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"Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants...
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"Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Conrad established in Almayer's Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation and colonialism that he would...
3) Fever
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2006.
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Explore the exotic, sensual world of #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s Leopard people with this collection that brings together two stories for the first time in one volume...
Journey to the Borneo rainforest in “The Awakening”—the novella that first introduced the Leopard people—where a beautiful naturalist’s dream to live among the feral jungle creatures comes...
Journey to the Borneo rainforest in “The Awakening”—the novella that first introduced the Leopard people—where a beautiful naturalist’s dream to live among the feral jungle creatures comes...
5) Gone wild
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Thorn P.I ; 4
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1995.
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An action-adventure story in Malaysia, starring Florida's Dick Thorn. He goes to the aid of Allison Farleigh, president of the Wildlife Protection League, whose daughter is killed while accompanying her on a census of orangutans in Borneo. The killers turn out to be an international ring engaged in illegal trade of rare animals.
7) Devoured
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London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world. And when glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered, surrounded by her vast collection, Adolphus Hatton and his morgue assistant Albert Roumonde - the best in the new and suspicious world of forensics and autopsy - are called in to examine the crime scene.