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Dame Fortune
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The Great Hotel Robbery
At 4:04 A.M., Friday, May 29, 1981, three tuxedo-clad men and a uniformed chauffeur emerge from a limousine at the side entrance of New York's famed Hotel Champs-Elysees, carry expensive luggage into the lobby, and calmly pull off the biggest hotel robbery in American history.
Over the next two hours and thirty-three minutes, they handcuff, gag, and blindfold twenty-three employees,…
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Bombay Crime Bureau | Interrogations
A car crash in the dark hours of dawn claims the lives of two passengers, leaving their seventeen-year-old son in the backseat severely injured. A procedural investigation ensues. The police detect little mystery but no foul play. Downplaying the findings of Forensics department, the police conclude that the driver, Mr. Abhay Mishra, had dozed off behind the wheel, leading to the fatal accident.…
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Killing by colours
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Dark Country
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A conspiracy of faith
Detective Carl Mørck has received a bottle that holds an old and decayed message written in blood. It's a cry for help from two young brothers bound in a boathouse by the sea. After floating for years, the bottle sat forgotten, unopened, on a police department windowsill, before the seal was cracked and the gruesome message, written in Danish, was analyzed. Could it be real? Who are these boys,…
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Goodnight Nobody
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Into Oblivion
"Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A…
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The Salome Effect
A former American soldier suffering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
A gorgeous Romanian stripper.
A fascinating Italian city.
A priceless painting.
A murder.
The Salome Effect is a story of suffering and redemption.
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Lincoln Park
V. J. Dixon was a playful sort, and the Labor Day weekend would be a perfect time to bond with his two sons, Jeff and Tyler. Dixon's new girlfriend, Mariel Hartman, had slipped seamlessly into the lives of the Dixon's; all three still smarting from the untimely "cafe coronary" death of wife and mother Sharon Dixon.
A treasure hunt, promising to be a centerpiece of the three-day end-of-summer…
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The tick of the clock
The tick of the clock
The is a police procedural mystery. It is the rare work of pure fiction written by Herbert Asbury, a early 20th century newsman. The work evokes late 1920s Manhattan, and other environs like Chinatown.
If you like old fashioned mystery stories this may hit the spot. I would class it with Latimore's work. Same sort of grittiness.
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a. k. a. Mandi Wine
Life seemed anything but simple to aerobics instructor/private investigator Amanda Seraphina Strowski. With an errant husband who preferred to live life on the cusp of drugged-out insanity, to a low-level malaise that she couldn't quite put her finger on, Mandi's life seemed to be constantly mirrored by her automotive troubles and her constant unsuccessful quest to return to her maiden name.…
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Murmurs of insanity
In the wake of a teen drug runner's disappearance after a murder in Atlanta, Moriah Dru and Richard Lake question his ex-wife's half-brother about two missing students who were staging a controversial conceptual art performance.
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Murder in Montague Place
Great Scotland Yard 1844. When the beautiful Eleanora Scambles claims that her husband has been wrongly arrested for the murder of Edward Mizzentoft, Inspector Bucket of the recently formed Detective Department is intrigued, but there are two problems. The case is already being handled by Bucket's colleague, who is in no doubt about his man's guilt; and someone else observed the conversation…
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The great diamond robbery
Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 3, 1986. While royalty, dignitaries, alumni, and press from all over the world gather to celebrate Harvard's 350th anniversary, an "impossible" robbery takes place. Harvard's priceless Gutenberg Bible is stolen from its display case in Widener Library, where it had been protected by the most sophisticated electronic security system known to modern…
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Fifth Son
From back cover: Murder or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village ... But when the victim turns out [to] be a long lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work.…
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Ring of terror
A historical mystery novel set London in the years before the First World War, involving real and fictional characters in the slums and police stations of the East End.
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The King of Diamonds
David Swain has spent two years of his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. On the night he escapes from prison, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for David, but his personal life becomes entangled in case because his ex-wife his having an affair with Katya's uncle.
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