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The Problemist: The Complete Adventures of Thornley Colton, Blind Detective
ISBN: 9781616460174 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thornley Colton, Problemist, is a "blind detective" from the golden age of mystery fiction. Relying on his keen senses and intelligence, he only takes the most puzzling cases, strictly for the enjoyment of unraveling a mystery. Author Clinton H. Stagg was only 26 when he died (in 1916), but left a remarkable detective for mystery enthusiasts to explore. This collection includes all of the Thornley Colton mysteries: 8 short stories and the novel, Silver Sandals.
Thornley Colton, Problemist, is a "blind detective" from the golden age of mystery fiction. Relying on his keen senses and intelligence, he only takes...
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144,94 zł |
Copenhagen Noir
ISBN: 9781936070664 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The latest entry in the publisher's series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale noirs. Editor Michaelis, a Danish book critic, is both scholarly and insightful in the introduction and outlines how the stories reflect the greed and ennui of modern Denmark in contrast to the Danish idyll depicted in tourist brochures . . . Although some stories veer from noir orthodoxy, there are fine examples of lyrical writing, noir sensibilities, and insight into the current Danish psyche. Overall, a very impressive anthology."
--Library Journal "The... "The latest entry in the publisher's series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale noirs. Editor Michaelis, a Danish...
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91,50 zł |
Murder in a Country Town and other stories
ISBN: 9780967447612 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features ten short mystery and suspense stories sure to entertain, surprise, and intrigue the reader. In the short story, Murder in a Country Town, the narrator, an avid hunter, is obsessed with killing the sheriff of a small country town. What is at the root of the narrator's hatred toward the sheriff? In a high stakes game of cat and mouse, exactly who has the upper hand? Will the narrator be successful, or will the hunter become the hunted? In another story, a young accountant is working late in the office on a Friday night. Living alone, he calls home to leave himself a simple...
This book features ten short mystery and suspense stories sure to entertain, surprise, and intrigue the reader. In the short story, Murder in a Countr...
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50,22 zł |
Murder in a Coastal Town and other stories
ISBN: 9780967447629 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his second book, Eric Lee features nine fast-paced, short mystery and suspense stories. In the short story, Murder in a Coastal Town, a homicide detective, is overcome with grief at the murder of his eight-year-old son. The only witness to the murder is his eleven-year-old daughter. How does he extract detailed information about the murder from a witness who is desperately trying to forget? Will the detective ever be able to catch the murderer and what emotional price is he willing to pay? In another story, the reader is dropped in the jury box of a high profile murder case. The senator's...
In his second book, Eric Lee features nine fast-paced, short mystery and suspense stories. In the short story, Murder in a Coastal Town, a homicide de...
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50,22 zł |
Murder in a Snow Covered Town and other stories
ISBN: 9780967447636 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his third book, Eric Lee features nine stories with vivid characters that work to solve, cover up or committ a crime. In the short story, Murder in a Snow Covered Town, a beautiful ten-year-old girl has disappeared. Her grief-stricken parents, frustrated with the progress of the police, enlist the help of private eye Robert Douglas to find her. Has she been taken or did she merely run away? Will the police or will the detective find her first? And will she be found dead or alive? In another story, four guests arrive separately to a gated mansion. As they gather in the living room, some of...
In his third book, Eric Lee features nine stories with vivid characters that work to solve, cover up or committ a crime. In the short story, Murder in...
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50,22 zł |
Dago Red
ISBN: 9781605430942 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Pronzini invades the Ramble House Sanctuary of Loons with a collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of familial love in "Dago Red" to the deadly TV sports of "Olaf and the Merchandisers" Pronzini runs you through a wringer of chills and thrills, with a couple of Nameless Detective stories to keep you grounded. But don't expect the suspense to let up, because there are dangers lurking in the twenty stories that lie in between, each more menacing than the last. A Ramble House book
Bill Pronzini invades the Ramble House Sanctuary of Loons with a collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of famili...
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82,51 zł |
Strands of the Web: The Short Stories of Harry Stephen Keeler
ISBN: 9781605431987 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of just about all of the existing short stories written by Harry Stephen Keeler back in the early 20th century. Edited by Fred Cleaver, the 22 short stories are followed by a complete bibliography of Keeler's short fiction.
A collection of just about all of the existing short stories written by Harry Stephen Keeler back in the early 20th century. Edited by Fred Cleaver, t...
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91,69 zł |
Ultra-Boiled
ISBN: 9781605434360 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ultra-Boiled is hard-boiled on steroids. 23 stories by Gary Lovisi that are guaranteed to make you nervous because of their extreme attitude. Lovisi discusses the genre of hard-boiled noir in his introduction and promises these 23 stories are among his most disturbing.
Ultra-Boiled is hard-boiled on steroids. 23 stories by Gary Lovisi that are guaranteed to make you nervous because of their extreme attitude. Lovisi d...
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91,69 zł |
Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
ISBN: 9780061735158 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An excellent read....Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game."
--Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son "The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey's Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon U.S. marshal struts his stuff once more in three electrifying new tales.... "An excellent read....Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game." --Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son |
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78,58 zł |
I Don't Do Divorce Cases
ISBN: 9780984343225 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of new and previously published Detective genre short stories featuring the Murphy Brothers, Private Investigators. To read one of the stories featured in the book, visit Murphy's own blog: http: //murphybros.blogspot.com/
A collection of new and previously published Detective genre short stories featuring the Murphy Brothers, Private Investigators. To read one of the st...
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59,40 zł |
Random Girl
ISBN: 9780981836799 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ryan Spazmarek was a dork. He was not smart enough to be a nerd or weird enough to be a geek. A straight B student, he suffered through school with Spaz as his nickname. What else would it be? Shy and introverted, he had always been invisible to women. He was not anywhere close to being dreamy like Zac Efron, but he was not a troll. Faced with the curse of being average, Ryan greeted every day with a $12 haircut and a boring wardrobe from Target. Life was a series of uninteresting events, until he met a random girl named Kalli Milan. Smart, funny, and smoking hot, Kalli was everything Ryan...
Ryan Spazmarek was a dork. He was not smart enough to be a nerd or weird enough to be a geek. A straight B student, he suffered through school with Sp...
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39,09 zł |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
ISBN: 9781365699023 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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29,31 zł |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
ISBN: 9781365699054 / Angielski / Twarda / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,58 zł |
The Shamus Winners: America's Best Private Eye Stories: Volume I 1982-1995
ISBN: 9780982515747 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fast-paced gumshoe tales that have won the coveted Shamus award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Volume I includes stories by John Lutz, Bill Pronzini, Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, Mickey Spillane, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Benjamin M. Schutz, Linda Barnes, Max Allan Collins, and Sue Grafton. Collected and introduced by Robert J. Randisi.
Fast-paced gumshoe tales that have won the coveted Shamus award from the Private Eye Writers of America. Volume I includes stories by John Lutz, Bill ...
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68,80 zł |
The Shamus Winners: Volume II: 1996-2009
ISBN: 9780982515761 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sixteen topflight mysteries by authors judged by their peers as "best in the business." This volume includes Shamus-winning short stories from 1996 through 2009. Well-known private eyes Amos Walker, Aaron Gunner, Scott Elliott and Alo Nudger tackle their toughest cases, joined by newer talent that proves crime-fighting is a fresh 21st century game. Authors include Pearl Abraham, Mitch Alderman, O'Neil De Noux, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Terrence Faherty, Gar Anthony Haywood, Jeremiah Healy, Ceri Jordan, John Lutz, Lia Matera, Warren Murphy, I. J. Parker, Cornelia Read, Carolyn Wheat,...
Sixteen topflight mysteries by authors judged by their peers as "best in the business." This volume includes Shamus-winning short stories from 1996 th...
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59,62 zł |
The Columbo Collection
ISBN: 9781932009941 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,06 zł |
Those Who Fight Monsters
ISBN: 9781894063487 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of Occult (a.k.a supernatural) Detective stories assembled by Justin Gustainis and featuring new stories by: Tanya Huff, C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp, Simon R. Green, Tim Pratt, Chris Marie Green, Lilith Saintcrow, Rachel Caine, Jacqueline Kessler, Carrie L. Vaughn, Julie Kenner, C. J. Henderson, Laura Anne Gilman, Justin Gustainis, Caitlin Kittredge. An anthology of Occult (a.k.a supernatural) Detective stories assembled by Justin Gustainis and featuring new stories by: Tanya Huff, C. T. Adams a... |
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65,30 zł |
Noir 13
ISBN: 9780982515754 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Publishers Weekly: "A strong collection." 13 tales by a master of the dark suspense story. Lethal parents, a rapist cop, a con trying to go straight, a dying vigilante. "One of our finest contemporary short story writers regardless of genre" (Jon Breen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine).
Publishers Weekly: "A strong collection." 13 tales by a master of the dark suspense story. Lethal parents, a rapist cop, a con trying to go straight, ...
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59,62 zł |
Mystery & Fantasy Stories
ISBN: 9780692548851 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four mysterious and fantastic tales from America's premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The collection includes "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the short story that served as the basis for the 2008 film starring Brad Pitt.
Four mysterious and fantastic tales from America's premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The collection includes "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"...
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29,81 zł |
Escape: Dark Mystery Tales
ISBN: 9780982529461 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the quiet English countryside to the gritty streets of Boston's Chinatown, there is a silent commonality among these eerie tales - Polisar's fascination with the darkness of the human psyche. Whether it's murder in a jazz club or deadly assassins, Polisar's intricate storytelling and startling characters will take you on an unforgettable journey from fear and terror to escape.
From the quiet English countryside to the gritty streets of Boston's Chinatown, there is a silent commonality among these eerie tales - Polisar's fasc...
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45,99 zł |