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The Daedalus Conspiracy: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781481208772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Part One, Cyrus Skeen, private detective in 1929 San Francisco, is asked by Charles Gilchrest, chairman of The Daedalus Society, an exclusive men-only club, to go to the The Daedalus Grove, a private enclave north of the city, to determine the nature of some trouble he has been warned about in a cryptic note written by an anonymous member. The note alludes to a controversial Senator from Nebraska and a tariff bill in Congress. It may the overture to a prank or it may be a serious threat to the man's life. Skeen agrees to attend the two-week encampment of the Society in rustic Monte Rio, an...
In Part One, Cyrus Skeen, private detective in 1929 San Francisco, is asked by Charles Gilchrest, chairman of The Daedalus Society, an exclusive men-o...
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43,47 zł |
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First Things
ISBN: 9781530496273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is late April, 1929. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in The Janus Affair involving the murder of a prominent commercial artist by apprehending the murderers of an advertising agency's office manager. He has just seen off his wife, Dilys, on a train to visit some relatives back East near Boston. She will be gone for about a week and a half, until early May. Skeen is visited in his office at Skeen Investigations one Monday morning by a seventeen-year-old boy, William Yeager, who asks Skeen to find his girlfriend, Darla Rampling, whom he last saw two weeks previously. What at first...
It is late April, 1929. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in The Janus Affair involving the murder of a prominent commercial artist by apprehending t...
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25,17 zł |
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Inquest: A Detective Novel of 1927
ISBN: 9781975894863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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113,83 zł |
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Double Entendre: A Detective Novel of 1927
ISBN: 9781974664009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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25,85 zł |
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Celebrity News: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781544903026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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26,26 zł |
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Honors Due: A Detective Novel
ISBN: 9781720645269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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32,80 zł |
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Reprisals: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781979435604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,61 zł |
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We Three Kings: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 9781481219075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The chief villain of We Three Kings is representative of the most bizarre and anachronistic statist at large in 1980, when I finished this novel, and in 2010: a royal Saudi sheik. The heroes who refuse to submit to his will - neither pragmatically, nor politically, nor in terms of Islam (which means "submission") - are Merritt Fury, an American entrepreneur, and a New York City police detective. The enablers who sic the Saudi mujahideen on them are the amoral, pragmatic denizens of the State Department. We Three Kings is about how a single man, moved by the moral principle that one's life and...
The chief villain of We Three Kings is representative of the most bizarre and anachronistic statist at large in 1980, when I finished this novel, and ...
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36,60 zł |
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China Basin Revised: A Detective Novel of 1928
ISBN: 9781540467973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cyrus Skeen, private eye in 1928 San Francisco, is approached by a captivating French countess, Vanessa Favaul, and a brusque retired British army colonel, Burton Heywood, to find the thief who stole a priceless artifact from countess's mother. At the same time, he wonders why a harmless Austrian junk shop owner and connoisseur of the fine arts in China Basin, the city's industrial underbelly, was brutally murdered. Complicating these matters is the mystery of who wrote a hit play and why the author is so publicity shy. Skeen is further intrigued by his new secretary, Dilys Jones, who...
Cyrus Skeen, private eye in 1928 San Francisco, is approached by a captivating French countess, Vanessa Favaul, and a brusque retired British army col...
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40,27 zł |
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Exegesis
ISBN: 9781533003478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is late June, 1929. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in Stolen Words, in which he exonerated a prominent novelist of the charge of murder, even though the author had plagiarized other authors with the cooperation of the now defunct publisher. Skeen's artist wife, Dilys, has returned from a visit to relatives back East in Massachusetts, and was preparing to work on her first painting. Skeen's new secretary, Lucy Wentz, is quick on the uptake, and is working out fine. But now a new nemesis has confronted Skeen, an unknown person who is killing people who have committed horrendous crimes....
It is late June, 1929. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in Stolen Words, in which he exonerated a prominent novelist of the charge of murder, even t...
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34,31 zł |
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An August Interlude: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781516876051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,57 zł |
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Silver Screens: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781508772019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is April, 1930. The Roaring Twenties have ended. The nation is absorbing the shock of the stock market crash of the previous October. However, in the wake of the economic catastrophe, Cyrus Skeen, private detective, scion of East Coast wealth, and a figure in San Francisco Society, is secure. He never bought on margin. In this eighth adventure of Skeen's, Hollywood reaches out to him, literally. A Hollywood producer visits his office and promises him the moon if he would agree to allow his persona and cases be used for some new movies, possibly starring William Powell or Ronald Colman....
It is April, 1930. The Roaring Twenties have ended. The nation is absorbing the shock of the stock market crash of the previous October. However, in t...
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28,96 zł |
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Gallery: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781795164436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,66 zł |
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Manhattan Blues: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781975813963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,02 zł |
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First Prize: A Detective Novel
ISBN: 9781720703068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,71 zł |
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Civic Affairs, Color Edition: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781532818745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,53 zł |
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School Days: A Detective Novel in December 1929
ISBN: 9781983486142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,61 zł |
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Run From Judgment: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 9781481248709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Merritt Fury is the unconquerable American entrepreneur who in "Whisper the Guns" foiled a Red Chinese conspiracy in Hong Kong, and in "We Three Kings" gave a Saudi sheik his just desserts. Now, in "Run From Judgment," he finds himself the target of a mysterious assassin who is eliminating, one by one, the financial enablers of the world's terrorists. He is also the object of another entrepreneur's malice, and finally the subject of a captivating portrait painter. At the same time, he is the primary suspect of a British homicide detective, who believes Fury has committed the inexplicable...
Merritt Fury is the unconquerable American entrepreneur who in "Whisper the Guns" foiled a Red Chinese conspiracy in Hong Kong, and in "We Three Kings...
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40,04 zł |
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Saving Athena: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781541389830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is early January, 1930. This is the twenty-third Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time after Skeen has married Dilys Jones, his intrepid and lovely secretary, and after he has formed close friendships with Mickey Kane, Lieutenant Raggio, and Lieutenant Donovan. Linda Bolding and Lucy Wentz figured largely in over twenty previous cases as his secretaries. Clara Reyes now fills the role as his competent and not-to-be-intimidated secretary. Skeen is called to protect for a second time the atheist lecturer Enoch Paige, who has been charged with the murder of a Pentecostal minister....
It is early January, 1930. This is the twenty-third Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time after Skeen has married Dilys Jones, his intrepid ...
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24,66 zł |
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Trichotomy: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781537649535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the twentieth Cyrus Skeen detective novel. Skeen and his artist wife, Dilys, plan to have a quiet Christmas together, but then Skeen is suddenly invited to speak before a sociology class about his "Trichotomy" article in the American Mercury, which appeared in August to great acclaim. His essay is about criminal motives and the psychology of recidivists, or repeat offenders. He has finished the second part of the essay, which will appear in the spring. Skeen, a noted private detective with an impeccable and effective record of dealing with recidivists, agrees to field questions from...
This is the twentieth Cyrus Skeen detective novel. Skeen and his artist wife, Dilys, plan to have a quiet Christmas together, but then Skeen is sudden...
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25,35 zł |
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