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The next installment in the British Library Crime Classics series! Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Any book by Michael Gilbert is a treat" —Daily Telegraph A man is found dead in an escape tunnel beneath an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die...

A sudden disappearance. A twisting hunt for the truth. A harrowing journey... “Robert Goodard’s manipulation of suspense and surprise rarely fails to dazzle.”—The New York Times Book Review Harry Barnett lives the life of an Englishman on permanent vacation in Greece, house-sitting...

A young Italian woman travels to eighteenth-century England to wage war on polite society in this sweeping historical saga of mystery, scandal, and romance. Sophia Devigne is a child of Venice, as much a part of the wonderful island city as the canals themselves. If it were up to her, she would...

A set of compelling British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and “most ingenious” author (The New Yorker).   Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd...

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN No 2 in  the 17-strong Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery series 'Wonderful series. Fantastic books. I highly recommend them. They have terrific characters and interesting plots.’ AUTHOR, GAIL FARRELL Fancy some light relief after yet another serial killer...

When a veteran book dealer pays an exorbitant sum at auction for a copy of Men of Courage, a worthless book about famous heroic deeds, his colleagues believe he has lost his mind. But when he is found dead and the book goes missing, it appears something more sinister may be going on. In fact, someone...

Clearly a terrorist operation is being planned but who are the perpetrators and who, or what, is the target? Based on the renowned British television series this is the story of a dangerous conflict of interests between the police and the intelligence services. In the early hours of...

Commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names,...

Giallo - novelette (27 pagine) - May 1945. The British Government needs to decide whether to put Rudolph Heβ, Hitler’s deputy, on trial on for war crimes... May 1945. The British Government needs to decide whether to put Rudolph Heβ, Hitler’s deputy, on trial on for war crimes. Heβ flew...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1894, is the second collection of Sherlock Holmes stories published in book form. All of the stories included in the collection previously appeared in The Strand Magazine between 1892 and 1893. They purport to be the accounts given by Dr. John Watson of...

Summary of Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear | Includes Analysis   Preview: Journey to Munich is the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series. Set in 1938, the novel tells the story of private agent Maisie Dobbs’s dangerous mission to Munich to recover...

America's first African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, has a chance encounter with a mysterious Irishman, named Altamont, when they meet at the boxer s restaurant, Café de Champion, in August 1912. Johnson's new relationship with the unusual man, with beady eyes and hawk-like nose,...

Hilarious British Comedy Who and where are FOSSILS? The vibrant young rock sensations whose new brand of music now grips the British nation. Four geriatric rockers at an English Retirement Home know, but they aren’t telling. Gazing out of the window at translucent silver snowflakes...

RACCONTO LUNGO (35 pagine) - GIALLO - Furto al British Museum: crisi internazionale, danni incalcolabili che solo le straordinarie capacità di Holmes possono evitare. Holmes conosce Londra come le sue tasche e gli inseguimenti per i suoi vicoli sono una delle sue tante specialità. Lo troviamo...