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On a Japan-bound freighter carrying a wealthy silk heiress, a tide of murder threatens everyone on board-and a world careening toward a second world war.
When a millionaire silk merchant dies from an apparent suicide after being called a Japanese agent during a Senate investigation, his daughter disappears. Trying to avoid the press, Dorothy Bonner sails to Japan on the Kumo-maru. And now, so is foreign correspondent Glen Larkin, hoping to get...
2) Blow-Down
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"Death, destruction, and international intrigue on a Caribbean banana plantation. First-rate plot, pace, and background" from the Golden Age mystery author (Time).
It doesn't take long for a man of Walter Lane's skills to find a job at a Latin American banana port. But little do his new employers know that Walter has another agenda: discovering who murdered the former State Department secret agent previously stationed there. The accepted cause...
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Corporate hijinks mar the breathtaking scenery of the Himalayas-and set the stage for murder-in this Golden Age mystery from the author of Bengal Fire.
A construction overseer for Blenn Engineering Works, Paul Woodring, thinks he's below the notice of Calcutta business mogul Alexander Blenn, but his singular skills are needed for a delicate mission: renewing a twenty-year-old concession that gives Blenn exclusive rights to develop mechanical...
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"Ten stories prove the superiority of Forensic pathology over coroner's findings . . . Science and murder in a firm partnership." -Kirkus Reviews
Nothing much gets past Midwest pathologist Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee, whose whip-smart mind provides logical solutions to what seem like unsolvable cases. While detectives search for motives, Dr. Coffee provides the means, searching for microscopic clues on bodies and evidence with an unbeatable combination...
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Desire and deceit bring an American detective to colonial India, where the sweltering heat gives way to cold-hearted murder in this Golden Age mystery.
William Shakespeare Gabriel once thought he would try and fulfill his middle name's potential, but he was whisked from journalism to the pursuit of crime. Now, the private detective is in India on the eve of World War II. He's been hired to find Fred Oaks, the black sheep son of an American sugar...
6) Bengal Fire
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An impending wedding and two fiancées lead to murder on the Indian subcontinent in this Golden Age mystery featuring British CID Insp. Leonidas Prike.
Unsavory press agent Harrison J. Hoyt gets word that his American fiancée is arriving in Calcutta-just in time for his wedding to someone else. To diffuse the situation, he turns to gold broker Lee Marvin. After all, Marvin owes him his life; it's the least he could do. But as Marvin delivers...
7) Bombay Mail
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"Death and fast action take place on the crack Trans-Indian Express . . . Inspector Prike . . . encounters rubies, secretaries, cobras, priests, spies." -Time
The assassination of the Governor of Bengal propels a Golden Age mystery that introduces readers to shrewd British CID Insp. Leonidas Prike. Set on a train from Calcutta to Bombay, Lawrence G. Blochman's debut novel races through the Indian landscape, giving Inspector Prike twenty-seven...
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On his return home from Europe, a World War II veteran gets an invitation to a murder in this Golden Age mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author.
Once a crack reporter/photographer team, a quarrel-and the Second World War-have kept journalists Jim Lawrence and Grace Boyd apart. Making up for lost time, the old friends head up to Grace's Ramapo Mountain cabin after Jim returns to New York City. But their solitary weekend at Blindman's Lake...
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A public relations man finds himself in hot water when murder is added to the mix at the soup company where he works. Luckily, Dr. Coffee is on the case.
After crowning a Carrot Queen-the fastest carrot peeler at the factory-the Barzac Soup Company is on a public relations roll under director Robert Gilmore. It plans to raise its profile-and stock price-even higher by introducing field rations for the US Army. But when an employee drops dead...
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Betty and the Black Puppy is a story about a couple at the opposite ends of the spectrum after Betty rescues an abandoned puppy in the midst of heavy traffic in London. Binky's Reverie describes a young Guyanese man's unsuccessful pursuit of a romantic relationship with a Swedish woman The Ballad of Calle & Maja offers two different ideas of love. In Two Girls in a Café, there is a toss-up after the girls claim to know a young man. In The Eternal...
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"Getting It Right, If Ever" is a blend of fantasy and realism. The action takes place in two imaginary countries at the beginning of the seventies.Benji is a forty-year-old light-skinned gardener, handyman, and aspiring poet who hails from TeeGee Island, an imaginary island in the British Caribbean.After Sunday service, Benji meets forty-five-year-old Molly, a visitor to TeeGee Island. They become pen pals, and she invites him to Vikland––an imaginary...
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Kindness counts. If you have trouble acting with the consistent kindness our Lord expects your relationships with God and those you love may be suffering.
Probably you just can't find the time and can't ever seem to develop the patience that you need in order to be consistently kind amid the irritations that afflict you daily. That's why this book is such a godsend.
There's nothing complicated or magical about learning to be kinder; it just takes...