Mystery Books
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Naked Prey (Lucas Davenport, No. 14)
In Naked Prey, John Sandford puts Lucas Davenport through some changes. His old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up
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Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories
Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving fam
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The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (The Cat Who...)
When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called Jim Qwilleran for help. But he was too late
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Death Under the Dryer (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series)
Carole had never had such a bad hair day! The last thing she expected when she went for a trim at 'Connie's Clip Joint' was to fin
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Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels)
Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. A
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Dead Giveaway
Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than tw
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Dead Man Docking (Bed-And-Breakfast Mysteries)
B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn and her closer-than-a-sibling cousin Renie would be crazy to turn down a free, 1930s-themed
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Mystery Movies
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Vanilla Sky
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz. Cameron Crowe's thrilling remake of Open Your Eyes , a sexy psychological tale of wealth,
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The Prestige
Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in THE PRESTIGE, the twisting, turnin
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The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Dan Brown's international bestseller comes alive in the film The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard with a screenplay b
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Mulholland Dr.
Laura Harring, Naomi Watts. Betty is a small-town girl who comes to Hollywood with stars in her eyes and looking for sidewalks of
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Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)
Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - A Very Private Enterprise
A Very Private EnterpriseAuthor: Elizabeth Ironside To his colleagues, co-workers and friends (did he have any real friends?), Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps; a bit fussily fastidious, a bit of a stickler for protocol. But in the right position, even dullness can be a virtue. And as Her Majesty's "Head of Chancery" in India, Frenchman was the ideal man to make up the numbers at a diplomatic dinner party, keep the junior officers in line, and represent solid British values in Delhi. Indeed, Frenchman,s life was such a model of propriety that its two areas of untidiness stood out like sore thumbs. One, certainly, was his death: Diplomats like Frenchman do not tend to be found in a bloody heap, furiously and fatally stabbed with an antique ritual dagger. Nor do they tend to amass priceless collections of Tibetan artifacts and bank accounts that are bulging at the seams. Had Frenchman been smuggling? Spying? Clearly he had been up to something untoward, and George Sinclair is sent off to Delhi to find out what it was and -- ideally -- sweep it all under an ornate Indian rug. Back in London, this seemed like a relatively straightforward task. But once in India, Sinclair soon realizes that nothing about the dull, eternally correct Hugo Frenchman was straightforward. And he realizes as well that he s going to need a very, very big rug.
Tags:
Delhi (India)
Diplomatic and consular service, British - India
Diplomatic and consular service, British
Diplomats - India
India
Murder - Investigation
Mystery fiction
Fiction
General
Mystery & Detective
Traditional British
Suspense
Political
US publication:
1984
Detective:
n/a
Genre:
n/a
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