LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris chan

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  • Sherlock Poems
    Chris Chan
    All of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries like you’ve never seen them before.A new spin on all four Sherlock Holmes novels, fifty-six short stories, and the apocryphal tales. Fans of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes will be familiar with the twist: take a classic story and retell it in rhyme with plenty of humour. Enjoy the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, reimagined as...
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    18,81 €

  • Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History
    Chris Chan
    Thirteen-year-old Volker Berchtwelt is out for revenge. Almost one year earlier, his older brother Benek was arrested for the murder of his estranged girlfriend. When Volker gave Benek an alibi, no one believed him, and Benek was convicted. Thanks to Volker’s pleading, private investigators Isaiah Funderburke and Nerissa Kaiming start their own inquiry into the case, but when t...
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    13,29 €

  • Some of My Best Friends are Murderers
    Chris Chan
    Can you enjoy a crime television show if you already know whodunit? As Columbo proved, definitely! In nearly every episode, Lieutenant Columbo, played by Peter Falk, is paired off against a murderer who’d supposedly committed the perfect crime. Columbo would question, trick, and even befriend the very different killers in order to make an arrest. But despite the standard formul...
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    19,47 €

  • The Autistic Sleuth
    Chris Chan / Patricia Meyer Chan
    From Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, to the Scandinoir investigators Lisbeth Salander of The Millenium Trilogy and Saga Norén of The Bridge, to anime’s L in Death Note, to Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, increasing numbers of crime shows and movies have featured detectives on the autism spectrum...
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    21,98 €

  • She Ruined Our Lives
    Chris Chan
    Layla Dolak blamed her sister Erika for destroying all of her hopes and dreams.  Over the past several years, Layla was kicked out of college, had most of her possessions and all of her hair stolen from her, and was about to lose custody of her daughter.  And Erika, in Layla’s mind, was responsible for all of that.  So when Erika died suddenly, Layla thought she might have a ch...
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    13,40 €

  • Nessie’s Nemesis
    Chris Chan
    What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and 'The Great Sausage Scandal' have in common? They’re all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang- an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the mail that mystery fans send to Sherlock Holmes. In the sequel to Sherlock’s Secretary, Addy, his true-crime reporter girlf...
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    18,42 €

  • Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volume 2
    Chris Chan
    In these six adventures, Holmes solves cases in alternate universes and alongside famous historical and fictional figures. In the title story, Watson is slandered by mysterious forces who spread the rumor that the good doctor pushed Holmes off of Reichenbach Falls. In other cases, Holmes solves a real-life murder aboard a train; partners with G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown in a...
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    18,75 €

  • Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volume 1
    Chris Chan
    Sherlock Holmes’ adventures continue in seven surprising cases. Holmes and Watson investigate an alleged haunting at the Diogenes Club, vandalism at a prominent art gallery, the case of a frightened amnesiac, the takeover of 221B by vicious criminals, the sequel to 'The Engineer’s Thumb,' the defiling of Holmes’ Stradivarius violin, and a Christmas story featuring a graveyard w...
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    18,57 €

  • Sherlock’s Secretary
    Chris Chan
    Addy Zhuang is 'Sherlock’s Secretary,' the bank employee tasked with responding to all of the letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. One day, his life is turned upside-down when two bank robbers burst into his office and steal three letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The police conclude that this is all some pointless prank, but Addy can’t shake the suspicion that something m...
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    18,68 €

  • Sherlock & Irene
    Chris Chan
    "To Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler is "the woman."  In "A Scandal in Bohemia," she defeated him in his attempt to retrieve an incriminating photograph of the King of Bohemia.  Or did she?  In the tradition of "The Great Game," this book will explore the unanswered questions in "A Scandal in Bohemia," illustrating that there is much more to the case than is generally suspected.  W...
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    16,14 €

  • The Challenge of Labour in China
    Chris King-chi Chan
    China’s economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries. In recent years, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, by exploring how the pattern of labour conflict has changed over time since the 1970s...
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    88,29 €