Justin Scott
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"The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate--petite...
2) The gangster
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It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand (La Mano Nera) is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere -- so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than...
3) The assassin
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409 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin - shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range - kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
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Isaac Bell novels volume 7
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403 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear...
5) El ladrón
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348 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"1910. Clyde Lynds, inventor de una nueva y revolucionaria ḿáquina de cine sonoro, se dirige a Estados Unidos a bordo del Mauretania, el transatlántico más veloz del mundo. En plena travesía Lynds descubre que no ha conseguido librarse de sus perseguidores alemanes, que intentarán secuestrarlo en mitad del océano. Pero no cuentan con que Isaac Bell, el famoso jefe de la agencia de detectives Van Dorn, navega en el mismo barco. No obstante,...
6) El aprendiz
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349 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.
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10 audio discs (11 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that...