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The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
by Ted RiccardiFrom the Fertile Crescent to the Far East, the great adventures of Holmes during the three-year gap between his "death" and dramatic return What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's "great hiatus" after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi imagines his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain grip of the British Empire over its colonies, the murders and other mayhem Holmes confronts often have potentially grave political repercussions. Filled with local color and Holmes's signature wit and logic, Sherlockians the world over will relish this missing chapter in the life of the world's greatest detective.
The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Nine Adventures from the Lost Years (Pegasus Crime)
by Ted RiccardiFrom the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return. What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's "great hiatus" after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain grip of the British empire over its colonies, the murders and other mayhem Holmes confronts often have potentially grave political repercussions. Filled with local color and Holmes' signature wit and logic, Sherlockians the world over will relish this missing chapter in the life of the world's greatest detective.
A Origem - Divisão de Habilidades Especiais 1
by Ju Pinheiro Stefania GilValerie Sanders é assassinada enquanto Jack Lambert dorme placidamente bêbado ao seu lado. Zaccaria Romano fica devastado com a nóticia de que, a sua quase prometida, foi assassinada enquanto o traia com outro homem. Mark O'Donell e Madison Sullivan são os detetives responsáveis pela investigaçao para encontrar o assassino, enquanto Zoe exerce seu conhecimento juridico para defender o homem que ama, em silêncio, de ir para a prisão para sempre. Eles têm um reencontro com a vida que sempre lhes pertenceu e que se recusaram a aceitar. Um destino que os marca e os leva a unir suas forças para ajudar a justiça. Aceitarão este destino? Stefania Gil também é autora de outros romances do gênero Romântico e do subgênero Romance Paranormal: Série Archangelos, Meu Último: Sim, aceito, Presagios, Sincronía, trilogia das Irmãs Collins, entre outros.
El origen del mal
by José Carlos SomozaJosé Carlos Somoza regresa al género del thriller literario de sus mayores éxitos con una historia real de un espía español en el Norte de África en los años 50. Un conocido escritor recibe de manos de un amigo librero un misterioso manuscrito. Son más de doscientas páginas, escritas a máquina y fechadas en 1957. El encargo es muy preciso: debe leerlo en menos de 24 horas. Intrigado, el novelista comienza a leer y se encuentra con una historia de secretos y traiciones contada por Ángel Carvajal, un militar español de la Falange que actuó como espía en el Norte de África.
Origen (En espanol)
by Dan Brown<P>¿De dónde venimos? ¿Hacia dónde vamos? <P>Una nueva y extraordinariamente inventiva novela del autor de suspenso más popular del mundo. Bilbao, España Robert Langdon, profesor de simbología e iconografía religiosa de Harvard, llega al ultramoderno Museo Guggenheim Bilbao para presenciar un importante anuncio —la revelación de un descubrimiento que “cambiará la historia de la ciencia para siempre”. El anfitrión del evento esa noche es Edmond Kirsch, un billonario y futurista de cuarenta años cuyos deslumbrantes inventos tecnológicos y audaces predicciones lo han convertido en una figura de renombre a nivel mundial. Kirsch, quien hace dos décadas fue uno de los primeros alumnos de Langdon en Harvard, está a punto de revelar un asombroso hallazgo... que dará la respuesta a dos preguntas fundamentales de la existencia humana. <P>Tras el comienzo del evento, Langdon y cientos de invitados se encuentran cautivados por una presentación totalmente original, que —Langdon luego comprenderá— será mucho más polémica de lo que jamás se imaginó. Pero la función, que ha sido meticulosamente orquestada, de pronto irrumpe en caos y el valioso descubrimiento de Kirsch está al borde de ser perdido para siempre. Frente a una inminente amenaza, Langdon se ve obligado a escapar desesperadamente de Bilbao. A su lado está Ambra Vidal, la elegante directora del museo que trabajó con Kirsch en la organización del provocativo evento.Juntos huyen a Barcelona y emprenden la peligrosa búsqueda de la clave encriptada que revelará el secreto de Kirsch. <P>A través de los oscuros pasillos de la historia oculta y la religión extrema, Langdon y Vidal deben eludir a un atormentado enemigo cuyo interminable poder parece emanar del propio Palacio Real de España... No se detendrá ante nada para silenciar a Edmond Kirsch. En un recorrido marcado por el arte moderno y los símbolos enigmáticos, Langdon y Vidal descubrirán pistas que finalmente los pondrán cara a cara con el sorprendente descubrimiento de Kirsch... y la asombrosa verdad que nos ha eludido a todos desde hace mucho tiempo. Origen es la novela más brillante y entretenida de Dan Brown hasta la fecha. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Origen (En espanol)
by Dan BrownQuienquiera que seas. Creas lo que creas. Todo está a punto de cambiar. La asombrosa y sorprendente nueva novela de autor de suspense más popular del mundo. Bilbao, España Robert Langdon, profesor de simbología e iconografía religiosa de Harvard, llega al ultramoderno Museo Guggenheim Bilbao para presenciar un importante anuncio la revelación de un descubrimiento que cambiará la historia de la ciencia para siempre. El anfitrión del evento esa noche es Edmond Kirsch, un billonario y futurista de cuarenta años cuyos deslumbrantes inventos tecnológicos y audaces predicciones lo han convertido en una figura de renombre a nivel mundial. Kirsch, quien hace dos décadas fue uno de los primeros alumnos de Langdon en Harvard, está a punto de revelar un asombroso hallazgo... que dará la respuesta a dos preguntas fundamentales de la existencia humana. Tras el comienzo del evento, Langdon y cientos de invitados se encuentran cautivados por una presentación totalmente original, que Langdon luego comprenderá será mucho más polémica de lo que jamás se imaginó. Pero la función, que ha sido meticulosamente orquestada, de pronto irrumpe en caos y el valioso descubrimiento de Kirsch está al borde de ser perdido para siempre. Frente a una inminente amenaza, Langdon se ve obligado a escapar desesperadamente de Bilbao. A su lado está Ambra Vidal, la elegante directora del museo que trabajó con Kirsch en la organización del provocativo evento. Juntos huyen a Barcelona y emprenden la peligrosa búsqueda de la clave encriptada que revelará el secreto de Kirsch. A través de los oscuros pasillos de la historia oculta y la religión extrema, Langdon y Vidal deben eludir a un atormentado enemigo cuyo interminable poder parece emanar del propio Palacio Real de España... No se detendrá ante nada para silenciar a Edmond Kirsch. En un recorrido marcado por el arte moderno y los símbolos enigmáticos, Langdon y Vidal descubrirán pistas que finalmente los pondrán cara a cara con el sorprendente descubrimiento de Kirsch... y la asombrosa verdad que nos ha eludido a todos desde hace mucho tiempo. Origen es la novela más brillante y entretenida de Dan Brown hasta la fecha.
Origin: A Novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber"Finally, a novel of literary suspense that gets almost everything right—forensically and psychologically." —Sarah Weinman, Baltimore SunSecretly, in her heart of hearts, Lena Dawson hides the strangest of beliefs about her childhood. Hiding behind a cool competence as a superb fingerprint analyst in a crime lab in snowy Syracuse, New York, she feels totally out of place in the ordinary world of human interaction. Especially since the controlling husband who guided and protected her, then cheated and left her (though now he wants her back). Her uncanny ability to read a crime scene draws her into investigating a mysterious series of crib deaths—but ultimately the most difficult puzzle she must solve is the one of her own origins.Diana Abu-Jaber, a “gifted and graceful writer” (Chicago Tribune), masterfully “transcends formula” (Kirkus Reviews) as “the tension of Origin escalates, shaped as much by beautifully nuanced prose as menacing events” (New York Daily News).
Origin
by J. T. BrannanFor millennia it has lain there undiscovered. Now the time has come... Research scientist Evelyn Edwards always knew the Antarctic held deep secrets but the discovery of a 40,000 year old body buried under the ice caps surpasses even her wildest expectations. But just as her team begins extracting the body the dream turns into a horrific nightmare as they are targeted for death by someone who wants to keep this secret buried. Evelyn barely escapes with her life... On the run, alone and desperate, she turns to her ex-husband Matt Adams, a former member of an elite government unit, for help. Soon, they find themselves caught up in a frantic race against time, which takes them from Area 51 to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, as they try to uncover the biggest conspiracy of all time before it's too late for everyone... If mankind thought it knew its origins, the time has come to think again because its every belief is about to be challenged...
Origin
by J.T. BrannanFor millennia it has lain there undiscovered. Now the time has come... Research scientist Evelyn Edwards always knew the Antarctic held deep secrets but the discovery of a 40,000 year old body buried under the ice caps surpasses even her wildest expectations. But just as her team begins extracting the body the dream turns into a horrific nightmare as they are targeted for death by someone who wants to keep this secret buried. Evelyn barely escapes with her life... On the run, alone and desperate, she turns to her ex-husband Matt Adams, a former member of an elite government unit, for help. Soon, they find themselves caught up in a frantic race against time, which takes them from Area 51 to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, as they try to uncover the biggest conspiracy of all time before it's too late for everyone... If mankind thought it knew its origins, the time has come to think again because its every belief is about to be challenged...
Origin: A Novel (Robert Langdon #5)
by Dan BrownTHE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE, THE LOST SYMBOL, AND INFERNO &“Fans of The Da Vinci Code rejoice! Professor Robert Langdon is again solving the mysteries of the universe.&” —People &“A life-or-death adventure.&” —Entertainment WeeklyRobert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that &“will change the face of science forever.&” The evening&’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon&’s first students.But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch&’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced to flee. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch. They travel to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch&’s secret.Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade an enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain&’s Royal Palace. They uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch&’s shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us.Robert Langdon returns in The Secret of Secrets (coming soon)!
The Origin
by Stefania GilValerie Sanders is murdered while Jack Lambert peacefully sleeps off a drinking binge beside her. Zaccaria Romano is left devastated by the news when his soon-to-be fiancée is murdered while cheating on him with another man. Mark O’Donell and Madison Sullivan are the detectives in charge of finding the killer, while Zoe Mitchell is the lawyer exercising all her legal knowledge to prevent the man she silently loves from going to jail forever. Jack, Zaccaria and Madison have something in common. Valerie’s murder unites them. They are reunited with the life that always belonged to them but that they refused to accept. Destiny has marked them and leads them to join forces to help justice. Will they accept their destiny?
Origin And Cause
by Shelly ReubenA wealthy business magnate is killed in a fire. the two main characters, a lawyer and an arson investigator suspect foul play
Origin In Death (In Death #21)
by J. D. RobbThe sickness came into the center of her belly and lay there like a tumor. They've been cloning girls. Not just messing with DNA. But creating them. Selling them. The world famous cosmetic surgeon, Dr Wilfred Icove, has been found dead - a cold, brutal scalpel to the heart.<P><P> He is a man with nothing to hide, but when Lieutenant Eve Dallas exposes Dr Icove's patient records, a distressing image appears. Eve's trail leads to an exclusive boarding school for girls. A strange, isolated place where everything seems perfect. A little too perfect. And when the main benefactor turns out to be a genius geneticist, Eve readies an attack. With the girls nearing perfection and the men nearing insanity, Eve suspects something truly horrifying is happening ...
Origin In Death (In Death #21)
by J. D. RobbThe sickness came into the center of her belly and lay there like a tumor. They've been cloning girls. Not just messing with DNA. But creating them. Selling them.The world famous cosmetic surgeon, Dr Wilfred Icove, has been found dead - a cold, brutal scalpel to the heart. He is a man with nothing to hide, but when Lieutenant Eve Dallas exposes Dr Icove's patient records, a distressing image appears.Eve's trail leads to an exclusive boarding school for girls. A strange, isolated place where everything seems perfect. A little too perfect. And when the main benefactor turns out to be a genius geneticist, Eve readies an attack.With the girls nearing perfection and the men nearing insanity, Eve suspects something truly horrifying is happening . . .
The Origin of Evil (Murder Room Ser.)
by Ellery QueenEllery Queen investigates a murderous dead dog in Hollywood Ellery Queen stands naked by the window, sipping rum from a frosted glass, a corpse at his feet. The deceased is Hollywood, and the cause of death is clear: television. Queen has come to Los Angeles in search of a plot for his latest mystery, but the moribund movie business offers nothing more than nostalgia for better days. He's about to give up and go home when a pretty girl appears and offers a mystery far stranger than anything a filmmaker has ever produced. The woman's name is Laurel, and her father has been murdered by a dead dog. The canine was sent as a gift--1 in a series of vile, cryptic packages--and it scared her father to death. The deceased pet is the most peculiar murder weapon Queen has ever come across, and unless he's quick, this story will not have a Hollywood ending.
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog (Hank the Cowdog Series, #1)
by John R. EricksonWhile investigating a vicious murder on the ranch, Hank finds himself the number one suspect. He becomes an outlaw and joins a pack of outlaw coyotes until he discovers a plot to raid the ranch
Original Death: A Mystery of Colonial America (The Mystery of Colonial America Series #3)
by Eliot PattisonDespite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian on his quest to find the last surviving members of his tribe. But the joy they feel on reaching the little settlement of Christian Indians is shattered when they find its residents ritually murdered. As terrible as the deaths may be, Conawago perceives something even darker and more alarming: he is convinced they are a sign of a terrible crisis in the spiritworld which he must resolve.Trying to make sense of the murders, Duncan is accused by the British army of the crime. Escaping prison to follow the trail of evidence, he finds himself hounded by vengeful soldiers and stalked by Scottish rebels who are mysteriously trying to manipulate the war to their advantage. As he pieces together the puzzle of violence and deception he gradually realizes that it may not only be the lives of Duncan and his friends that hang in the balance, but the very survival of the native tribes. When he finally discovers the terrible truth, Duncan is forced to make a fateful choice between his beloved Highland clans and the woodland natives who have embraced and protected him.
The Original Inspector George Gently Collection
by Alan HunterThis first volume of the Inspector George Gently Collection comprises the original two novels that established Gently as one of Scotland Yard's fictional finest.These are the stories on which the hit BBC TV series was based, written with a charm that conveys Alan Hunter's love of the East Anglian setting and demonstrating his expert use of dialogue to keep the plot moving along at a cracking pace.The first of Gently's cases, Gently Does It, has him enduring the holiday from hell when he is caught up in a mysterious murder and locks horns with the local police over their handling of the affair. In the second book, Gently By The Shore, other people's holidays are disturbed when Gently is called in to investigate the discovery of a body on a pleasure beach.
The Original Inspector George Gently Collection (George Gently)
by Mr Alan HunterThis first volume of the Inspector George Gently Collection comprises the original two novels that established Gently as one of Scotland Yard's fictional finest.These are the stories on which the hit BBC TV series was based, written with a charm that conveys Alan Hunter's love of the East Anglian setting and demonstrating his expert use of dialogue to keep the plot moving along at a cracking pace.The first of Gently's cases, Gently Does It, has him enduring the holiday from hell when he is caught up in a mysterious murder and locks horns with the local police over their handling of the affair. In the second book, Gently By The Shore, other people's holidays are disturbed when Gently is called in to investigate the discovery of a body on a pleasure beach.
The Original James Bond Collection, Vol 1: Includes Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, and Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond: The Original Series #1)
by Ian FlemingJoin MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of four original James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, and Diamonds Are Forever.
The Original James Bond Collection, Vol 2: Includes From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, and For Your Eyes Only (James Bond: The Original Series #2)
by Ian FlemingJoin MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of four original James Bond stories by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes From Russia, With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, and For Your Eyes Only.
The Original James Bond Collection, Vol 3: Includes Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond: The Original Series #3)
by Ian FlemingJoin MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of three original James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
The Original James Bond Collection, Vol 4: Includes You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond: The Original Series #4)
by Ian FlemingJoin MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of three original James Bond stories by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights.
Original Sin: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (Adam Dalgliesh Ser.)
by P. D. JamesAdam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. • Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV&“Complex and compelling.... James is writing in full mastery of her craft.&”—The New York Times Book Review Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies—a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of who apparently killed herself a short time earlier. Yet Etienne's death, which occurred under bizarre circumstances, is for Dalgliesh only the beginning of the mystery, as he desperately pursues the search for a killer prepared to strike and strike again.
Original Sin: A Sally Sin Adventure
by Beth McmullenAfter falling in love and making a quick exit from her nine-year career in the USAWMD (United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction), ex-spy Sally Sin does her best to become Lucy Hamilton, a stay-at-home mom in San Francisco. No one, not even her adoring husband Will, knows about her secret agent escapades--chasing no-good masterminds through perilous jungles, escaping evil assassins, and playing dangerous games of cat and mouse with her old nemesis, Ian Blackford, a notorious and dashing illegal arms dealer. In her new life as Lucy Hamilton, she squeezes inside forts crafted from couch cushions by her three-year-old son Theo, makes organic applesauce, and frequents the zoo. But sometimes her well-honed spy reflexes refuse to lay low. She can't help breaking into her own house to check on the babysitter or stop herself from tossing the yoga instructor who gets on her nerves. And when Ian Blackford, who is supposed to be dead, once again starts causing trouble for the USAWMD, the agency becomes desperate to get Sally back on the job. How can Sally or Lucy or whatever her name is save the planet while at the same time keeping her own family's world from spinning out of control? Every bit as much fun as a spy-mom thriller ought to be, Original Sin is a fast-paced adventure story for mothers and spies, and anyone who has ever dreamed about being either.