In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle’s problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to...
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The Serpents of...
Автор: Franklin Ariana
Серия: Mistress of the Art of Death #2
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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"An outstanding historical mystery. Well-researched, well-plotted, well-paced and above all well written." – Mike Ripley
Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second...
Автор: Фрейзер Маргарет , Пальвер Мэри Моника
Серия: Sister Frevisse #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1993
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"A good mystery… excellently drawn." – Anne Perry
From the author of The Novice's Tale, a new Sister Frevisse medieval mystery. It's not a very merry Christmas for the sisters of St. Frideswide when they welcome a troupe of actors in from the...
The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient...
The year is 92 B.C. and the youthful Gordianus has just turned eighteen, and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called “the Finder”—but at each of...
The Seventh...
Someone has hacked into the pope’s personal computer—not to spy on the Vatican or to spread a virus, but to send an urgent plea for help: SAVE OUR LADY OF THE TEARS. The crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville is slated for...
A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National...
Reykjavík, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt .45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The British are in the process of handing over to the...