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The Secret Agent
"A Simple Tale"
2025 || Paperback || Joseph Conrad || E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers...
The Black Eyed Blonde
A Philip Marlowe Novel
2015 || Paperback || Benjamin Black || Macmillan
'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . .'It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson.Soon Marl...
Weeping Girl
2013 || Paperback || Hakan Nesser || Macmillan
A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .
HÃ¥kan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl. Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . .
. A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child.
Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's ...
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De Cock en de kus des doods
2024 || Paperback || Baantjer || De Fontein Romans & Spanning || met inkijkexemplaar
DE COCK EN DE KUS DES DOODS is deel 94 in de 'De Cock'-serie van Baantjer, rondom rechercheur De Cock van Bureau Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam.
Als Joyce Degenaar vermoord wordt aangetroffen, staat De Cock voor een raadsel. Wie zou deze geliefde en bekende Amsterdamse hebben willen vermoorden? Zij was actief in haar buurt en betrokken bij de Voedselbank. Daarnaast was ze ook lijsttrekker van Ons Mooi Amsterdam, een partij die zitting heeft in de gemeentepolitiek.
De aandacht van De Cock richt zic...
The Woman in White
2024 || Paperback || Wilkie Collins || Vintage Publishing
Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.
Girl Missing
2024 || Paperback || Tess Gerritsen || Transworld Publishers Ltd
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. And Kat's chief suspect is one of the town's most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . .
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The Sign of the Four
2025 || Paperback || Arthur Conan Doyle || E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.
The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective'...
Mary Copeland 7 | GLB
2025 || Paperback || Robbert Jan Swiers || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Mary Copeland 8 | GLB
2025 || Paperback || Robbert Jan Swiers || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
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Murder Overseas
Special Detective Chau - Book 8
2025 || Paperback || Kees Van der Wal || Brave New Books
The eighth book in the series about Special Detective Chau is about the investigation into three murders, in which Special Detective Chau soon turns out to be suspect number one, of at least one of the murders. The moment Chau is taken off the investigation, she makes a rigorous decision. This decision does not improve her position, but she is supported by hidden help from an unexpected source. Actually, it is that person who leads Chau to make the decision. An unlikely story comes to life, a...