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Magpie murders volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula...
Publisher:
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway₂s latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.
Author:
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
"A witty, entertaining mystery featuring a hilarious, sharp as a tack new amateur sleuth from the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder. It's just another day at the office for book editor Samantha Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her star novelist that her latest effort is utterly unpublishable, lunch scheduled with gossipy author Kit Lowell, whose new book will deliciously dish the dirt on the...
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Publisher:
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
Spanish
Description:
¿Te atreves a entrar en este rompecabezas literario? Le editora Susan Ryland ha trabajado con el exitoso escritor de novela negra Alan Conway Durante años. Los lectores adoran a su detective, Atticus Pünd, un célebre resolutor de crímese en lose apaciables pueblos ingleses de la década de 1950. Pera la última historia de Conway no es exactamente lo que parcese. Sí, hay cadáveres y una gran cantidad de sospechosos intrigantes, pero entre la...
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Series:
Magpie murders volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd's Last Case. Worse still, she knows the new writer. Eliot Crace is the troubled grandson of legendary children's author Miriam Crace who died twenty years ago. Eliot is convinced she was...
Author:
Series:
Magpie murders volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
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Series:
Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
Author:
Series:
Harbinder Kaur volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
'If you'll permit me, ' said the Stranger, 'I'd like to tell you a story.' Reclusive Gothic writer, R.M. Holland was most famous for his chilling story The Stranger. His house is now a school, Talgarth High, rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of Holland's murdered wife. The rumours also claim Holland was her murderer. Clare Cassidy teaches at Talgarth High and is writing a biography of Holland. When her friend and colleague is found dead, a line...
Author:
Series:
Magpie Murders volume 1
Publisher:
Goyalit
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
German
Description:
Alan Conways Krimis um dem Detektiv Atticus Pünd, der seine Fälle charmant wie Hercule Poirot zu lösen pflegt, sind absolute Bestseller. Doch als seine Lektorin Susan Ryeland den neuesten Fall "Morde von Pye Hall" zu lesen beginnt, muss sie feststellen, dass die letzten Kapitel des Manuskripts fehlen. Dann erfährt Susan vom Tod des Autors. Ohne sein neuestes Buch stünde das Verlagshaus vor dem Ruin. Susan Ryeland muss selbst zur Detektivin werden,...
Publisher:
PBS
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville, The Crown; Phantom Thread) and her partner Andreas (Alexandros Logothetis, The Island) are living in in idyllic Crete. But her life is upended when Pauline and Lawrence Treherne bring an explosive mystery to her doorstep. Their daughter, Cecily, has gone missing, and her disappearance is linked to a novel written by Alan Conway. Once again, Susan is plunged into the glamorous world of Atticus Pund (Tim McMillan, Foyle’s...
12. Stormbreaker
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Author:
Series:
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 28
Language:
English
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Description:
"New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail). The 28th book and the seventh Christmas mystery in the Meg Langslow series, The Gift of the Magpie is yet another wonderfully merry and funny book from New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews. Meg's running Caerphilly's Helping Hands for the Holidays...
14. Scorpia rising
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
15. Scorpia
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
16. Point blank
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Alex, a fourteen-year-old spy, has been assigned by the British MI6 to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. He ends up in a boarding school in the Swiss Alps, and finds many strange things are happening to the students.
17. Crocodile tears
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
18. Ark angel
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
19. 14 ways to die
Author:
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Description:
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Simmons becomes the star of a YouTube reality series, and she uses her fame to catch her mother's murderer.
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Language:
English
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"Meet Agatha Dorn, cantankerous archivist, grammar pedant, gin afficionado and murder mystery addict. When she discovers a lost manuscript by Gladden Green, the Empress of Golden Age detective fiction, Agatha's life takes an unexpected twist. She becomes an overnight sensation, basking in the limelight of literary stardom. But Agatha's newfound fame takes a nosedive when the 'rediscovered' novel is exposed as a hoax. And when her ex-lover turns up...
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