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Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. The task seems straightforward, but the unsuspecting Corso is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship,...
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When Nell Pratt is invited to the beloved Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, for a sneak preview of a newly installed exhibit based on the Harriet the Hedgehog book series, she's in for quite a shock. In the middle of the visit, one of the installers gets a severe jolt from working on an electronically animated forest creature. He recovers, but when a second man gets zapped - this time fatally - it sparks a homicide investigation, with Nell...
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Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia, gets involved in an explosive mystery when an arsonist sets a series of warehouse fires that results in the death of a guard--and involves the Fireman's Museum's most prized possession.
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"Dora Blake is a talented jewelry designer who lives under the thumb of her suspicious and odious uncle, who is running her late parents' beloved shop of antiquities into the ground. When he begins acting erratically after a mysterious Greek vase is delivered and locked in the basement, Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar, who (unbeknownst to her) sees the vase as an opportunity to unlock his academic future. Dora...
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La gran novela de Arturo Pérez-Reverte que abrió el camino del éxito internacional a losthrillersinspirados en el mundo de los libros
Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile.
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"¿Deben los secretos mantenerse ocultos o es mejor abrir las cajas que los custodian a pesar de las tormentas que puedan desatar? Londres, el siglo XVIII se termina y el mundo est̀ cambiando, pero la joven Dora vive entre las antig
"Young Dora lives among the antiques in what was her parents' famous store. She has learned to design jewelry, while her uncle continues the business, but everything changes when an old Greek vase comes into her hands....
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