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Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries
ISBN: 9781464205736 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the classic 'closed circle' plot, in which the assorted guests at a country house party become suspects when a crime is committed. In the more sinister tales featured here, a gloomy mansion set in lonely grounds offers an eerie backdrop for dark deeds. Many distinguished...
The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written ov...
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Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes
ISBN: 9781464205750 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.... Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.' - Sherlock Holmes Many of the greatest British crime writers have explored the possibilities of crime in the countryside in lively and ingenious short stories. Serpents in Eden celebrates the rural British mystery by bringing together an eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen...
'The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.... Think of the ...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Collection of Twelve Short Stories: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers
ISBN: 9781515268949 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 5 FREE Bonus Books Inside SURPRISE GIFT How is this book unique? Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version. You will find it much more comfortable to read on your device/app. Easy on your eyes. Includes: 17 Colored Illustrations and Biography The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in...
5 FREE Bonus Books Inside SURPRISE GIFT How is this book unique? Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version. You will find ...
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Asesino de espÃas: Spy Killer
ISBN: 9781619862258 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy Cagney, it s no wonder that when the ship s captain turns up dead, it s Reid who takes the rap.
Falsely accused and under the gun, Reid jumps ship and vanishes into Shanghai only to get caught in a web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. In a world where nothing is what it seems and everything is for sale, he s soon out of his depth, drawn into a spy game in which the winner takes all . . . and the loser takes a knife to the back. Will... American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy C...
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Sherlock Holmes Never Dies: Six New Adventures of the World's Greatest Detective
ISBN: 9781491769409 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters six new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with longsuffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again. Blood coats the street of Victorian England, but no evidence is clear and no suspect cleared of guilt. As to be expected, evil genius-the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty soon reappears. The great detective must thwart his diabolical machinations, but even Holmes is practically brought to his knees by shocking new discoveries only... Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters six new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sher... |
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Destination: Mystery
ISBN: 9780996182836 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology could just have easily have been titled "Murder Takes a Vacation," for within it we present sixteen tales of mystery, murder, and crime set in popular vacation destinations. We hope these stories will conjure memories of a familiar locale for some of our readers, and perhaps for others, a desire to visit--whether in spite of, or because of, this anthology, we shall leave to them.
Featured in this book are:
This anthology could just have easily have been titled "Murder Takes a Vacation," for within it we present sixteen tales of mystery, murder, and cr... |
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The Confessions of Arsène Lupin
ISBN: 9781515297543 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sherlock Holmes: Cthulhu Mythos Adventures
ISBN: 9781517029715 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sherlock Holmes and fantasy writer HP Lovecraft did not meet until 1981. This introduction was made by Ralph E Vaughan in the seminal story "The Adventure of the Ancient Gods." Previously appearing in a small press journal, then as a limited-run chapbook, this out-of-print tale was available only as a high-priced collector's item, out of reach for most readers. After more than 30 years, it is again presented to a new generation of readers. Also brought back into print in this collection is "The Terror Out of Time," the first teaming of Sherlock Holmes and Professor George Edward Challenger,...
Sherlock Holmes and fantasy writer HP Lovecraft did not meet until 1981. This introduction was made by Ralph E Vaughan in the seminal story "The Adven...
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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories: 1881 to 1889: Part I
ISBN: 9781780928241 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1881 to 1889, including contributions from: John Hall, Hugh Ashton, Adrian Middleton, David Marcum, Jayantika Ganguly, Denis O. Smith, Amy Thomas, Kevin David Barratt, Luke Benjamen Kuhns, Summer Perkins, Deanna Baran, Shane Simmons, C.H. Dye, Mark Mower, Derrick Belanger, Daniel D. Victor, Steve Mountain, Stephen Wade, John Heywood, Will Thomas, Daniel McGachey, Martin...
Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories ar...
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The Mx Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881 to 1889
ISBN: 9781780928258 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1881 to 1889, including contributions from: John Hall, Hugh Ashton, Adrian Middleton, David Marcum, Jayantika Ganguly, Denis O. Smith, Amy Thomas, Kevin David Barratt, Luke Benjamen Kuhns, Summer Perkins, Deanna Baran, Shane Simmons, C.H. Dye, Mark Mower, Derrick Belanger, Daniel D. Victor, Steve Mountain, Stephen Wade, John Heywood, Will Thomas, Daniel McGachey, Martin...
Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories ar...
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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories: 1890 to 1895
ISBN: 9781780928289 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part Two of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1890 to 1895, including contributions from: Ann Margaret Lewis, Vincent W. Wright, William Patrick Maynard, Matthew Booth, J.R. Campbell, Robert V. Stapleton, Sam Wiebe, Jeremy Branton Holstein, Bill Crider, Peter Calamai, Lyndsay Faye, Marcia Wilson, Jack Grochot, Bert Coules. Christopher Redmond, Mike Hogan, Carl Heifetz, Wendy C. Fries, Dick Gillman (and a poem from...
Part Two of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories ar...
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Joy to the Worlds: Mysterious Speculative Fiction for the Holidays
ISBN: 9780990815761 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic hanky-panky, Victorian villages, time-travelling detectives, Krampus, eerie bell spirits, and more-this collection of short cross-genre fiction is the perfect counterpoint to traditional holiday reading This collection stars four authors, each with their own distinct voice. National bestselling author Maia Chance, who is famous for her cozy mysteries, dazzles with humor and folklore. IPPY award-winning science fiction author Janine A.... What do you get when you mix mystery and speculative fiction, then toss in the holidays for good measure? A mobster Santa, genetic... |
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Tales on the Off-Beat
ISBN: 9781909619258 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The husband and life-long collaborator of Margery Allingham, one of the truly great British crime writers, Philip ('Pip') Youngman-Carter was a prolific journalist, artist, book-jacket designer and short-story writer. For the first time, Tales on the Off-Beat collects the best of his short fiction, from rare stories written whilst a serving army officer in the Western Desert in WWII to his best-known tales of the unexpected, the mysterious and the downright spooky, which appeared in Argosy and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1959-1963. Edited by Mike Ripley, who completed Youngman-Carter's...
The husband and life-long collaborator of Margery Allingham, one of the truly great British crime writers, Philip ('Pip') Youngman-Carter was a prolif...
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The Educated Evans Stories: 'Educated Evans, ' 'More Educated Evans, ' 'Good Evans' and 'A Present for Evans'
ISBN: 9781782824848 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Educated Evans and 'The Miller' in the shady side of London between the World Wars
Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, and J. G. Reeder. Although Wallace wrote many 'stand alone' novels it is, perhaps, for his series based material-always popular with readers-that he remains best known. Leonaur has collected many of these series into good-value omnibus editions. The Educated Evans stories combine Wallace's talent for humour with his hallmark detective story themes.... Meet Educated Evans and 'The Miller' in the shady side of London between the World Wars
Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure a... |
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The Educated Evans Stories: 'Educated Evans, ' 'More Educated Evans, ' 'Good Evans' and 'A Present for Evans'
ISBN: 9781782824831 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Educated Evans and 'The Miller' in the shady side of London between the World Wars
Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, and J. G. Reeder. Although Wallace wrote many 'stand alone' novels it is, perhaps, for his series based material-always popular with readers-that he remains best known. Leonaur has collected many of these series into good-value omnibus editions. The Educated Evans stories combine Wallace's talent for humour with his hallmark detective story themes.... Meet Educated Evans and 'The Miller' in the shady side of London between the World Wars
Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure a... |
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
ISBN: 9781518760242 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel...
From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful? The reaso...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9781518762413 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirteen of Sherlock Holmes' most extraordinary cases. First appearing in The Strand magazine from 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes brings the Great Detective back to London after his apparrent death at the Reichenbach Falls. The Empty House The Norwood Builder The Dancing Men The Solitary Cyclist The Priory School Black Peter Charles Augustus Milverton The Six Napoleons The Three Students The Golden Pince-Nez The Missing Three-Quarter The Abbey Grange The Second Stain
Thirteen of Sherlock Holmes' most extraordinary cases. First appearing in The Strand magazine from 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes brings the...
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The Four Million
ISBN: 9781518784552 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. O. Henry is the knight of the shop-girl and the waitress; of the wandering, homeless tramp; of poverty-stricken young married folk; of hundreds of lonely human beings who live within the dirty, gloomy wall of two-dollar-a-week boarding house rooms - of the great mass of humanity not included in the "four hundred," the everyday men and women of New York's East Side. The Four Million contains O. Henry's best and most characteristic work: the famous Gift of the Magi, the moving story of a young couple who sacrifice their most prized possessions to buy Christmas presents for each other; Soapy,...
O. Henry is the knight of the shop-girl and the waitress; of the wandering, homeless tramp; of poverty-stricken young married folk; of hundreds of lon...
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The Sleuth of St. James's Square
ISBN: 9781518719813 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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29,89 |
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The Best American Short Stories 2016
ISBN: 9780544582897 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." --Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection. "The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." --Shelf Awareness for Rea...
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