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Lieutenant Kenmore's exciting solution of the murder of the nude beauty in an aquarium. Classic detective fiction!<P> "Clark's bad guys tend to be self righteous types, like high priced lawyers or smooth talking authors, whose mask their crookedness in a stream of noble sounding verbiage. It makes for a gentler tone, and a vein of satire." – Mike Grost

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Johnny Phelan had two corpses behind him – «Three and you're out, Johnny,» the cops told him. «Out of this world, real gone cool on a marble slab . . . worth a hot quarter-million bucks in small kills . . .» So in the land of masquerade and make-up, Hollywood's toughest private peep ducked wild bullets and wilder babes – to learn the hard way that – YOU CAN ALWAYS DIE TWICE! <P> "This is hard-boiled mystery with all the necessary elements… Fans of the hard-boiled are likely to enjoy the book." – Reading California Fiction

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America’s bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the mysterious, humpbacked Mr. Fortune, carrying a burden of secrets, slips ashore and disappears into the fog of winter. And in London, private detective Septimus Dacers finds that helping an American girl in distress plunges him into combat with the Dixie Ghosts, and brings him face-to-face with threatened murder–his own! Can Dacers save the honor of the girl's father, and stop the dastardly scheme to resurrect the Confederate States? A gripping period mystery featuring a dynamic new investigator!

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When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body in a hammock in her own backyard. Someone brutally murdered Catherine Clay, an heir to the Sutton family fortune. And more violence follows. Together with Peter Mohun, a professor at a local college, Fredericka sets out to discover the murderer's identity … and unravel the secrets of the wealthy and powerful Sutton family! <P> "Murders for Sale" – also published under the title «Sneeze on Sunday» – is one of science fiction writer Andre Norton's rare excursions into the mystery field.

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At the twilight of the British Empire, Dr. Fu Manchu again comes up against Nayland Smith, the one man who can stop his sinister plans to destroy the Western world and remake it in the glorious image of the East, with Fu Manchu as absolute ruler. First appearing in Sax Rohmer's short story «The Zayat Kiss,» the oriental super-villain went on to appear in 14 books between 1913 and 1973.

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Sherlock Holmes whether he's a grimy student in 1980, a consulting detective in 47BCE, or a smitten neighbour in 1969, will always find his… John Watson whether he is a military doctor in 1917, an angry Saxon with an axe in 1086, or a priest in 1603. A Question of Time is an illustrated journey through the ages told by our heroes, by their friends, and by a scorched manuscript.

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The year is 1618 and the beginning of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Lieutenant Jack Channing's life is about to be immutably altered by two events. He falls in love with a beautiful countess and witnesses an attempt on the Polish King Sigismund's life. News reaches the court that assassination attempts on Catholic monarchs have occurred elsewhere in Europe and Jack is charged with the responsibility of finding and crushing the perpetrators – murderers that became known as the Green-Scarf Fraternity.<br /> <br />Mixing real historical events with fictional retelling, The Cavalier Club, is a richly detailed, impeccably researched story of adventure, bravery and love set during one of Europe's longest and most destructive conflicts.

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Outback Australia in the mid-1800s.<br /> <br />When rich, domineering squatter Angus McAlpin is murdered, the obvious suspect is the penniless artist, Herbert Lindsey – who wants to marry his daughter, Flora.<br /> <br />McAlpin may have proclaimed that Flora would marry Herbert 'only over his dead body' – and Herbert's bloodstained knife and handkerchief were found near the murder scene – but the artist denies any wrongdoing.<br /> <br />So begins a compelling murder mystery and trial, as the heiress seeks to prove her lover's innocence, and a country town takes sides.<br /> <br />Force may have killed Angus McAlpin, but fraud follows murder in a cunning plan to see Herbert Lindsey hanged – by any means necessary.<br /> <br />For someone else is determined to marry Flora, to obtain her property and her person; and he will stop at nothing.<br /> <br /> <br />Praise for Force and Fraud: <i>'Stunning historical mystery. Court scene worthy of Perry Mason'</i> – <b>Kerry Greenwood</b>

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Странное событие привлекло внимание оперативников послевоенного Пскова. Среди белого дня в городском парке пенсионер признал в проходящем мимо милиционере переодетого фашистского палача и пытался его задержать. Милиционеру удалось скрыться, а пенсионер скончался на месте от сердечного приступа. Сыщики в недоумении: неужели опасный военный преступник, которого они разыскивают вот уже несколько лет, объявился в их городе? Следствие поручено капитану Павлу Звереву по прозвищу «Зверь». На счету бесстрашного опера десятки раскрытых преступлений. Но на этот раз ему предстоит поединок не с отмороженными уголовниками, а с кадровым офицером СС, руки которого по локоть в крови…

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Александр Шкляревский – русский писатель XIX века, «отец» детективного жанра в России. Его детективы были основаны на реальных уголовных делах тогдашнего времени, в чем ему помогло знакомство со знаменитым судьей А. Ф. Кони. Поэтому они очень жизненные и захватывают внимание читателя с первых страниц. В эту книгу вошли повести «Русский Тичборн» и «Секретное следствие». В них рассказывается о загадочных преступлениях, раскрыть которые помог только случай…

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