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In New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Peters's eagerly anticipated Amelia Peabody adventure, the Emerson clan is a hairsbreadth away from unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for. But a sinister plot and a dark family secret stand in the way of their ultimate ambition --...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau—a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph...

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her husband and son, Ramses, arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. Soon, a more disturbing...

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. Soon an even more disturbing outrage...

In New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Peters's eagerly anticipated Amelia Peabody adventure, the Emerson clan is a hairsbreadth away from unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for. But a sinister plot and a dark family secret stand in the way of their ultimate ambition --...

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his days in South Africa has shown up and claims that he has the original deed to the mine and that he is in fact the owner of the mine. Shortly after a meeting with Deane, the man is found murdered and the deed he claims to have had is missing. Another man which Deane hired to negotiate the return of the deed to Deane is accused of the murder, tried, and sentenced to death.

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his days in South Africa has shown up and claims that he has the original deed to the mine and that he is in fact the owner of the mine. Shortly after a meeting with Deane, the man is found murdered and the deed he claims to have had is missing.

At thirteen, investigative prodigy Huang Zixia had already proved herself by aiding her father in solving confounding crimes. At seventeen, she's on the run, accused of murdering her family to escape an arranged marriage. Driven by a single-minded pursuit, she must use her skills to unmask the real killer...and clear her name.

Wien, 1908: Graf Waidring, ein ebenso gefährlicher wie mächtiger Mann, hat Fannys beste Freundin entführt und erpresst Fanny nun, für ihn zu arbeiten. Mehrere seiner Männer wurden tot aufgefunden und von dem Mörder fehlt jede Spur. Er lässt sie die Leichen obduzieren, da er befürchtet, jemand könnte von seinem Plan erfahren, das neue Gemälde von Gustav Klimt zu entwenden. Und auch hierbei muss Fanny helfen und soll unter falschem Namen für den Meister Modell stehen. Fanny hat keine andere Wahl, als sich darauf einzulassen.

Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she’s learning to shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her shoulder. Better still, she’s been recruited to the special branch, an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature, and that means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire.

England. 1923. After a year away at finishing school where she learned etiquette, deportment, and the difference between a fish fork and a salad one, Kitty Worthington is eager to return home. But minutes after she and her brother Ned board the Golden Arrow, the unthinkable happens. A woman with a mysterious connection to her brother is poisoned, and the murderer can only be someone aboard the train. When Scotland Yard hones on Ned as the main suspect, Kitty sets out to investigate.

Unterschätzen Sie niemals eine Bibliothekarin... Shona McMonagle ist auf einer Mission: Die resolute schottische Bibliothekarin hat die ehrenvolle Aufgabe, in der Zeit zurückzureisen und den Lauf der Geschichte zu verändern. Im Moskau des 19. Jahrhunderts soll Shona die schüchterne, aber sehr wohlhabende, Waise Lidia Ivanovna mit Sasha zusammenbringen - einem hinreißenden jungen Mann mit ungeklärter Herkunft. Doch irgendetwas stimmt hier nicht... Denn ständig sterben Menschen auf seltsame Art und Weise.

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits...

Die Machenschaften des theosophischen Ordens "Hermetic Order of the golden Dawn" scheinen eine größere Rolle im Mysterium der Schwarzen Sonne zu spielen, als den Betreibern lieb ist. Auch der junge Aleister Crowley merkt allmählich, dass er sich mit Kräften eingelassen hat, die mehr als sein Leben gefährden.

Nacktes Entsetzen herrscht nach einer grauenvollen Bluttat während einer Taufe: Die Unheimlichen mit den goldenen Kalbsmasken sind die nächste große Bedrohung für die Sicherheit in Frankreich, der sich Edgar Allan Poe und Auguste Dupin stellen müssen. Unterstützt von Irene Adler nehmen die Ermittler die Fährte auf, ohne zu ahnen, dass sie bereits Figuren in einem Spiel geworden sind, dessen Regeln außerhalb ihrer Kontrolle liegen.

Hoher Besuch in der Baker Street. Der 8. Herzog von Marlborough, George Spencer-Churchill persönlich, suchte Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf. Sein überaus kostbares und seltenes Fabergé-Ei wurde ihm gestohlen. Doch der Herzog weiß sogar, wer es ihm entwendet hat. Nämlich seine getrennt lebende Frau, die besagtes Ei in dem Schloss des Herzogs gefinkelt versteckt hat. Nun ist es an Holmes das wertvolle Ei wieder in die Hände seines Besitzers zurück zu bringen.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form. The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley’s schismatic Trent’s Last Case in 1913...

Complete with fascinating biographies by Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, this latest volume in the annual Bodies from the Library series once again brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.