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Deadly To Love
ISBN: 9780595655298 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Felicia Broderick had everything a woman could ask for, especially a woman who started with nothing. But when a secret love affair becomes a mind-boggling scheme involving murder, blackmail, and organized crime, she reaches back to her roots to find the toughness and tenacity to survive. Using her feminine charm, exotic beauty, and streetwise savvy, she concocts a scheme of her own to get her life back. Using a police detective as her source of information, she probes into the world of La Cosa Nostra and spins a web of mystery and murder that baffles both sides of the law. Learning the value...
Felicia Broderick had everything a woman could ask for, especially a woman who started with nothing. But when a secret love affair becomes a mind-bogg...
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94,84 |
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Spike: A Jack Sheet Investigation
ISBN: 9780595656189 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dead but buxom blonde with a bad past and a railroad spike head decoration leads Jack Sheet down the primrose path to personal hell and a couple of near death experiences. Along the way he and Fatback Banion connive to spike the ambitions of corrupt movers and shakers who want to bilk an entire state and whose strings are pulled by a sick, slick, deadly and surprise puppet master.
A dead but buxom blonde with a bad past and a railroad spike head decoration leads Jack Sheet down the primrose path to personal hell and a couple of ...
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79,63 |
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Murder in Black and White: Ruthless ambition and the perilous journey toward salvation
ISBN: 9780595656240 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A NYC cop comes across a small suitcase full of hundred dollar bills during a botched drug sting. He sees it as his big chance to be somebody and give his family the lifestyle he hasn't been able to provide. In order to keep it, he must get through the next few days without being tripped up by his fellow officers. Using his color as a weapon, he enlists the aid of the black officer's association and accuses the department of racism as he attempts to put the blame on his white partner. Determined to remove every obstacle between himself and the money, he engages in a diabolical plot to keep...
A NYC cop comes across a small suitcase full of hundred dollar bills during a botched drug sting. He sees it as his big chance to be somebody and give...
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98,64 |
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The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel
ISBN: 9780595656370 / Angielski / Twarda / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to Richard Thatcher, the Director of the FBI, and Thatcher dispatches his protege Barbara Collins to Paris to lead the investigation. Barbara's quest takes her to the edge of the Arabian Peninsula then back to Paris where she uncovers evidence that suggests a domestic American plot. Candidate Harriet Styles mounts a bitter campaign that condemns the FBI...
In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice Presiden...
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121,44 |
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Headless: A Jack Sheet Investigation
ISBN: 9780595656523 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A headless corpse stuffed in an unoccupied University Hospital room does not advertise good medical care for the institution. The
A headless corpse stuffed in an unoccupied University Hospital room does not advertise good medical care for the institution. The
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79,63 |
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To Have and To Hold
ISBN: 9780595656554 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert McKinley regretted taking the case from the moment he made the decision. As attached as he was to Jake Westfall, Robert was not prepared to accept the potential for losses to his team. The case starts off bad with a firefight at the airport, and goes downhill from there. Placing his team in extreme jeopardy is not how Robert likes to work, but in this case, as the body count grows, his options run out.
Robert McKinley regretted taking the case from the moment he made the decision. As attached as he was to Jake Westfall, Robert was not prepared to acc...
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106,24 |
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The Raven's Song: From the Files of Eric Baine, the Dead Detective
ISBN: 9780595665488 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Move over, Lestat...Main's fast-paced, hard-boiled tale takes the world of the undead to a whole new level....A twenty-first century detective novel that turns the traditional genre upside down and inside out with its cast of supernatural characters and wild plot twists...a mix of tradition and originality, "The Raven's Song" bursts at the seams with imagination, magic, and great fun.--Lisa A. Stolley, Pushcart-nominated author of "Your Own Personal Project and Other Stories"
In "Blood & Shadows," Eric Baine had to stop a psychopathic vampire bent on releasing shadow demons to destroy the... Move over, Lestat...Main's fast-paced, hard-boiled tale takes the world of the undead to a whole new level....A twenty-first century detective novel t...
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98,64 |
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Assignment: Istanbul: A Jerry Stern--World Bank Adventure
ISBN: 9780595670277 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The assignment given to World Bank consultant Jerry Stern is simple: check the progress on a $2.4 billion project to expand the railroad and shipping facilities of Istanbul. But within hours of his arrival, Stern is brutally mugged, and his friends are nearly killed as he tracks the corruption through London back to Washington."Pinned to the wall of a building by the screaming, frightened, and enraged marchers, Stern tried to push Hulya behind him to shield her from the wildly swinging arms with truncheons and sticks of wood that were advancing on them. Before she was safely hidden, she was...
The assignment given to World Bank consultant Jerry Stern is simple: check the progress on a $2.4 billion project to expand the railroad and shipping ...
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87,23 |
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Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery
ISBN: 9780595670680 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a long-buried corpse is unearthed at the National Pictures Studio in Los Angeles, private investigator Rick Walker is called in to solve the thirty-year-old murder case. "The white-haired chairman of the studio steps forward and commands everyone's attention. The cheerful executives jockey for position and the photographers take a few casual practice shots. The muslin cover is removed from the sign and flash-bulbs pop as the studio chairman announces future construction on this site--formerly Old Western Street--of a state-of-the-art film laboratory, to be the biggest and most advanced...
When a long-buried corpse is unearthed at the National Pictures Studio in Los Angeles, private investigator Rick Walker is called in to solve the thir...
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87,23 |
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Murder at the Blue Boar Inn: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
ISBN: 9780595670963 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortly after midnight, the blood-soaked body of Sean Makers, the owner of the Blue Boar Inn was found dead; was found dead; he had been murdered. These are the facts; the question is who did it.
In the latest Jim Kirkwood adventure/mystery novel, "Murder at the Blue Boar Inn," Jim, a self-indulgent, self-confident, and at times unsympathetic, connoisseur of human nature finds himself endeavoring to uncover the identity a cold-blooded killer, or killers from a cast of employees and patrons. "Murder at the Blue Boar Inn" is an Agatha Christie style waltz of suspects, ranging from a... Shortly after midnight, the blood-soaked body of Sean Makers, the owner of the Blue Boar Inn was found dead; was found dead; he had been murdered. The...
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113,84 |
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The Deal Master: A Thriller
ISBN: 9780595675722 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Three warnings: (1) Never let your grandma read this work; (2) Never start reading this book late in the night-you will lose a good night's sleep; (3) If you don't heed warning number two, leave the lights on when you go to sleep. This is a horror thriller, a psychological thriller, a whodunit, and a wonderful mystical thriller all rolled into one, providing a wonderful, wonderful read."
-Narayan Radhakrishnan, "New Mystery Reader" "He used ropes prepared with slip knots and quickly bound her hands and her ankles. Next, he pulled a small piece of duct tape from his pocket and pressed... 'Three warnings: (1) Never let your grandma read this work; (2) Never start reading this book late in the night-you will lose a good night's sleep; (3...
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102,44 |
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Murder at Republic
ISBN: 9780595742325 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1940-41, Hollywood is under the studio system. They are small cities with but one mission, and that is to keep the film flowing like a mighty river.
In 1940-41, Hollywood is under the studio system. They are small cities with but one mission, and that is to keep the film flowing like a mighty river...
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75,83 |
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Dig Two Graves: A Jim Marshall Mystery
ISBN: 9780595866410 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,84 |
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The Author Murders: A Palm Springs Biblio-Thriller
ISBN: 9780595866540 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""The Author Murders" is boisterously imagined and vividly written. Eric Meeks's debut thriller is one wild ride."
-J.R. Lindermuth, author of "Cruel Cuts" After the freakish death of famous novelist Woodie Stuart, the literary world shrugs its shoulders. After all, Woodie was drinking, consorting with a woman who wasn't his wife, and sailing in waters prowled by pirates. He got what he deserved, right? But when more bestselling novelists are murdered, a strange thing occurs. The authors' first-edition books appear on online auction sights, garnering a fortune for some lucky... ""The Author Murders" is boisterously imagined and vividly written. Eric Meeks's debut thriller is one wild ride."
-J.R. Lindermuth, author of "Cru... |
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113,84 |
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The Real Cool Killers
ISBN: 9780679720393 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cas... |
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72,22 |
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The Continental Op
ISBN: 9780679722588 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detec...
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79,82 |
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
ISBN: 9780679722595 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough...
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76,02 |
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Red Harvest
ISBN: 9780679722618 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detective-story master Dashiell Hammett gives us yet another unforgettable read in Red Harvest When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
Detective-story master Dashiell Hammett gives us yet another unforgettable read in Red Harvest When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was ...
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60,82 |
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The Glass Key
ISBN: 9780679722625 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A one-time detective and master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel. This classic work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him?
A one-time detective and master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel. This classic work of detective...
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60,82 |
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The Thin Man
ISBN: 9780679722632 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Dashiell Hammett's famous crime novel, we meet one of the detective-story master's most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a classic murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
In Dashiell Hammett's famous crime novel, we meet one of the detective-story master's most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles, a rich, glamor...
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64,62 |
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