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The Art of Seduction
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Katherine O'Neal |
Affaire de Coeur calls award-winning author Katherine O'Neal "the Queen of Romantic Adventure." But her best romantic adventures are shared with her long-time husband, noted film critic William Arnol… |
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Chapel noir
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Carole Nelson Douglas |
"The story thrusts readers into one of the darkest periods of criminal fact and fiction when two courtesans are found brutally slaughtered in the lavish boudoir of a Paris house that dare not speak i… |
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Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo |
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective… |
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Le ventre de Paris
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Émile Zola |
Au milieu du grand silence, et dans le desert de l'avenue, les voitures de maraichers montaient vers Paris, avec les cahots rythmes de leurs roues, dont les echos battaient les facades des maisons, e… |
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Assommoir
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Émile Zola |
L'Assommoir is a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris.
Gervaise Macquart, who is featured briefly in the first novel in the series, La Fortune des Rougon, is runni… |
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Madame Pamplemousse and her incredible edibles
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Rupert Kingfisher |
An exquisite fairy tale with shades of Angela Carter that will intrigue both adults and children alike Madame Pamplemousse is the story of Madeleine, forced to work in her unpleasant uncle's horrible… |
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Maigret Sets a Trap (BBC Radio Collection)
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Georges Simenon |
A killer stalking the streets of Montmartre has murdered five women and Maigret is making no head-way in the case. After consulting the distinguished psychiatrist, Professor Tissot, he decides to use… |
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Maigret triumphant
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Georges Simenon |
Contains five Inspector Maigret novels: "Maigret and the burglar's wife", "Maigret's revolver", "My friend Maigret", "Maigret in court", and "Maigret afraid". |
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The ninth Simenon omnibus
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Georges Simenon |
Contains: "Maigret and Monsieur Charles", "The Disappearance of Odile", and "The Cat". |
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Maigret et la Vieille Dame
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Georges Simenon |
When a charming elderly widow appeals to him for help, Inspector Maigret travels to a seaside village in Normandy - uncovering a lost fortune and some poisonous family politics. |
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Un échec de Maigret
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Georges Simenon |
Ferdinand Fumal ist Metzger und hat mit mehreren Fleischerei-Ketten ein Vermögen gemacht. Seinen Aufstieg verdankt er seinem rücksichtslosen Machtstreben, seinen Intrigen und seinem Sadismus, mit den… |
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Maigret s'amuse
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Georges Simenon |
The Sûreté's Chief Inspector Maigret was resigned to the vacation his doctor advised, so "officially" he went to the seashore—and stayed in Paris.
Which would have been just fine—for Paris is an i… |
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Le Train de Venise
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Georges Simenon |
"Pourquoi toute l'image ̌tait-elle centře sur sa fille ? Cela le g̊nait un peu, ou plut̥t c'est apr̈s surtout qu'il y pensa, une fois le train en marche. Et encore ne fut-ce, en řaliť, qu'une impress… |
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Un Noël De Maigret
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Georges Simenon |
A selection of short stories featuring Inspector Maigret of the Police Judiciare. Only the title story is set at Christmas-time; the others vary in season and also from Maigret's time on the force a… |
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Les inconnus dans la maison
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Georges Simenon |
Hector Loursat, a lawyer, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him 18 years before. Estranged even from his own daughter, his mind is numbed by bottles of Burgundy. But when a body is f… |
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L'Ami d'enfance de Maigret
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Georges Simenon |
De moord op een jonge vrouw confronteert commissaris Maigret met een vroegere klasgenoot. |
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Maigret aux assises
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Georges Simenon |
M is in the Assize Court, waiting to testify in the trial of Gaston Meurant, picture framer, accused of killing his aunt, Léontine Faverges, for her money, and a 4-year-old girl, Cécile Perrin, who s… |
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Maigret et l'indicateur
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Georges Simenon |
Monsieur Maurice, onetime gangster and now well-respected owner of the celebrated Sardine Restaurant, is found shot dead on a quiet Montmartre street. Maigret, perplexed by an apparently motiveless c… |
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Beautiful Americans
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Lucy Silag |
What happens in Paris...Secrets-PJ's deep blue eyes and angelic long blond hair conceal a truth that's anything but. Will her dark past stay where it belongs in the backwoods of Vermont, or haunt her… |
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Orchids and diamonds
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Rosalind Laker |
Working in the high fashion world of early twentieth-century Paris, lovely Juliette Cladel falls in love with a young Russian count and sculptor, Nikolai Karsavin, but the young lovers soon find them… |
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