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Medicus Рут Дауни
ISBN: 9781596914278 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский The highest praise I can offer this wonderfully entertaining portrait of the Roman Empire at its most far-flung is that I hope Downie is planning a series. Ruso is too good a character for just one book.—Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
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Terra Incognita Ruth Downie
ISBN: 9781596915183 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский "This book, which is even better than the first, opens with the pair headed to northern outposts, where Ruso hopes to gain some advancement...This is a terrific series that historical mystery fans shouldn't miss."--Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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Persona Non Grata Ruth Downie
ISBN: 9781608190478 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский "We know Downie is sharpening her knives for Ruso's next surgically precise adventure. Enormous fun: another lively winner from a newly established mistress of the genre." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Амулет Мейер Конрад
Издательство: Союз Конрад Мейер, швейцарский поэт и писатель, один из наиболее выдающихся мастеров исторической новеллы. Профессионально начал заниматься писательской деятельностью в сорок пять лет. В своих произведениях Мейер изображал исторические эпохи, насыщенные острой и напряженной борьбой. Достоинство его новелл заключается в их большой психологической правде, в верности исторического колорита. Герой повести «Амулет» немецкий протестант Ганс Шадау нанимает себе в телохранители бродягу богемца, отлично владеющего шпагой. Но затем выясняется, что таинственный мастер клинка – преступник, по следу которого идет швейцарская полиция… Продюсер издания:…
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Beacon Street Mourning Дайан Дэй
ISBN: 9780553580617 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский Beacon Street Mourning
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Death Train to Boston Дайан Дэй
ISBN: 9780553580556 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский Death Train to Boston
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The Bohemian Murders Дайан Дэй
ISBN: 9780553574128 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский The Bohemian Murders
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Herejes Леонардо Падура
ISBN: 9788483834916 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Maxi TusQuets Editores Язык: Испанский En 1939, el barco S.S. Saint Louis, con 900 judios que lograron huir de Alemania, estuvo fondeado varios dias frente al puerto de La Habana a la espera del permiso para los refugiados.
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An Anne Perry Christmas: A Christmas Journey / A Christmas Visitor Anne Perry
ISBN: 0345497007, 9780345497000 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY “One of the best books to brighten the joyous season.” –USA Today “This brief work has an almost Jamesian subtlety. . . . [A] powerful message of responsibility and redemption.” –The Wall Street Journal In the Berkshire countryside, family and guests have gathered for a delicious weekend fête surrounded by roaring fires and candlelight. It’s scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one–not even that clever budding sleuth Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould–anticipates the tragedy that is to darken this holiday house party. A CHRISTMAS VISITOR “Satisfyingly dark and suspenseful.” –Entertainment…
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Anne Perry's Christmas Mysteries: A Christmas Guest / A Christmas Secret Anne Perry
ISBN: 0345496426, 9780345496423 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский Two holiday novels provide the perfect combination of mystery and murder mixed with a generous helping of Yuletide cheer. A CHRISTMAS GUEST When her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, Grandmama Mariah Ellison travels to the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes to spend the holiday with old friends. But when the body of a fellow guest is found lifeless in bed, Grandmama senses foul play and takes it upon herself to assume the role of amateur detective–uncovering startling truths about the victim . . . and herself as well. A CHRISTMAS SECRET Dominic Corde is thrilled to “fill the robe” as…
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Buckingham Palace Gardens Anne Perry
ISBN: 9780345523693 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to the palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But, alas, the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic (after the wives have retired to bed) turns up among the queen’s monogrammed sheets in a palace linen closet. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited–to pose as a palace servant and listen in on…
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Anne Perry's Silent Nights: A Christmas Beginning / A Christmas Grace Anne Perry
ISBN: 9780345517296 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский Here are two holiday mysteries set in remote, snow-covered regions of Victorian Britain–where the nights are indeed silent but all is not calm, and where some will sleep in eternal peace. A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING While spending Christmas on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard, a lonely bachelor, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the vicar’s younger sister in the village churchyard. Everyone insists that only a stranger to the island could have committed the heinous crime, but the evidence proves otherwise. Intending to uncover the identity of the ruthless killer, Runcorn never dreams that…
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Anne Perry's Christmas Vigil: A Christmas Promise / A Christmas Odyssey Anne Perry
ISBN: 9780345524911 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский IN THESE TWO HOLIDAY MYSTERIES SET IN VICTORIAN LONDON, CHRISTMAS COMES WITH A HELPING OF MAGIC AND MURDER. A CHRISTMAS PROMISE Three days before Christmas, in London’s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway, freezing and alone. Only the day before, someone murdered Minnie Maude’s Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart—as well as with Charlie, the beloved donkey who pulled it. Now, Grace and Minnie Maude set off to rescue Charlie. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart, the children are told, was a dazzling golden…
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A Christmas Homecoming Anne Perry
ISBN: 9780345524638 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский Among the brilliant array of Anne Perry’s New York Times bestselling novels, her Christmas stories occupy perhaps the warmest spot in the hearts of readers. Each one is a masterpiece of suspense; each is alight with the true holiday spirit. In A Christmas Homecoming, a familiar face from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels—Charlotte’s mother, Caroline—travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational novel named after him. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula by the daughter of…
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The William Monk Mysteries: The Face of a Stranger / A Dangerous Mourning / Defend and Betray Anne Perry
ISBN: 9780345480934 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Ballantine Books Язык: Английский Few authors have made Victorian London as engaging and lively as Anne Perry has and her rich descriptions and charismatic characters have long captivated fans around the world. Now in one enticing volume, here are Anne Perry’s first three classic novels featuring private investigator William Monk. THE FACE OF A STRANGER His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. His memory vanished after a terrible accident, intent on hiding his condition and starting a new life, Monk tackles a grisly murder case in which each new revelation leads him to the answers he seeks but dreads to find. . . . A DANGEROUS…
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The Alehouse Murders Maureen Ash
ISBN: 9780425217658 Год издания: 2015 Язык: Английский The Alehouse Murders
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A Friendly Game of Murder Дж. Дж. Мерфи
ISBN: 9780451238993, 0451238990 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: NAL Язык: Английский Why should Dorothy Parker's friends be the only ones making "enviable names" in "science, art, and parlor games"? Dorothy can play with the best of them--as she sets out to prove at a New Year's Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky soiree is happening in the penthouse suite of swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks, some derring-do is called for. How about a little game of "Murder"? Each partygoer draws a card to be detective, murderer, or victim. But young Broadway starlet Bibi Bibelot trumps them all when her dead body is found in the bathtub. No one knows who the killer is, but one thing is for sure--they won't be making gin…
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Murder Your Darlings Дж. Дж. Мерфи
ISBN: 9780451231994, 0451231996 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: NAL Язык: Английский One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work, enlisting her literary cohorts. It's up to the Algonquins to outwit the true culprit-preferably before cocktail hour-and before the clever killer turns the tables on them.
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You Might As Well Die Дж. Дж. Мерфи
ISBN: 9780451235329, 0451235320 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: NAL Язык: Английский When second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin's artistic works triple in value following his apparent suicide off the Brooklyn Bridge, Dorothy Parker smells something fishy. Enlisting the help of magician and skeptic Harry Houdini, she goes to a séance held by MacGuffin's mistress, where Ernie's ghostly voice seems hauntingly real...
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Murder in Chelsea Victoria Thompson
ISBN: 9780425260418 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Berkley Язык: Английский Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope’s Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine’s nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl’s mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been murdered. Though her death leaves Sarah’s claim to Catherine unchallenged, her sense of justice compels her to work with Malloy to find the killer. Their search takes them from the…
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Murder in Murray Hill Victoria Thompson
ISBN: 9780425260425 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Berkley Язык: Английский When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City’s tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. Now, as the Edgar® and Agatha Award–nominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women… A Gaslight Mystery Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position within his department. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, he’s assigned to a new case—finding a missing young woman for her…
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Murder on Fifth Avenue Victoria Thompson
ISBN: 9780425255377 Год издания: 2012 Язык: Английский Sarah Brandt’s family is one of the oldest in New York City, and her father, Felix Decker, takes his position in society very seriously. He still refuses to resign himself to his daughter being involved with an Irish Catholic police detective. But when a member of his private club — the very exclusive Knickerbocker — is murdered, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the crime as discreetly as possible. Malloy soon discovers that despite his social standing, the deceased — Algernon Abernathy — was no gentleman. In fact, he’s left behind his own unofficial club of sorts, populated by everyone who…