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  • The Night the Streets Burned
    Desmond Ryan
    The Night the Streets Burned: The Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875Book SummaryOn the evening of June 18, 1875, a catastrophic fire at Malone’s bonded warehouse in Dublin’s Liberties neighborhood created an unprecedented urban disaster. When flames engulfed 5,000 barrels of aging whiskey, massive explosions released over a million liters of high-proof spirits that flowed through the ...
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    30,94 €

  • Dangerous Assumptions
    Desmond P. Ryan
    Detective Mike O’Shea is spiraling-consumed by painkiller addiction, alcohol, and the crushing weight of unresolved grief. As his personal demons threaten to take control, he’s pulled into a chilling case: a woman is found dead, her son rotting beside her, discovered only when neighbors are alerted by the unbearable stench of decay. Meanwhile, O’Shea’s obsession with the killer...
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    13,34 €

  • Mary-Margaret and the Case of the Thieving Barmaid
    Desmond P. Ryan
    Bones are found in the lane behind her son’s house. Her best friend and one of the owners of her local become persons of interest for a murder she knows they couldn’t possibly have committed. And the most incompetent homicide investigator on the planet, or so she believes, is the lead investigator. Of course, Mary-Margaret O’Shea, a woman of a certain age with mildly Machiavell...
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    13,44 €

  • Blind Spot
    Desmond P Ryan
    Early on a Monday morning, a group of first responders are standing around a burned-out car by the waterfront. They’re waiting for the detectives to arrive to show them what they’ve found. A well-seasoned crime reporter also just happens to be in the area. Within minutes of arriving, Detective Mike O’Shea identifies the charred remains in the car as those of a woman he’s known ...
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    13,37 €

  • Man at the Door
    Desmond P Ryan
    It all begins at 6:10 a.m. on a Friday morning when Glen Brebeuf calls demanding answers. He had reported his former lover, Elizabeth MacDonald, missing the previous day and Detective Mike O’Shea finds himself cleaning up the mess some rookie had made of the initial call. Within hours, Mike takes over the investigation and is on the doorstep of the missing elderly woman’s home,...
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    13,35 €

  • Mary-Margaret and the Case of the Lapsed Parishioner
    Desmond P Ryan
    When Mary-Margaret O’Shea, a woman of a certain age with mildly Machiavellian tendencies, discovers a homicide scene and meets an unimpressive lead investigator, she realizes that she has no choice but to solve the crime herself. With little help from Michael, her police-detective son, she enlists Arthur, her eccentric housekeeper, to help her find the killer.   In Mary-Margare...
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    13,48 €

  • Death Before Coffee
    Desmond P. Ryan
    ​By 2:27 on a Thursday afternoon, the one-legged man from Room 8 at 147 Loxitor Avenue had been beaten to death with a lead pipe. Twenty-eight minutes later, Detective Mike O’Shea is testifying in a stuffy courtroom, unaware that, within an hour, he will be standing in an alleyway littered with beer cans and condoms while his new partner uses a ballpoint pen to flick bugs off o...
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    13,33 €

  • 10-33 Assist PC
    Desmond P. Ryan
    D/C Mike O’Shea, a young cop with a knack for working hard and following hunches, is on the verge of cracking a prostitution ring when an undercover from another unit burns him. With only days left before their pimps shuttle the girls out of the country, Mike pushes his team into overdrive. Hours later, with too little information, sleep, or luck, the unthinkable happens.   And...
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    13,45 €

  • The Riddle of the Sands
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    'The Riddle of the Sands - A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved' is a 1903 novel by British-born Irish writer Erskine Childers (1870-1922). 'The Riddle of the Sands' is a nautical tale of a two-man sailing trip along the German coast at the beginning of the twentieth century. An accomplished yachtsman, Childers uses this realistic and portentous story to warn Britain of...
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    24,02 €

  • War and the Arme Blanche
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a British-born Irish writer. In his early career, he was a notable military historian and critic, famously writing an account of the Boer War for which he was a correspondent. In his 1910 work, 'War and the Arme Blanche' Childers offers a critique of the cavalry. Employing his personal experiences in the Boer War, he argues that instead o...
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    28,53 €

  • German Influence on British Cavalry
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: 'Introductory', 'Sir John French on', 'The Arme Blanche', 'The British Theory of The Arme Blanche', 'Cavalry In Combat', 'Tactics Against The Various Arms', 'The Fight Of The I...
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    20,20 €

  • In the Ranks of the C. I. V. - A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    'In the Ranks of the C.I.V.' is a 1900 account by Erskine Childers of his time spent as part of an artillery company in the South African Wars (1879-1915). This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the Boer War or British imperialism, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Childers’s work. Contents include: 'The ’Montfort’', 'Cape town and Stellenbosch'...
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    30,50 €

  • Deadlines
    Desmond Ryan
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    19,13 €

  • Helix
    Desmond Ryan / Joel Shurkin
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    16,54 €