Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage – serie
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Häftad, 2024
149 kr
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Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the …
Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
Häftad, 2023
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
179 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a day's work...There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.'s underworld - but luckily one detective has more than his fair share of street smarts. Here, in the first two novels …
Rum Punch
Häftad, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWNJackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...She’s just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are …
In a Lonely Place
Häftad, 2023
152 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ...Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war, looking for a new life. But the city is …
Game Without Rules
Häftad, 2023
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor two secret agents, there's no such thing as a quiet life in the countryside...In a peaceful Kent village, Mr Behrens lives with his aunt at the Old Rectory, where he plays chess and keeps bees. His friend Mr Calder lives nearby with Rasselas, a …
Swag
Häftad, 2025
139 kr
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A rollicking tale of the 1970s Detroit criminal underworld from legendary crime writer Elmore LeonardTo get ahead in armed robbery, you just need to find the perfect business partner...When auto thief Stick steals a maroon ’73 Camaro from Frank’s used car lot, Frank spies an unexpected opportunity. …
Drowning Pool
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphMaude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.A well-dressed, wealthy woman has arrived at Archer's L.A. office, having intercepted a poison pen …
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Häftad, 2023
179 kr
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* SELECTED FOR 'A GOOD READ WITH BARACK OBAMA', NEW AUDIBLE PODCAST *A Russian mole has infiltrated the British establishment - and the spymaster Smiley must dig them out...George Smiley, formerly of the Secret Intelligence Service, is contemplating his new life in retirement when he is called back …
Chinese Nail Murders
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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A superb murder mystery set in the snowy wastes of ancient northern China Judge Dee is again in relentless pursuit of evil in one of van Gulik's most strange, atmospheric and ingenious murder mysteries. Set in a remote, freezing part of China, the novel twists together a girl's disappearance, the …
Switch
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard'This chaotic, blackly comic story is carried aloft on Leonard’s cool, easy prose' - The ObserverOrdell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap…They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit …
Call for the Dead
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAn apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man...Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign Office civil servant, Samuel Fennan, has killed himself, and Smiley …
Underground Man
Häftad, 2024
152 kr
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Private Detective Lew Archer doesn’t believe in coincidences…A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy’s wealthy father, murdered, and …
Amateur
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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A riveting thriller about an ordinary man's quest for extraordinary vengeanceCharlie Heller is a cryptographer not a spy, let alone an assassin. But the murder of his fiancée and the failure of the CIA to follow up on the case makes everything different. Heller uses his contacts to get behind the …
Other Paths to Glory
Häftad, 2023
136 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA First World War battlefield hides a deadly secret - one that some are willing to kill forPaul Mitchell is a young military historian whose life is changed forever when two men, Dr Audley and Colonel Butler of the MOD, visit him with a fragment of …
Black Lizard
Häftad, 2023
152 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?They call her the 'Dark Angel'. Queen of Tokyo's underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty, her jewels and the tattoo of a black lizard on her arm. Crime is so …
Journey into Fear
Av Eric Ambler
Häftad, 2023
152 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And somebody wants him dead.It all began when Graham was taken to a nightclub in Istanbul and noticed a man in a …
Beast in the Shadows
Häftad, 2023
136 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friendship. When she …
Brat Farrar
Häftad, 2023
136 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesAn impostor has a fortune to win - but he may be in danger of losing his life...Twenty-one-year-old Brat Farrar is an orphan, alone in the world without friends or family. So when he is offered the unexpected chance to impersonate Patrick Ashby, …
I Married A Dead Man
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else?Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth – and, in a …
Ride the Pink Horse
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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The first masterpiece by the doyenne of American noirSailor, former henchman and trouble-accruing gangster, travels from Chicago to Santa Fe, New Mexico, looking for revenge and for money. But it's hard to make a dishonest buck when everything seems to be against him. It is Fiesta, it is hot, …
Mask of Dimitrios
Av Eric Ambler
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA crime novelist has found the perfect subject - but it may cost him his lifeEnglish writer Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when a police inspector tells him about the infamous master criminal Dimitrios, long wanted by the law, whose body …
Think of a Number
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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A nail-biting cat-and-mouse thriller by a leading light of Danish new wave crime - and the inspiration for the cult Christmas movie The Silent Partner, starring Elliott Gould'THE THING IN MY POCKET IS A REVOLVER. HAND OVER THE CASH YOU'VE GOT IMMEDIATELY.'This is the draft of a note that unassuming …
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only …
Night of the Hunter
Av Davis Grubb
Häftad, 2023
152 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...Harry 'Preacher' Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of …
Franchise Affair
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphAbducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to be?Fifteen-year-old Betty Kane can recall every detail of the …
SS-GB
Av Len Deighton
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphThe Second World War is over. Germany have won the battle. But the fight goes on...It is November 1941, nine months after the Nazis successfully invaded Britain. Churchill has been executed …
Maigret and the Headless Corpse
Inspector Maigret
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA baffling case. A mysterious inheritance.It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the rest of the body is retrieved - apart from the head. Inspector …
Payment Deferred
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesThere is nothing more dangerous than a desperate manBank clerk William Marble is facing financial ruin - until a visit from a wealthy young relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him an unexpected solution. But there is no such thing as …
Sleeping Dog
Av Dick Lochte
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor the unlikely crime-busting duo Leo and Serendipity, a missing dog is only the start of their troubles...Leo Bloodworth, 'the Bloodhound', is a world-weary L.A. gumshoe with a reputation for finding anything - and a low tolerance of precocious …
Maigret's Revolver
Inspector Maigret
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA stolen weapon. A troubled young man. A race against time...Inspector Maigret receives a call from his wife to say he has a visitor at their apartment. But when he gets home, the young man has already gone, along with Maigret's prized Smith and …
