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Heathcliff Lennox volume 7
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"Murder, mystery and a dog of distinction. Heathcliff Lennox investigates. Ladies man, dandy, charming rogue, thief. Montague Morgan has a buccaneering reputation and he doesn't give a damn--until he falls in love. He has a plan, he needs money and he knows how to get it. He and his lover conspire to escape to exotic lands with stolen gold. But the gold belongs to dangerous people and plans can go awry. Morgan disappears, has he escaped, or has he...
183) A life of secrets
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"London, 1926. Life has not turned out as Deborah had expected. But while occasionally haunted by how the Great War snatched away the love of her life, she quietly and determinedly works away at the staff agency she set up as Miss Deborah Claremont, leaving her alter ego of Lady Deborah at the door. Amid an undercurrent of social unrest and with the General Strike looming ahead, Deborah meets two very different men: Theodore Field MP and Evan Morgan,...
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"Award-winning author Carla Stewart returns to the 1920s in this vivid historical novel about a female pilot navigating love and life. Daredevil Mittie Humphreys developed her taste for adventure on horseback, on her family's prosperous Kentucky horse farm. But her love of horses is surpassed by her passion for the thrill of the skies, especially since the dashing pilot Ames first took her up in his plane. When handsome British aviator Bobby York...
185) Chicago
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"Mike Hodge, un veterano de la Gran Guerra, es periodista del Chicago Tribune durante los violentos años veinte. Mientras investiga una muerte relacionada con el crimen organizado, la mujer de la que está enamorado es asesinada. Para Mike, averiguar quién la ha matado se convierte en una cuestión personal y no le importan las consecuencias que esto puede acarrear. Chicago, un thriller contundente y enrevesado ambientado en la mafiosa Ciudad de...
186) The red canary
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"Music sparks her world, but can love ignite her heart? In 1928, soot from the local mills and music from speakeasies linger in the Pittsburgh air. When the manager of The Kelly Club is found dead, nightclub singer Vera Pembroke is thrust into peril. As the only witness to the crime, she's sentenced to hide away in the Allegheny Forest with a stuffy police sergeant as her guardian. Sergeant Mick Dinelo harbors a burning hatred for Pittsburgh's underworld...
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¿Hasta dónde te puede llevar una idea? En la década de 1920, una época de profundos cambios sociales, la protagonista dará un giro a su vida y vivirá una apasionante aventura a la conquista de sus sueños. Barcelona, 1928. Anna Expósito es una joven huérfana que ha crecido en la Casa de la Misericordia. Su afición por el cine, las revistas femeninas y la cosmética han hecho de ella una muchacha independiente que quiere disfrutar de la vida....
188) La hija fugitiva
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Londres, 1926. Anna Darton está huyendo de un terrible crimen que se vio forzada a cometer. Sola y aterrorizada, su salvación aparece de la mano de Nancy, una bailarina sin complejos del Zip, un club nocturno de mala reputación. Reinventándose a sí misma como Vita Casey, Anna se convierte en parte fundamental de la vida del club, metiéndose de lleno en un mundo hedonista de bailes, fiestas y moda. Cuando conoce al apuesto Archie Fenwick, Vita...
189) Death in Damascus
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Heathcliff Lennox volume 4
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"There's a damsel in distress and accusations of attempted murder flying around, but it's not in the comfortable confines of the English countryside, it's in the very distant city of Damascus. Lennox must go and investigate, although he's not too keen on exotic locations, and his old retainer, Greggs is distinctly averse to the very idea. Nevertheless, ex-Chief Inspector Swift persuades them and they reach the ancient city to discover a movie crew,...
190) Gilded lies
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"In the 1920s, tradition is challenged by the rise of change and Lily Beth Winters is dead set on making a name for herself. More than anything, she longs for the day she will take over her father's business and be seen as his equal. But her dreams are overshadowed by fury when her father announces she is to move to Boston to find a suitable husband to take over the crumbling family business. But Lily has her own plans and constructs a murderous plot...
191) Masquerade in Egypt
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Phryne Fisher meets Indiana Jones in 1920s Egypt, but with a happy ending. It's the Roaring 20s but Frankie Somers has been hiding her light under a bushel. After a disastrous and short marriage to a pilot who died in the Great War, it's taken hard work and sacrifice to cling to her independence. However, when the chance to realize her dream of going on an archeological dig in Egypt arises, she'll take every risk, including her own safety, to make...
192) The world is a wedding: in which the unexpected nature of reality surprises Mister Wilfred Price
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This comedy of manners follows newlyweds Wilfred Price and Flora Myffanwy as they navigate married life, while Wilfred and his first wife, Grace, try to manage secrets from their shared past.
1926, Wales. Wilfred Price is married to Flora Myfanwy and trying to be the perfect husband. His efforts only intensify when he learns that Flora is expecting. But something doesn't feel right to Flora: she doesn't feel at home. Meanwhile Grace-- to whom Wilfred...
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"In 1928, Chicago rocks to the rhythm of the Jazz Age, and Prohibition is in full swing. Small-town girl Marjorie Corrigan, visiting the city for the first time, has sworn that coffee's the strongest drink that will pass her lips. But her quiet, orderly life turns topsy-turvy when she spots her high school sweetheart--presumed killed in the Great War-- alive and well in a train station. Suddenly everything is up for grabs. Although the stranger...
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