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2181) Singing the Sadness
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Joe Sixsmith mysteries volume 4
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English
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It looks to be a melodious weekend for Joe Sixsmith and his chapel choir. They're headed for the first annual choral festival in Llanffugiol, a village said to be the heart of musical life in rural Wales. But the locals are far from welcoming in this off-the-map hamlet where dread lingers as heavy as the mist. Never more so than when Joe comes to the rescue of a naked amnesiac screaming for her life in a burning cottage. No one claims to know her,...
2182) Die Laughing
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Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan's finest, but that doesn't stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough . . . When the discovery of Broadway actress Jennifer Singleton's body makes the news, Det. Lt. Nathan Shapiro ends up involved in a case he's not even assigned to. Shapiro's wife, Rose, knows the only suspect and is convinced eighteen-year-old gardener Roy Baker couldn't possibly have anything...
2183) From Hell
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Cayenne.
Capitale guyanaise étalant ses merveilles entre l'océan Atlantique et la plus hostile forêt au monde. Mais depuis plusieurs semaines, le danger sévit en son cœur. Des meurtres d'une rare sauvagerie sont perpétrés par une âme sombre. Le sang innocent de jeunes femmes tapisse les rues et l'ambiance mortifère sème la terreur chez la gent féminine. Le couple Josh et Audrey se rend sur place. Leur enquête les amènera jusqu'au pire...
2184) Sherlock
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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures.
Each of these nineteen tales, from Sherlock's first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings,...
2185) The Man in the Net
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Struggling artist John Hamilton is a man living a lie. Since moving to the small New England town of Stoneville to pursue painting, he's been desperately trying to cope with his wife's alcoholism. Linda has become an expert at hiding it from her wealthy circle of friends-and at keeping John from exposing her. Though, their marriage has devolved into a never-ending cycle of deception and denial.
But, when John is offered his old job back in New York...
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At twenty-five years old Anna, Lady Quartermain, becomes a grieving but wealthy widow. In an attempt to restart her life she sets up the Wellington Bureau, an investigation agency, without any serious expectation of it being a success.
A series of cases follow in which Anna unravels a number of mysteries, including those surrounding the fabulous Quartermain Stone — a diamond brought into the family by Henry Quartermain at the beginning of the thirteenth...
2187) Aminatu's Spirit
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After encountering an ancient presence, Mina's life takes an unimaginable turn. She embarks on a journey to unravel the circumstances of her husband's mysterious accident and the world that he intercepted. She is joined by unlikely allies as she struggles to accept her destiny, understand her past, and ultimately find answers that she craves so deeply.
2188) Murder by Numbers
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And then there was one ... can Donald Langham and Maria Dupré stop a killer who's picking off victims one by one?
December, 1956. Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupré receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of Maxwell Falwell Fenton in Essex. The once-prominent artist has a number of enemies, and has faded into obscurity since the war ended. Is the invitation to his own death or someone else's?
Arriving at Winterfield on a cold...
2189) The Faceless Adversary
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Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan's finest, but that doesn't stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough...
Manhattan banker John Hayward is newly engaged and feeling on top of the world-until the NYPD arrive on his doorstep and ask him point blank why he killed a certain Miss Nora Evans.
Hayward has never even heard of Miss Evans, but the investigators are convinced she was his secret paramour....
2190) Families and Thieves
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In this second instalment of The Kimble Detective Agency series, we follow the imaginative and intelligent Peyton and his trusty, enthusiastic assistant Jackson Chadwick as they work together to unravel two separate and equally intriguing mysteries.The first is an apparently simple theft of an art piece at the school where Peyton's wife Sherri is a teacher. After interviewing all of the students in the class, they are still left at a dead end with...
2191) The Melancholy Menorah
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Once again there's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, as they get ready for Chanukah - and more mystery.
It's a miracle! Or is it? When the members of London's Great Synagogue decide to replace their old and battered menorah with one that's newer and more elegant, the old menorah refuses to leave its spot on the Eastern Wall. But is this really a sign from Heaven, or a sign that some nefarious plot is afoot? It's up to wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth...
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Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness for the locked room mystery, Boucher created such iconic sleuths as Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen, amateur sleuth Sister...
2193) Tales of Thubway Tham
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Thubway Tham is a small, short-tempered gnome of a man, a professional pickpocket with an annoying lisp. But he is no mere thief...he is the king of his chosen profession, a master "dip" who works only in the subways of New York City. Like all such villains, he faces a cunning adversary in Police Detective Craddock, who is always half a pace behind.
Craddock has sworn to put Tham behind bars, where he belongs. But Tham is clever enough to always remain...
2194) Below the Strandline
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A body is washed up on a riverbank on the falling tide, its hands hacked off. Enter the murky world of survival and greed that flourishes Below The Strandline. Plunge into this very British crime novel, brimming with murder, intrigue and characters to love or to loathe. Haunted by a dark past, misfit Jerry runs away to the city. There he meets Scarlet, a kindred spirit who becomes his partner in crime. Meanwhile, a powerful secret society led by former...
2195) Murder at an Exhibition
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In 1863 London, a photographer is murdered, his body found at the Royal Academy Exhibition shortly after his assistant, Bridget, is locked in the dark-room at the studio. Then art expert Giovanni Morelli is attacked. With the police unable to see the connection, illustrator Jo Harris must help Bridget uncover the clues among wealthy art collectors and purveyors of photographic pornography, with help from the likes of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Sir...
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Along the canals of Venice, Bognor investigates a mogul's medieval murder Flush with cash from the success of his latest insipid blockbuster, aspiring film mogul Irving Silverburger takes to Venice to soak himself in luxury. Instead, he is quickly soaked in blood. Cruising down the canal in a vaporetto, Silverburger is shot with a crossbow, killed by a Harlequin who disappears into the masquerade of Carnival. Unmasking the disguised assassin falls...
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If you're poor in the hills of Appalachia and don't have the skills to succeed in the 21st Century, what path is left? You try what you can and you do whatever it takes to survive. Survival, not always easy in hill country, is the common theme in these three stories from West Virginia.
WICKED WOMEN
When a man wrongs his woman in these hills, there's only one thing to do: get even. For the women of Peach Tree Hollow, who have no cash, no connections,...
2198) Fire
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It's the Autumn of 1666, and the Great Fire is still burning, the ashes of hundreds of houses and shops and St. Paul's Cathedral choking the air. The people, too, are choking, raging at the French, the Dutch, at the foreigners who-they are certain-lit the torch. Lord Arlington, the Secretary of State, might conceivably be interested in harnessing this anger; it can be so useful, at times, to have the population united in loathing of a common enemy....
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THE DARING AND INTIMATE CLOSE-UP OF A RECKLESS LOVE AFFAIR.
Her body was an artistic triumph...
Whatever it is that sends men to theatres, burlesque houses, night clubs, she had it. And she used it to become a star.
There had been many men in her life. She married three, and had had affairs with countless others. But each encounter began and ended the same way-she was alone, lonely, unfulfilled.
She had risen to the top of her profession as an...
2200) Les Mots des morts
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Un éditeur et sa secrétaire sont retrouvés mort. Meurtre? Suicide? Mélangeant habilement fiction et réalité, Olivier Hecquet tire les ficelles d'une enquête «littéraire» dont le point final réserve bien des surprises! Suspense!
Dans la pièce, rien ne traînait, hormis quelques papiers sur le sous-main. Une bibliothèque parfaitement ordonnée occupait un mur entier. L'éditeur gisait dans un fauteuil, les bras pendant de part et d'autre...
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