Abracadaver

10 best books like Abracadaver (Peter Lovesey): A Loyal Character Dancer, Death of a Nationalist, Murder on the Celtic, Death on the Lizard, A Face Turned Backward, Murder at the God's Gate, Hunting A Detroit Tiger, Slicky Boys, The Hell Screen, The Year of Confusion

AuthorQiu Xiaolong
ISBN1569473412
Inspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished...
Death of a Nationalist
AuthorRebecca Pawel
ISBN1569473447

This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia...
AuthorConrad Allen
ISBN0312356196
George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ship's detectives for many of the huge passenger lines of the early twentieth century. On several of those crossings they've had the pleasure, and in some cases the trouble, of sailing...
Death on the Lizard
AuthorRobin Paige
ISBN0425210391
Once again amateur sleuths Charles, Lord Sheridan, and his Lady wife Kate are involved in dramatic investigations into unexplained deaths, this time on The Lizard where Guglielmo Marconi is conducting experiments with his new wireless equipment.

In addition to the two deaths, both of which...
A Face Turned Backward
AuthorLauren Haney
ISBN0380792672
The many and mighty deities of Egypt must be given their due. All commerce is conducted under the watchful eyes of the functionaries of the great Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut. Death faces any and all who could rob the royal hose of Kemet of its rightful share. Lieutenant Bak, commander of the Medjay police,...
Murder at the God's Gate
AuthorLynda S. Robinson
When a priest dies in a mysterious fall from atop a statue of Tutankhamun, many consider the death a fateful one for the fourteen-year-old pharaoh and his reign. Indeed, the Hittites are already at Egypt's borders, and the enemies of the late heretic pharaoh Akhenaten have transferred their implacable...
AuthorTroy Soos
ISBN1575662914
It's 1920, and all Mickey Rawlings wants is a .250 batting average, 20 stolen bases, and a regular place in the Tigers' lineup. But when Emmett Siever, an old-time baseball player, is killed, Mickey finds himself accused of the crime. Now, with someone seeking revenge for Siever's murder and the baseball...
Slicky Boys
AuthorMartin Limón
ISBN1569473854

In this sequel to New York Times Notable Book Jade Lady Burning, a pair of American military cops come up against major gang culture in South Korea’s back alleys.

George Sueño and his partner Ernie Bascom thought they’d seen it all, but nothing could prepare them for the Slicky Boys....
The Hell Screen
AuthorI.J. Parker
Eleventh-century Japan: After a difficult but successful assignment as provisional governor of Eichigo, Akitada Sugawara is finally allowed to return to Heian Kyo. But instead of a triumphant homecoming accompanied by his beautiful wife and young son, Akitada must ride ahead of his entourage to...
AuthorJohn Maddox Roberts
ISBN0312595077
Gaius Julius Caesar, now Dictator of Rome, has decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync with the seasons.

As if this weren’t already an unpopular move, Caesar has brought in astronomers and astrologers from abroad, including Egyptians, Greeks, Indians and Persians....
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