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And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)

And then there was no one (Evadne Mount 3)
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): Meiringen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on...

Ashenden

Ashenden
  • Author(s): William Somerset Maugham
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1910s

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover,...

Bamboo and Blood

Bamboo and Blood
  • Author(s): James Church
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), North Korea, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1997

It is 1997 and North Korea is in the grip of a terrible famine. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious provison: Don’t look...

Belle du Seigneur

Belle du Seigneur
  • Author(s): Albert Cohen
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one...

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
  • Author(s): Frederik Peeters
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Confessions of a Chalet Girl

Confessions of a Chalet Girl
  • Author(s): Lorraine Wilson
  • Location(s): Verbier
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Verbier. Exclusive Swiss ski resort and the winter playground of the rich and famous = every chalet girl’s dream! Good for: Maximum time on the ski slopes – and in the bars at night! Looking for flings – or...

Count Karlstein – The Novel

Count Karlstein – The Novel
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1810s

Dr Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party

Dr Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

Eleven Minutes

Eleven Minutes
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): Brazil, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
  • Author(s): Mary Shelley
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 1810s

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