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Amiable, wisecracking Alex Rasmussen was first introduced--to great acclaim--in The Heaven Stone, which won the PWA/St. Martin's Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Now ghosts from the past and a murderous Halloween haunt his second case.
A former cop gone private, Rasmussen makes a living in the decaying New England mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts....
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Private investigator Alex Rasmussen has loved carnivals since he was a boy, and what better way to enjoy one as a grown man than with a lovely woman at his side? As he and his date stroll along the midway, playing games of chance, the soft September night is torn by a scream. Rasmussen rushes to a nearby field to find a woman's body in the weeds.
One of the carnival workers---a man with trouble in his past and a motive for murder---is arrested and...
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One of Shell Scott's friends, a writer working on an expose, turns up dead-and his manuscript is missing. Of course, Shell Scott is hot on the case!
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Was wäre die Freiburger Kantonspolizei ohne ihr ehemaliges Mitglied Jean-François Murith, der als Bruder Marius im Freiburger St.-Martins-Kloster lebt? Immer wenn es schwierig wird, greift der beleibte, kettenrauchende Inspektor Schneuwly zum Telefon, um sich bei Marius Rat zu holen. Dieses Mal ist jedoch nicht nur Marius' Rat gefragt, denn es geht um einen geheimnisvollen Mord in einem nahegelegenen Zisterzienserkloster. In einer Vollmondnacht...
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Der Großgastronom Pit Baldauf möchte einen Biergarten eröffnen - ausgerechnet am Karlsgraben bei Treuchtlingen, der unter Denkmalschutz steht. Das erhitzt die Gemüter der Anwohner sowie der Historikerin Ricarda Held, die über die Geschichte des Landstrichs forscht. Das Projekt soll zu Fall gebracht werden. Da kommt die Leiche des Hobby-Archäologen Meindl, die im Karlsgraben entdeckt wird, gerade recht. KOK Hans Wörle ermittelt: Hat die Tat...
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An egomaniac crook comes to town and issues a challenge to Nick Carter: I have come to town to do business. I give you notice before I begin, because I am quite certain you will be informed immediately after I commence operations. It really makes little difference; you cannot reach me. Really, my dear Nick, I have a contempt for the so-called detective ability. You, with your Ida, Chick, and Patsy, are a little better than the rest, but you are in...
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Krise? Welche Krise? Als Fahrradkurier hat Ex-Privatdetektiv Max Koller genug zu tun. Und wird dann doch rückfällig: Als ein Bekannter, der Schriftsteller Robert Usedom, erschossen aufgefunden wird, nutzt Koller die Vermisstenanzeige einer Lokalpolitikerin für eigene Ermittlungen. Er kommt einem Umweltskandal auf die Spur, jagt einen selbsternannten Rächer und lernt zutiefst verunsicherte Mitmenschen kennen. Die Krise ist überwunden, aber der...
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Percy Andreae (1858–1924) was an English-American brewer and influential anti-prohibitionist during the early part of the 20th century. He was born in Clapham, London to a German father, Carl Andreæ of Frankfurt, and an English mother, Emilie Sillem. During the 1890s, Andreae published short stories and novels, many of which first appeared in The Windsor Magazine. His fiction drew on his roots, incorporating international mystery and suspense with...
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Einstein Flint is an ex-rodeo rider, born in Brooklyn and raised in every other borough in the city. Now, he's banged-up, burnt out and back in NYC, bouncing at Boom Boom's. Dasha Bragin was smart, fearless and...remorseless as desert sun. But now she's dead and the cops are pretty sure Flint is their guy. Flint and Dasha had been a couple before the cops found her body, damaged in ways that don't allow the next breath. When word on the street...
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Este volumen de la serie contiene 125 historias de El Juego de los Detectives.En la radio jugamos con ellas como tú puedes hacer con tus amigos o enemigos más cercanos.Empezamos en 1994 el programa Si Amanece, nos vamos, donde seguimos en una segunda etapa tras el éxito de 2020, cuando se emitió en las tardes de La Ventana, también en la SER, y en las noches de los sábados durante la pandemia.Esta compilación recoge, en realidad, una selección...
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The Old Angel is everything an old English inn should be, with ancient beams, gleaming copper bedwarmers, pewter tankards, and platters heaped high with red roast beef. But then, as Mr. Pinkerton quickly discovers, the Old Angel also harbors some less homey items. Such as a frightened young girl, a series of secret passageways -- and a most unpleasant Knight who is suddenly killed in a most unsavory way.
The next thing he knows. Mr. Pinkerton is mixed...
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Ron Reed, the ace pitcher of the L.A. Wave, the newest franchise in major league baseball, hires our "Celebrity PI" to surveille his lingerie model wife who he suspects is cheating. This fourth novel in the "Sherlock Jones" series of contemporary L.A. murder mysteries finds Sherlock, Sasha (his partner in Archer Investigations and sharpshooting lover), plus the WDGA (Wednesday Drunken Golfers Association) "Disreputables" (his zany yet adept rag-tag...
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"Mystery fans will be delighted by this first installment in a promising new series." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
When a social media star washes up dead on a sleepy island, the residents are forced to confront their own secrets - the money, murder, and lies behind the idyllic small town façade - as a wave of fans descends.
Pete Brown is a retired pro-surfer looking to live the perfect beach bum life and put the trauma of a career-ending...
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She was elegant, beautiful, and a cold-blooded killer...or so it appeared. She had the perfect motive. She even admitted to being at the scene of the crime. Scotland Yard was prepared to charge Louise Colton with her husband's brutal murder. Only shy, retiring Mr. Pinkerton believed her innocent.
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Get three brilliant and captivating stories together featuring British detectives Jack Rutherford and Amanda Lacey by master storyteller Linda Coles. "Move over Agatha Christie, there's a new dame in town." Amazon reviewer. Here's what's in this collection: The Hunted They kill wild animals for sport. She's about to return the favour… A spate of distressing big-game hunter posts are clogging up her newsfeed. As hunters brag about the exotic animals...
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When a Greek goddess and a fairy hob disappear, detective Turner Cronyn is on the case. He soon discovers a connection to long-forgotten TV star Patrick Raden of Solar Patrol, whose spaceship model mysteriously decays overnight.
Teaming up with a stunning goddess, a merry pixie, a protective minotaur, and more fantastical allies, Turner pursues clues leading unexpectedly to the shadowy realm of Olympus-and to a sinister tower occupied by the murderous...
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Ein Notarzt wird nachts zu einem Einsatz im Frankfurter Diplomatenviertel gerufen. Ein Fahrradfahrer soll verunglückt sein. Am nächsten Morgen ist der Arzt tot, eine Joggerin entdeckt seine blutüberströmte Leiche. Von den ebenfalls an den Unfallort bestellten Sanitätern fehlt jede Spur. Wurden auch sie umgebracht? Privatermittlerin Karla Senkrecht greift zu äußerst ungewöhnlichen Ermittlungsmethoden und sieht sich plötzlich mit der Planung...
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An einem windigen, regnerischen Samstagabend entdecken Exkommissar Max Raintaler und sein Freund Franz Wurmdobler die Leiche des erfolgreichen Filmproduzenten Waldemar Brachtinger. Offensichtlich wurde er in seinem Büro in der Filmstadt vor den Toren Münchens im Nobelvorort Grünwald ermordet. Die Spur führt zunächst in die Kreise der oft neidischen und emotional aufgeladenen Filmbranche, aber auch nach München hinein. Als dann auch noch Max'...