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The Blood of a Dragon

Lawrence Watt-Evans

The Blood of a Dragon

Dumery of Shiphaven was a lad with a love of wizardry–and no magic at all. He dreamed of apprenticing himself to a great wizard, but because he had not even a touch of the talent, it was a dream he could never fulfill. He would never apprentice himself to a great wizard, nor even a meager one; no matter how he loved magic and the magical arts, he would never work with wizards or wizardry. That's what Dumery was beginning to think, anyway–until he spied a great wizard humbling himself before...

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Lawrence Watt-Evans

The Gendarme

Stan Trybulski

The Gendarme

In the aftermath of 9-11, New York City is attacked again. Foxley, a code-named detective on the verge of retirement, is sent by the mayor to Europe on one last unofficial assignment. He must track down those responsible for a suicide bombing that destroyed a police stationhouse. In Paris, he meets a beautiful Anglo-Caribbean ad executive and the duo pursue an action-packed quest through the streets of Paris, Bosnia and Marseille. Only when the pair find their target does Foxley learn of a...

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Stan Trybulski

Get Off At Babylon (Stone Angel #3)

Marvin H. Albert

Get Off At Babylon (Stone Angel #3)

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic – though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine…and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel. Minding his own business at a favorite Nice creperie, Pete notices a teenage girl hurrying by – with a...

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Mac Detective Series 08: The Girl W...

Thomas B. Dewey

Mac Detective Series 08: The Girl Who Wasn't There

The trail Mac found himself trying to follow was very cold. Another private detective – his friend Barry Henley – had been killed a year earlier in a fall from a tenth-story window, and the cops had written it off as accidental. But when Hensley's widow told Mac that several people had tried to get into her apartment under various pretexts; when Mac found she was being followed; and when the mug shot she picked out of the police department files proved to be that of a very tough egg,...

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #2...

Артур Конан Дойл

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #27

The 27th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales! FEATURES: <li>From Watson’s Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D</li> <li>Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson</li> NON FICTION: <ul> <li>Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman</li> <li>Carnivory, Darwin, and Doyle, by O’Neill Curatolo</li> <li>“Someday the Truth Will Come Out”, by Chris Chan</li> ...

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Артур Конан Дойл

Harry Challenge

Ron Goulart

Harry Challenge

Vampires, werewolves, mechanical men – it's all in a day's work for Harry Challenge, agent of the Challenge International Detective Agency! This volume collects both Harry Challenge novels by Ron Goulart, «The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle» and «The Curse of the Obelisk.» "Ron Goulart's most recent original P.I. creation, HARRY CHALLENGE is a field operative for the Challenge International Detective Agency, the family business. Receiving his assignments by mail and...

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Ron Goulart

Back in the Real World (Stone Angel...

Marvin H. Albert

Back in the Real World (Stone Angel #2)

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic – though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine…and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel. When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither Crowley nor his wife Nathalie...

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Captain Hugh North 02: The Vesper S...

Van Wyck Mason

Captain Hugh North 02: The Vesper Service Murders

"Third machine gun gangster dies!" came the newsboy's cry through the window of Judge Mackaye's stately residence in Deptford. A group of men were gathered there – powers in the life of the city, and before sundown two of them lay dead on the broad lawns of Deptford Manor, another was on the point of death, and Captain Hugh North of Army Intelligence was to take control. Murder stalked the quiet New England city – murder whose roots lay in a strange, bizarre tangle. Murder dogged...

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Captain Hugh North 01: Seeds of Mur...

Van Wyck Mason

Captain Hugh North 01: Seeds of Murder

When Mr. Wallace was found neatly suspended from a hook in the bathroom ceiling, with a slender chain around his neck and the wastebasket on which he had stood carefully kicked away, there seemed little doubt of it. Especially as there was a note in the dead man's handwriting saying, «I am worried, tired, and sick of heart. Why go on with this senseless struggle? Disgrace faces me.» But – why was the sheet on which the note was written shorter than all the other sheets on the...

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Deadly Southern Charm

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Deadly Southern Charm

“Deliciously devious and absolutely delightful, these marvelous stories will keep you captivated! Sweeter than sweet tea on the surface, but with smartly sinister secrets only a true southern writer can provide. What a joy to read!” —Hank Phillippi Ryan best-selling Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award winner This volume collects original tales by Frances Aylor, Mollie Cox Bryan, Lynn Cahoon, Judy Chalkey, Stacie Giles, Barb Goffman, Libby Hall, Bradley Harper, Sherry Harris, Maggie...

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The Woman in Black

Leslie Ford

The Woman in Black

WHO IS THE WOMAN IN BLACK? A living ghost, dressed in black, crashes a Washington cocktail party – and touches off a chain of violence and murder. Who is the Woman in Black? The answer is a matter of life and death for a pretty young matron, a legendary captain of industry, a rich and dazzling hostess – and for lady sleuth Grace Latham and her friend Col. Primrose. "Mrs Latham works wonders with the clues. A major Ford opus." – New York Herald Tribune

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Leslie Ford

The Midnight Sister

Marvin H. Albert

The Midnight Sister

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic – though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine…and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.When gutsy Arlette Alfani, a brilliant and beautiful Monaco lawyer, asks Pete for help, it's no cry in...

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Captain Hugh North 03: The Fort Ter...

Van Wyck Mason

Captain Hugh North 03: The Fort Terror Murders

Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., arrived at Fort Espato (in English, «Fort Terror») with no thought of treasure or tragedy – but both awaited him there. An American army port superseded the old ruin now, but when the Spanish controlled the Philippines, it had been an ill-fated and much-used fort. Some legendary menace hung over its somber vaults and passages, but when two men vanished into its depths one evening and did not reappear, North saw only a living hand where others saw inexplicable terror....

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Bimbo Heaven

Marvin H. Albert

Bimbo Heaven

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic – though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine…and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.When a beautiful young woman, dripping wet and alone, wandered onto his patio, ex-cop and private eye Pete...

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Old River

Clyde Linsley

Old River

Sheriff John Sprenkel has only lived in Concordia Parish, Louisiana for six years and has never had to investigate a murder. . . until now. The badly beaten body of a young woman dumped beside the banks of the Mississippi River offers few clues, but when he searches for answers, all he finds are more questions. Was the young woman Harriet Van Dorn, graduate student in Natchez, Mississippi, or Madeleine D’Anjou, streetwalker in New Orleans? Sprenkel isn’t the only person who wants to...

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Clyde Linsley

The Girl with the Sweet Plump Knees...

Thomas B. Dewey

The Girl with the Sweet Plump Knees: A Pete Schofield Caper

"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini "A neatly contrived and lively mixture of fast action and sex!" – The New York Times Doll Baby just sat there, blinking her long black lashes and drawing on her long white cigarette. «You've got to help me, Petey Boy,» she said. «They're after me. Two of 'em.»If someone had to be tailed, Doll Baby sure made a likely target. But something else...

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The Devil Wives of Li Fong

E. Hoffmann Price

The Devil Wives of Li Fong

No man is happier than Li Fong – until he discovers his lovely wives are really serpent-demons! Long and long ago, before the foreign devils came, old China was a land of ancient culture and strange magic. There, Li Fong, a student of apothecary, seems the luckiest of men. By what has to be happy chance, he has been led to take two charming and quite wealthy ladies as his wives. How could he know that his loving and beloved Mei Ling and Meilan are really spirit-demons? Or...

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E. Hoffmann Price

Colonel Hugh North 18: Two Tickets...

Van Wyck Mason

Colonel Hugh North 18: Two Tickets for Tangier

MAN FROM G-2 MEETS GIRL FROM MI-2 Lady Angela Forester – fair, vivacious, voluptuous – and Colonel Hugh North – rugged agent from G-2 – made a handsome couple as they sipped their drinks in a plush London restaurant. The one-time lovers had met accidentally and were now renewing the glorious days of old. But something was different, Hugh kept telling himself. Angela had changed.... It was only after Hugh North set out on his dangerous and delicate mission to Tangier – with...

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The Gracious Lily Affair

Van Wyck Mason

The Gracious Lily Affair

Someone is plotting the start of World War III. Colonel North sets out to find the mastermind, but United States Intelligence calls him off the case. In spite of the five men mysteriously murdered, the government says there is no proof of the conspiracy. But North knows it is true. And he chooses to pit himself singlehandedly against a vicious ring of spies to prove it! "A Bermuda houseparty loses its gaiety after the ocean races when Col. North is recalled to duty because there...

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The Girl in the Punchbowl: A Pete S...

Thomas B. Dewey

The Girl in the Punchbowl: A Pete Schofield Caper

"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini Pete Schofield had been to art-colony parties before. Usually they were all the same, but this one had an added kick. A giant punchbowl, filled to the rim with champagne, and spiked with the barest, most beautiful mermaid he'd ever seen. He was enjoying every inch of it. So was everyone else, until some joker decided to plunge into the act. That's when the lights went out,...

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Mac Detective Series 07: The Case o...

Thomas B. Dewey

Mac Detective Series 07: The Case of the Chased and the Unchaste

Mac didn't like bodyguard jobs. But he disliked kidnappers even more. So when Julian Porter, big shot movie producer, said, «Come to Hollywood, take care of my kid,» Mac left Chicago and went to Hollywood. Julie'd had a threatening letter about his daughter, Linda, age five. The note said, «We're going to grab her unless…» and then there was the usual talk of big money. So Mac set up 24-hour protection. He made it his business to find out about the people in Porter's...

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Mac Detective Series 06: You've Got...

Thomas B. Dewey

Mac Detective Series 06: You've Got Him Cold

Nobody knew the trouble she'd been in – until it caught up with her. And then it was murder! "Mac is one of our best private eyes." – San Francisco Chronicle "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini "Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists, but will do so when the situation demands it, or in...

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