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Heredia es enemigo de los viajes que lo alejan de su oficina ubicada en las proximidades del río Mapocho. Sin embargo, la solicitud de un amigo lo lleva a viajar una vez más al sur de Chile para rastrear las huellas de una adopción ilegal. Su destino es la tranquila y hermosa ciudad de Villarrica, y su única pista es el nombre de una matrona jubilada que se niega a conversar con él.
Heredia realiza su trabajo y una vez más deja en manos del...
782) The Bolivian Sailor
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A newly arrived Bolivian seaman is found murdered in a Manhattan roach hotel. An address book on the body lists three American contacts, one of whom is private investigator Paul Finley. The trouble is, Finley has never heard of the man or, for that matter, of anybody in Bolivia. Another trouble is that the other two people in the address book are dispatched in quick order and Finley finds himself enmeshed in an assassination plot against a Bolivian...
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Jim Hanvey is not a typical private detective. He is overweight, he waddles around, he blinks like some sort of fish, he plays with a gold toothpick that he wears on a chain around his waist. But what he has is a great memory for faces, a sharp mind, and a sense of fair play that makes him very well respected and feared by the higher level of criminals. Once he enters the story, we see the swindle begin to unravel — sometimes because of Hanvey,...
784) Detective School 101
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First in a new series by bestselling author J.R. Ripley! Jane Bright is a college-educated news reporter with loads of talent and determination. But she's stuck writing a gardening and southern living column for a local South Florida paper. Jane wants more. Lots more. James Stewart, on the other hand, hasn't been able to figure out what to do with his life. He's a law school dropout. And this whole struggling musician thing has proven to be too much...
785) Playing God
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What happens when the itch to disappear and start over as someone else becomes impossible to resist?
Hired by the missing man's panic-stricken family, seasoned Private Investigator Tony Brady discovers that taking the case is personal for him. His 8-year-old son disappeared long ago from the streets of San Francisco in a case the police could never solve, and his lifelong obsession is to spare others the crushing uncertainty that shattered the...
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In 1886, a struggling young doctor and part-time author named Arthur Conan Doyle picked up his pen and created what is arguably the most famous character in the history of mystery and detective fiction: the consulting detective known as Sherlock Holmes. Forty years later, Doyle would conclude this astonishing series of adventures having penned four full novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes and - in most of these stories - his friend...
787) Private Prodigy Eye
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Private Prodigy Eye Three Books in One. Dead is the New Alive. Sylvie Thomas, 33, gets her chance at detective work when she hires on as assistant P.I. to Adam Clay, a 15-year-old genius. Though she carries the gun and drives the car, her real job is to keep him from winding up over someone's knee since he irritates almost everyone he meets. When they hire a young man to act as Adam at an award ceremony, someone kills the stand-in Adam. Sylvie and...
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For the sake of a distant cousin, Mitch Tobin takes on an impossible case On the outskirts of Greenwich Village, among a wasteland of warehouses and tenements, a group of young people are opening a coffee shop. They are idealistic, giddy, and beautiful-the picture of 1960s youth-but their optimism cannot last. When a corrupt detective comes around demanding regular bribes, one of the young hippies, Robin Kennely, asks for help from a distant relative,...
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De l'auteur à succès USA Today, P.D. Workman!
Un enfant mort.
Une mère en deuil.
La vie du détective privé Zachary Goldman n'est pas que rose, mais il essaie de mettre sa propre vie brisée derrière lui pour enquêter sur la mort de Declan Bond, cinq ans.
La mort de Declan a été jugée comme un accident, mais sa grand-mère pense qu'il y a plus à faire. Elle craint que la mère de Declan ne puisse pas trouver la paix tant que Zachary...
790) Three Dog Knight
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Join Pit Viper on his lastest adventure in York Town. Pit finds himself chasing ....himself in a bizzare turn of events that may land him on Death Row. Will he start working for Kingpin? Has he really become so deserate that he would stoop that low? Can he finally crack Sam's code and find the hideout of Kingpin? Along with CD, Pit rushes onward and upward to an explosive ending that will have you in suspence until the very end.
791) Dead Game
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Framed for murder, NYPD detective Ben Tolliver confronts a brilliant serial killer. Razek gets into Jan's apartment by pretending to deliver flowers. Once she opens the door, the game is already over. He pushes his way in, pistol in hand, and tells her that he has not come to rape her; he just wants to make love. At gunpoint, she makes drinks, puts on music, and finally disrobes as Razek fights to ignore the voice in his head that tells him to kill...
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"His Last Bow" is a classic mystery collection from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It also contains the very last story featuring Doyle's greatest creation: the legendary and enigmatic consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Along with the coda to the Holmes canon, this collection also contains a number of Holmes favorites, including The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. But without a doubt, the final story...
793) The Whiffenpoof Man
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After orchestrating the capture of a man trafficking in children, Acey Tapp and Megan Bork travel to the backwoods of Pennsylvania to visit the haunts of a long-dead serial kidnapper. They search for clues that would allow one of his now aging victims to finally reunite with his family after an absence of seven decades. Only in stirring up the past they appear to have awakened a dormant menace.
794) A Wreath for Sam
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Sam Martin had a funeral wreath delivered to his home. It was for him - but he wasn't dead! What was behind it? What had gotten the attention of some mobsters? Clint investigates, and finds what has happened. He manages to prevent a couple of murders in the process.
795) Prom Night
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Stoney was visited in her office by the concerned parents of a teenage girl who was going to Las Vegas to celebrate her school prom. They wanted to be sure she was all right on the trip but they didn't want the daughter to know they had sent Stoney to watch her. Stoney agreed and enlisted the aid of Avery, her dark angel to go along to help. In order to create a cover story as to why she was going along with the senior class to Vegas, she made arrangements...
796) Shadows of Time
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Madeline (Maddie) Blake is not like other PIs. She has a unique gift, the ability under certain circumstances to bridge time and relive events that have already happened. When a heartbroken mother calls from Seattle and begs for her help in locating her missing daughter, Maddie cannot refuse. Yet it soon becomes apparent that someone will go to any length to prevent her from taking the case.
Maddie's grit and determination prevail, and she arrives...
797) Shell Game
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When the curator of the Great Redmond Museum is found dead next to the smashed cases of seven valuable historical treasures, kleptomaniac detective Felix Green and his partner, Sam Alders, suspect the killing was more than a simple robbery gone wrong. Their skills as investigators are pushed to the limits as they struggle to see through the smokescreen of the seven thefts and solve the murder behind them - and locate the mythical eighth wonder - in...
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Ernie Fontaine walks a path only loosely aligned with her original career choice in criminal psychology. Instead, she is a former cop-turned-PI, investigating intertwined cases that may clarify how she got here and how her former fiancé ended up dead instead of working as a criminal prosecutor in tandem with her.
While evidence remains elusive in her current investigation, Ernie seeks answers to questions never asked. Relentless in her pursuit but...
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Diane Phipps, P.I., bounds into investigative action when Arabella Lauren, a noted art restorer in historic Manitou Springs, is found strangled. Slumped over a Claude Monet masterpiece, she's left a possible clue and many questions. As Diane explores the victim's world, she discovers convoluted relationships, temptation, and dirty dealings. Did Arabella's own brother Leo kill her? Or maybe Yves, curator of the Stonegate Collection? Perhaps, James,...
800) Except for the Bones
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Alan Bernhardt novels volume 3
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A murder witness flees to California for protection, taking refuge in the theater Diane Cutler is half drunk and half stoned when she sees her stepfather carrying the body out of the house. She and her boyfriend look on, horrified, as real estate tycoon Preston Daniels loads his dead mistress into the car. Unable to resist their curiosity, they follow him, and watch as he dumps the poor woman's body in the rocks and sand of the Cape Cod landfill....
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