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  • The Case of the Missing Brontë
    Robert Barnard
    A classic murder mystery from author Robert Barnard. ...
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    24,22 €

  • A Little Local Murder
    Robert Barnard
    Robert Barnard’s classic murder mystery. ...
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    14,93 €

  • A Fatal Attachment
    Robert Barnard
    Lydia Perceval was - apparently - a charming and gifted woman. As a successful biographer, she led a privileged and comfortable life in her well-ordered, luxurious country-cottage. She felt terribly sorry for her sister, married to an unemployed drunk, mother of two sons, both of whom had loved their adorable Aunt Lydia much more than their parents. Lydia had a way with young p...
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    31,49 €

  • The Bones in the Attic
    Robert Barnard
    Moving into an upmarket new home in Leeds, rising radio star Matt Harper is shocked to find the skeleton of a small child in the attic. His grisly discovery takes him back to the summer of 1969, when he lived with his aunt only a few streets away, reawakening dim, disquieting memories from his childhood.While Detective Charlie Peace heads up the nominal police investigation int...
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    31,49 €

  • Death of an Old Goat
    Robert Barnard
    Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fifty years. Now he was crossing the Australian continent, doing precisely the same. Never before had the reaction been so extreme, however, for shortly after an undistinguished appearance at Drummondale University, the doddering old professor is found brutally murdered.As Police Inspec...
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    24,19 €

  • Death in Purple Prose
    Robert Barnard
    Norway in cherry blossom time seemed exactly the right place to hold a conference of the World Association of Romantic Novelists (WARN for short). Superintendent Perry Trethowan wondered at times how he had allowed his sister to ’con’ him into accompanying her to the conference but he finally decided that his role was to be one of amused detachment and observation, most especia...
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    24,18 €

  • Unruly Son
    Robert Barnard
    First published in 1979, Unruly Son received an Edgar Award nomination for 'Best Novel' of the year.Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, overweight and overbearing, collapses and dies at his birthday party while indulging his taste for rare liquors. He had promised his daughter he would be polite and charitable for the entire day, but the strain of such exemplary behaviour was obviousl...
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    24,18 €

  • The Missing Bronte
    Robert Barnard
    Superintendent Perry Trethowan was enjoying a peaceful motoring holiday in North Yorkshire when he and his wife, Jan, had a strange encounter in a country pub. The seemingly unremarkable elderly spinster who introduced herself as Miss Edith Wing, a retired schoolmistress, proceeded to produce form her capacious blue handbag a yellowing manuscript - and claimed that it was part ...
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    24,25 €

  • Out of the Blackout
    Robert Barnard
    With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids . . . but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His name appears on no list of the evacuated children. And none of his meagre belongings offer any clues to his origins.Now an adult, new...
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    24,20 €

  • A City of Strangers
    Robert Barnard
    With A City of Strangers, award-winning novelist Robert Barnard, acclaimed for his quick wit and astute insight into the vagaries of class distinction and human foible, achieves a new level of mastery.He also creates one of his most memorable characters ever: the dreadful Jack Phelan. Dirty, potbellied, vulgar, selfish, Jack is a man everyone loves to hate. And the rest of his ...
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    31,48 €

  • A Scandal in Belgravia
    Robert Barnard
    A Scandal In Belgravia is a story of murder; it is also a penetrating analysis of a decaying social class and a society in transition. And it is the personal, deeply moving story of two men, Peter Proctor, recently retired as a senior British cabinet minister, and Timothy Wycliffe, a young aristocrat who was bludgeoned to death more than thirty years ago.The two had met in the ...
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    24,16 €

  • A Hovering of Vultures
    Robert Barnard
    Susannah Sneddon had never received a great deal of fame or fortune from her novel-writing in the twenties and thirties. In the remote Yorkshire village of Micklewike, where she had lived on a run-down farm, she was now chiefly remembered for the violence of her demise - battered to death, apparently by her jealous brother, who then shot himself. That was back in 1932, and now ...
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    24,14 €

  • The Skeleton in the Grass
    Robert Barnard
    The Skeleton In The Grass, reminiscent of Robert Barnard’s much-acclaimed Out of the Blackout, illuminates an earlier time and place: a small English village in 1936, as Franco’s troops are conquering Spain and Hitler’s legions are preparing to overrun Europe.The world at large may be sliding into the abyss of disaster, but life at Hallam, country seat of the glamorous and reno...
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    24,18 €

  • A Corpse in a Gilded Cage
    Robert Barnard
    Chetton Hall was one of the glories of Jacobean domestic architecture, and the Spenders had lived in Chetton ever since their founder had peculated the money to build it while he was the King’s Secretary of Monopolies. Over the years they had accumulated accrustations of dignity, to say nothing of wealth. Which made it doubly shocking when the Earldom descended to Percy Spender...
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    24,13 €

  • Little Victims
    Robert Barnard
    The Burleigh school was dying. It would be called a mercy killing were it not for the little band of inept, eccentric, or otherwise unemployable teachers who depended on this absolutely awful English boys’ academy for their meagre livelihoods. A lack of funds, facilities, and foresight had brought Burleigh to the very edge of extinction. Now someone planned to give it one final...
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    24,18 €

  • Blood Brotherhood
    Robert Barnard
    Old church meets new with a vengeance when a monk is brutally murdered at St. Botolph’s.Murder wasn’t on the agenda for the symposium on the role of the Anglican Church today-until a brother is found dead in his cell. Suddenly the diverse guest list falls under suspicion. Could it be the bishop famous for his television appearances or his exotic counterpart from Africa; one of ...
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    24,18 €

  • At Death’s Door
    Robert Barnard
    Upstairs, in the room looking out to sea, the old man dictates wills, leaving things he no longer has to friends who are long dead. His children, who look after him, can cope with his senility, and thought there was nothing more to learn about his erratic life-style.When Roderick Cotterel hears from his illegitimate half-sister he is intrigued, even charmed: she is the daughter...
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    24,20 €

  • Political Suicide
    Robert Barnard
    The MP for Bootham East was something of a fish out of water - a Tory with a conscience. When he was actually fished out of water, the Thames to be precise, it looked like a clear case of suicide or accident. But as Superintendent Sutcliffe’s investigations got under way, and as the by-election campaign to elect his successor hotted up, some very murky political waters were dre...
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    24,22 €

  • The Disposal of the Living
    Robert Barnard
    Hexton-upon-Weir was ruled by its women: they set the tone, they made the decisions, they called the tune. When they decided to band together to block the appointment of a new vicar who was not only unacceptably High Church but - of all ugly things - celibate to boot, they managed to create merry hell. As the town was riven by faction and counter-faction, Helen Kitterage tried ...
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    24,21 €

  • Mother’s Boys
    Robert Barnard
    Lill Hodsden was a monster. She rode roughshod over her daughter, wiped her feet on her husband, blackmailed her lovers and smothered her sons with a mother love that left them screaming out for freedom. Lill set the hackles rising all over Todmarsh, the little South Coast town she queened it over. She was just asking to be done in.And her sons were very ready to oblige. In fac...
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    24,22 €

  • Touched by the Dead
    Robert Barnard
    Those two days in May seem to be a highpoint in Colin Pinnock’s life: a stunning election victory, a new government, and junior office for himself. But among the many congratulations he receives is one hostile message, a grubby card asking, ’Who do you think you are?’ Is this merely someone putting him back in his place, or do the words have a more profound meaning? And who, in...
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    27,68 €

  • Unholy Dying
    Robert Barnard
    A witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference.Father Christopher Pardoe is a good priest. He cares about his parishioners. He is also a human being-and is thus saddled with man’s inherent weaknesses. Is it a bit odd, then, how much time the good Father has been spending at the house of a certain young, single mother called Julie Norris? And w...
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    27,64 €

  • The Bad Samaritan
    Robert Barnard
    Rosemary Sheffield has a sort of 'reverse epiphany' one day while walking in the park: she no longer believes in God. This sudden loss of faith is at first entirely liberating, but the situation gradually becomes more complicated. Rosemary is, after all, the beloved wife of the vicar at St. Saviour’s parish.A storm of controversy erupts in her husband’s church congregation, but...
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    27,80 €

  • The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
    Robert Barnard
    The body of a young man, almost naked, in the car park behind one of Haworth’s many eating establishments marks the beginning of the case, and it is his identity that is the first puzzle for DC Charlie Peace and his superior Detective Superintendent Oddie.But before long the puzzle that most concerns them is the nature of the close-knit artistic community where Declan O’Hearn h...
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    27,71 €

  • Death and the Princess
    Robert Barnard
    Superintendent Perry Trethowan was used to cases that involved people in high places, and in this one he finds himself at the top of the tree - among the British royals.A Princess, albeit only a minuscule royal offshoot, with a snug little apartment in Kensington Palace and a snug little sum on the Civil List, is threatened - but by whom, why, and exactly what is uncertain. Her...
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    24,25 €

  • Bodies
    Robert Barnard
    Police superintendent Percy Trethowan found London’s Soho as colourful and full of life as every-except for the four corpses in a seedy photography studio. Shot doing a layout for Bodies, a soft-porn 'health and fitness' magazine, the photographer, his assistant, and two models had left a camera loaded with film but no clues. Then one victim’s obsession with pumping iron sent T...
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    24,22 €

  • Death on the High C’s
    Robert Barnard
    Opera singers are often described as being larger than life, and certainly this is true of Gaylene Ffrench. Her appetites-for men, for food, for attention-are gargantuan, and her ability to irritate is similarly outsized. So when someone electrocutes the bombastic Australian contralto, few tears are shed at the Northern Opera company (though it’s a pity her understudy’s so lous...
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    24,16 €

  • A Little Local Murder
    Robert Barnard
    Radio Broadwich decides to do a documentary on the small village of Twytching for international broadcast, and the townspeople divide between those who seek the patronage of Mrs. Deborah Withins, arbiter of taste and morals, and those determined to displace her in the cutthroat contest for media recognition.When a rash of poison-pen letters and a murder coincide, quiet inspecto...
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    24,18 €

  • The Masters of the House
    Robert Barnard
    In the late winter of 1979, Leeds housewife Ellen Heenan dies in childbirth - abandoning a guilt-stricken husband to insanity’s grasp and leaving four young children to find for themselves.Thirteen-year-old Matthew and Annie, age twelve, know what the authorities will do if the learn of Father’s debilitating madness. A close-knit family will be speedily unravelled, its threads ...
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    24,16 €

  • Death and the Chaste Apprentice
    Robert Barnard
    The Ketterick Festival revolves around the Saracen’s Head, a Jacobean inn with its inn-yard and balconies miraculously preserved intact, due to the sloth of successive landlords. Here in festival time are performed the lesser-known masterpieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. This year it is The Chaste Apprentice of Bowe (a play of uncertain authorship, since no one owned ...
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    24,18 €


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