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  • D. D. Murphry, Secret Policeman
    Alan M Clark / Elizabeth Massie
    Will the secret policeman crack the case, or is he, himself, just cracked? D.D. Murphry poses as a homeless man while secretly working for the True Government. With words as his sidekick, he can read the coded messages-instructions from his employer-hidden in almost any block of text. Though his crime-fighting efforts are a thankless job that forces him to stay in the city’s ho...
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    11,95 €

  • Night Birds
    Alan M. Clark / Lisa Snellings
    In Night Birds, Lucy’s grandmother, Annie Maude, may be a witch, her school’s lunch lady might be a murderer, and a mysterious figure stalks her in the small South Carolina town where she lives. The chapters consider themes of mental illness, religion, sexual orientation, witchcraft, and death as seen through the eyes of this plucky girl growing up in a haunted house in the 196...
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    13,71 €

  • Fallen Giants of the Points
    Alan M. Clark / Alan MClark
    A novel inspired in part by the early gangs of New York, this sprawling adventure is also a western, a coming of age story, and a tale of redemption that carries readers from the streets of infamous Five Points, New York City in the 1840s to Gold Rush era San Francisco. Told from the point of view of two dauntless orphaned children, Alta Mae and Cedric, the narrative provides a...
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    11,69 €

  • Mudlarks and the Silent Highwayman
    Alan M. Clark / Alan MClark
    In 1884 London, 12-year-old Albert Gladwyck must decide whether to follow his generous heart or learn to harden it in the harsh world in which he lives. As a River Thames scavenger, he has made the find of a lifetime, a wrecked boat full of goods, washed up on the Isle of Dogs and hidden from view. To save himself and his Mum from severe poverty, he must try to make salvage fro...
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    7,59 €

  • A Brutal Chill in August
    Alan M. Clark / Alan MClark
    We all know about Jack the Ripper, the serial murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims?Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols is made extraordinary by horrible, inhuman circumstance. Jack the Ripper's first victim comes to life in this sensiti...
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    11,85 €

  • 13 Miller’s Court
    Alan M. Clark / John Linwood Grant
    Two novels—The Assassin’s Coin, by John Linwood Grant, and The Prostitute’s Price by Alan M. Clark. Intertwined here, they share a single timeline and a single purpose – to lead you to 13 Miller’s Court, the room made infamous during the Autumn of Terror. The Prostitute’s Price—A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an u...
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    19,23 €

  • The Prostitute’s Price
    Alan M. Clark
    A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an unfortunate drunken prostitute killed before her time, but one of a young woman alive with all the emotional complexity of women today. Running from a man wanting her to pay for her crimes against his brother, Mary Jane Kelly must recover a valuable hidden necklace and sell it to...
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    13,38 €

  • Of Thimble and Threat
    Alan M Clark
    In Victorian London, the greatest city of the richest country in the world, the industrial revolution has created a world of decadence and prosperity, but also one of unimaginable squalor and suffering. Human degradation, filth, rats, parasites, danger, sorrow, and death are ever-present in its streets. Catherine Eddowes is found murdered gruesomely in the city’s East End. The ...
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    12,04 €

  • A Parliament of Crows
    Alan M Clark
    Inspired by the true crimes of the Wardlaw sisters. In A Parliament of Crows, the three Mortlow sisters are prominent American educators of the nineteenth century, considered authorities in teaching social graces to young women.  They also pursue a career of fraud and murder.  Their loyalty to one another and their need to keep their secrets is a bond that tightens with each cr...
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    12,02 €

  • The Door that Faced West
    Alan M Clark
    The story in The Door that Faced West is a little known piece of history that takes place in the American South as the 18th century ends and the 19th century begins. At the time, the western frontier still occupied territory east of the Mississippi. The novel is based on actual events involving the early American serial killers, the Harpe brothers, Wiley and Micajah. The Harpes...
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    10,20 €

  • Siren Promised
    Alan M Clark / Jeremy Robert Johnson
    Angie Smith and Curtis Loew are having dreams they can't shake. At the heart of each is Angie's daughter, Kaya. Angie's dreams end in death, the spreading of hand-shaped bruises across her daughter's throat. Curtis' dreams end in something else, something closer to obsession than love. Angie is worlds away, trying to keep her drug-shattered mind from falling...
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    11,96 €

  • Say Anything but Your Prayers
    Alan M Clark
    An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Elizabeth Stride, the third victim of Jack the Ripper. The beast of poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting for the right moment to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two extremes within herself—Bess, the innocent child of hope, and Liza, the cynical, hardbitten opportunist. While Bess paints rosy ...
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    11,95 €

  • Apologies to the Cat’s Meat Man
    Alan M. Clark
    Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough. That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London’s most notorious serial ki...
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    12,04 €

  • The Surgeon’s Mate
    Alan M. Clark
    A story that illuminates the dark corners of creative endeavor in which inspiration, no longer an elusive, spritely muse, turns deadly and begins stalking the artist.In this gritty, poignant novel, the life of an alcoholic artist and author, Aiden, collides headlong with that of a serial murderer. The artist fights a serious brain infection and struggles to hide his addictions,...
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    11,70 €

  • Cipher/Code of Dishonor; Aaron Burr, an American Enigma
    Alan J. Clark / Alan J. Clark M. D. / Alan JClark / Alan JClark MD.
    Trinity: The Burrs versus Alexander Hamilton and the United States of America will be the first book to draw on unreported documents and genealogical information to reveal an unprecedented look into the relationships of Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Trinity Church Corporation and the Loyalists of Manhattan Island. Author Alan J. Clark shows in new perspective the battles and ...
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    29,43 €

  • Cipher/Code of Dishonor; Aaron Burr, an American Enigma
    Alan J. Clark / Alan J. Clark M. D. / Alan JClark / Alan JClark MD.
    Trinity: The Burrs versus Alexander Hamilton and the United States of America will be the first book to draw on unreported documents and genealogical information to reveal an unprecedented look into the relationships of Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Trinity Church Corporation and the Loyalists of Manhattan Island. Author Alan J. Clark shows in new perspective the battles and ...
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    22,56 €