance chaser. I thought the no-win ...
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42,16 |
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The Tanya Trilogy
ISBN: 9781517666392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An omnibus edition of three books of the Martin Cole series - Cole and the Cat Woman, Cole and the Corgi Killer and Cole and the Cactus Thief. Martin Cole is stuck in a rut. But his family and friends have ideas for him. And when Martin's landlord offers hime a job sorting out a problem for his niece Anna Martino he finds it hard to refuse. Soon Martin is back in harness, tempted by the prospect of an intriguing case, not to mention a useful income. He finds himself with an office, an attractive young assistant, Tanya, and a growing caseload. Roselake Investigation services, here we come.
An omnibus edition of three books of the Martin Cole series - Cole and the Cat Woman, Cole and the Corgi Killer and Cole and the Cactus Thief. Martin ...
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93,02 |
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Cole And The Corgi Killer: The Martin Cole Novels
ISBN: 9781478220626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Martin Cole has a new case. Three dogs have been poisoned on a Roselake housing estate. But his mind is soon taken off that problem by a call from a mother whose son has just been charged with murder and who claims he is innocent. Soon Martin and his assistant Tanya are involved in another round of battles to find the truth and in the meantime to sort out their own personal lives. Is romance in the air for Tanya? How can Martin keep his ex-wife under control and out of his hair?
Martin Cole has a new case. Three dogs have been poisoned on a Roselake housing estate. But his mind is soon taken off that problem by a call from a m...
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35,97 |
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Fracking The UK
ISBN: 9781482655995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the USA shale gas extraction is taking a toll on the nation's environment and health. Now, in the UK, the oil and gas companies are faced with ever-diminishing returns from conventional sources. They want to bring new hydraulic fracturing, coal bed methane and underground coal gasification techniques to our coastal and rural areas. In Fracking The UK, Alan Tootill takes a look at the history of shale gas development in the US, the damage it is causing, and how a powerful industry wants not only to industrialise Britain's landscape but throw concerns about climate change to the wind. His...
In the USA shale gas extraction is taking a toll on the nation's environment and health. Now, in the UK, the oil and gas companies are faced with ever...
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42,44 |
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Five Blackpool Tales: The Second Man and Other stories
ISBN: 9781517722135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains five new stories from author Alan Tootill, continuing the Blackpool series of hard-boiled crime fiction, where noir meets pulp. The Second Man and Win Some, Lose Some feature PI Mike Grady, with whom readers of the Blackpool novels will be familiar. In the Second Man, Grady is offered a simple job, delivering a bundle of cash in return for a gambling IOU. Seems an easy assignment, until murder queers the pitch. In the second story Grady is asked to save an attractive woman from the unwelcome advances of her boss. Grady finds nothing is as simple as it looked. The Spider...
This volume contains five new stories from author Alan Tootill, continuing the Blackpool series of hard-boiled crime fiction, where noir meets pulp. T...
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36,37 |
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Cole And The Cat Woman: The Martin Cole Novels
ISBN: 9781478220145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Martin Cole is stuck in a rut. But his family and friends have ideas for him. And when Martin's landlord offers him a job sorting out a problem for his niece Anna Martino, he finds it hard to refuse. Soon Martin is back in harness, tempted by the prospect of an intriguing case, not to mention a useful income. Roselake Investigation Services, here we come. He finds himself with an office, an attractive young assistant, Tanya, and a caseload to take on. But Anna's problem is not that easy to resolve. How come her aunt left her money to a cat charity, when she hated cats? And when a hit-and-run...
Martin Cole is stuck in a rut. But his family and friends have ideas for him. And when Martin's landlord offers him a job sorting out a problem for hi...
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35,97 |
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Cole In The Country: The Martin Cole Novels
ISBN: 9781478212959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Things are not going well for Martin Cole. He is less than happy about his half-century approaching rapidly. More importantly, recently he lost his job, on top of that his wife Carol divorced him and threw him out of his London home. So when his friend Nigel asks him to house-sit his Devon country cottage whilst Nigel takes an extended vacation, Martin jumps at the chance. But if Martin was expecting a quiet life he is in for a shock. Roselake seems peaceful at first glance, but soon Martin finds himself with serious problems. Wild women and raw home-distilled spirits he can cope with, but...
Things are not going well for Martin Cole. He is less than happy about his half-century approaching rapidly. More importantly, recently he lost his jo...
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Cole And The Cactus Thief: The Martin Cole Novels
ISBN: 9781478220794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Unable to rest on his laurels, Martin finds himself involved in the suspicious deaths of two local councillors. Martin knows the two were linked by the case he was investigating, but was it coincidence they both seemed to have died of heart attacks within a day of each other? And why was Councillor Patton's car where it was when he was found dead at the wheel? Martin has a major puzzle on his hands. Not to mention the thorny problem of who is stealing prize-winning cacti from Roselake's greenhouses. Book 4 of the Martin Cole series.
Unable to rest on his laurels, Martin finds himself involved in the suspicious deaths of two local councillors. Martin knows the two were linked by th...
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Marton Mere
ISBN: 9781490929651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Blackpool PI Mike Grady sits back after concluding what seemed an easy matrimonial. Job done. Case closed. But three masked men drag him from his bedsit, beat him and dump him by Marton Mere, with a warning to mind his own business. But into what and whose business has he stuck his nose? Mike is puzzled. And not a little pissed off. Not one to let things be, once out of hospital Mike is on the trail of the baseball bat crew and whoever hired them. And it's not long before they are back after him. Armed and decidedly dangerous. Marton Mere, the first of Alan Tootill's Blackpool Novels,...
Blackpool PI Mike Grady sits back after concluding what seemed an easy matrimonial. Job done. Case closed. But three masked men drag him from his beds...
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29,95 |
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Beggars Way
ISBN: 9781517758219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Readers of the Martin Cole series of novels will be familiar with the cosy side (apart from a murder or two) of the fictional Devon town of Roselake. In his new novel Alan Tootill pulls the curtain aside to reveal what goes on behind Roselake's tranquil facade. A request to change a street name leads to division in the town, vigilantes roaming the streets and police helicopters in the air. Not to mention the burning down of the Town Hall. 'English provincialism gently but tellingly skewered' 'a great gallery of characters' 'a ring of authenticity even when (or because) things verge on the...
Readers of the Martin Cole series of novels will be familiar with the cosy side (apart from a murder or two) of the fictional Devon town of Roselake. ...
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42,89 |