'When Bunting drew this in 1581, absolutely no one in the world could have known what the coast of Western Australia looked like…' Nick Lawrance, an antique map dealer, is shocked to find his gallery has been burgled. However, this isn't an ordinary robbery: the thieves have ignored priceless maps and have only taken Bunting's World Map. All of a sudden, Nick is thrown into a four-hundred-year religious mystery where strang ...
The year is 1618 and the beginning of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Lieutenant Jack Channing's life is about to be immutably altered by two events. He falls in love with a beautiful countess and witnesses an attempt on the Polish King Sigismund's life. News reaches the court that assassination attempts on Catholic monarchs have occurred elsewhere in Europe and Jack is charged with the responsibility of finding and crushing the per ...
Upfield's first published novel 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the far north-east corner of South Australia, and together the Sherwoods set out to find her and bring her back to Melbourne… ...
Outback Australia in the mid-1800s.<br /> <br />When rich, domineering squatter Angus McAlpin is murdered, the obvious suspect is the penniless artist, Herbert Lindsey – who wants to marry his daughter, Flora.<br /> <br />McAlpin may have proclaimed that Flora would marry Herbert 'only over his dead body' – and Herbert's bloodstained knife and handkerchief were found near the murder scene – but the art ...
Приключения русского мастера боевых машин Тимофея Черного, примкнувшего к крестоносцам в Первом крестовом походе, продолжаются. Летом 1123 года караван паломников прибыл в Тиберию. За время пути танцовщица Зинаида предсказала им целых восемь несчастий, включая и две смерти. Первой жертвой становится сама «предсказательница». Мастер Тимофей с друзьями-рыцарями берется за поиски убийцы. Их ждут подземные ходы, встреча с огнепоклонниками, карты и д ...
Shameless Halloran, convict stablehand, has a problem. He knows of a murder but doesn't dare tell anyone. Who can he trust? Every figure of authority in this early Australian penal settlement is a potential suspect—all have dark pasts and ruthless ambitions.<br><br>So the canny Irishman enlists the help of a young doctor, newly arrived, as respectable front for his sleuthing. What follows is a tension-packed and hil ...
1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers on the last day of battle for the new Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help the French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the ...
Приключения русского мастера боевых машин Тимофея Черного, примкнувшего к крестоносцам в Первом крестовом походе, продолжаются. Летом 1123 года караван паломников прибыл в Тиберию. За время пути танцовщица Зинаида предсказала им целых восемь несчастий, включая и две смерти. Первой жертвой становится сама «предсказательница». Мастер Тимофей с друзьями-рыцарями берется за поиски убийцы. Их ждут подземные ходы, встреча с огнепоклонниками, карты и д ...
The First Gabriel Taverner mystery. Devon, 1607. Gabriel Taverner, former ship’s surgeon turned country physician, is called to examine a rotting body found impaled on a blade. Identifying the corpse seems a hopeless task and the death is declared a suicide. But Gabriel is not satisfied and re-examines the body – making the first of a series of shocking discoveries that will lead him deep into the dark underbelly of the lucrative ...
