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Iain Pears
Iain Pears (born 1955)

art historian, journalist

  • University of Oxford, University of Oxford

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Stone's fall
An instance of the fingerpost
The immaculate deception
Giotto's hand
Death and restoration
The Bernini bust
The last judgement
The Last Judgement (Art History Mystery)
The Titian Committee
The Bernini Bust (Art History Mystery)
The Titian Committee (Art History Mystery)
The Raphael affair
The Titian Committee (Jonathan Argyll #2)
Stone's fall : a novel
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Immaculate Deception (A Jonathan Argyll Mystery)
The immaculate deception
Giotto's hand
The Bernini bust
The Titian Committee
The Last Judgement
Raphael Affair
Death and restoration
The dream of Scipio
The discovery of painting
The Portrait
The portrait
Giotto's hand
The Dream of Scipio
Arcadia
El Sueño De Escipion / The Dream of Scipio
Arcadia
The Raphael Affair
An Instance of the Fingerpost
LA Cuarta Verdad
The dream of Scipio
Le Songe de Scipion
Le Jugement dernier
The immaculate deception
Stone's fall
El Sueño De Escipion (Otros Titulos)
L'Affaire Bernini
Le Comité Tiziano
Le cercle de la croix
L'Affaire Raphaël
Caravaggios Erben
Scipios Traum
Diana-Taschenbücher, Nr.70, Giottos Handschrift
The Portrait
LA Cuarta Verdad
Dream of Scipio (Signed)
The Raphael Affair
Arcadia
L'énigme San Giovanni
Arcadia: A novel
Le Jugement dernier
Le portrait
Arcadia: A novel
Der Tod des Sokrates
La chute de John Stone
Dream of Scipio
El Retrato (Otros Titulos)
Arcadia
Falso Tiziano, El
Perst ukazui Łushchii
Ruka Dzhotto
X 5 Instance at the Fingerpost Reading Guide
Instance at the Fingerpost
Instance of the Fingerpost
Il Quadro Che Uccide (The Last Judgement)
Il sogno di Scipione
Zagadka Rafaėlļø iļø”a
The Portrait
Le cercle de la croix
Peter Berresford Ellis
Peter Berresford Ellis (born 1943)

historian, literary critic, biographer

  • University of East London, University of London

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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Murder in Baker Street
The Spider's Web
Whispers of the Dead
The Subtle Serpent
Hemlock at Vespers
Absolution by Murder
The Haunted Abbot
Act of Mercy
Suffer Little Children
Dancing With Demons
The Monk Who Vanished
The Leper's Bell
Badger's Moon
Valley of the Shadow
Smoke in the Wind
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Shroud for the Archbishop
A Prayer for the Damned
The Council of the Cursed
Our Lady of Darkness
The Dove of Death
Behold a Pale Horse
Penance of the Damned
Master of Souls
The Shapeshifter's Lair
The Seventh Trumpet
The Chalice of Blood
Atonement of blood
An ensuing evil and others
Bloodmoon
Night of the Lightbringer
The Second Death
The devil's seal
Fireball
Blood in Eden
Trollnight
The Windsor Protocol
Sister Fidelma Novels, 1-3
The Return of Raffles
Flight or Fright
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Vampire Archives
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
A history of the Irish working class
The Cornish language and its literature
The Rising of the Moon
A dictionary of Irish mythology
H. Rider Haggard
Celt and Roman
Erin's blood royal
The Celts
Dictionary of Celtic mythology
The Druids
A brief history of the Druids
Celt and Greek
The Celtic revolution
Celtic Women
The Celtic Dawn
Eyewitness to Irish history
By Jove, Biggles!
The Ants
The Ancient World of the Celts (Celtic Interest)
Caesar's Invasion of Britain
The Celtic Empire
Celtic inheritance
The Cornish saints
The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
The Boyne Water
A Brief History of the Celts
Beeston Castle, Cheshire
The Revenge of Dracula
James Connolly
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
Hell or Connaught!
Dracula Unborn
Macbeth
The Book of Deer
Celt and Saxon
Biggles!
The Great Fire of London
The Chronicles of the Celts
The Story of the Cornish Language
Une Lune de Sang
The last adventurer
Bloodright
Kitchener's Gold
A guide to early Celtic remains in Britain
Raven of destiny
Wales—a nation again
Shadows over Innsmouth
The fires of Lan-Kern
The Radical Rising
The Destroyers of Lan-Kern
The Valkyrie directive
The Morgow rises!
Aisling and Other Irish Tales of Terror
Scotland not only free but Gaelic
Angelus!
DRACULA LIVES - Book (1) (i) One: Dracula Unborn; Book (2) (ii) Two: The Revenge of Dracula; Book (3) (iii) Three
The creed of the Celtic revolution
Orangeism
Champion Trees
The curse of Loch Ness
Death of a Heretic
The Judas Battalion
The Un-Dead
The liberty tree
Zombie!
Creeper's Secret War
Airship
Irish Masters of Fantasy
Spiteful Shadow
The Doomsday Decree
Publishing in the Welsh language today
My Lady of Hy-Brasil
Nicor!
Revisionism in Irish historical writing
The Pilgrim of Hate
The Vengeance of She
Swamp
The confession
The House of Death
The problem of language revival
The buccaneers of Lan-Kern
HOUND OF FRANKENSTEIN
Snowbeast!
Islands of Shadows
Kiss of the Cobra
Ravenmoon
Made for Murders : a Collection of Twelve Shakespearean Mysteries
Bloodmist
Wondersmith
Celtic Myths and Legends
Gwels Nownek Ha Hwedhlow Erell
A New Book of Rights; Being a complete transcript of the legal verdicts handed down by the courts of the Republic of Italy concerning the heraldic rights, ... de la Floresta, Castile & Leon King of Arms
Revenge of the Stormbringer
Dracula, My Love
Li an Sows
Paul C. Doherty
Paul C. Doherty (born 1946)

historian

  • University of Oxford, University of Liverpool

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Red Slayer
The Nightingale Gallery
House of Crows
The Assassin's Riddle
Sakristei des Todes
La Clara Luz de La Muerte
La Galerie du Rossignol
Tödliches Rätsel. Kriminalroman aus dem mittelalterlichen London
Le Repaire des Corbeaux
Das Haus des roten Schlächters. Kriminalroman aus dem mittelalterlichen London
La Colère de Dieu
Le Fanal de la Mort
House of the Red Slayer
Sacrilège à Blackfriars
El Dominio del Diablo
House of the Red Slayer
Teufelsjagd
Anger of God
La Colera de Dios
La Casa del Asesino Rojo
Murder Most Holy
La Casa del Asesino Rojo
Murder Most Holy
Le Donjon du Bourreau
I. J. Parker
I. J. Parker (born 1936)

literary historian

  • University of Texas at Austin

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Island of Exiles
The Convict's Sword
The dragon scroll
The Masuda Affair
Black arrow
The Hell Screen
Rashomon Gate
The Masuda Affair Sugawara Akitada Mystery
The fires of the gods
Dragon Scroll 6-Copy Counter
Ikiryo : Vengeance and Justice
Une enquête de Sugawara Akitada
Smoczy zwój
The Island of the Gods
Bi-sheliįø„ut ha-įø³esar li-meįø„oz įø²azusah
Death on an autumn river
Dream of a Spring Night
The emperor's woman
The Shrine Virgin
The Old Men of Omi
The Assssin's Daughter
Georges Chastellain
Georges Chastellain (1404-1475)

poet, historian, essayist, chronicler

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Chronique de J. de Lalain
Le livre de paix
Œuvres de Georges Chastellain
Oeuvres
Les douze dames de rhetorique
Le temple de Bocace
Chronique des ducs de Bourgogne
Chronique
Pages choisies de Chastellain
Le miroir de mort
Les exposicions sur verité mal prise
Chronique métrique de Chastellain et de Molinet
Oeuvres historiques ineĢdites
Oeuvres
Chronique de J. de Lalain
Oeuvres
Ron Goulart
Ron Goulart (1933-2022)

historian, advertising person

  • University of California

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Hound Dunnit
The Great British Detective
Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle
Elementary, my dear Groucho
Groucho Marx, private eye
Groucho Marx and the Broadway murders
A graveyard of my own
Groucho Marx, secret agent
Show Business is Murder
The dime detectives
Groucho Marx, master detective
Gadget man
The Hardboiled Dicks
Green Lama Mystery
Adam and Eve on a raft
One Hundred
The Twelve Frights of Christmas
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Magicats!
Zombies
The Future in Question
Witches & Wizards
Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2
The Great Comic Book Artists
Wizards
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction 5 - Tin stars
Nemo
Red Moon
Odd Job #101, and Other Future Crimes and Intrigues
Battlestar Galactica
The Glass Man
The Panchronicon Plot
The hellhound project
The comic book reader's companion
Black Chariots
Now he thinks he's dead
Comic Book Culture
The Death Machine
Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books
The Purple Zombie
Demon Island
Brainz, Inc.
Cheap Thrills
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Blood Countess
Good Girl Art
Comic book encyclopedia
Nutzenbolts, and more troubles with machines
Crackpot
Heil Hibbler!
The Cartoon Crimes
Dr. Time
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Great American Comic Books
What's become of screwloose?
Skyrocket Steele
Dr. Scofflaw
Star Hawks
Flux & The tin angel
The Man from Atlantis
The Tijuana bible
The Zombie Megapack
Daredevils, Ltd.
Galaxy Jane
Flux
Even the butler was poor
The Encyclopedia of American Comics
The Funnies
Bloodstalk
Broke down engine, and other troubles with machines
On Alien Wings
Buck Rogers in the 25th CenturyThe Complete Newspaper Dailies
Phantom
Star Hawks Empire 99
Greetings From Earth
The adventurous decade
The Chameleon Corps & other shape changers
The Iron Skull
The Nightwitch Devil
Over 50 Years of American Comic Books
After things fell apart
The Tin Angel
The assault on childhood
Deadwalk
Alex Raymond
Brinkman
The Same Lie Twice
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Murder in Studio 221B
The Curse of the Golden Skull
Ghosting
Everybody Comes To Cosmo's
Hello, Lemuria Hello
An informal history of the pulp magazine
Emperor of the Last Days
The Curse of the Obelisk
Space Hawk, Inc.
Cowboy heaven
President Kennedy's Mission
Snake God
The wicked cyborg
Suicide, Inc.
Marvel Masterworks Warlock Vol.72 Variant Edition
Year of the Bat
International Cheesecake
When the Waker Sleeps
The sword swallower
Eye of the Vulture
A Whiff of Madness
Starpirate's Brain
The Wisemann originals
Hellquad
Harry Challenge: Victorian Supernatural Sleuth
Bloodstalk
Robot in the Closet
Big bang
Calling for Dr. Patchwork
Blood Wedding
Upside Downside
Line up tough guys
Deathgame
Masked Marvels and Jungle Queens
The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle
Citadels on Earth
Legacy and the Law
Devil Mask Mystery
Focus on Jack Cole
Hawkshaw
Capricorn One
Murder for dummies
Star Hawks 1978-1979
A Talent for the Invisible
A whiff of madness
Challengers of the Unknown
Ghost Who Walks
William Shatner's Tekworld
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968 (Volume 35, No. 6)
Murder on the Aisle
Weird Trails
Treasures of Bangalla
Year of the bat
The great impersonation
Samuel W. Taylor
Samuel W. Taylor (1907-1997)

historian, biographer

  • Brigham Young University

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Family kingdom
Stanley J. Weyman
Stanley J. Weyman (1855-1928)

historian, barrister

  • University of Oxford, Shrewsbury School

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From the Memoirs of a Minister of France
The house of the wolf
A gentleman of France
My Lady Rotha
The man in black
The Castle Inn
Starvecrow farm
>From the Memoirs of a Minister of France
The abbess of Vlaye
The long night
The new rector
Gentleman of France, A
Shrewsbury
Under the red robe
The red cockade
Chippinge
The wild geese
In Kings' Byways: Short Stories
Under the red robe
The king's stratagem, and other stories
Count Hannibal. A Romance of the court of France
Shrewsbury A Romance
Sophia
The Great House: A Story of Quiet Times
Shrewsbury: A Romance
Five Classic Adventure Novels
A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne, Sieur de Marsac
A little wizard
My Lady Rotha: A Romance
In kings' byways
Chippinge Borough
The snowball
For the cause
The story of Francis Cludde
Laid up in lavender
The great house
King Terror
Kings Strategy and Other Stories
When love calls
Historical romances
Ovington's bank
Shrewsbury
Faoi'n roĢba dhearg
Under the Red Robe
The Diary of a Statesman
The house of the wolf, a romance
Under the red robe
Under the red robe
Queen's Folly
Under the red robe
Queens Folly
Under the red robe
The Castle Inn
The traveller in the fur cloak
Taistealaidhe an chlocha fionnaidh
The Lively Peggy
Sophia: A Romance
Under the red robe
The traveller in the fur cloak
The abbess of Vlaye
Faoi'n róba įø‹earg =
The wild geese
The traveller in the fur coat
The house of the wolf
The man in black
Chippinge Borough
Sophia
Faoi'n róba dhearg (Under the red robe)
Starvecrow farm