Mystery genre books (677)
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg EN
DenmarkDescription:
"One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow."--Cover.
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Miss Smilla's Feeling of Snow by Peter Høeg EN
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She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue
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Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters EN
EnglandDescription:
When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows.
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Mort sur le Nil by Agatha Christie FR
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Ca n'est pas très joli de voler son fiancé à sa meilleure amie pour se marier avec lui. Et même si l'amie en question semble se résigner, la ravissante et riche Linnet Ridgeway a bien des raisons d'être inquiète... Surtout quand le hasard les rassemble, pour une croisière sur le Nil, avec d'inquiétants personnages, dans une lourde atmosphère de sensualité et de cupidité. Un petit revolver, un crime étrange, une énigme de plus à résoudre pour un passager pas comme les autres : Hercule Poirot.
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Morte na Praia by Agatha Christie PT
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Arlena Stuart adorava o sol, e era freqüente ver seu lindo corpo bronzeado estendido na praia, o rosto pousado na areia. Só que desta vez não havia sol... ela tinha sido estrangulada. Desde a chegada de Arlena, Poirot tinha percebido algo diferente entre os veranistas, uma tensão sexual pairando no ar. Poderia um crime aparentemente passional ter sido ao mesmo tempo uma ação premeditada, muito mais perversa? Os álibis parecem perfeitos neste empolgante mistério à beira-mar.
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Murder in Old Bombay : A Mystery by Nev March EN
IndiaDescription:
In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers. The case that catches Captain Jim's attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university’s clock tower in broad dayl... continue
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Murder in the Valleys by Pippa McCathie EN
MauritiusDescription:
Ex-superintendent Fabia Havard is struggling with civilian life when a local girl is found dead. Out walking near the rain-swelled river running past her small Welsh town, she comes across the body of Amber Morgan. Fabia’s police training tells her instantly that the death is the result of foul play. But no longer in the force, all she can do is call it in. Yet she has mixed feelings when she discovers it is her former colleague, Matt Lambert, newly promoted to chief inspector, who will head the investigation into the girl’s death. Despite this, having known the victim, and bored with her new ... continue
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Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers EN
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Lord Peter Wimsey is called to a London advertising agency after an employee takes a fatal tumble down the stairs, and soon he finds himself investigating a bizarre series of murders involving cocaine, sex, and blackmail.
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie EN
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On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.