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A.C. Baantjer DeKok and Murder by Melody
Inspector DeKok finds himself in the midst of outwardly disparate motives and personalities surrounding the deaths of two reformed junkies and their landlady, a former prostitute. However, there is one connection in the madness, because music threads its way among and around the list of suspects and victims. DeKok discovers that the trail leading to this melodious murderer is as long as a symphonic masterpiece. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 5 uur 45 minuten (331 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2024
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Baantjer DeKok and the Lost Child
DEKOK AND THE LOST CHILD is a book in the DeKok series by the author Baantjer. This series is set in Amsterdam, around the Warmoesstreet police station.It is New Year’s Eve, and inspector DeKok’s relaxing evening with family and friends is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. At his front door stands a scruffy old man with a straggly beard who tells DeKok that two young men are out to murder him. DeKok suspects he may be one of the deranged people who haunt the streets of Amsterdam, and directs...
Engels | 3 uur 50 minuten (220 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2023
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M.R.C. Kasasian The Horror of Haglin House
Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate. A woman is killed outside Violet’s house, then another murdered in...
Engels | 13 uur 1 minuut (587 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Anna Grue The Mystery at the Second-Hand Shop
In a quiet provincial Danish town, something is afoot. The volunteers of the local second-hand shop keep dying. Since they’re all OAP's, the police can’t see the problem. It’s the inevitable – if unfortunate – circle of life. However, resident busy-body, and force-to-be-reckoned-with, Anne-Maj Mortensen is not so sure. She may be newly retired herself, but she still has her wits about her and knows when something needs a little investigating... Scandi crime, but not as you’ve ever seen it before....
Engels | 8 uur 26 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Wedding Ring
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Yvonne d’Origny’s life is full of misery, hatred and fear. She has tried to divorce her malicious husband, but he is willing to go to great lengths to get what he wants – and that’s her. He even uses their son as a pawn. How will Yvonne’s story unfold, and what will Lupin’s role be in it? The second story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsène Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene...
Engels | 39 minuten (28 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Glaspell B.J. Harrison Reads A Jury of Her Peers
"A Jury of Her Peers" is a short story by Susan Glaspell, adapted from her one-act play "Trifles" exploring a murder mystery. The detectives trying to solve the crime are two women, making it one of the first pieces feminist detective fiction. It targets the vainglorious and absent-minded decisions of men, and highlights female’s psychology and powerfulness of feeling. It is a crime and mystery short story that is both fast-paced entertaining, a must read. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen
"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet
"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...
Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Edgar Wallace The Secret House
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the "editor" whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police,...
Engels | 5 uur 44 minuten (258 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...
Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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