wyszukanych pozycji: 71
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Seeing Double: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781537136288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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24,75 |
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Split Infinitives: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781542843089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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21,51 |
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Gallery: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781795164436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
21,51 |
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Inquest: A Detective Novel of 1927
ISBN: 9781546836230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
24,27 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
26,86 |
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Inquest: A Detective Novel of 1927
ISBN: 9781975894863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
99,30 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
24,75 |
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The Skeen Chronicles: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781979109109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
21,47 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
34,92 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
22,35 |
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School Days: A Detective Novel in December 1929
ISBN: 9781983486142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
21,47 |
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Civic Affairs
ISBN: 9781530849468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
23,95 |
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Beginnings: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781539699354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
23,31 |
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Manhattan Blues
ISBN: 9781523381814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) It is March, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is called to New York by his father, Garnett Skeen, to attend to some trust fund affairs. Skeen's detective agency is subsidized by a trust fund his father set up years before, but his mother, Eleanor "Nellie" Skeen, wishes to set up her own trust fund for her son. A daughter of an Oklahoma oil magnate, she is "very well situated" in terms of wealth. Skeen's parents, however, are driving to Nags Head in the Outer Banks of North Carolina to spend the rest of the winter. The elder Skeen tells his son that he must prove his existence for a new bank officer who will...
It is March, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is called to New York by his father, Garnett Skeen, to attend to some trust fund affairs. Skeen's detective agency is s...
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cena:
22,07 |
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Honors Due: A Detective Novel
ISBN: 9781720645269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
28,61 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
21,51 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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21,51 |
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Exegesis
ISBN: 9781533003478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
29,94 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
21,51 |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
23,95 |