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Inside the furnace was a seething pool of molten metal, bubbling with a heat great enough to destroy a man's body so completely it would be impossible to trace. And Gerald Norris had disappeared without a trace!In London, Julie Crocker was hunting for her brother...
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The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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John Bryant Series
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Everyone had agreed that the industrialist Mark Bascombe had committed suicide, even the coroner. Only Bascombe's son David believed - or professed to believe - that it was murder. And it was he who had hired private investigator John Bryant, rather belatedly it is...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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John Bryant Series
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A fashionable French painter is found strangled, a crime highly embarrassing for the Establishment as his wife, a lady of dubious morals, was in the news a year earlier when the President of France happened to die in her bed. And the last thing the authorities want is...
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The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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Inspector Gautier Series
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When car trouble forces private detective John Bryant to spend the night in the small village of Foxall, he is immediately struck by the antagonism and secrecy of the locals. Why was there so much hostility and fear? And why were the streets deserted after dark?Next...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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John Bryant Series
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The victim is Sophie Monterant: a young actress who is already challenging the divine Sarah Bernhardt for the finest roles. Inspector Gautier visits the theatre to see Sophie at the first night of Dame aux Camélias, but the first night is also to be her last: after the...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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Inspector Gautier Series
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The house in Chelsea was smart, in an unpretentious way. But when detective John Bryant rang the front door bell, he found neither intellect nor artistry; what lay before him was a world of curious contrasts - of extravagance and squalor, luxury and murder.Bryant...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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John Bryant Series
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An aristocratic young woman, Denise de Richemont, has murdered an important journalist, Jaques Le Tellier. She is acquitted by a sympathetic jury when she confesses it to be a crime of passion - revenge for the journalist's indiscreet revelation of his mistress' sordid...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
Collection :
Inspector Gautier Series
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The Dashkova Ballet Company - a visiting Russian troupe led by Inspector Gautier's charming Soviet mistress, Princess Sophia - is about to become the toast of Paris when the famous Judge Prudhomme is found with a bullet in his heart in a squalid hotel room. And when the...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
Collection :
Inspector Gautier Series
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When a homemade bomb explodes on a houseboat moored on the Seine, following two brutal stabbings in Pigalle, the Paris police receive a list of targets for assassination that includes the President of the Republic himself. Each murder will be announced beforehand by the...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
Collection :
Inspector Gautier Series
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A painter has vanished: normally an event of no importance, but Théo is the heir to a fortune, and so Inspector Gautier of the Sûreté is put on the case. Then a shady art dealer is murdered.A dealer who had acquired three paintings under dubious circumstances, from a...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
Collection :
Inspector Gautier Series
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Two dramatically contrasting episodes face Inspector Gautier in his latest mystery: the death by stabbing of the vicar of the fashionable church of Saint Clothilde in the confessional box; and the theft of the Duchesse de Paiva's diamond necklace during the extravagant...
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The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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Inspector Gautier Series
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'The English should confine their murders to their own country' is the view held by Parisians when Lady Dorothy Strathy, sister of the Earl of Tain, is discovered stabbed in her hotel room. This opinion is held by none more strongly than Courtrand, the head of the...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
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2015-12-14
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Inspector Gautier Series
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Called in to help dying millionaire Maximilian Kottle locate his estranged son, P.I. John Marshall Tanner doesn't know what to expect.Soon Tanner is on a quest to find Karl Kottle, a former sixties radical and alleged murderer. As his search continues, Tanner encounters...
Editeur :
Mulholland Books
Parution :
2015-12-10
Collection :
John Marshall Tanner Mysteries
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Corrupt copper and bad Catholic Jimmy Costello is back, and he's studying to be a priest in Rome.But his old life refuses to stay buried . . .When a visiting archbishop dies in suspicious circumstances, the Kilburn hard man is asked to drop his religious studies and...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
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2015-12-10
Collection :
The Road to Redemption
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The third psychological mystery in the Oslo Crime Files, a tense and dark quartet of thrillers for fans of Camilla Lackberg and Jo Nesbo.A man obsessed with the cleansing power of fire is destroying everything that reminds him of his youth. He calls himself the Fire...
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Headline
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2015-12-03
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New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war.From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of the Marne in...
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Orion
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2015-12-03
Collection :
Hackberry Holland
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She woke up with a new face.She woke up with no memories. And she woke up to murder... Not only has Marla Cahill survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored through plastic surgery.She should be grateful. Instead, she's consumed by...
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Mulholland Books
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2015-12-03
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The first novel in Stephen Greenleaf's classic series featuring John Marshall Tanner, San Francisco ex-lawyer turned private detective.When her husband begins acting strangely, the wife of a famous legal crusader hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find out...
Editeur :
Mulholland Books
Parution :
2015-11-19
Collection :
John Marshall Tanner Mysteries
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Before Jack Reacher . . . there was Mike HammerOne night, a blonde jumps out in front of PI Mike Hammer's car. She's so scared he doesn't have much choice but to give her a ride. At a police roadblock, he discovers she's on the run from a sanatorium, but he passes her...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
Parution :
2015-11-19
Collection :
Mike Hammer
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Lyncastle is a small town that likes to be dirty: gin joints, gambling dens and brothels make sure of that, and bring in more money than the State Capitol. One night, a man named Johnny McBride returns to the town, and nobody is happy about it. Supposedly he ran away...
Editeur :
The Murder Room
Parution :
2015-11-19
Collection :
Murder Room
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