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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. LA LIGA DE LOS PELIRROJOS relato corto de la serie; Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, escrita por el autor Arthur Conan Doyle quien lo calificó como el segundo en la lista de sus doce historias favoritas de Holmes. Fue publicado originalmente en la revista The Strand Magazine en 1891. Un prestamista londinense llamado Jabez Wilson, un hombre de pelo muy rojo acude a Sherlock Holmes y Watson para resolver el misterio...
82) Size
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This hard-boiled tale from A. W. Gray takes its title from its hero, con artist and poker player Sizemore Brandon, a gentle if criminal giant and sidekick to Pecos Jimmy, a Dallas racketeer majoring in gambling. When Size is called to testify against his boss, Jimmy decides the time has come to dispense with his services permanently.
The stakes are high, and Size will have to play his cards right if he is to come out on top in the seamy underbelly...
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The fire is out but the neighbors family cat somehow ended up near the back door of their restaurant. Raph and Mac think it was no accident. Then when it is also revealed that the daughter is thought to be missing they are sure. When they find her in an unlikely place they wonder if she unknowingly joined a cult. Will they be able to get her back?
84) False Start
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Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!
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Sleep with the Devil, first published in 1954, is a hard-boiled noir crime novel by prolific author Day Keene (pseudonym of Gunnar Hjerstedt, 1904-1969). The novel follows Les Ferron, a borderline sociopath who commits a series of crimes, has two girlfriends - one "good," and one "bad - and a large amount of cash. The plot has twists along the way to keep readers engaged to the very end in this taut thriller.
86) Natural Causes
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Detective Harry Stoner has seen too much of the seamy side of life not to notice the tarnish on Los Angeles' glitter or the gritty reality behind the never-never land of television's biggest daytime soaps. A detergent manufacturer, already begrimed by scandal and rumor, doesn't want his image further muddied by the mysterious death of the head writer on the daytime series he sponsors. So it's up to Stoner to find out what really happened that sunny...
87) Castang's City
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A French detective looks into a public figure's murder-and discovers some private secrets-in a mystery by an author who is "a joy to read" (TheTimes Literary Supplement).
When a local official is gunned down in the street, it looks like a cold-blooded political assassination. But as Inspector Henri Castang investigates-and questions the victim's colleagues and family-it seems the motive might have been closer to home.
The mystery only becomes...
88) Second Chance
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Clients never tell the whole story. Harry Stoner had taken a snowy drive to Cincinnati psychiatrist Phil Pearson's mansion to hear the tale of daughter Kirsten-emotionally disturbed and missing. But the doctor left out the parts about his first wife's suicide and his second wife's bedroom eyes that were already chasing the winter cold from Stoner's blood. That's why Stoner suspected the search for Kirsten could take a kinky turn. He'd seen teens driven...
89) Lake Isle
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In France, a police detective hunts for an elusive killer in this novel by an award-winning author who "writes like no one else" (Los Angeles Times).
In the tiny French town of Soulay, Inspector Henri Castang is dealing with a brutal robbery, a drugged teenager, and the sad delusions of a nervous old lady. But when a violent death suggests a mysterious connection to recent events in Paris Castang must untangle a mix of spiteful small-town gossip...
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An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe.
No matter how fabulously he’s being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn’t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter, Nadia. Then, the night after the museum’s fête, Arthur takes a twenty-story plunge from the window of his Times Square...
No matter how fabulously he’s being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn’t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter, Nadia. Then, the night after the museum’s fête, Arthur takes a twenty-story plunge from the window of his Times Square...
92) The Day He Left
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Violent Crime Investigations Team volume 2
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After he was gone, the only things left behind were secrets
Annie has fallen out of the habit of listening to her husband. She and Paul have been married for a long time; it's easy to nod as he drones on, responding to his voice while completely ignoring every word he says. That becomes a problem, of course, when Paul disappears and the police have questions. Was Paul having issues at work? Is there any reason to think he might harm himself? Annie...
93) The Lucky Stiff
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Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago's sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getting fried, a lucky hitch sets Anna Marie free, but she blackmails the corrupt...
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Hot Wire My Heart is the punk version of Sweet Smell of Success, where muckraker Dante Sterno haunts the San Francisco punk clubs in 1978 for Ripoff Magazine, providing punks with salacious gossip on their punk heroes. When he discovers a scandal wrought by local scene favorite Tommy Shock, the son of a prominent local politician, Sterno is captured, tortured and severely beaten. To ensure his safety he enlists the protection of problem fixer and...
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There have been countless crime dramas written about murder mysteries, but none written by two actual Police Chiefs. Co-Written by retired NYPD Deputy Chief John Cutter and retired City of Stamford Chief of Police Bob Nivakoff, The Squad Room touches on the real-life experiences of Chief Cutter and Chief Nivakoff, through the lens of fiction.
The Squad Room tells the tale of NYPD Captain William "Bill" Morrison's hunt to track down a ferocious serial...
96) Ace Boon Coon
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From award-winning author Danny Gardner comes ACE BOON COON, the second in the Tales of Elliot Caprice historical crime fiction series about a disgraced police officer caught between worlds, black and white, good and bad.
It's 1950s Illinois and Elliot Caprice has, returned to his rural Southville homestead to help his uncle save the family farm, which is struggling through a drought. As racial tensions between agricultural workers rise, a murder...
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It was just a leisurely stroll through Golden Gate Park on a beautiful San Francisco Sunday when fate takes hold of Janus. A man walking in front of him is murdered, shot with a high-powered sniper rifle. Confusion follows when the victim's twin brother shows up and asks Janus to take on the job of finding out who killed his brother Benjamin, or "Benji". Unfortunately, for Janus the investigation takes him to Hollywood or LaLa Land as he calls it....
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Premio Nacional Novela 2018 Ateneo de Valencia
Hace diez años, Román fue detenido en el aeropuerto de Medellín con un cargamento de cocaína. Ahora, después de cumplir condena en la tristemente célebre penitenciaría de Bellavista, Román se halla de vuelta en España y trabaja como gerente en el Glady's, un local nocturno propiedad del mismo traficante que en el pasado lo envío a Colombia para hacer de mula. Gracias a su nuevo empleo, Román...
99) The Devil's Jump
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August 1945: the Japanese have surrendered and there's dancing in the streets of Sydney. But Billy Glasheen has little time to celebrate; his black marketeer boss has disappeared, leaving Billy high and dry. Soon he s on the run from the criminals and the cops, not to mention a shady private army. They all think he has the thing they want, and they'll kill to get hold of it. Unfortunately for Billy, he doesn't know what it is . . . but he'd better...
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Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds of mayhem, and Brisbane's once quiet streets are suddenly looking pretty mean. Enter P.I. Jack Munro, a World War I veteran and ex-cop with a nose for trouble and a stubborn dedication to exposing the...
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