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  • Robert Archer Paranormal Mysteries Novella Collection
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Enter an alternate Regency England where dangerous things prowl the darkness.A Matter of HonorWhen Robert Archer is set upon and robbed one night, he’s rescued by an unlikely champion. She is a night-slayer, one of the dangerous supernatural beings that hunt through the darker side of London for their prey. Once upon a time, Captain Archer did this night-slayer a good turn, and...
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    10,46 €

  • A Darkness in Seven Dials
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    March 1820When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the unknown man Denis is supposed to have killed. I soon find myself beleaguered by enemies from Denis’s past, secret societies, and a host of people who want Denis to hang. In addition...
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    11,65 €

  • The Ring that Caesar Wore
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Former gladiator Leonidas is coerced into a dice game at his local popina with a stranger who turns out to not be such a stranger after all. His presence puts all around him in danger, and Leonidas struggles to keep the man’s identity secret.Leonidas has no wish to be caught up in this trouble-he’s about to begin working as a builder, his ticket out of life as a gladiator and b...
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    11,65 €

  • Murder in the Eternal City
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    When I agree to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I scarcely imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector, one Conte de Luca. Before I can approach this count, I am recruited by a Roman a man to help rescue his daughter from a cool aristocrat, and then asked to solve the murde...
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    13,14 €

  • A Gladiator’s Tale
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Rome: AD 63Leonidas’s former trainer, Aemil, asks him to look into the disappearances of gladiators from his ludus. Leonidas and Cassia investigate, and soon uncover gruesome murders involving some of the wealthiest citizens of Rome.Leonidas pits his skills against an unknown killer who hunts gladiators from the back lanes of the Subura to prestigious villas atop Rome’s hills. ...
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    11,68 €

  • The Custom House Murders
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece, a white queen.The piece tells Lacey nothing, but he soon realizes it plays deeply into Denis’s ongoing battle for ...
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    12,31 €

  • Blood of a Gladiator
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant-Cassia, a scribe-to look after him.But the benefactor is only so generous-Leonidas must pay his own way and Cassia’s, which means hiring himself out. The sharp-witted Cassia quickly lands him a post as a bodyguard, escorting a retire...
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    11,72 €

  • Death at Brighton Pavilion
    Ashley Gardner / Ashley Jennifer / Gardner Ashley / Jennifer Ashley
    When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer.The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca in Spain seven years before. As Lacey tries to piece together the events of the previous night, he...
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    11,56 €

  • The Necklace Affair and Other Stories
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    This anthology brings together three short mysteries in the Captain Lacey series: The Necklace Affair (novella); and The Gentleman's Walking Stick and The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald (short stories).In The Necklace Affair, Captain Lacey agrees to help a society matron discover what has become of her expensive diamond necklace and to clear her maid, who has been arres...
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    10,36 €

  • Murder in St. Giles
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what’s more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested for the crime. This is made difficult because my wife’s late husband’s odious cousin has materialized to try to wrest her son into his care. After all, seven-year-old Peter is a viscount, and...
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    12,33 €

  • A Mystery at Carlton House
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    1819: Captain Lacey is drawn into affairs of the highest in the land when his friend Grenville is asked by the Prince Regent to look into odd happenings in his lavish abode of Carlton House. Objects of value have gone missing, paintings and sculpture have been moved, and the Regent suspects ghosts or other malign spirits.The Bow Street Runners have a more human suspect for thes...
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    11,56 €

  • The Alexandria Affair
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    1818--Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however—James Denis has tasked him with finding an “object” in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost.The task does not turn out to be so simple. Locating what Denis wants in the teeming city...
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    12,36 €

  • The Thames River Murders
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer.Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must...
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    11,55 €

  • Murder in Grosvenor Square
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to.With the aid of Lucius Grenville, London’s most famous dandy, and Brewster, a ruffian employed by an underworld criminal, Lacey explores the world of molly houses...
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    12,33 €

  • A Disappearance in Drury Lane
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent.At the same time, Lacey’s per...
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    11,52 €

  • A Death in Norfolk
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    September 1817Captain Gabriel Lacey travels with Lady Breckenridge to his boyhood home in northern Norfolk only to discover mysterious happenings in and around the Lacey estate. A young woman, cousin of an old friend, has gone missing, strange objects appear in Lacey's ruined house, and the dark windmills on the marshes keep pulling Lacey to them.The underworld criminal, Ja...
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    11,65 €

  • A Covent Garden Mystery
    Ashley Gardner / Ashley Jennifer
    Captain Lacey stops to assist a young woman in the market at Covent Garden, and realizes to his astonishment that she is his daughter, Gabriella. Lacey then discovers that his estranged wife and her paramour, a French officer, have journeyed to London at the invitation of James Denis to dissolve her marriage to Captain Lacey.Meanwhile, a Bow Street Runner and a man from the Tha...
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    11,59 €

  • Past Crimes
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Step into the past through three historical mysteries that span from Imperial Rome to Victorian London.A Soupçon of Poison(Kat Holloway Victorian Mysteries)Kat Holloway, a young cook, highly sought after by the wealthy of Victorian London, becomes embroiled in murder and must clear her name. Only the mysterious Daniel McAdam, who is much more than he seems, can come to her aid....
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    14,61 €

  • A Body in Berkeley Square
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    A Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey’s former commander, Colonel Brandon.Instead of denying the charges, Colonel Brandon allows himself to be arrested, and claims, to Lacey’s shock, that the lady he’d stayed protectively near at the ball...
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    11,60 €

  • The Sudbury School Murders
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Captain Lacey takes a post as a secretary at the Sudbury School in Berkshire, a school for sons of the wealthiest merchants and bankers in England. He discovers as soon as he arrives that he's been hired for more than his letter-writing skills—a series of disturbing pranks have kept the school in an uproar. The headmaster expects Lacey to discover the identity of the pranks...
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    11,64 €

  • A Regimental Murder
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    London 1816Returning home through a London night in July 1816, Captain Gabriel Lacey spies a well-dressed, elegant woman hurrying to the middle of an unfinished bridge. Following her in curiosity, Lacey is on hand to rescue her from an attack by a footpad. As grateful as she is for the help, the lady refuses to give her name and direction, and so Lacey takes her to his rooms in...
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    11,64 €

  • The Hanover Square Affair
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament.Lacey's search for the young woman leads to murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. At the same time, he...
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    11,61 €

  • The Glass House
    Ashley Gardner / Jennifer Ashley
    On a cold January night in 1817, former cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey is summoned to the banks of the Thames to identify the body of a young woman. When Lacey views the pretty, dead young woman, cut down too soon, he vows to find her murderer.Lacey's search takes him to the Glass House, a sordid gaming hell that played a large part in the victim's past, as well ...
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    11,61 €