wyszukanych pozycji: 70
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The Pickwick Affair: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781500217167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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26,26 zł |
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A Final Canvas: A Cyrus Skeen Novel
ISBN: 9781729865347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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23,55 zł |
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Passions: A Detective Novel of 1930
ISBN: 9781544251967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is early 1930. This is the twenty-fifth Cyrus Skeen detective novel. Skeen meets the Kentucky moonshiner, Lemuel Skitter, who has been charged with murdering his daughter, Jewell, who eloped with the son of a rival moonshiner, Ezekiel McBride. Skitter's younger daughter, Charlene, hires Skeen to clear him of the murder charge. Skeen meets Skitter in jail, and gets his story of how he was knocked out and woke to find his eldest daughter dead. Lemuel's fingerprints are the only prints on the murder weapon. Skeen tackles one of the most difficult cases of his career, a case skewed by tribal...
It is early 1930. This is the twenty-fifth Cyrus Skeen detective novel. Skeen meets the Kentucky moonshiner, Lemuel Skitter, who has been charged with...
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23,59 zł |
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The Chameleon: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781481212625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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29,45 zł |
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A Final Canvas: A Cyrus Skeen Novel
ISBN: 9781790771110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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23,59 zł |
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Beginnings: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781539699354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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25,56 zł |
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Presence of Mind: A Chess Hanrahan mystery
ISBN: 9781720664567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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39,34 zł |
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The Janus Affair
ISBN: 9781530042562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is April, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is recovering from his startling escapade in New York City, where he journeyed in March to attend to some of his father's business. There he met a captivating opera singer for whom he developed an affection almost bordering on love. But he loves Dilys much more. The singer introduces him to a concept, "metaphysical importance." Dilys is that to him. Dilys is interviewing models for her new studio. One of them is the irrepressible Valda Redfern. But no sooner does Skeen return than he is asked by Erno Janus, the head of a San Francisco advertising agency,...
It is April, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is recovering from his startling escapade in New York City, where he journeyed in March to attend to some of his father...
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cena:
29,11 zł |
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The Pendulum: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781981342969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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23,55 zł |
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Stolen Words: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781514248706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,51 zł |
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Inquest: A Detective Novel of 1927
ISBN: 9781546836230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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26,61 zł |
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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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38,47 zł |
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Reciprocity: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781540645258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is early January, 1929. This is the twenty-second 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. Dilys is settling into her new life with Cyrus. While he has afforded her every comfort, luxury, and advantage...
It is early January, 1929. This is the twenty-second Cyrus Skeen detective novel. It covers the time after Skeen has married Dilys Jones, his intrepid...
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23,59 zł |
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Chicago Serenade: A Cyrus Skeeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781724231536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
23,59 zł |
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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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cena:
27,13 zł |
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Breakdown: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781985368156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
23,59 zł |
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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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cena:
27,57 zł |
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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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cena:
27,13 zł |
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Warlocks: A Detective Novel of 1928
ISBN: 9781978087798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
23,59 zł |
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Civic Affairs
ISBN: 9781530849468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
26,26 zł |