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Svart sabbat
Häftad, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
229 kr
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”Ytterst få deckare överraskar mig numera, men mr Carrs gör det alltid.” Agatha Christie ” En av mina favoriter … Håller en på halster hela vägen.” Lotta Olsson P4 Extra Svart sabbat från 1937 ligger på många listor över världens bästa deckare. Den som läser ända till det sensationella, tvetydiga …
Magic-Lantern Murders
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2026
154 kr
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On the eve of his wedding to Evelyn Cheyne, who he met and fell in love with during the course of The Unicorn Murders, former spy Kenwood Blake is summoned to Devon by spymaster Sir Henry Merrivale, and asked to take part in an undercover operation. Despite being assured he'll be back in London in …
Unicorn Murders
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2026
150 kr
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The diplomat Sir George Ramsden is returning to Britain from France with the mysterious "unicorn" in tow. The legendary thief Flamande has declared that he will be on the same flight as Ramsden, in disguise, and that the unicorn will be his. His arch-rival and head of the Srete Nationale, Gasquet, …
As If By Magic
Locked-Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes
Av John Dickson Carr, Carter Dickson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying …
Deadly Hall
Häftad, 2013
284 kr
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It's 1927 and New Orleans-born novelist Jeff Caldwell is called back to that most colourful of American cities by a frantic letter from Dave Hobart, a boyhood friend.Dave owns a fabulous and foreboding 16th-century English manor house moved from England to New Orleans at the whim of his eccentric …
Hollow Man
As seen in KNIVES OUT: WAKE UP DEAD MAN
Häftad, 2013
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
142 kr
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The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre.If you like the new KNIVES OUT film WAKE UP DEAD MAN you'll love this!'The sheer ingenuity of the plot is a delight' Daily Mail'A key influence on WAKE UP DEAD MAN' Radio Times'The first deadly walking of the hollow man …
To Wake The Dead
Häftad, 2013
252 kr
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Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet without a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning, looking up at the huge hotel, when a piece of card bearing a number floats down to him. He enters and is served with breakfast, giving the waiter the room …
Hollow Man
As seen in KNIVES OUT: WAKE UP DEAD MAN
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. If you like the new KNIVES OUT film WAKE UP DEAD MAN you''ll love this! '' The sheer ingenuity of the plot is a delight'' Daily Mail ''A key influence on WAKE UP DEAD MAN'' Radio Times ''The first deadly walking of the …
Judas Window
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2025
155 kr
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One of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives. James Answell, visiting his father-in-law Avery Hume in his locked study, has the misfortune to wake up from a drugged-Whisky swoon to find his host dead, skewered …
Three Coffins (The Hollow Man)
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created. Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or …
Ten Teacups
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2025
140 kr
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"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested."Writing as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery John Dickson Carr returns to the Crime Classics series, …
Black Spectacles
Häftad, 2023
138 kr
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A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross’s high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of ‘peach-fancier’ Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have been poisoned under the nose of the …
Castle Skull
A Rhineland Mystery
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.'And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to …
White Priory Murders
A Mystery for Christmas
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December …
Seat of the Scornful
A Devon Mystery
Häftad, 2022
142 kr
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Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break from his duty after a session of assizes, Ireton retreats to his seaside bungalow in Devon and turns his attention to …
Fire, Burn!
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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One October night in the middle of the twentieth century Detective Inspector John Cheviot got into a taxi, bound for New Scotland Yard. When he stepped out it was from a horse-drawn cab, the year was 1829, and a beautiful woman was beckoning him in front of Old Scotland Yard. There were things …
In Spite of Thunder
Häftad, 2013
252 kr
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On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosalind. With characteristic stubbornness, if not trusting naivety, she refuses to be detained and is …
Burning Court
Häftad, 2025
139 kr
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A suspicious death has the hallmarks of witchcraft in this locked room mystery by a master of the genre. When Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son's publishing house, learns of the mysterious events that befell his neighbor's rich uncle, he shrugs off their seemingly supernatural …
Most Secret
Häftad, 2013
284 kr
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Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II's Whitehall Palace. Three days later he had lost his fortune, gained a wife, fought for - and been outwitted by - his king, and no one would ever call Rowdy Kinsmere a bumpkin again. It was 1670 and …
The Plague Court Murders – A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery
Inbunden, 2026
258 kr
Kommande
When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. …
Scandal at High Chimneys
Häftad, 2013
236 kr
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Matthew Damon was a loving father and a figure of moral rectitude. Why, then, has a rumour of scandal followed him, denying him the knighthood he thought he had earned? Why had he, long ago, repeatedly and alone visited the cells of condemned young women?Behind the discreetly drawn curtains at High …
Fire, Burn!
E-bok, 2014
56 kr
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Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr''s thrilling mystery novelA woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly, detect no foul play. For more …
Corpse in the Waxworks
A Paris Mystery
Häftad, 2021
119 kr
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'"The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?"'Last night Mademoiselle Duchene was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musee Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The …
He Who Whispers
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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'It almost seemed that the murder, if it was a murder, must have been committed by someone who could rise up unsupported in the air...'When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an …
