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As the first in line for the Saudi throne, Prince Tefwik Hassan cannot afford public embarrassment. So when he loses his fortune in a failed scheme to corner the world’s reserves of silver, Hassan is left scrambling. To recoup his millions, he devises an intricate plan that spans the globe and involves players from the upper echelons of both American and Soviet power: Hassan begins buying gold.

Art thief and smuggler Cantor Gold's latest underworld caper begins when she arrives at big-time bookie Nick Fortunato's apartment to celebrate his birthday, a ritual the two friends have enjoyed for years. But Nick is missing, and there's blood on the living room carpet. It's not Nick's blood, though. Nick's death still awaits him. Despite crime lord Sig Loreale's best plans to protect Nick, with whom Sig has financial dealings, a killer finds Nick hidden away in a cheap hotel owned by Loreale.

As the 1960s draw to a close, the rural northeast Texas community of Center Springs is visited by two nondescript government men in dark suits and shades. They say their assignment is to test weather currents and patterns, but that's a lie. Their delivery of a mysterious microscopic payload called Gold Dust from a hired crop duster coincides with fourteen-year-old Pepper Parker's discovery of an ancient gold coin in her dad's possession. Her adolescent trick played on a greedy adult results in the only gold rush in north Texas history.

Out in the far reaches of Los Angeles County, where the glamor of Hollywood fades into the long empty of the desert, two unlicensed private detectives are about to face a case that is larger and more complicated than any they’ve faced before. A ghost-hunting influencer disappears in the middle of a live stream. A beekeeper is murdered after telling his friends that he has come across a dangerous secret.

सहा फूट उंचीचा, सडपातळ शरीराचा , गोरापान , चेहऱ्यावरून एखाद्या नाटकातील हिरोसारखा, भावनाप्रधान दिसणारा ! एकदम साधा वाटायचं. पण प्रतिस्पर्ध्याचा अंदाज नेहमी इथेच चुकायचा. अन चूक उलगडायची जेव्हा मंदारची मगरमिठी त्याच्या भोवती असायची.मंदार पटवर्धन ! सुहास शिरवळकरांचा आणखीन एक लाडका मानसपुत्र ! तो गुप्तहेर आहे हुशार आहे अन तितकाच तल्लख बुद्धीचाहि . डॉ.बंकिम एका टॅब्लेट फॉर्म्युल्याचा शोध लावतात, तो फॉर्मुला विकत घेण्यासाठी चीनची तयारी असते, पण हा फॉर्मुला मिळवण्याची कोणा दुसऱ्याचीच धडपड सुरु असते आणि तिथेच डॉ.

On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed.

In the summer of 1897, Fiona MacGillivray and her 11-year-old son, Angus, arrive in Vancouver in time to hear the news gold discovered in the Klondike! Fiona immediately sets off for Skagway, Alaska, intent on opening a theatre. After one encounter with infamous gangster Soapy Smith and his henchman Paul Sheridan, she decides to pursue her ambitions on the other side of the border in Dawson City. As a dying man breathes his last, he passes on to Sheridan a map pointing due north to the fabled Gold Mountain, where hills of gold keep the heat from hot springs contained in a valley as warm as California.

Lou Rosen and Molly Hatch are unlicensed private detectives, scraping by on whatever cases they can get from their little office on the fringes of LA County. Reeling from a devastating betrayal and a major earthquake, this season finds Lou and Molly trying to rebuild their lives and evaluate their futures. But those futures might not be as long as they hope.

In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism.

From the jungles of Indonesia to the very heart of New York City comes a plague that kills 100 percent of its victims. Medicine's greatest nightmare, this modern Black Death is caused by the most virulent and uncontrollable mutant virus humanity has ever witnessed. And medicine can do nothing to stop its merciless spread.

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Delta Operative Heath “Woof” Davis has spent years living on the edge. Protecting a State Department official is just another assignment, until he discovers that Eleanor Bonham is Nori Duncan, the one that got away. He can protect her from enemy forces in the Republic of Kazarus, but can he defend his heart from the woman who used to be his everything.

The grand-prize winner of a writing contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, "The Gold-Bug" was one of Poe's most popular stories during his lifetime. Similar to his ratiocination tales - early versions of what we now call detective fiction - "The Gold-Bug" is full of mystery and adventure and includes a cryptogram, invisible ink, a scarab-like bug, and pirate treasure.

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An acclaimed “5 Under 35” fiction writer’s much-anticipated first novel In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins’s story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that...

Berlin, 1932. Hulda Gold ist als Hebamme im berüchtigten Frauengefängnis Barnimstraße in der Nähe des Alexanderplatzes tätig. Als innerhalb der Gefängnismauern die junge Insassin Martha völlig unerwartet stirbt, kann Hulda nicht untätig bleiben. Hulda und die Kommissarin Irma Siegel müssen endlich zusammenarbeiten, um gemeinsam gegen das Unrecht zu kämpfen – in einem gesellschaftlich zunehmend radikalen Umfeld.

Ember: Seit Ryder mich vor fünfzehn Jahren nach meinem Liebesgeständnis ausgelacht hat, ist er für mich das personifizierte Böse. Dennoch lasse ich mich von meinem Bruder überreden, Ryders rechte Hand in ihrem Unternehmen zu werden, und dachte, schlimmer könne es nicht werden. Bis ich ihm beim Ausrichten eines Thanksgiving-Dinners helfen muss. Das Drama ist vorprogrammiert, aber wider Erwarten enden unsere hitzigen Diskussionen plötzlich in intensiven Blicken. Es ist absolut verrückt, doch ich kann einfach nicht aufhören, ihn zu wollen, und alles fühlt sich nahezu perfekt an.

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1914: Im Grandhotel Giessbach findet erneut ein Kongress der Orion Gesellschaft für Fortschrittsfragen statt. Doch die Zusammenkunft der einflussreichen Elite wird von Anschlägen überschattet: eine versteckte Bombe an Bord eines Luftschiffs, vergifteter Wein, ein Toter in einem Hotelzimmer. Amanda Ammon, die vor vier Jahren die "Giessbach-Affäre" aufgedeckt hat, soll die Verschwörer finden. Gemeinsam mit dem Journalisten Henri Burkard kommt sie einem perfiden Plan auf die Spur, der katastrophale Folgen für ganz Europa haben könnte.