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From her bed, paralyzed photographer Rachel Matson, 90, investigates the disappearance of her late husband's duelling pistol. By studying photographs she took, she clears the mystery and solves an old crime. By a British writer, author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy.
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Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr's thrilling mystery novel. A woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly, detect no foul play. For more than a century, this baffling murder lies cold in the files of Scotland Yard until it is discovered by Detective-Superintendent John Cheviot, who yearns to apply modern scientific policing to the grisly old case. He is about to get his chance. Taking a cab to Scotland Yard, Cheviot steps out in front of Old Scotland Yard and sees a beautiful woman beckoning him. Suddenly it is 1829 and Cheviot is a member of the newly organized London police force. He might now have an opportunity to solve the most puzzling murder in the Yard's history, but in a time before fingerprints and ballistic analysis, he will find police work to be far more baffling and brutal than he is used to.
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An elderly couple, romantically involved all their lives, sit in a sunlit garden in England. At last she puts the question: how did Gerry Grantworth die? So begins the tale of a conspiracy in which both were involved, but knowledge of which they have hidden from each other for 40 years. By the author of The Last Houseparty.
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Manuscripts
Two issues of The Writer containing "The New Mystery" (September 1973) and "Plotting a murder" (April 1980) by Hansen.
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When mystery writer Chris Kent finds the body of a woman in his hotel room, he enlists the help of detective Gideon Fell to try to uncover the killer.
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In 1989, Letta, an English teenager, learns of her heritage from her grandfather, great-grandson of the legendary hero of Varina, as he becomes involved in the nationalistic political struggles in Eastern Europe.
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