When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.
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Author: Starr, MelSummary:
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Author: Starr, MelSummary:
A local lord asks Hugh of Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit, identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith.
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Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmSummary:
Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the...
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Author: Orczy, Emmuska OrczySummary:
The Scarlet Pimpernel and his followers risk their lives to save the French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French revolution.
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Author: Gordon, Roderick, Williams, BrianSummary:
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the...
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Author: Gordon, Roderick, Williams, BrianSummary:
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of...
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Author: Coulter, CatherineSummary:
When a couple is forced to marry to gain an inheritance, a family secret comes to life which threatens to destroy their marriage of convenience.
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Author: Herron, MickSummary:
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone...
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Author: Lovesey, PeterSummary:
In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous)...
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Author: Schwab, V. E.Summary:
Kell is one of the last Travelers-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes-as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without...
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Author: Cleverly, BarbaraSummary:
Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the...
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Author: Sandford, ChristopherSummary:
In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes.
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Author: Spawforth, TonySummary:
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires...
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Author: Aspe, PieterSummary:
When the wealthy Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, and a strange note is left in the safe. To solve...
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Author: Mackintosh, ClareSummary:
The next blockbuster thriller for those who loved The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl ... a novel with "an astonishing intensity that drags you in and never--ever--lets you go." (Daily...