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  • Run!
    Patricia Wentworth
    “You told me a lot of things,” said James grimly. “Most of them weren’t true.” James Elliott, lost in a fog, comes upon a lonely house in the English countryside. The house shows no lights but the front door is ajar. He enters in search of a telephone but instead finds a girl whose white face, eyes wide in a stare of horror and mouth open as if to scream. But instead of scream...
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    11,48 €

  • The Annam Jewel
    Patricia Wentworth
    “Thou hast betrayed, and thou hast slain…” What is the mystery shrouding the lovely but sinister Annam stone, stolen from a remote shrine? Every owner of it has suffered an unhappy fate. When Peter Waring, nephew of the original thief, inherited the jewel, it would mean great power and wealth—or so he imagined. His rude awakening leads to a maze of deceit and treachery, a bogu...
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    11,49 €

  • Red Stefan
    Patricia Wentworth
    Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this…Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is about to throw herself into a river in despair. The Communists have been persecuting her in order to obtain the vital formula her husband devised just before his...
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    12,50 €

  • Nothing Venture
    Patricia Wentworth
    “I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his shoulders.” The marriage between Nan Forsyth and Jervis Weare is a purely business arrangement – to Jervis. But for Nan there is true romance behind it – a romance which began for her in childhood days – and she is content to be considere...
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    11,41 €

  • Hue and Cry
    Patricia Wentworth
    A pacy, enjoyable mystery from the 1920s, of the Golden Age genre, with a sweet gutsy heroine and a hero of the manly staunch type, and plenty of chases and villains. (Caron Allan)About the author:Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), known by pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer. She was born in Mussoorie,...
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    18,82 €

  • Hue and Cry
    Patricia Wentworth
    A pacy, enjoyable mystery from the 1920s, of the Golden Age genre, with a sweet gutsy heroine and a hero of the manly staunch type, and plenty of chases and villains. (Caron Allan)About the author:Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), known by pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer. She was born in Mussoorie,...
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    30,08 €

  • A Marriage Under the Terror
    Patricia Wentworth
    A Marriage Under the Terror, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made ...
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    20,42 €

  • The Fire Within
    Patricia Wentworth
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    36,44 €

  • The Fire Within
    Patricia Wentworth
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    25,12 €

  • A Marriage Under the Terror
    Patricia Wentworth
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    39,43 €

  • The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
    Patricia Wentworth
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    16,32 €

  • The Black Cabinet
    Patricia Wentworth
    Danger lurks round every corner!Not a murder mystery, but a pacy, exciting story of love and blackmail. The orphaned heiress works as a dressmaker, unaware that she is being watched and considered as the successor to nefarious deeds. Will she escape? Who can she trust? Two would-be suitors, one of them a wrong ’un, but which one? I loved this Golden Age mystery. (Caron Allan) ...
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    18,75 €

  • The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
    Patricia Wentworth
    Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.She and her first hus...
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    18,75 €

  • The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
    Patricia Wentworth
    Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.She and her first hus...
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    30,70 €

  • A Marriage under the Terror
    Patricia Wentworth
    Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.She and her first hus...
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    19,87 €

  • A Marriage under the Terror
    Patricia Wentworth
    Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.She and her first hus...
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    30,49 €

  • The Black Cabinet
    Patricia Wentworth
    Danger lurks round every corner!Not a murder mystery, but a pacy, exciting story of love and blackmail. The orphaned heiress works as a dressmaker, unaware that she is being watched and considered as the successor to nefarious deeds. Will she escape? Who can she trust? Two would-be suitors, one of them a wrong ’un, but which one? I loved this Golden Age mystery. (Caron Allan) ...
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    29,39 €

  • The Fire Within
    Patricia Wentworth
    Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.She and her first hus...
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    17,63 €

  • The Fire Within
    Patricia Wentworth
    Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in London. Her father was General Edmond Elles, and her mother was Lady Clare (Rothney) Elles.She and her first hus...
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    28,25 €

  • The Devil’s Wind
    Patricia Wentworth
    A historical romance set in the horrific era of an Indian uprising during British colonial times. A good read. (Katie Hilton)BioDora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High Scho...
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    18,64 €

  • The Devil’s Wind
    Patricia Wentworth
    A historical romance set in the horrific era of an Indian uprising during British colonial times. A good read. (Katie Hilton)BioDora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High Scho...
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    29,27 €

  • The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
    Patricia Wentworth
    Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and… murder.  The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of Patricia Wentworth's mystery novels, was originally published in 1923. ...
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    12,53 €

  • Will o’ the Wisp
    Patricia Wentworth
    “She’s a hula mula wula girl,She’s a crazy daisy nightmareMy baby’s a scream.”David Fordyce wasn’t looking forward to his birthday party, an annual event he shared with his grandmother. But this year Eleanor would be there—Eleanor, whom he had not seen in seven years, ever since she’d married Cosmo Rayne.There are mysteries concerning the late Mr. Rayne, and his lovely widow—bu...
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  • The Coldstone
    Patricia Wentworth
    She had trembled. She had laughed her shaky little laugh. And she had vanished into thin air. And the door was locked on the inside. When young Anthony Colstone inherits Stonegate from his grandfather’s cousin, he hardly expects to be haunted by death. Why had Sir Jervis wanted him to promise never to move the ancient megalithic stones and why did no one even know how many th...
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    11,38 €

  • Rolling Stone
    Patricia Wentworth
    Not a breath. Nothing. Just a dead man lying there on the tumbled bed…Peter Talbot, on assignment for his uncle, Frank Garrett of the Foreign Office, takes the place of Spike Reilly, member of a gang of art thieves that have recently added murder to their repertoire. Another burglary, and ‘Spike’ is the receiver of stolen goods on the terrace of the Cresswells’ impressive count...
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  • Dead or Alive
    Patricia Wentworth
    Meg leaned forward suddenly. There was a note of terror in her voice. “Bill—where—is—Robin?”Robin O’Hara never deserved his wife, Meg. He was unfaithful and involved in work that was just a little bit dangerous. When Meg reaches her limits and wants a divorce, Robin abruptly disappears and is presumed dead. Shortly after, Meg starts receiving messages that gives her the idea th...
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  • The Red Lacquer Case
    Patricia Wentworth
    There was a hand pressed against the window, a large hand that looked unnaturally white, the blood driven from it by the pressure of a man's weight. The light showed the pale fingers-and the still paler palm crossed by a dark, jagged scar.Young Sally Meredith is distracted from her jam recipes by a visit from uncle Fritzi, who is accompanied by a mysterious red lacquer case con...
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    11,46 €

  • The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith
    Patricia Wentworth
    “The door!” he shouted. “The door!” Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water-lilies and the storks, where the top panel of the door had shown, there was a dark, empty space. The door was open. A girl, clad only in a night dress, is found walking in her sleep. Had she heard too much? Should she be “eliminated”? Jane Smith, an impecunious and intre...
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    11,48 €

  • Touch and Go
    Patricia Wentworth
    “I know what we’ll do. We’ll play Devil-in-the dark.”When Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, she didn’t bargain for a series of sinister occurrences—scary noises, the nocturnal rattle of claws against glass, a sabotaged bicycle. Then there is a neighbouring burglary, leaving a set of muddy footprints—but whose?Sarah comes to suspect that...
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    12,52 €

  • Hole and Corner
    Patricia Wentworth
    Thief, kleptomaniac… or innocent victim of a malevolent plot to implicate her? That’s Shirley Dale. First there had been the strange appearance of someone else’s pocketbook on her person as she was getting on a crowded bus one evening. The next night when she was dining with the attractive Anthony Leigh, the flashy little purse of another woman mysteriously turned up in Shirle...
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