Anthony Horowitz
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Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime, Daniel Hawthorne.
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Series
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English
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"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
4) Moriarty
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Series
Language
English
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"Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation...
6) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
7) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
8) Skeleton key
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
9) Snakehead
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
10) Ark angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
11) Point Blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2002, 2001.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
12) Ark Angel, the
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider must use all of his skills to foil a plot to destroy the Pentagon with the space hotel Ark Angel as the terrorists' weapon of choice.
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
14) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
15) Never say die
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004, 1995.
Language
English
Description
After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
19) The switch
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
20) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.