McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781617200809 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel about love, obsession, murder, and greed. McTeague a young dentist becomes obsessed with Trina, one of his patients. The pair eventually marry and descend together into depravity and moral decay. A powerful harrowing book.
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel about love, obsession, murder, and greed. McTeague a young dentist becomes obsessed with Trina, one of h...
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68,15 zł |
The Essential Frank Norris: The Octopus, a Story of California: The Pit, a Story of Chicago: McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781617200816 / Angielski / Miękka / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit, as well as McTeague. The Octopus: A Story of California is a story of cooperate greed, power, and abuse. A group of wheat farmers agree to work a railway company's land in exchange for assurances that after a ten year period they will be able to purchase the land at a reasonable price. When it comes time for the purchase of the land the railway company decides to go back on its promise and brings all of their power to bear against the farmers in a deceitful and bloody...
Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit, as well as McTeague. The Octopus: ...
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170,46 zł |
Soul Circus
ISBN: 9780316099417 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bleak, gritty and moving, Soul Circus superbly brings to life a devastating story of life and death in Washington's black ghettos.
Private Investigator Derek Strange and his partner, Terry Quinn, are running a detective business in the seedy underbelly of Washington, DC when they are approached by a young man asking them to find his girlfriend who has gone missing. And so Strange and Quinn find her. Just another day? Not quite. In the grimy underworld inhabited by Strange, nothing is that simple. For Strange and Quinn's efforts have led to a young mother being brutally... Bleak, gritty and moving, Soul Circus superbly brings to life a devastating story of life and death in Washington's black ghettos.
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137,87 zł |
Betrayal of Trust: A J. P. Beaumont Novel
ISBN: 9780062065018 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Murder, teenage bullying, sleazy adults, and good police work add up to another fine entry by Jance." Betrayal of Trust is the twentieth mystery by New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance to feature Seattle p.i. J. P. Beaumont--and it is another surefire winner from the author the Chattanooga Times calls, "One of the best--if not the best." When Beau discovers a snuff film recorded on a smart phone--a horrific crime that has a devastating effect on two troubled teens--his investigation unleashes a firestorm that blazes all the... "Murder, teenage bullying, sleazy adults, and good police work add up to another fine entry by Jance." Betr... |
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115,34 zł |
Of the Night
ISBN: 9780969485346 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A novel of supernatural suspense set in the present day. A police detective struggles to solve a series of bizarre killings with occult overtones. A mystery thriller with elements of horror.
A novel of supernatural suspense set in the present day. A police detective struggles to solve a series of bizarre killings with occult overtones. A m...
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47,01 zł |
The Max
ISBN: 9780857683717 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MAX AND ANGELA ARE GOING DOWN When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law - Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos...
MAX AND ANGELA ARE GOING DOWN When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angel...
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37,14 zł |
A Bad Day for Pretty: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9780312560478 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged women, is getting cozy with Sheriff "Goat" Jones when a tornado blows none other than Goat's scheming ex-wife, Brandy, through the front door. Adding to the chaos, the tornado destroys the snack shack at the demolition derby track, pulling up the concrete and unearthing a woman's body. The main suspect for the dumping is Neb Donovan. Years ago, Neb's wife asked Stella for help getting him sober. Stella doesn't believe the gentle man could kill any woman, and she promises his frantic wife she'll look into it.... A New York Times Notable Book Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged women, is getting cozy with Sheriff "Goat" Jones when a tornado blo... |
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89,70 zł |
The Best American Noir of the Century
ISBN: 9780547577449 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection."--New York Journal of Books
In his introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad." Offering the best examples of literary sure... "Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection."--New York Journal of Books...
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106,80 zł |
Dead Ends
ISBN: 9781554888931 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undercover operative Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another.
Taggart investigates the murder of someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wiretap information identifies a shadowy gang member known only as "Cocktail" as being responsible. Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs who are at war in British Columbia. Their mission is to identify Cocktail and gain evidence to convict him of murder. Taggart soon finds himself knee-deep in drive-by shootings, meth... Undercover operative Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. |
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51,24 zł |
A Firing Offense
ISBN: 9780316079631 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid reminded Nick of himself twelve years ago: an angry punk hooked on speed metal and the fast life. So when the boy's grandfather begs Nick to find the kid, Nick says he'll try. A Firing Offense, Nick Stefanos' debut, shows why, as Barry Gifford puts it, "To miss out on Pelecanos...
As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his...
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93,98 zł |
Blood AND RAIN
ISBN: 9781612320182 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When walking on the dark side it is important to remember your way home. Unless you are private investigator, John Dark, who makes his home far from the light. In the drug-infested streets of East St. Louis, alcoholic John Dark gets the cases deemed too dirty for the cops to touch. Battling grime with grime, Dark does his job without a touch of class and sans any emotion. When his cases get weirder, and darker, John Dark finds enough heart to save the day, save the girl, and just maybe find his way home again. This exciting detective story by B.L. Morgan will pull you into the depthless...
When walking on the dark side it is important to remember your way home. Unless you are private investigator, John Dark, who makes his home far from t...
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67,08 zł |
Improbable Cause
ISBN: 9780061999284 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A spellbinding tale of twisted depravity and blood vengeance featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust J. A. Jance Improbable Cause Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abuse, would be tough for any... A spellbinding tale of twisted depravity and blood vengeance featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling... |
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42,69 zł |
A More Perfect Union
ISBN: 9780061999291 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A shattering tale of corruption and homicide featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust J. A. Jance More Perfect Union A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids--the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide--and that look will forever haunt Homicide Detective J.P.... A shattering tale of corruption and homicide featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of B... |
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Dismissed with Prejudice
ISBN: 9780061999307 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping tale of hatred, lies, and deadly traditionfeaturing Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust J. A. Jance Dismissed with Prejudice The blood at the scene belies any suggestion of an -honorable death.- Yet, to the eyes of the Seattle police, a successful Japanese software magnate died exactly as he wished--and by his own hand, according to the ancient rite of seppuku. Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont can't dismiss what he sees as an elaborate suicide, however, not when... A gripping tale of hatred, lies, and deadly traditionfeaturing Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont from the New York Times bestselling author ... |
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42,69 zł |
Minor in Possession
ISBN: 9780061999314 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont fromthe New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust J. A. Jance Minor in Possession All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman. An all-around punk, Joey deserves neither pity nor tears--until he is murdered by a bullet fired from Beaumont's... A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont fromthe New York Times bests... |
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42,69 zł |
Lore & Dysorder: The Hell's Detective Mysteries
ISBN: 9781890096465 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The latest in the Murphy's Lore After Hours series: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LORE... EVEN IN HELL. HIS BELIEVERS LONG DEAD, THE SUMERIAN DEITY NEGRAL WAS FACED WITH OBLIVION WHEN THE DEVIL MADE HIM AN OFFER - BECOME CHIEF OF HELL'S SECRET POLICE. EVEN FORGOTTEN GODS DON'T WANT TO DIE SO NEGRAL TOOK THE JOB. NOW HE IS A COP ON THE TOUGHEST BEAT IN THE AFTERWORLDS HAVING TO DEAL WITH A TUTU WEARING PINK DEMON, A VIRGINITY SEEKING SUCCUBUS, A BAD COP, A DEMON POSSESSED ZOMBIE, THE GREATEST BETRAYER IN HUMAN HISTORY, HIS EX-WIFE AND THE DEVIL HIMSELF. "Another Good Story." -Sam Tomaino, SFRevu "Really...
The latest in the Murphy's Lore After Hours series: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LORE... EVEN IN HELL. HIS BELIEVERS LONG DEAD, THE SUMERIAN DEITY NEGRAL WAS F...
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74,19 zł |
Three Ways to Die
ISBN: 9781456481872 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lee Goldberg's Jack Webb's Star is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist..." --The Los Angeles Times This collection gathers together three acclaimed short stories ---"Jack Webb's Star," "Remaindered," and "Bumsickle" -- by Edgar-nominated writer Lee Goldberg, author of the bestselling MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER series of original mystery novels. "Top billing should go to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch story, Suicide Run and to Lee Goldberg's Jack Webb's Star--the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs" --Publisher's Weekly "Jack Webb's Star" originally appeared in the...
"Lee Goldberg's Jack Webb's Star is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist..." --The Los Angeles Times This collection gathers together three acclai...
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53,80 zł |
Calumet
ISBN: 9780984134298 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Klan vs Lawman. Company thugs vs union organizers. Miner vs miner. Citizen vs citizen. At stake is not only the working conditions in the ore mine, but also control of the town of Calumet, the sticking point to the Klan as the hooded miscreants attempt to control the entire territory. Calumet must fall
Klan vs Lawman. Company thugs vs union organizers. Miner vs miner. Citizen vs citizen. At stake is not only the working conditions in the ore mine, bu...
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85,03 zł |
Getaway Money
ISBN: 9780984134236 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Icily applauding every conflict between bone-deep isms, Death inexorably beckons from a front-row seat. Someone's killing jockeys and scaring hell out of the rest of them. On his own, retired FBI operative "Jace" Maxwell pondered a possible nationwide connection between the questionable deaths of several topnotch jockeys. Then, Enrique Mendoza's horrifically mutilated corpse is pulled from a reservoir in the Midwestern town of Mercury. Instinctively, the local police force's lone detective, Lt. Robert Huber, brims with vengeful territorialism. Even so, he quickly realizes that his department...
Icily applauding every conflict between bone-deep isms, Death inexorably beckons from a front-row seat. Someone's killing jockeys and scaring hell out...
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89,70 zł |
Flashfire: A Parker Novel
ISBN: 9780226770628 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital--the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of priceless paintings. In Flashfire, Parker's in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an...Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purc... |
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61,10 zł |