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"Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. While the local authorities...
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Verlaque and Bonnet mysteries volume 3
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English
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Winery owner Olivier Bonnard is devastated when he discovers that a priceless cache of rare vintages has been stolen from his private cellar. Soon after, Monsieur Gilles d'Arras arrives at Aix-en-Provence's Palais de Justice to report another mysterious disappearance: his wife, Pauline, has vanished from their lavish apartment. Madame has always been as tough as nails, but in recent weeks she's been wandering around town in her slippers and crying...
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"A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly into the region of Nîmes, where three old men have died of spider bites. The recluse has a sneaky attack, but is that enough to explain the deaths of these men, all killed by the same venom?At the National Museum of Natural History, Adamsberg meets a pensioner who tells him that two of the three octogenarians have known each other...
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Margaret Beaufort mysteries volume 2
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Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, shelters deep in the shadows, secretly plotting for the day when Henry can be crowned the rightful king. But as her supporters are picked off one by one, it becomes clear that a traitor lurks within Margaret's household. When one of her most loyal henchmen, Jacob Cromart,...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Fin Tighe is clinging to respectability by his nail-bitten fingers. He may be the illegitimate son of an English earl, but he hasn't spoken to his father in a decade, and his engineer's salary is barely enough to support him and his cousin Aurelie. A dancer in the corps de ballet, Aurelie is at constant risk from groping, leering men who assume any dancer is a prostitute in training. And Fin's evenings spent in the clandestine gay community may be...
9) Almas grises
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Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France, near V., in the dead of the freezing winter. Beautiful like a fairy tale, frozen in time, this novel has a hypnotic quality.
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Locked Room International
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The man in the grey overcoat is murdering single men across France. The killings appear random, and yet ... he shakes hands with each victim before putting a bullet through his heart. The only witness is placed for his own safety inside the ultimate locked room: a concrete windowless bunker with walls one metre thick and covered by two metres of earth, with interior bolts and sentries on guard outside. The next morning, stupefied witnesses melt down...
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Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Russian
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Winery owner Olivier Bonnard is devastated when he discovers that a priceless cache of rare vintages has been stolen from his private cellar. Soon after, Monsieur Gilles d'Arras arrives at Aix-en-Provence's Palais de Justice to report another mysterious disappearance: his wife, Pauline, has vanished from their lavish apartment. Madame has always been as tough as nails, but in recent weeks she's been wandering around town in her slippers and crying...
12) Grand cru heist
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Winemaker detective volume 2
Publisher
Le French Book, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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In this gourmet journey in France, renowned wine critic Benjamin Cooker's world gets turned upside down one night in Paris. He retreats to the region around Tours to recover. Then, from the Loire Valley to Bordeaux, in between a glass of Vouvray and a bottle of Saint-Émilion, the Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and a very peculiar heist. Who stole those bottles of grand cru classé?
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Winemaker detective volume 3
Publisher
Le French Book
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Master vintner and amateur investigator, Benjamin Cooker, travels to vineyards around France where he encounters murder or theft in this collection of three stories.
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