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Is the existence of civilization on Earth a result of contact from inhabitants of a planet in the sysyem of the star Sirius prior to 3000 BC? There are tribal cultures in present-day Africa whos most sacred and secret traditions are based on this theory. Central to their cosmology is a body of knowledge concerning the system of the star Sirius that is accurate in detail, including specific information only recently accesible to modern science. The author traces the traditions of the Dogon and th...

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth! In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes. It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal—but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds. A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled in a shabby chaise. While many urge the arres...

An omnibus edition of three George Felse mysteries - The Grass Widow's Tale, The House of Green Turf and Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart. Ellis Peters is the author of the Brother Cadfael novels, and a recipient of the Crime Writers' Association / Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.

Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from blowing up a dam to unearth $750,000. Dortmunder must devise a safer scheme to get the loot . . . before the old coot's trigger finger gets too itchy. "Entertainment of the highest order".--San Diego Tribune.

In the past: It is September 1939 and thousands of children are being evacuated from London. Among them 12-year-olds Lewis Finch and William Hammond, both billeted on the Surrey estate of the formidable Regina Burne-Jones. Both become allies, then friends, and thus begins a story of choice and betrayal the repercussions of which will echo down the years . . . In the present: Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are called out to investigate a death in London's East End. A young woman known as Annabell...

Lawyer Lennox Kemp's newly-wed happiness is slowly being eroded by a series of anonymous threats. Is it an aggrieved past client? A criminal he has helped put away? His friend Detective Inspector John Upshire points out that there is a multiplicity of enemies from which to choose. But then a colleague of Kemp's is murdered and Lennox is convinced that he was the intended victim. Weighed down by guilt, he feels disinclined to investigate the matter further, so it is left to his feisty w...

Landzucht - Frankfurt am Main Untertitel: Tagebuch des Todes Einer der spektakularsten deutschen Kriminalfalle aus diesem Jahrzehnt! Wird hier gemischt mit viel Fiktion und anderen Fallen ins wundervolle - Frankfurt am Main - interpretiert. Kommissar Maximilian Nasar lesen bedeutet Frankfurt erleben! Uber Brucken, hin zu der herrlichen Kulisse Frankfurts. Gruseliges, angehaucht mit ein wenig Erotik. Stark angelegt an echte Verbrechen! Daher ist der Hergang vorbestimmt. LANDZUCHT - Frankfurt am M...