Misterios históricos

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  • Light of the Desert
    Lucette Walters
    Noora Fendil, the favorite daughter of a very successful and influential Middle Eastern businessman, has the perfect life.Until one night in London.Just two months before graduating from a posh London Ladies college, and while planning her lavish wedding to her childhood sweetheart, Noora is framed by her sister who masterminded a plot to destroy Noora’s happiness. Believing sh...
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    20,03 €

  • Light of the Desert
    Lucette Walters
    Noora Fendil, the favorite daughter of a very successful and influential Middle Eastern businessman, has the perfect life.Until one night in London.Just two months before graduating from a posh London Ladies college, and while planning her lavish wedding to her childhood sweetheart, Noora is framed by her sister who masterminded a plot to destroy Noora’s happiness. Believing sh...
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    25,47 €

  • The Big Bow Mystery
    Israel Zangwill
    On a foggy day in the Big Bow District of London, Mrs. Drabdump becomes fearful for her lodger. She knocks several times at his door but no answer. She runs to Inspector Grodman and together they break down his door to find the pooor man lying in his bed with his throat cut. The door was locked from the inside. Thus begins Israel Zangwill’s classic mystery. Written in 1891, Big...
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    14,11 €

  • The Hellfire Conspiracy
    Will Thomas
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    18,02 €

  • The Judean Conspiracy
    J. E. Tate / JETate
    It’s one of the greatest mysteries of all time, and General Marcus Germanicus Crassus, trusted friend of the Emperor and loyal servant of Rome, is about to commit his considerable talents to solving it. Why would his spy, Judas Iscariot, commit suicide? What power did this man, Jesus of Nazareth, wield that so many would revere him as the son of God? Where, in the hotbed of pol...
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    16,41 €

  • The Midnight Bell (Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Horrid Novels)
    Francis Lathom
    Young Alphonsus Cohenburg enters his mother’s bedroom and finds her covered in blood. She tells him his uncle has murdered his father, and orders him to flee Cohenburg castle forever to save his own life!A disconsolate exile, Alphonsus wanders the earth seeking the means of survival, first as a soldier, then a miner, and finally as sacristan of a church, where he meets the beau...
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    23,66 €

  • The Pale Blue Eye
    Louis Bayard
    Now a Netflix film starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, and Gillian Anderson'Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental . . . reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction.' -- New York Times Book ReviewAn ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, featuring a retired detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe--from the author of Courti...
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    15,74 €

  • The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective
    Gaston Leroux
    In The Mystery of the Yellow Room fictional detective Rouletabille investigated a complex and seemingly impossible crime -- in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room! There’ve been so many locked-room mysteries since that it’s become a subgenre -- but there are folks who believe Gaston Leroux invented the form. (We hate assertions like that. Have you noticed...
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    15,98 €

  • Lion’s Pride
    Debbie Jordan
    Beware the Old Lion Who Jealously Guards His PrideIn 1911 Arizona, as Sheriff Paco Alaniz investigates the murder of Don Santiago Castillo de Leon, he must deal with the priest who seems to be more than a confessor to the distraught widow, a runaway teenager who’s promised as the tenth bride to the leader of renegade Mormon polygamists, an ex-Mormon gambler who wants to save hi...
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    18,05 €

  • A Small Harvest of Pretty Days
    Larry Kimport
    In 1890s Pennsylvania, lonesome Clara Waltz falls in love with an aging drifter whom she rescues from a world far stranger than her own. ...
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    14,25 €

  • The Miracle Man by Frank L. Packard, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Frank L. Packard / Frank LPackard
    John 'Doc' Madison, The Flopper, and Pale Face Larry have overstayed their welcome scamming people. The police are on their tail, and they have to find somewhere to hide to evade capture. Doc finds a newspaper article about a faith healer in a small town. He decides that his gang of crooks could hide quite well down there and make a profit to boot! They begin to con the local t...
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    13,61 €

  • Acts of Vengeance
    Alton Barlow
    Found unconscious on Southwest Oregon’s shore in June, 1861, a shipwrecked young Scotsman, Frank Ross, is nursed to health by a rancher Adam MacLean, Adam’s Indian wife, Lillie, and their teenaged daughter, Robin. After an aborted attempt to gain ship’s passage back to the British Isles, Ross accepts MacLean’s offer to work at the Ranch; being smitten by Robin encou...
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    13,60 €

  • The Mysterious Freebooter; Or, the Days of Queen Bess
    Francis Lathom
    The year is 1587. Conflicts with Scottish borderers and rampaging banditti threaten England’s peace and security, and Queen Elizabeth orders Lord William de Mowbray to fortify his castle against the invaders. Meanwhile, within the castle, Lord William’s daughter Rosalind has fallen in love with the orphan Edward and will do anything to avoid a forced marriage with the siniste...
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    30,42 €

  • Gentlemen of the Night - Captain Phantom
    Paul Féval
    They’re everywhere. Their name is like a talisman that opens all doors and bends all wills. The man who can pronounce that name is master everywhere -- Gentlemen of the night! In 1830 London, the Marquis de Rio Santo, leader of the criminal empire known as the Gentlemen of the Night, schemes to free Ireland by plunging England into chaos.Our soldiers believe in the existence of...
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    23,20 €

  • I Saw a Soldier
    George Musonda
    Joel Komital is the only one who knows the ugly face behind the current enemy attack. His wife has abandoned him for a city tycoon. His son has been kidnapped and the kidnapper is demanding for the secret code that would unlock the doorway to national siege by the DIRODI REBEL MOVEMENT. The head of Intelligence Operations calls his strategic warfare approach, 'Operation Mission...
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    12,92 €

  • The Impenetrable Secret, Find It Out!
    Francis Lathom
    Averilla del Alvaretti is set to marry the Conte della Piacca, forced into the union by her unfeeling uncle, when she meets the handsome Sylvio di Rosalva and falls in love with him. But Sylvio’s behaviour and origins are mysterious, and despite his professions of love, he abruptly breaks off the connection, sending Averilla a mortifying letter saying he never loved her. Aver...
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    22,64 €

  • Doublet Affair
    Fion Buckley
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    19,51 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    1838. Investigating Magistrate Remy d’Arx is on the trail of the Black Coats. If he isn’t stopped, the evil brotherhood of thieves and assassins may well be destroyed. But d’Arx has taken precautions in the event of his death. Only the nearly immortal Colonel Bozzo, the mastermind of the criminal conspiracy, can put an end to his threat by using his most deadly scheme -- the IN...
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    32,91 €

  • The Daughter of Fantomas
    Marcel Allain / Pierre Souvestre
    Fantômas rises from the grave (literally), having just escaped from the clutches of the Hangman of London, and leads his two nemeses, Policeman Juve and Journalist Fandor, on a wild chase that takes them from a plague-infested ocean liner to the deadly wastes of the South African Transvaal. Their goal: to rescue the only person the Lord of Terror truly loves: his daughter, the ...
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    23,19 €

  • Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by William Le Queux, Fiction, Literary, Espionage, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective
    William Le Queux
    'Are you quite certain?' asked his friend.'Positive. I should know her again anywhere.''She’s very handsome. And look, too, by Jove! -- how she is winning!''Yes. But let’s get away. She might recognize me,' exclaimed the younger man anxiously. 'Ah! If I could only induce her to disclose what she knows about my poor father’s mysterious end then we might clear up the mystery.''I’...
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    16,07 €

  • The Da Vinci Barcode
    Judith P. Shoaf
    Were you confused but entertained by a certain recent best seller? Want to be confused but entertained some more? Welcome to the world of The Da Vinci Barcode! An alternate uni- verse in which cash registers ring up Pi million, the Louvre Pyramide is upside down, and Catholic priests have been kneeling before the bones of Mary Magdalen for over a thousand years! Robert Long...
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    24,28 €

  • Rocambole
    Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois / Lucien Dabril / Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
    Paris. Mid-19th century. As the old aristocracy dies off, vast inheritances become the object of a colossal struggles between the forces of good and evil. The stalwart Comte de Kergaz and the dashing reformed courtesan known as Baccarat clash with the infamous Club of the Jack of Hearts; their leader is none other than Armand’s half-brother, the evil Andrea, a.k.a. Sir Williams...
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    23,19 €

  • To Shield the Queen
    Fiona Buckley
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    18,02 €

  • The Universal Sign
    Siamak Akhavan
    PRINTED BOOK VERSION (PRICED AT THE COST OF PRINTING ONLY). Join the quest to unravel Earth’s ’lost history’. In this 'Factual Novel'...learn about the cataclysm that ended the last ice age, the Biblical Flood, the survivors’ struggles and myths, and events that have since shaped the world. Discover the ancient origins of astronomy, alchemy, religion, heresies, empires, wars, h...
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    22,85 €

  • The Black Coats
    Paul Féval
    1834. Using a Pretender to the Throne of France, the powerful crime cartel known as the Black Coats plan to steal one of the largest fortunes of Europe. But from Jerusalem Street in Paris, the headquarters of the Sûreté, to the Castles of Normandy, their schemes are foiled by a new nemesis: a young street urchin nicknamed Pistolet, worthy precursor of Rouletabille and Archie Go...
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    27,41 €

  • The Talleyrand Maxim by J. S. Fletcher, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
    J. S. Fletcher / JSFletcher
    Linford Pratt had once during one of his visits to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand: 'With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.' This seemed to Linford Pratt one of the finest and soundest pieces of wisdom which he had ever known put into words.'It’s old Mr. Bartle, sir,' he whispered. 'He’s...
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    14,44 €

  • The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
    J. S. Fletcher / JSFletcher
    'What is it, Varner?' asked Bryce calmly. 'Something happened?'The man swept his hand across his forehead as if he were dazed, and then jerked his thumb over his shoulder.'A man!' he gasped. 'Foot of St. Wrytha’s Stair there, doctor. Dead -- or if not dead, near it. I saw it!'Bryce seized Varner’s arm and gave it a shake.'You saw -- what?' he demanded.'Saw him -- fall. Or rathe...
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    14,40 €

  • The Final Solution
    Michael Chabon
    In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.In deep retirement in the Englis...
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    15,07 €

  • Kael
    Judith Skerrett
    The story of Kael a Celtic Prince, of Sarah Armitage, an ambitious young archaeologist and a desperate Celtic tribe driven to make the ultimate sacrifice: their own future king must die the ritual Death of Three. Bog bodies such as Lindow Man discovered in Cheshire in 1984, though perfectly preserved are ancient. Sarah gets the chance of a lifetime with the discovery of a bog b...
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    14,35 €

  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    The political situation of the time is portrayed from different viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically. If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed t...
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    17,82 €


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