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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
"P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. She examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and bringing us into the present with such writers as Colin Dexter and Sara Paretsky. She compares...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alma Classics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Ars�ne Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. In 'The Blonde Woman,' Holmes must discover the identity of a mysterious female thief who is linked to Lupin, while in 'The Jewish Lamp,' he finds out that the theft of a lamp containing a precious jewel conceals an astonishing secret.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence...
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited, parte de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué causó un escándalo en Bohemia? ¿Dónde estaba Estrella de Plata? ¿Qué era el sabueso de los Barkerville? Aplicando la lupa a cada uno de los casos de Sherlock Holmes, este libro trae a la vida el mundo del legendario detective de sir Arthur Conan Doyle. --
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
In 1931 London, when artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death before the opening of an exhibition of his work and police refuse to investigate, his journalist sister Georgina enlists the aid of psychologist Maisie Dobbs to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she losther voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from...
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady Georgiana Rannoch won't deny that being thirty-fifth in line for the British throne has its advantages. Unfortunately, money isn't one of them. And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing.
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is assigned to be companion to Princess Marina of Greece, during her stay at the supposedly haunted Kensington Palace. Her duties are simple: help Marina acclimate to English life, show her the...
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