Bill James – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Bill James. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
88 produkter
Gospel
A Harpur and Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 1998
290 kr
Lägg i varukorg
At nineteen years old, Colin Harpur's girlfriend Denise Prior knows little about criminals, and even less about the law. When Denise drifts into the social circle of Harpur's number-one informant Jack Lamb, and one of the criminals is shot to death during a robbery, Denise's life is suddenly in …
Lolita Man
Av Bill James
Häftad, 1998
279 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Five teenage girls have been raped and murdered, and the criminal is still at large. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, assigned to the case, is a tough hunter, but so is "the Lolita man," watching the schoolyards. Now it looks as if the daughter of Harpur's friend may be the latest …
Halo Parade
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 1991
279 kr
Lägg i varukorg
First time in U.S. paperback, the third in Bill James's "standout," "witty," "well above the ordinary" series (starred reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist). When Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur places young policeman Ray Street undercover in a vicious drug gang, the entire department …
Roses, Roses
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 1999
288 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Megan Harpur took the train back from London to tell her husband she was leaving him for another man. By the time Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur discovered her in the station parking lot in the early hours of the morning, there was nothing anyone could do. Who had committed this savage …
Top Banana
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 1999
345 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When thirteen-year-old drug runner Mandy Walsh is killed in a shootout between rival drug gangs, the police at first think she was accidentally caught in the crossfire. But soon they learn that someone shot her intentionally, and as Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur looks deeper the case …
Lovely Mover
A Harpur and Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2000
320 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It was tragic. There was no other word for it. Eleri ap Vaughan, sixty years old and still Keith Vine's best dealer, had turned for her supplies to other drug wholesalers: she had to die. For the threat of invasion by rival syndicates from other cities cannot be ignored, particularly as rumors …
Eton Crop
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2000
329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Pursued from the shadows, Simon Pilgrim fled in terror from the floating restaurant Eton Boating Song. In the bar on the Eton, he had the choice spot, discreetly purveying high-stakes drugs to the Eton's well-to-do patrons. Now he's dead, his throat cut, and the police know that the drug syndicates …
Kill Me
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2001
320 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Naomi Anstruther's undercover operation among the drug gangs, planned carefully by Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, has ended in a bloody shoot-out. Naomi escapes, but both her ex-boyfriend and her current lover—who shouldn't have been there—are dead. Now the biggest danger to Naomi is …
In Good Hands
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 1994
296 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Fear grips the drug underworld after two principals in the trade are murdered, and even ACC Desmond Iles is under a cloud of suspicion. Now the chief players start closing in on a fortune, while Iles, Chief Constable Mark Lane, and Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur plunge into their own …
Detective Is Dead
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2002
296 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"The detective is dead" because the old process of justice doesn't work any more. No one, including Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, would testify at the trial; Harpur refused to name his informant. The three murderers who were being tried are part of a savage underworld struggle for …
Panicking Ralph
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2002
329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ralph Ember, owner of the shady drinking club The Monty, longs to be respectable. The trouble is, his money comes from big-time drug dealing, where reputations are dubious and the risks are truly murderous. No wonder he's nicknamed "Panicking Ralph," because of the terrors that seize him at times …
Pay Days
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2001
329 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Meanwhile, the body of a pusher, Victor Goussard ("Slow Victor"), is found trussed up on a deserted boat in a city harbor--and then it disappears. His lover frantically, unwisely, starts to ask questions down at the docks; a snoopy television reporter sees a breaking story; and Ember, terrified of …
Naked at the Window
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2002
320 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk supplier: Barney and his two women have been savagely murdered—and the murderers, three drug rivals from London, are still in the house. Beau dies …
Noose
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2013
410 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The past is an inescapable noose around a young man’s neck, in this blackly comic, satirical novel from renowned crime writer Bill JamesBritain, 1956. A young actress seemingly tries to commit suicide over a tangled love affair, but is taken to hospital and her life saved. The story is just the …
Close
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2017
410 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Harpur & Iles uncover a trail of illegal art trading and money laundering.“I found I had a flair for tag-along, street level stealth. It thrilled me. It killed me. Do you mind if I tell you how?”Thomas Wells Hart drifted into a dodgy career as a private investigator and grew clever at tailing …
Hitmen I Have Known
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2019
337 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Assistant Chief Constable Iles finds himself suspected of murder in the fast-paced 35th installment of the popular Harpur and Iles police procedural series.Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of the murder of an …
First Fix Your Alibi
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2016
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When a major drugs dealer seeks vengeance for the death of his family, policemen Harpur and Iles must do all they can to prevent a bloodbathFollowing the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance – and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to …
Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers
An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches
Av Bill James, Rob Neyer
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide.Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but …
Perfect Victims
Slaughter, Sensation and Serial Killers: An American Criminal Odyssey
Av Bill James
E-bok, 2011
139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Black Dahlia case. The Manson murders. The Zodiac Killer. The slaughter of JonBenet Ramsay. These killings, among many others in Bill James's astonishing chronicle of the history of American crime, have all created a frenzy of interest and speculation about human nature. And while many of us …
Solid Fool's Gold
Av Bill James
E-bok, 2011
133 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a virtual revolution in the way the game of baseball …
Easy Streets
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2006
262 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For years Colin Harpur's dubious boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, ran a questionable but practical arrangement with Mansel Shale and Panicking Ralph Ember, owner of the Monty Club: Iles would protect their businesses if they ensured peace on the streets. But the arrangement fails when …
Girl with the Long Back
A Harpur & Iles Mystery Series
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2006
320 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With the rumored transfer of Chief of Police Mark Lane, London's competitive drug lords are on edge. In the past, Desmond Iles has managed to maintain the peace on the streets in an old-fashioned system of give a little, take a little. But suddenly Iles is in danger of losing his power when the new …
Girls
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2007
611 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For years Panicking Ralph Ember and Mansel Shale have run profitable drugs empires in peaceful cooperation with each other, and ACC Iles will blind-eye their trade as long as it keeps violence off the streets. But this happy arrangement is threatened by foreign dealers moving in and offering not …
Wolves of Memory
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Häftad, 2007
320 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A large, carefully plotted "cash-in-transit" raid goes hopelessly awry when armed policemen intervene to seize the perpetrators. Relatives and friends of the incarcerated are convinced that information—the date, the time—was leaked by the only man to escape before his arrest. Deputy Constable Colin …
Pix
A Harpur and Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2009
591 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There’s intrigue right from the start of this new entry in Bill James’s Harpur and Iles series: A houseful of paintings is stolen and the body of a finely dressed stranger is discovered. Villainous drug dealers fight for dominance on Constable Iles and Detective Harpur’s turf. While the kingpins …
In the Absence of Iles
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2010
591 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles’s absence from a police undercover conference sets the stage for the moral and practical dilemmas faced by one of his colleagues, ACC Esther Davidson, as she works to bring down the largest gang operating in her sector. The role of undercover agents—or …
Hotbed
A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Av Bill James
Inbunden, 2011
597 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For years drug baron Ralph Ember has run his crooked enterprises peacefully enough alongside those of his rival, Mansel Shale. Their empires have been tolerated by Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles as a way of keeping violence off the streets. But are things changing? Karl Marx’s bleak theory …
