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- This story is something vital, but very tragic. The main character decides to travel from New York to northwestern Canada to see her mother, who sent her to New York twenty years ago. She falls in love with a local catcher, and then an evil fur trader tries to intervene.
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- Po nagłej śmierci męża, syna wpływowego senatora, Lucy Blacker Swift zostawia za sobą drapieżny świat Waszyngtonu i przeprowadza się na farmę z Vermoncie, gdzie zaczyna budować nowe życie dla siebie i dwójki swoich dzieci. Odzyskuje spokój, wszystko dobrze się układa, gdy nagle wokół niej zaczynają mnożyć się groźne incydenty... Seria: New York Times Bestselling Authors, Bestsellery New York Time...
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- Vance, an independently wealthy college educator, amateur detective, uses his deductive skills and psychological knowledge to help his friend New York County Attorney solve the murder of Archer Coe. At first he thought of suicide when Coe’s body was found in a room locked from the inside with all the windows closed. As usual, the action takes place in New York. Vance’s methods are unconventional and...
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- Independent, rich, educated, amateur detective, Vance uses his deductive skills and psychological knowledge to help his friend, New York County Attorney, solve the murder and attempt to poison others. The killer laid an intricate conspiracy that Vance cannot solve. As usual, the action takes place in New York. Vance’s methods are unconventional and run counter to the more stringent police investigation...
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- 1926. Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was the former assistant district attorney in New York City. His interactions with clients, together with his experiences in the courtroom, provided the material for the more than 250 short stories and novels he would write during his lifetime. Train wrote dozens of stories about fictional lawyer Ephraim Tutt in the Saturday Evening Post. He also coauthored two...
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- American lawyer and writer, Arthur Cheney Train, also called Arthur Chesney Train, was a prolific author of legal thrillers. His most popular work featured recurring fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt who became „the best known lawyer in America,” particularly after the appearance of „Yankee Lawyer”, an immensely popular book that purported to be Tutt’s autobiography. Published in 1923, these short...
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- Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London, half-starved, both mentally and physically. His cousin, Douglas, has everything and even buys Beatrice, Philip’s fiancée. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his identity. Douglas had booked passage to America for the next day, so after a pleasant sea voyage Phillip arrives at the Waldorf Hotel in New York as Douglas Romilly. Philip’s...
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- New York is shocked by the series of murders that always accompany notes on the plot of famous children’s poems and a signature. It took a lot of effort to the prosecutor Markham to figure out the killer of the cabaret artist. The poker card game helped solve the problem...
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- One of the best novels by the little American detective writer Van Dyne, The Canary Killing Case, takes the reader to New York sixty years ago, where amateur detective Filo Vance, a literary relative of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly uses the deductive method to find the killer of the „star” Broadway at night nicknamed Canary.
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- Vincent Ralph, bestsellerowy autor „New York Timesa”, napisał kolejny elektryzujący thriller YA. Niektórych sekretów nie należy ukrywać… Co roku Sam Hall i jego przyjaciele urządzają symboliczne pogrzeby swoim sekretom w opuszczonej chatce pośrodku lasu. Tym razem jednak tajemnice zmartwychwstają… żeby ich prześladować. Sam był dziecięcą gwiazdą serialu telewizyjnego, ale jego kariera poszła...
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- „The Deaves Affair” by Hulbert Footner. A millionnaire family is attacked by a blackmailer. They will be ruined if he always succeeds. A young struggling artist in New York City Evan is engaged to protect the old man from the crowd and from their blunders. But he had to play the role of a detective to help this family to discover the romantically inclined mystery in this affair. Will he succeed?
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- A multimillionaire Silas Gyde was killed by an anarchist’s bomb and Jack Norman found himself Silas Gyde’s sole heir and the richest man in New York. The inheritance included a warning from his benefactor about an elaborate protection scheme promising to protect the wealthy from anarchists, in which Gyde had declined to enroll. Jack enlists a out-of-work actor to take on his own identity, while he,...
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- All the action takes place within 36 hours, and during this time, Van Dyne collected many action games, red herring, suspects, humor and lessons from Egyptian history. He is joined by his friend John F. Markham, the New York County District Attorney, and his able assistant Sergeant Ernest Heath. Kyle was found dead in the private museum of the Egyptologist Dr. Mindrum V.K. Bliss at the foot of a large...
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- The Benson Case is the first case, the first detective from the Philo Vens series. Again, we are dealing with an amateur detective who has his own Watson and Lestrade, a first-person narrator who is present at all events and a good acquaintance of Vance, the New York City Police Attorney Markham. In this book, he still does not particularly believe in Vance’s ability to psychologically unwind potential...
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- Inside the Lines is a drama that developed during the First World War. The story about a business woman who came to New York to visit her department store. She meets an officer in the British signal corps. He escorts her to Paris and advises to quickly complete his business and return to America before the start of the war. But our heroine does the opposite and is in difficult circumstances.
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- Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in ’Who Killed the Husband’ he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already ...
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- The book that will keep your attention until the very last page! A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katherine Green is one of the first detective stories to ever be published in USA. Her novels are known for their well thought out plots and their legal accuracy and A Strange Disappearance is one of her finest works. In this story, a young woman working as a home help disappears from a rich household in...
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- Trylogia #4MK Tajemniczy seryjny morderca zwany przez policję Zabójcą Czwartej Małpy sieje grozę wśród mieszkańców Chicago. Policja od lat bezskutecznie próbuje odkryć jego tożsamość. Przełomem w śledztwie jest wypadek, w którym pod kołami autobusu ginie pieszy. Prawdopodobnie to Zabójca Czwartej Małpy: przy zwłokach zostaje znalezione charakterystyczne pudełko z fragmentem ciała uprowadzonej...
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- Mroczny thriller autora bestsellerów New York Times. Podczas wieczoru kawalerskiego w nocnym klubie, psycholog policyjny Alex Delaware rozpoznaje wśród tancerek swoją dawną pacjentkę. Niedługo po tym u doktora zjawia się matka dziewczyny i oznajmia, że córka zniknęła bez śladu. Zrozpaczona kobieta prosi go o pomoc. Czy psychologowi uda się odnaleźć zaginioną? Czy za jej zniknięciem może stać wpływowa...
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- Mroczny thriller autora bestsellerów New York Times! Kiedy na przedmieściach Los Angeles zostają odnalezione okaleczone szczątki mężczyzny, Alex Delaware wspólnie z detektywem Sturgisem ustalają, że ofiarą jest lekarz Eldon Mate - znany orędownik eutanazji. Sprawa zabójstwa Anioła Śmierci nieoczekiwanie przeradza się w konflikt interesów między zgodnymi dotąd policjantem i detektywem. Co więcej okazuje...
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