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In Sharman's eighth hardboiled adventure finds him back in the PI game, investigating a radio stationWorking in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he's back in the private investigation game. His first job, looking for a lost Highland terrier called Prince, shouldn't be too demanding;...

1 July 1969. The Investiture of the new Prince of Wales. When Arianwen Hughes is arrested driving with a homemade bomb near Caernarfon Castle, her case seems hopeless. Her brother Caradog, her husband Trevor, and their friend Dafydd are implicated in the plot, the evidence against them damning. Ben...

A denounced President, her kidnapped daughter, a Hindu extremist group, and the threat of nuclear war: America is thrown into turmoil in this sequel to Removal As Ellen Trevathan settles into her presidency, she feels confident to come out as a lesbian to the press, an announcement that unleashes...

Sherlock Holmes was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives, police officers and...

Third in the Nick Sharman crime series, from the Spillane of Brit NoirIt starts when Nick Sharman's eye is caught by a woman in a fashionable West End store. She is young, beautiful, classy—and she is shoplifting. In a moment of gallantry, Sharman saves her from the indignity of being caught. The...

Harry Stonehouse had been a cop, a good one—and straight, unlike Nick Sharman. After taking early retirement he'd landed a job at a security firm. Now he's dead, and his wife wants Nick to find out who killed him and why. Nick's been taking a close look at hell recently and doesn't care too much...

Larry MacCabe is a retired academic, a widower, and friendless—until a chance meeting with the administrator of a care home. At her suggestion he adopts a basset hound, and joins her one Saturday at Georgetown's Volta Park. He becomes a regular visitor, and for the first time in his life the member...

Garda Pat Coyne is a Dublin policeman who is passionately devoted to sorting out the world and its problems. For Coyne, such things as cars, crime, pollution and golf are all ominous signs of a disintegrating society. The world is committing suicide, with MTV droning in the background. Coyne's principal...

I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo is Nik Cohn's hymn to rock as myth, in all its crazed, absurd, and glorious excess. Partly based on the legendary rocker, PJ Proby, Johnny Angelo is the pop star to end all pop stars—narcissistic, mock-heroic, and massively destructive. The novel follows...

36 black-and-white illustrations. VOLUME 7 OF THE SEVEN GREAT MONARCHIES OF THE ANCIENT EASTERN WORLD; OR, THE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND ANTIQUITIES OF CHALDAEA, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, MEDIA, PERSIA, PARTHIA, AND SASSANIAN, OR NEW PERSIAN EMPIRE. According to Wikipedia: "Canon George Rawlinson (23 November...

The twelve-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: The Iranian Conquest and The Last Days of the Old Eastern World. According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 June 30, 1916) was a French Egyptologist... Among his best-known publications are the...

Continuation of Maspero's History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria. Volume 12 of that series. Also volume 3 of 3 of History of Egypt from 330 BC to the Present Time. The thirteen-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: Crusaders in Egypt, French in Egypt,...

The thirteen-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: Sennacherib, The Power of Assyria at its Zenith, Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal, and The Medes and the Secod Chaldean Empire. According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 June 30, 1916) was a French...

Dublin 1919. A city at war with itself, a cauldron of soldiers, spies, rebels and political intrigue. The mysterious and seductive Lily Merrin, secretary at Dublin Castle, is on a mission, but whose side is she on and what is compelling her to consider the ultimate sacrifice? Charismatic Irish revolutionary...