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Anne van Doorn De ouders keerden niet terug

Als eerste zaak in haar nieuwe baan als assistente van Robbie Corbijn bij zijn recherchebureau Research & Discover werkt Lowina de Jong mee aan een onderzoek naar een tien jaar eerder gepleegde onopgeloste moord en verdwijning.

Fictie

Nederlands | 251 pagina's | E-Pulp Publishers, [Doorn] | 2019

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Jacky Hyams Bruidstranen

het ware verhaal van Frances Kray; hoe een beeldschoon gangsterliefje verdronk in een poel van drank, drugs en genadeloos geweld

Tragische levensgeschiedenis van Frances Kray (1943-1967), de echtgenote van Reggie Kray, die samen met zijn broer Ronnie in de jaren vijftig en zestig binnen het criminele milieu van Oost-Londen de dienst uitmaakte.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | 216 pagina's | Just Publishers, [Meppel] | 2017

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Hyman | Fromental De Praagse Coup

Ballonstrip.

Fictie

Nederlands | 96 pagina's | [Dupuis], [Brussel] | 2017

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Nuala Ellwood My sister's bones

Een Britse oorlogsverslaggeefster wordt achtervolgd door nachtmerries over Syrië en herinneringen aan haar traumatische jeugd. In haar ouderlijk huis komt alles samen.

Fictie

Engels | 384 pagina's | Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, London | 2017

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Henry James The turn of the screw and other ghost stories

Acht spookverhalen waaronder de ook afzonderlijk uitgegeven novelle ‘The Turn of the Screw’.

Fictie

Engels | 339 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2017

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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman

Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...

Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in the village. When Sir Henry Baskerville arrives from Canada for the legacy of the Baskerville manor in England, the skeptical Sherlock Holmes is called to help with the case. Was the death of Sir Charles Baskerville really a heart attack or maybe an animal lurking in deserted moors? Will Baskerville's new owner become the...

Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (305 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, `The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‘ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock‘s talent for solving cases based on things only he notices never disappoints, and everyone‘s curiosity is sure to be sustained till the end of each story. There is a reason Sherlock Holmes has been adapted more than a hundred times for various media. 2009-2011 saw Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as Sherlock and Watson, and even Will Ferrell...

Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (880 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...

Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist

"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...

Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room

One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...

Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective

"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...

Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...

Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...

Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

When an old sea captain dies mysteriously in his parent‘s inn, young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the captain‘s possessions that will spark a wild and adventures treasure hunt. Joined by a handful of untrustworthy pirates, he meets the antagonistic Long John Silver, a character whose fame transcends the tale. With Treasure Island (1883), author Robert Louis Stevenson invented the modern image of the pirate, without which we likely wouldn‘t have experienced Johnny Depp as the infamous Captain...

Engels | 7 uur 28 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...

Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...

Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan

This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...

Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt

"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...

Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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