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"A real-life thriller about a CIA contractor who vanished in Iran and the international manhunt to find him"--
"In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guanta⁺¹namo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States. Barry Meier, an award-winning...
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Murder of a Missing Man, first published in 1934 as a Red Badge Book, is a 'golden-age' murder mystery, set largely aboard a passenger train traveling across southwestern America. From the dustjacket: "In this new mystery, the author develops an ingenious and original case in which the identity of the victim is as much a mystery as the identity of the murderer. At the outset, the reader is introduced to a highly dramatic tragedy in a fashionable New...
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In "The Missing Man in the Window," inspired by Conan Doyle's "The Man with the Twisted Lip," what starts out as a simple case of a man who goes missing soon develops into something much more sinister when Holmes listens to the tale told by the missing man's insistent and distraught wife.Sherlock Holmes IV is a direct descendant of the famed detective whose daring exploits were so vividly chronicled by Dr. John Watson and related to us by Sir Arthur...
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Father Brown volume 7
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Father Brown deduces that the apparent suicide of a recently returned RAF pilot was actually murder.
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Len Waters was a Kamilaroi man. Born on an Aboriginal reserve, he left school at 13 and by 20 was piloting a RAAF Kittyhawk fighter with 78 Squadron in the lethal skies over the Pacific in World War II. It was serious and dangerous work and his achievement was extraordinary. These would be the best years of his life. Respected by his peers, he was living his dream. The war over, it should have been easy. He believed he could "live on both sides of...
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Northwestern University Press
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2018.
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A refreshingly playful novel, it explores modern Muslim life in the wake of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. Zamir Ahmad Khan suffers from a mix of alienation, guilt, and postmodern anxiety that defies diagnosis. His wife abandons him to his reflections about his childhood, writing, ill-fated affairs, and his hometown, Bhopal, as he attempts to unravel the lies that brought him to his current state (while weaving new ones).
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