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The Last Good Man [used book]

By: A. J. Kazinski

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Simon & Schuster: 2012

Seller ID: 001245

ISBN: 085720579X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

According to Jewish scripture, there are thirty-six righteous people on earth. Without them, humanity would perish. But the thirty-six do not know that they are the chosen ones. In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber. A fiery mark has spread across his back and down his spine. In Mumbai, a man who served the poor dies suddenly. His body shows the same mark. Similar deaths are reported in cities around the world - the victims all humanitarians, all with the same death mark. In Copenhagen, it falls to veteran detective Niels Bentzon to investigate. He is told to find eight 'good people' of ...
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The Sunday Philosophy Club #1 Isabel Dalhousie [used book]

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Little, Brown and Company: 2004

Seller ID: 001784

ISBN: 0316729566

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed. The Sunday Philosophy Club marks new ...
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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate #2 Isabel Dalhousie [used book]

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Little, Brown and Company: 2005

Seller ID: 004041

ISBN: 0316729779

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

In this second novel in The Sunday Philosophy Club, Isabel Dalhousie's niece, Cat (she of the unsuitable boyfriends) is invited to a wedding in Italy. This means that Isabel is left in charge of Cat's delicatessen - a task to which the redoubtable moral philosopher proves more than equal. She is intrigued by the customers, of course, given her irrepressible tendency to take an interest in the business of others, and one man in particular attracts her attention. He is recovering from heart surgery - a heart transplant in fact - and when Isabel gets to know him a bit better he reveals an extraor...
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The Exile #1 Nicholas Marten [used book]

By: Allan Folsom

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Little, Brown and Company: 2004

Seller ID: 001249

ISBN: 0316859672

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Raymond Thorne is wanted for murder - in Mexico, in Chicago and, most of all, in Los Angeles. He's got the elite 5-2 Squad of the LAPD on his tail, but still eludes them, until John Barron collars him. Then he escapes again - by dying. Barron, injured himself and off the case, is obsessed by the true identity of the man, by the tantalising clues to his motives - the keys to an anonymous safety deposit box, two London addresses in a notebook alongside a date marked 'in Moscow'. But Barron is carving a new life for himself and his sister in Europe and he pushes the enigma to the back of his mind...
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Sudden Death #1 F.B.I. Trilogy [used book]

By: Allison Brennan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Piatkus Books: 2009

Seller ID: 000706

ISBN: 0749939389

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

When by-the-book FBI agent Megan Elliott realises that a murder victim carries military ID, what seemed to be a simple homicide enquiry turns a lot more serious. An unusual mutilation on the body causes Meg to suspect the murder is target specific, especially when she discovers other recently murdered soldiers with the same disfigurement. Then military police take possession of the body and Meg is forced to partner up with burn-the-book mercenary Jack Kincaid. All too soon does she realise that the killer's primary target is closer to home, and that Jack really is more trouble - dangerous trou...
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Christmas Mourning #8 The Falconer Files

By: Andrea Frazer

Price: $21.95

Publisher: UK, Accent Press Ltd: 2013

Seller ID: 000495

ISBN: 1783751509

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

It is winter 2010, and the UK is experiencing it's worst winter for years. This is catastrophic for DI Harry Falconer as he has rashly promised to spend Christmas with DS Davey Carmichael and family only to find that the weather closes in and he has to become a reluctant house guest, as they find that they are snowed-in. Without power or telephones and cut off from the outside world until further notice, Christmas Day greets them with a murder in St Cuthberts, where the locum vicar has discovered, to his horror, one of Castle Farthing's residents nailed to a gigantic cross. Falconer and Carmic...
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15 Seconds [used book]

By: Andrew Gross

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Harper Collins: 2012

Seller ID: 001414

ISBN: 0007296908

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

'A total white knuckle stay-up-all-night thrill ride, (Harlan Coben) from the bestselling author of Reckless and Killing Hour. Fifteen seconds can tear a life apart. OUT OF TOWN Dr Henry Steadman has it all: a booming business, a daughter he loves, and plenty of time to enjoy life. But while visiting upstate Florida, a police-stop ends in the shooting of a local cop - with Henry as the prime suspect. OUT OF LUCK Framed for a second murder, this time of a close friend, Henry goes on the run. His only lifeline is state-trooper Carrie Holmes, no stranger to tragedy herself, who can help prove his...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Leatherbound Classic Collection * OUT OF PRINT * Replaced by 9781435158108 ***

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: $44.95

Publisher: USA, Barnes & Noble: 2011

Seller ID: 001534

ISBN: 1435114949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. With the help of his loyal friend, Doctor Watson, Holmes brought countless crooks, thieves, swindlers, and murderers to justice. He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure, and readers protested. Some Sherlock Holmes stories rank among the most famous in detective fiction, among them A Study in Scarlet, A Sca...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 1

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: $14.95

Publisher: USA, Barnes & Noble: 2013

Seller ID: 001619

ISBN: 1435136403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works. About the Author Arthur Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were ma...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 2

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: $14.95

Publisher: USA, Barnes & Noble: 2013

Seller ID: 001620

ISBN: 1435137396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: $39.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions: 2008

Seller ID: 002873

ISBN: 1840220767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in 'A Study in Scarlet'. From 1891, beginning with 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Hol...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Leatherbound Classic Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: $49.95

Publisher: USA, Barnes & Noble: 2015

Seller ID: 004038

ISBN: 1435158105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure, and readers protested. Here, in one volume, are all four full-length novels and fifty-six short stories about the colourful adventures of Sherlock Holmes- every word Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote about Baker Street's most famous resident. Also included is an int...
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The Barrakee Mystery @ The Lure of the Bush #1 Napoleon Bonaparte

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, ETT Impring: 2017

Seller ID: A1277

ISBN: 1925416402

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Why was King Henry, an aboriginal from Western Australia, killed in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? Who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Bonaparte takes him to the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well - mixed blood and divided loyalties. About the Author: Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 â€“ 13 February 1964) was an Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napole...
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The Sands of Windee #2 Napoleon Bonaparte

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, ETT Imprint: 2017

Seller ID: A1278

ISBN: 1925416917

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he, as the local police believed, wandered away from his car and been overwhelmed in a dust-storm? When Bony noticed something odd in the background of a police photograph, he begins to piece together the secrets of the sands of Windee. Here is the original background to the infamous Snowy Rowles murder trial. 'Napoleon Bonaparte my best detective.' - Daily Mail About the Author: Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 â€“ 13 February 1964) was an Australian writer, best known for his works of det...
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Wings Above the Diamantina #3 Napoleon Bonaparte

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, ETT Imprint: 2017

Seller ID: A1279

ISBN: 1925416925

Binding: Soft cover

The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career. 'Bony - a unique figure among top-flight detectives.' - BBC About the Author: Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 â€“ 13 February 1964) was an Australian writer, be...
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Breakaway House

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, ETT Imprint: 2017

Seller ID: A1285

ISBN: 1925416658

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the answers to the mystery? First published as a serial in the Perth Daily News in 1932, the real setting for the book is Mt Magnet, about 150k north of Perth, deep in gold country. It is somewhat less intense and less effective than the books in the Bony series, but it is successful as an early effort of Upfield's treatment of the A...
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The Beach of Atonement

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, ETT Imprint: 2016

Seller ID: A1276

ISBN: 1925416496

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed the man who stole her from him. Hunted by justice, pursued by bitter remorse, he fled to a stretch of beach on the Australian coast and lived in utter loneliness. When almost driven to madness by the solitude, he meets two women, who strive to re-build his broken life... First published in 1930, by the creator of Bony, the Aboriginal detective. About the Author: Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 â€“ 13 February 1964) was ...
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The Dying Game #3 Griffin Powell [used book]

By: Beverly Barton

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Avon: 2011

Seller ID: 001860

ISBN: 000789967X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple to win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die. The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies. Lindsay McAllister has seen this signature before, when she was a rookie detective with the Chattanooga PD investigating the death of Judd Walker's wife, a murder that sent the handsome lawyer off the deep end. Now, Lindsay has the brutal task of telling Judd that his wife's killer has struck again, and she's goi...
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The Fifth Victim #1 Cherokee Point [used book]

By: Beverly Barton

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Avon: 2003

Seller ID: 002984

ISBN: 0007926235

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Deep in the Smoky Mountains, a victim lies sacrificed on a makeshift altar - the gruesome work of a killer who has evaded the authorities in state after state. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well - just as he knows the killings won't stop until there are four more bodies.
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The Book of Lies [used book]

By: Brad Meltzer

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Hodder and Stoughton: 2008

Seller ID: 003235

ISBN: 0340840129

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Cain kills Abel in Chapter Four of the Bible. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.Until now.Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family's greatest secret: his long-lost father, ...
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Category: Crime & Mystery