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Last Orders at Harrods by Michael Holman
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Michael Holman

17 “Only the lion may piss in the watering hole” President Josiah Nduka stood in the bay window of his State House study, looking out over Kireba. Much had changed ...
( Category: Political December 8,2014 )
The Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton
epub |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:M.C. Beaton

6 Agatha went back to London with Roy after the weekend. She knew journalists, ever fickle creatures, were quite capable of forgetting to turn up for the fête, and needed ...
( Category: Murder December 8,2014 )
The Gropes by Tom Sharpe
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Tom Sharpe

20 In front of what had been the bungalow, the police had been joined by the superintendent who was considering the consequences to his career of what could only be ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
epub |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:William Boyd

THE FOUR-CYLINDER 12 H.P. FLANQUIN Udo Leys had a bad cold, his eyes itched, his nose ran copiously and he had a dull pain in his chest from the dry, ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn
epub |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Malla Nunn

Twelve “Five minutes,” Emmanuel said to Shabalala. He and Daglish set off in a counterclockwise direction taking them through the garden and around to the front of the cottage. Daglish ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
Poets & Murder by Robert van Gulik
epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

Eleven As she began to sway on her feet, the judge, who was nearest to her, jumped up and took her arm. “Are you wounded?” he asked sharply. The poetess ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 8,2014 )
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Gideon Defoe

THE HIGH PRICE OF TINY DOCS LATELY – COMMUNISTS TO BLAME? ARE OUR BOULEVARDS NOT SO WIDE AND LEAFY AS THEY WERE? COMMUNISTS! IS THE RED MENACE BEHIND THIS WEATHER ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Richard Peck

Hearts and Flour After several weeks of hard winter, this end of the county is enjoying a January thaw. Mrs. Dowdel, a lifelong resident, observes that ‘A January fog will ...
( Category: Classics December 8,2014 )
Key Weirder by Robert Tacoma
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Robert Tacoma

40 Sara Sara tried to relax, but she was still anxious. There were a lot of things she needed to know if she was going into the Everglades by herself ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
Necklace & Calabash by Robert van Gulik
epub |eng | 1966-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

Eleven Up in his room Judge Dee sat down heavily in the armchair by the window. The murder of Tai Min had been solved now. He would see to it ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 8,2014 )
Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe
epub, pdf |eng | 1979-12-31 | Author:Tom Sharpe

15 The rainstorm that had seen Willy Coppett’s demise and Walden Yapp’s discomfort drove Emmelia into her lean-to greenhouse in the kitchen garden. Ever since her childhood visits to Aunt ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
Present Darkness by Malla Nunn
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Malla Nunn

Eighteen It was the big one who did the stabbing. The pissant who grabbed the girl didn’t have the guts,” Labrant said. “I reckon Vickers knew them, let them in ...
( Category: Historical December 8,2014 )
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Marina Lewycka

Five Bathrooms Sherbury Country Strawberries was altogether a different kind of operation from Leapish’s ramshackle strawberry farm. The work was better, the pay was better, the caravans were better. There ...
( Category: Contemporary December 8,2014 )
Key Lucky by Robert Tacoma
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Robert Tacoma

22 Law Okay, that was fun, in a scared shitless kinda way. It was one of the times Lucky wished he hadn’t thrown the .45 he’d used at the museum ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Tarquin Hall

Fifteen “The report says the car, an Indica, skidded off the road,” said Puri’s contact in the Agra police department when they spoke on the phone soon after Puri was ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime December 8,2014 )

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