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Michael Connelly's curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up "Bump," a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. "Hardly Knew Her" by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, while "In the Eyes of Children" by Alexander McCall Smith features a scam at a poker table on the high seas.
62) Mistrerios
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1. EL MISTERIO DE LA AMANTE EGIPCIA, 2. EL ROSTRO ILUMINADO POR LA LUNA, 3. EL ENIGMA DEL CHAL MORADO, 4. LAS CRUCES DE QUICHÉ, 5. EL SÉPTIMO ESCALON, 6. EL PASAJERO A LA FUERZA
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2 detective classics in 1 amazing bundle! Experience some of the best radio of the twentieth century in this Classic Detective bundle that features Dangerous Assignment and Escape. Dangerous Assignment: Mayala Rubber Dangerous Assignment: New York Nazi Buzz Bomb Plans Dangerous Assignment: London Secret Code Broken Dangerous Assignment: Macau Smuggle Agent Out of Country Dangerous Assignment: Rotterdam War Criminals Dangerous Assignment: Middle East...
64) Haiti Noir
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Éloi, Madison Smartt Bell, Gary Victor, M.J. Fievre, Mark Kurlansky, Marvin Victor, Josaphat-Robert Large, Marie Lily Cerat, Yanick Lahens, Louis-Philipe Dalembert, Kettly Mars, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel,...
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The Falcon radio series aired from 1943 until 1954. "The Falcon" was an alternate identity for detective Michael Waring. Like the Falcon movies, the radio plots mixed danger, romance, and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation he had to deal with. This led into the standard...
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Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in numerous crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine published in the 1920s and 1930s, and who was later revived on radio and in film and television. During that time, Vance was immensely popular. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish, dandy, a New York bon vivant with a highly intellectual bent-America's Sherlock Holmes. He worked closely with his secretary and right-hand woman, Ellen Deering, and...
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Dans cette anthologie, un collectif de près de trente auteurs primés ou sélectionnés par le festival de Cognac au fil des années se réunissent en soutien au festival. Ils proposent pour cela un recueil de récits courts de polar en bande dessinée totalement inédits, spécialement écrits pour cette occasion.
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The mystery and crime fiction of the Algonquin Round Table.
With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary figures has achieved as much fame or notoriety as the New York sophisticates who met to match wits and attempt to outshine each other as members of what came to be called the Algonquin Round Table.
The humorists Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, playwrights Marc Connelly...
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Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle.
Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, “The Mysterious Bookshop”, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year,...
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This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and fascinating stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them that will arouse your curiosity and compel you to go through all the stories written by world acclaimed authors, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Ernest William Hornung, etc. Actually, the entire classic series has been aimed to enrich the young minds with the...
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The last person Lavender Aramath Thibideaus expects to meet at the open house of her bookstore: Mysterious Death, Ink. , is the ghost of a former policeman. His appearance usually presages a death. A hit and run homicide and a questionable death at a rest area on I-35 follow. These two deaths begin a rampage of murder and mayhem, spurred by the pursuit of the mastermind of a local drug cartel. Lavender and her two police officer cousins, Alphonse...
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In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood ... If that's the case, I've got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features characters...
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This book is titled Hidden Relationships of the Homicide Detective. The responsibility of overseeing the Homicide Unit and my everyday exposure to witnessing violent crimes throughout the city of Birmingham led me to write this fiction novel that depicts a young man who takes a circuitous route in his quest to restore the luster in his parents dismal marriage. While in pursuit of what he believes is the key to restoring happiness in his family, Trey...
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it," said C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest English writers of the medieval period. This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and exciting stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them that will arouse your curiosity and compel you to go through all the stories written by the world acclaimed author, Sir Arthur Conan...
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A baffling fire results in the death of the daughter of a powerful businessman in Marin County. Authorities call in Brian Gilbert, macro-forensics expert, to investigate. The investigation takes him from Marin County to the hollers of West Virginia as he tracks down the clues. Along the way, he stumbles across the girl of his dreams. Will he solve the mystery and get the girl?
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With a base photo from artistic and professional fashion photographer, Oleg Gekman, The I's Have It is the 7th CRIMEUCOPIA release.
So is there any real difference between the Private and the Public Sector investigators? Not much, if writers are to be believed, and the two can often be found straddling both sides of the 'what's legal procedure?' fence.
Of the twelve authors contained within, eleven are voices new to the world of Crimeucopia...
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This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and exciting stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them that will arouse your curiosity and compel you to go through all the stories written by the world acclaimed author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is known across the globe for creating one of the greatest detectives, the world has ever known by the name of Sherlock Holmes....
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They were truly the best of buddiesPhillipe Bardot, Jonathan Stone, James Brady, and Marie Arnettand they tended to be together in everything, such as school, church, play activities, etc., never thinking about anything except the equality of their friendship. The four of them were inseparable since they were ten years old, and their best times were the hazy, lazy days of summer but then the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. Triple...
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