wyszukanych pozycji: 71
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The Circles of Odin: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781511441599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The time of The Circles of Odin is early September, 1929, after Skeen's case of the Daedalus Society in July and before he discovers in November a Nazi Bund in Palo Alto, south of San Francisco, Skeen's main venue of his adventures. This ninth title in the Skeen detective series pits the formidable sleuth against a group of Nazi-affiliated cultists who wish to bring about the resurrection of an ancient, storied culture for which there is little archeological evidence, but on which is based the material for scholarly volumes of legend and mythology. His chief nemesis is an organization called...
The time of The Circles of Odin is early September, 1929, after Skeen's case of the Daedalus Society in July and before he discovers in November a Naz...
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cena:
25,08 |
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Honors Due: A Detective Novel
ISBN: 9781720645269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
29,01 |
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Beginnings: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781539699354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is early October, 1928. This is the twenty-first Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time when Dilys Jones was his secretary, and before he formed close friendships with Mickey Kane, Lieutenant Raggio, and Lieutenant Donovan. In this episode, Skeen tackles the mystery of the murder of a China Basin warehouseman. The warehouse has been the target of several break-ins with large quantities of wholesale merchandise being stolen. The man was murdered while protecting his property. Skeen interviews the man's sister, Candice, and learns that the man worked assiduously to avoid bankruptcy...
It is early October, 1928. This is the twenty-first Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time when Dilys Jones was his secretary, and before he ...
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cena:
23,63 |
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Saving Athena: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781541389830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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cena:
21,81 |
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Stolen Words: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781514248706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
22,66 |
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Chicago Serenade: A Cyrus Skeeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781724231536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
21,81 |
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Celebrity News: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781544903026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
23,23 |
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Wintery Discontent: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781517491505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is February, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is hired by an Austrian aristocrat whom Skeen calls a "One-Worlder Gadabout," Count Paul Axel Heinrich Joachim von Wormuth-Esterhazy, of Vienna, to find out who is trying to kill him. He gives Skeen a list he has compiled of twenty attempts to murder him, including flowerpots are dropped from above, a bottle of poisoned schnapps is given to him in a "welcome basket," and nearly being run over by a speeding automobile. The Count has three suspects who may want him dead: consular officials from the German and Austrian consulates in San Francisco, and an elusive...
It is February, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is hired by an Austrian aristocrat whom Skeen calls a "One-Worlder Gadabout," Count Paul Axel Heinrich Joachim von W...
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cena:
25,49 |
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A Final Canvas: A Cyrus Skeen Novel
ISBN: 9781790771110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
21,81 |
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Sufferance: A Detective Novel of 1928
ISBN: 9781976594854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
21,81 |
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Warlocks: A Detective Novel of 1928
ISBN: 9781978087798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
21,81 |
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First Things
ISBN: 9781530496273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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cena:
22,25 |
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The Chameleon: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781481212625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is November, 1929. The stock market has crashed. The giddy period known as the Roaring Twenties are about to end. But Cyrus Skeen, private detective, is not too concerned. He never bought on margin or gambled on "sure things" to make a quick buck; his wealth is secure. He is worried that the government may begin to make things worse by intervening with the panaceas of welfare and inflation. Many businessmen and investors made that mistake and have been bankrupted. Ruined, some have committed suicide. Will Rogers commented that speculators were selling window space to men who wished to jump...
It is November, 1929. The stock market has crashed. The giddy period known as the Roaring Twenties are about to end. But Cyrus Skeen, private detectiv...
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cena:
27,23 |
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Run From Judgment: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 9781481248709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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cena:
35,41 |
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Eat Well with Ulcerative Colitis: Cooking Delicious, Easy Meals for Ulcerative Colitis Management
ISBN: 9798344144177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
76,84 |
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The Pendulum: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781981342969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
21,77 |
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Exegesis
ISBN: 9781533003478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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cena:
30,35 |
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The Pickwick Affair: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781500217167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After having some breathing room from his last case, which brought him up against Islamic operatives in San Francisco in The Black Stone, Cyrus Skeen and his wife take a short vacation on a luxury bus, the Pickwick Stage. But the bus is held up by gangsters. Skeen goes into action and foils the hijacking. But his heroism engenders even more problems and perils. Set in San Francisco in March 1930, Skeen moves around in a familiar milieu dampened by the Depression and the growth of Hooverville shanty towns of foreclosed and impoverished men in the shadow of the city's wealthier neighborhoods....
After having some breathing room from his last case, which brought him up against Islamic operatives in San Francisco in The Black Stone, Cyrus Skeen ...
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cena:
24,28 |
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Silver Screens: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781508772019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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cena:
25,61 |
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Serenity, a Detective Novel of 1930: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781987639087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
29,98 |