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Detective Alderton is back, and this time he's accompanied by his new assistant, none other than Miss Alice Camden. These three cases represent the origins of a duo that is destined to become iconic throughout all of England - they just don't know it yet.The volume contains: A CHILDISH KIDNAPPING, a story about Alice's first ever case; UNCONNECTED COINCIDENCES, a late night sortie in the company of an old friend; ON THE EDGE OF DEATH, which illustrates a masterfully executed revenge.…

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Mr. Alderton gets urgently summoned to Mr. Beckwith's house, where a party has been interrupted by a murder: Mr. James Camden lays crushed between a table and a bookshelf in the study, after a heated argument was moved from the party to the more private room. The detective is not quite happy to work at nighttime, but at least there's already a main suspect, so it should be an easy solve, right?…

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After a highly contagious disease caused the downfall of mankind as they know it, married couple Sophia and Tom were forced to leave their home and seek a way to survive in more than ever unforgiving conditions, scavenging for food, collecting rainwater, migrating to the south for the winter, and fending off both hostile survivors and dangerously aggressive Infected. Being nomads made for rather unpleasant interactions with settled communities and pushed them into complete isolation. Their relationship grew each day more bitter, binding them only through the sheer inability to let go of life, no matter how brutal or dreadful it got.Unexpected sudden encounters will make them question their past, feelings, and motivations, as they navigate the ruins of their sense of self and of their close-to-failing marriage."[...] in any case, destiny, or whatever higher power acting upon them, had a splendid way of forcing self and mutual reflection for the umpteenth time in about two weeks."[Picture of family on the cover by Craig Adderley on Pexels.]…