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|author=Martin Davies
|title=Havana Sleeping
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Hector, a night watchman is murdered at work. There's nothing unusual about that – it happens all the time. The reason being that this is Havana halfway through the 19th century; a place of intrigue, political posturing (and worse) as pro- and anti-slavery conflicts cause bubbles under the surface of society. It's a place where an apparently lowly British civil servant like George Backhouse can be posted to influential positions. It's a place where the Americans don't trust the British, the British don't trust the Americans and everyone fears what the Spanish may do. Meanwhile a courtesan named Leonarda just wants to find out why the man she loved died.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980451</amazonuk>
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|author=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)
|summary=Tristan Campbell, an American graduate, receives a phone call from an English law firm summoning him to London for a secret meeting. Mountaineer and adventurer Ashley Walsingham died in 1926 without any direct heirs. Since then his family's legacy has been in limbo while an heir is traced. They believe Tristan could be that lucky person but there's a catch. He has to prove the family connection within 7 weeks (when the 80 year limitation on the fortune runs out). The clock is ticking while Tristan starts a hunt that will take him across Europe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022330</amazonuk>
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