Founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of allLos Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-07-07

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A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-07-07

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The past will always catch up with you...THE RUNAWAY by No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Martina Cole is an unputdownable thriller of corruption and violence and was adapted for television with an all-star cast including Alan Cumming, Jack O'Connell and Keith Allen....

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2005-06-10

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The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.'Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created),...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2005-04-11
Collection : Thursday Next
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An ancient mystery, a hidden language, and the secrets of a bizarre Egyptian sect collide in modern-day London in this ingenious novel of seduction, conspiracy, and betrayal alter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by the British Museum...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2005-04-06

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Seamus Joyce has got a few things on his mind.He has just been appointed Acting Director of iDEA, the Irish Drug Enforcement Agency. His wife is in hospital, dying of an unidentified ailment. And he is starting to question the purpose of his own existence.It's a tricky...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-03-03

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Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helpsLorenzo resist...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2005-03-01

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THE THRILLING PAGE-TURNER FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER JILLIANE HOFFMAN'Intensely readable. A tale of personal horror, thrills and vengeance' GuardianOne terrible night in New York City, brilliant law student Chloe Larson is brutally attacked in her own home - and her...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-01-27

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Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs Vanstone, find themselves the victims of a catastrophic oversight. Their father has neglected to change his will, and when the girls are suddenly orphaned, their inheritance goes to their uncle. Now...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-09-30

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An irresistible story of love and death, this Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes -- and a new life for Easy and his friends.

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2004-07-05
Collection : Easy Rawlins
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The voices which are still talking at the end of someone's life don't tell the whole story. The ones that have fallen silent along the way, the people from forgotten parts of a person's past- they tell another kind of truth.Harry Day was a national literary treasure,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-04-29

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Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing?Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-05-08

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The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood'An outstandingly original book' Sunday TimesThe current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-03-27

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A serial killer declares hunting season in an upstate New York university town. The killer wants to keep the young reporter, Alex Bernier, well-informed, both as a journalist and as a potential victim. After a career-making murder case that proved personal bad news,...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2002-02-28

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As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2001-07-05

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Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time'A fast-paced book full of twists and surprises, taking us from one side of Canada to the other' 5***** Reader Review'Grips you from the first sentence. Exciting,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2001-06-28

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Brooklyn. Winter. 1949. Private eye Eddie Lombardi is have a very bad dream--and it starts coming true the minute he wakes up. This first novel is an iPublish original mystery.

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2001-06-15

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Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Has she been murdered too? Fearing the worst, Hap...

Editeur : Mysterious Press
Parution : 2001-05-15

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When a young woman's body is discovered in the summer of 1910 Vienna, the Inspector's wife is certain the figs found in her stomach during the autopsy are the clue to the identity of the murderer -- for there are no fresh figs in Vienna at this time of year.

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2001-03-06

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The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now is looked like it was harbouring a murderer.There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top.The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2000-09-21
Collection : Miss Silver Series
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