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  • Is Skin Deep, Is Fatal
    H. R. F. Keating
    In the rough, tough world where predatory young beauty queens compete fiercely for money, a murder is committed. Police Constable Peter Lassington is soon enmeshed in a complicated mystery - a mystery made more than usually exotic by the acreage of young feminine flesh that is continuously on show at the Star Bowl ballroom, rehearsing for the contest at which the St. Valentine ...
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    19,79 €

  • The Underside
    H. R. F. Keating
    This novel, set in Victorian London in its heyday, presents a picture, both horrific and authentic, of the ’underside’ of life in the first city of the world. It tells of Godfrey Mann, a young painter, who has access to the golden world of privilege and yet is possessed by a compelling sexual drive towards the hidden squalor and darkness below, a nostalgie de la boue that wars...
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    21,89 €

  • The Bad Detective
    H. R. F. Keating
    Jack Stallworthy is a bad detective just on the right side of corrupt. But now he’s turning criminal...Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. And why not? He’s spent thirty years putting villains behind bars, surely he’s entitled to a little nest-egg?Lily, the pretty wife he dearly loves, dreams of retirement on the tropical i...
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  • Death and the Visiting Fireman
    H. R. F. Keating
    A delegation of visiting firemen arrives at Southampton, greeted by a stagecoach which carries a reception committee in early 19th century costume. This Old English greeting has been arranged between their president, Foster P. Schelemberger, and George Hamyadis, the flamboyant travel agent who is handling all the details of their visit to Britain. During an overnight stop in Wi...
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    21,94 €

  • A Long Walk to Wimbledon
    H. R. F. Keating
    For London the worst has happened. There have been riots, huge uncontrolled fires, outbreaks of savage looting, artillery battles, mass flights. The great city lies three parts deserted, open to marauding gangs and beast-wild individuals, its highways and landmarks tumbled like ruined temples. To Mark, comparatively safe up in less troubled Highgate, there comes a message that ...
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    18,53 €

  • A Remarkable Case of Burglary
    H. R. F Keating
    Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fools’ Day 1871, while walking through one of London’s wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences t...
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    19,88 €

  • The Perfect Murder
    H. R. F. Keating
    Introducing Bombay CID’s most dogged dutiful officer and one of the greatest most engaging creations in all detective fiction H.R.F. Keating’s The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery includes a preface by Alexander McCall Smith author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Penguin Modern Classics.One crime that couldn’t have happened one that probably has...
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    13,05 €