The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
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Christian Jacq
The investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 36 : Carbon Footprint
For daring to commit the mortal sin of defending carbon and carbon dioxide, Professor Gregory Cloud is murdered at home by a hooded killer. The investigation is assigned to Higgins who finds ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 35 : Crime Niçois
A terrifying discovery is made in the beautiful town of Nice, where a world criminology conference is taking place: the body of a wealthy Englishman is found dead in an alley of the old town. The ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 30 : Enigma XXL
XXL. The acronym for large sizes, three Roman numerals … but also a code to decipher and the mark of a murderer striking in Edinburgh, capital of Scotland. It all starts with a poisoning at ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 29 : Save the Queen!
Near Higgin’s manor, a car accident. The driver, a former terrorist, didn’t die accidentally. Victim of a delayed-action poison, he was on his way to meet the former chief-inspector and notify ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 28 : Actor or murderer?
A young and pretty actress achieves something extraordinary: she forces the door of Higgins’ country estate. She begs him to investigate the strange death of Sir Charles, a famous and wealthy ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 27 : Crime On Lake Geneva
The Island of Peliz is the only island in Lake Geneva. On this piece of land, almost entirely covered by a hundred-year-old plane tree, the corpse of an English billionaire and former secret ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 25 : Cleopatra's Needle
On a foggy night in October a drunken bum stumbles upon two cadavers at the foot of Cleopatra’s Needle. Could the Egyptian obelisk that was transported to London in 1877 be the cause of these ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 24 : The Demon of Kensington
While a storm has plunged London into torment and the clocks strike midnight, a corpse is burning atop a church in Kensington. And not just any church, but that of the Copts, the Christians of ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 23 : School of Crime
Somewhere in England, the headmaster of a rather peculiar school decides to retire and appoints his successor. But his choice is disputed and the debate quite bloody… The police then ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 22 : Tutankhamun's Curse
Outraged by the nonsense disseminated about the mummy of Tutankhamun, the top scientist Jennifer Stowe decides to travel to Egypt with a group of specialists. But the trip never happens. She is ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 21 : Assassination among the Druids
On a summer night, on St. John’s Day, the representative of various Druidic branches meet on the famous site of Stonehenge. The Great Druid Glamorgan The Red has summoned them in order to ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 20 : Justice is done
For this high-profile London judge, a murderer is a man like all the others: whatever the atrocity of their crimes, they should be rehabilitated into society. Unfortunately for that magistrate, ...
Christian Jacq
The Golden Woman
“You were made to reign, my daughter…” Hatshepsut is one of the most famous queens of Egypt, whose life was a series of miracles that would give her a legendary place in history. The beautiful, ...
Christian Jacq
Egypt, the last hope
“You who are living on the Earth, approach my eternal resting place. I will guide you on the path of life.” Inscription on the tomb of Petosiris 324 B.C. Ancient Egypt is a mere ...
Christian Jacq
Horemheb, the return of light
The extraordinary destiny of a scribe who became Pharaoh Horemheb contemplated the Great Royal Wife, haloed by the golden light of the setting sun. An almost unreal beauty. – Come on, she ...
Christian Jacq
Tutankhamun, the ultimate secret
IN SEARCH OF THE ULTIMATE SECRET OF TOUTÄNKHAMON, The Golden Masked Pharaoh In this new edition, Christian Jacq presents and comments on the fascinating photos of Tutankhamun’s treasure. ...
Christian Jacq
These Women Who Created Egypt
AN ODE TO ANCIENT EGYPT AND TO WOMEN In These Women Who Created Egypt Christian Jacq shows us the fundamental role that women, famous or not, played throughout the history of Pharaonic Egypt. ...
Christian Jacq
Pharaon
“My name is Thutmosis, and I have built a world. A world with borders threatened by darkness and barbarism. A world that could have disappeared under the weight of greed, lies and ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 30 : Enigma XXL
XXL. The acronym for large sizes, three Roman numerals … but also a code to decipher and the mark of a murderer striking in Edinburgh, capital of Scotland. It all starts with a poisoning at ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 29 : Save the Queen!
Near Higgin’s manor, a car accident. The driver, a former terrorist, didn’t die accidentally. Victim of a delayed-action poison, he was on his way to meet the former chief-inspector and notify ...
SERIE
Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 28 : Actor or murderer?
A young and pretty actress achieves something extraordinary: she forces the door of Higgins’ country estate. She begs him to investigate the strange death of Sir Charles, a famous and wealthy ...
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Christian Jacq
The Investigations of Inspector Higgins
Volume 27 : Crime On Lake Geneva
The Island of Peliz is the only island in Lake Geneva. On this piece of land, almost entirely covered by a hundred-year-old plane tree, the corpse of an English billionaire and former secret ...
Christian Jacq
Champollion The Egyptian
The incredible adventure of the French scholar who deciphered the hieroglyphs From July 1828 to December 1829, Jean-François Champollion made his dream come true and finally travelled the land of ...
Christian Jacq
Sphinx
THEY ARE NINE. Nine representatives of a mysterious brotherhood, Sphinx. Nine keepers of the secret of life, spread out around the world. Nine sentenced to death by the new masters of technology ...
Christian Jacq
I Built the Great Pyramid
Christian Jacq invites us to share the extraordinary adventure of the construction of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, the last of the Seven Wonders of the World that is still visible, by following ...
Christian Jacq
Nefertiti, the Shadow of the Sun
Nefertiti is the most famous of the Egyptian queens and the fabulous portrait giving her eternal beauty is known the world over. But what do we really know about this woman, born into lower ...
Christian Jacq
Cleopatra’s Last Dream
For the first time, the legendary love story and power struggle between Cleopatra and Caesar as told by Christian Jacq. Queen at age 18, Cleopatra dreamed of reforming her country, only to be ...
Christian Jacq
Imhotep, the Inventor of Eternity
Pharaoh is dead, Egypt is weakened. Djeser, a fierce prince, has decided to found a new dynasty, but will he be elected by the Grand Council, and will the gods choose him? In these troubled ...
Christian Jacq
The Judgement of the Mummy
When the vibrant London of the 19th century discovers through crime the civilisation of the pharaohs… London, 1821. An extraordinary event has attracted the attention of London’s aristocratic ...
Christian Jacq
Tutankhamun
In Search of the Ultimate Secret of Tutankhamun, The Famous Golden Masked Pharaoh Cairo, 1951. King Farouk, a cruel and corrupt tyrant, reigns over Egypt. The last descendant of the great priests ...
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Christian Jacq
Mozart
Volume 4 : The Beloved of Isis
While sick and crippled with debts, Mozart still composes, because his life depends on his work. So will he accept, with sort of a premonitory and heartrending surge, the mysterious order for a ...
Christian Jacq
Life is sweet under the Shade of the Palm Trees
« The origin of all these short stories, Egypt invites us to a journey through time and space, which will lead us from a mysterious oasis to the secret chambers of the Great Pyramid. » Christian ...
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Christian Jacq
The Mysteries of Osiris
Volume 4 : The Great Secret
The great secret of resurrection finally disclosed. The Annunciator, unrecognizable and dressed up as a priest, is now hiding in the heart of Abydos. He plans to murder the young Iker in order to ...
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Christian Jacq
Queen Liberty
Volume 3 : The Flaming Sword
At the end of the Middle Empire, an army of barbarians managed to invade Egypt. Youg princess Ahotep decides to head up the Egyptian Resistance.
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Christian Jacq
The Stone of Light
Volume 1 : Nefer the Silent
In a forbidden city in High Egypt lives a brotherhood of craftsmen in charge of digging and decorating the tombs of the valley of Kings in order to perpetuate their eternal life… This ...
Xavier Müller
Erectus, The last winter
An explosive finale to a dizzying trilogy There you are – two lovers out to admire the extraordinary meteor lighting up the night sky as it rains a shower of gold. And then suddenly, the ...
Nicolas Beuglet
The Archipelago of the Forgotten
This story will make you doubt everything you thought you knew… Detectives Grace Campbell and Sarah Geringën know this much: even though they have diametrically opposite personalities, they ...
Olivier Bal
Beware the angels
“YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. IF YOU ENTER THE COMPOUND, IT WILL ALREADY BE TOO LATE!” High in the California hills sits The Compound, a seemingly ideal spiritual community. Paul Green, a world-weary ...
Bernard Minier
Lucia
An anguish like never before that will keep you up at night A group of criminology students at Salamanca university discover the existence of a serial killer who has gone undetected for several ...
Olivier Descosse
Deep-Sea Terror
A lock-up on the edge of asphyxia Off the coast of Marseille, the body of a young woman is found in the nets of a trawler. She is completely naked, covered with bites and her left foot has been ...
Cai Jun
Like Yesterday
An original puzzle of daunting complexity On 13 August 2017, Jiao Keming, a computer technology teacher at the Nanming high school, his wife and their fiveyear-old son – who suffers from a ...
Nicolas Beuglet
The Passenger with no face
“You’re not the only one searching for the truth”… The anonymous letter left on her doorstep is more than a signal: it’s an electric shock. Inspector Grace Campbell knows that she has no other ...
Olivier Bal
The Forest of the Missing
Redwoods is a small, isolated town in Oregon, set between the Pacific ocean and an ancient forest of giant redwood trees. It is also a town with a sinister record. Every year, several ramblers ...
Bernard Minier
The Hunt
“There is a dark place that no sunlight can brighten” Full moon. A deer leaps out of the forest. His eyes are those of a … man. It is not an ordinary wild beast hunted in the Ariège forests… In ...
Xavier Müller
Erectus 2
The return of the virus. More powerful and terrifying than ever… The eagerly-awaited sequel to Xavier Müller’s bestseller Everyone thought the nightmare was over: having transformed part of ...
Olivier Merle
In The Shadow of the Wolf
An out-of-the-mould cop tracks, step by step, the shadow of the wolf… Some cases drag you out of apathy… In Rennes, the new police detective Hubert Grimm takes on an all-absorbing case and ...
Nicolas Beuglet
The Last Message
Are you sure you want to know the truth ? Be warned… The Last Message might plunge you to the depths of anguish and insanity… The island of Iona, west of Scotland. Great stretches ...
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