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1) Gold diggers
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"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
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In the late Victorian days, a large amount of gold is arriving unannounced on the cargo ship The Empress of India. Yet the impossible happens, the shipment of gold disappears en route. Sherlock Holmes, brought in by Her Majesty's Government, knows that only one man is both diabolical and clever enough to pull off such an outlandish, daring, and, yes, theoretically impossible crime: Professor James Moriarty. Moriarty, however, had nothing to do with...
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The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
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After narrowly escaping serious bodily harm in a train robbery, Wells Fargo courier Marc Charvein makes his way into Mexico to find out whos responsible for a wave of similar robberies and whether the culprit has anything to do with an unidentified individual whos been handing out gold coins to the poor. Is there a modern-day Robin Hood operating along the Mexican border, or is something else going on, something a lot darker?
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Lucinda Barkley, a hostage of prison escapees, is rescued by part-time lawman Marc Charvein. Wounded in the resulting shootout, she feels due some compensation for her ordeal. So she secretly partners with gambler Sam Stonehouse to dig up a hundred pounds of stolen gold, half of it in the form of a gold cross. Ezra Pitney, the rightful owner, wrongly assumes it was taken by Marc Charvein, the man he hired to find it -- and from there the chase is...
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Ranger Sam Burrack western adventure volume 41
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"On the trail of the Arizona Cowboy Gang, Ranger Burrack rides with Indian Territory lawman Dan'l Thorn into Mexico, where the Cowboys have stolen several thousand dollars in gold. The lawmen are there to locate and arrest a pair of twin outlaws by the name of Smith, but they get sidetracked hunting for the stolen loot. Trouble is they aren't the only ones on the gold's trail. A competing gang has stolen the gold from the cowboys, a beautiful lady...
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