wyszukanych pozycji: 70
Seeing Double: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781537136288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is early December, 1929. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in The Chameleon, in which he uncovered a cell of the Nazi Party near Stanford University in Palo Alto, a college town south of San Francisco. But into his life come two Germans, one a Hollywood director, another an operative of a Marxist "think tank" in the midst of relocating from Germany, which is becoming more hostile to Communists and other fellow travelers. They are twin brothers and both wind up dead early on in the case. One is supposed to have murdered the other, and attacked Clara Reyes, Skeen's loyal and resourceful...
It is early December, 1929. Cyrus Skeen has concluded his case in The Chameleon, in which he uncovered a cell of the Nazi Party near Stanford Universi...
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28,37 zł |
Wintery Discontent: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781517491505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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28,82 zł |
China Basin Revised: A Detective Novel
ISBN: 9781721780709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,22 zł |
The Circles of Odin: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781511441599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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28,37 zł |
Chicago Serenade: A Cyrus Skeeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781724231536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,66 zł |
Breakdown: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781985368156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,66 zł |
Civic Affairs
ISBN: 9781530849468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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27,46 zł |
Warlocks: A Detective Novel of 1928
ISBN: 9781978087798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,66 zł |
Split Infinitives: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781542843089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is late January 1930. This is the twenty-fourth 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. Sergeant Hieronymus, his ally in Beginnings, will be making a parting appearance. Linda Bolding, Lucy Wentz, and Clara Reyes, who figure largely over the next twenty cases, have yet to appear as his secretaries. Skeen meets the eccentric Dr. Willett Martin, who teaches psychology at Wexford College in San Francisco. Martin...
It is late January 1930. This is the twenty-fourth Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time after Skeen has married Dilys Jones, his intrepid a...
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24,66 zł |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |