Misterios históricos

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  • 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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    12,81 €

  • 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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    12,77 €

  • 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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    16,01 €

  • Gallows Thief (Perennial)
    Bernard Cornwell
    The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancée. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men--innocent or guilty--are hanged for the merest of crimes.When he’s offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter d...
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    16,26 €

  • Some Danger Involved
    Will Thomas
    An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London’s Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Cyrus Barker takes on the recent murder case of a young scholar in London’s Jewish ghetto, he ...
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    18,78 €

  • John Devil
    Paul Féval
    London, 1816. A mysterious criminal mastermind known as John Devil challenges the detective powers of Scotland Yard’s chief superintendent Gregory Temple. A true literary event ; this is the first time in fiction that the term 'detective' was used.JOHN DEVIL, written in 1863, is the first procedural thriller in the history of modern literature. ...
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    43,45 €

  • The Fugitive Queen
    Fiona Buckley
    It is 1568, three years since Ursula Blanchard exchanged her work as a spy in the service of her half sister, Queen Elizabeth, for the relative calm of married life. But when Elizabeth summons her, loyal Ursula senses there is more to her seemingly benign request than meets the eye. She is to pluck Penelope Mason, her inappropriately flirtatious protégé, from court and find the...
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    17,26 €

  • The Rival Queens
    Fidelis Morgan
    London 1700. The intrepid and impecunious heroines Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant, Alpiew, are scavenging for scandal for that scurrilous rag, the London Trumpet. With the bailiffs, as ever, in hot pursuit, the Countess and Alpiew escape to a philosophical lecture at the York Building’s concert hall. But their dull evening is confounded when one player staggers...
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    12,21 €

  • The 10th of August
    Robert A. Frey / Robert AFrey
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    33,66 €

  • The 10th of August
    Robert A. Frey / Robert AFrey
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    21,81 €

  • L’Art de Vivre
    Paul J. Schwartz
    Set in France in the 1930s, L’Art de vivre evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and sc...
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    9,66 €

  • L’Art de Vivre
    Paul JSchwartz
    Set in France in the 1930s, L’Art de vivre evokes the contrasting worlds of a wealthy, socially prominent Parisian couple, and an impoverished struggling American sculptor living in Paris. The aristocratic couple occupy an elegant penthouse apartment and frequent the highest levels of society and government. The artist shares a very humble apartment with his girlfriend and sc...
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    17,98 €

  • The White Crow
    Cynthia Peale
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    17,66 €

  • Everlasting Empire
    In-hwa Yi / Young-nan Yu
    Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his “discovery” of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of problems verifying the authenticity of the manuscript, the narrator offers the book not as genuine history but as a story. This compelling tale is set at a pivotal moment in Korean histo...
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    27,76 €

  • Everlasting Empire
    In-hwa Yi / Young-nan Yu
    Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his “discovery” of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of problems verifying the authenticity of the manuscript, the narrator offers the book not as genuine history but as a story. This compelling tale is set at a pivotal moment in Korean histo...
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    16,89 €

  • Murder at Bertram’s Bower
    Cynthia Peale
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    17,66 €

  • The Arabian Pearl
    Marian J. A. Jackson
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    20,80 €

  • Road to Marrakech
    Olmond MHall
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    17,14 €

  • Bonnie Blue Murder
    H. A. Covington
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    18,46 €

  • The Death of Colonel Mann
    Cynthia Peale
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    17,59 €

  • Dark Treader
    J. T. Stockard / JTStockard
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    21,58 €

  • Unhappy Hunting Ground
    Jamie S. Eccleston
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    23,05 €

  • The Unburied
    Charles Palliser
    In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a friend from his youth, in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester. Courtine hopes to research an unsolved mystery at the cathedral library, but when Austin captivates him with the story of the town ghost -- a macabre tale of murder and deception dating back two centuries -- Courtine finds...
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    24,06 €


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