wyszukanych pozycji: 71
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An August Interlude: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781516876051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
27,54 |
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Breakdown: A Cyrus Skeen Mystery
ISBN: 9781985368156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
21,51 |
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Trichotomy: A Detective Novel of 1929
ISBN: 9781537649535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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cena:
22,11 |
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China Basin Revised: A Detective Novel of 1928
ISBN: 9781540467973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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cena:
35,12 |
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First Things
ISBN: 9781530496273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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:
21,96 |
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Presence of Mind: A Chess Hanrahan mystery
ISBN: 9781720664567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
35,88 |
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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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cena:
21,51 |
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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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cena:
24,75 |
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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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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 |