Showing results for "Angels" in Traditional Detectives

En el corazón del edificio Parnaso, una mujer aparece ardiendo sin fuego. Su cuerpo, consumido por completo, se convierte en el centro de un enigma que desafía toda lógica. A partir de este hallazgo, comienza una investigación tan delirante como precisa, conducida por Patricia Olea, una detective marcada por un pasado brutal y una mente entrenada para detectar lo imposible. Pero Patricia no está sola. La acompaña el profesor Fuenmayor, un criminólogo tan excéntrico como brillante, cuya obsesión con los límites de la materia y la conciencia...

The beautiful Lady Diana Dinsdale’s father has died and shortly afterwards her mother dies as well and she is heartbroken at the loss of both her beloved parents. After the Earl of Dinsdale’s death, her mother had married again to William Walker, a rich businessman who is cynically seeking to improve his standing socially to help his financial interests to make him even richer. And now Diana is all alone except for her grasping stepfather.

The first fatality in a bizarre series of killings is a Captain of the Second Life Guards, found in the River Thames with a war medal wedged between his teeth. Then a dead Egyptologist is discovered with a scarab clamped between his molars. When a young soldier is found dead in the saddle (this time a locket is the dying mouthful), Sholto Lestrade is forced to impersonate a barrack-room lawyer.

Great Britain, 1923: When Detective Inspector John Redfyre is invited to attend the annual St. Barnabas College Christmas concert in his Aunt Henrietta's stead, he is expecting a quiet evening. But he arrives to witness a minor scandal: Juno Proudfoot, the trumpeter of the headlining musical duo, is a woman, and a young one at that - practically unheard of in conservative academic circles. When she suffers a near-fatal fall after the close of the show, Redfyre must consider whether someone was trying to kill her.

Unas cartas anónimas, un cadáver oculto y una ciudad que nunca olvida: Misterio en el Barrio Gótico . La novela de Sergio Vila-Sanjuán que recorre el alma secreta de Barcelona Víctor Balmoral, un periodista próximo a la jubilación, recibe unas cartas amenazantes que lo empujan a desentrañar misterios en el emblemático Barrio Gótico de Barcelona . Mientras lidia con este desafío y con las visitas que le hace el fantasma de su mejor amigo, se dedicará también a aclarar qué ocurrió con una mujer desaparecida hace décadas .

Michael Waring is the freelance investigator, troubleshooter, and adventurer known to one and all as The Falcon. One part The Saint, one part Boston Blackie, and one part Philip Marlowe - Waring can be suave and charming, especially when a lady is involved. But, there's never any doubt about his nail-spitting toughness, nor of his impatience with the plodding methods of the police - most often expressed in an endless stream of clenched-teeth wisecracks.

If you look at any listing of the ten most important books of detective stories published in the United States, chances are you will find Uncle Abner on most of them. It is generally recognized as one of the most important contributions to American dectective fiction between Poe and Hammett. In fact, there are some critics who call it the single finest collecton of American detective stories ever written.

Wonderland, un macrocomplejo de lujo situado en Madrid a la manera de un Las Vegas mesetario, es un lugar repleto de casinos y luces de neón donde el exceso y el lujo están a la orden del día. La aparente calma chicha que rodea al complejo en cuestiones de seguridad se ve alterada cuando dos...

Wonderland, un macrocomplejo de lujo situado en Madrid a la manera de un Las Vegas mesetario, es un lugar repleto de casinos y luces de neón donde el exceso y el lujo están a la orden del día. La aparente calma chicha que rodea al complejo en cuestiones de seguridad se ve alterada cuando dos...