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Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun. In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts...

In the dead days between Christmas and New Year, a body turns up on the grounds of Liggan Manor, and Malachite Peck is called in. The lady of the manor swears her family has nothing to do with it—and she wants Mal to prove it. Mal isn’t convinced, but with too much time on her hands, she agrees. What starts as a simple case quickly unravels into a tangle of family secrets, a whispered new will, and a surprising new heir no one saw coming. As generations clash over the sprawling estate, another second body is discovered, and it’s clear—a killer is hunting the Liggan heirs one by one.

A young lawyer is summoned to draw up the will of an elderly and infirm woman. She directs that all her property be bequeathed to her sister. At the end of the consultation, the woman dies. When the heir goes missing, it is suspected that the woman's death was not due to natural causes. Further investigation reveals that the woman and her sister were trapped in a reclusive lifestyle by a promise exacted by their uncaring and overbearing father. Each woman had a lover whom she wished to marry, but the unions were frustrated by the demands of the father.

Hired to trace Anna Ball, who has vanished, Miss Maud Silver encounters an eccentric art colony, bank robberies, and counterfeiting. As with other Miss Silver mysteries, the story relies on character development. Nadia May reads clearly and distinguishes individuals well; her British voice is ideal for this genteel period thriller (1951). Agatha Christie fans will enjoy this one.

In a city as old as London, the discovery is hardly surprising. But when scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison believes she has unearthed a mystery far darker than any she's investigated before. However, not everyone agrees. Tennison's superiors dismiss it as a historic cold case and the Church seems desperate to conceal the facts from the investigation. It's clear that someone is hiding the truth and perhaps even the killer. Tennison must pray she can find both - before they are buried forever.

Alle Vögel sind schon tot – vier Hobby-Ornithologen ermitteln in ihrem ersten Fall am Chiemsee. Harald, Katja, Thilo und Sabine sind Vogelbeobachter. Oder Birder, wie es in Fachkreisen heißt. Jeden Sonntag treffen sie sich in aller Herrgottsfrühe auf dem Beobachtungsturm im Grabenstätter Moos am Chiemsee, um ihrem Hobby nachzugehen und ein seltenes gefiedertes Exemplar vors Fernglas zu bekommen. So auch an diesem Sonntag, als sie das Nest eines brütenden Braunkehlchens entdecken. Nur dass sich unweit entfernt ein weniger schöner Anblick bietet.

New York 1939 : Thomas Danforth, jeune héritier à la Gatsby, voit son destin basculer lorsqu'il rencontre Anna Klein, espionne polyglotte. Pour elle, il rejoindra le "projet" des services secrets américains : assassiner Hitler. Après leur échec, Anna est arrêtée et l'on perd sa trace. Obstinément, Danforth la recherche à travers l'Europe dévastée. Sans cesser de se demander : qui a-t-elle trahi ?

In the pretty little town of Sibley, NY, the court has adjourned for lunch, and Judge Evans and some of the leading lawyers of the district stand outside the courthouse discussing the limitations of the criminal classes. A stranger describes to them just how a man might commit a murder and avoid detection - and only minutes later, the widow Clemmens is discovered struck down in her parlor by an unknown hand in circumstances eerily similar to those described by the stranger.

Gin Sullivan is back in her small hometown of Trumbull, Pennsylvania, on an extended leave from her job at the Chicago medical examiner's office and rekindling an old flame with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Gin is readjusting to life at home when Jake receives harrowing news early one morning: the new housing development his construction firm is building has caught fire, and underneath one of the burnt homes is a dead body.

En fantastisk berättelse om Drottning Blanka av oslagbara Anna Sparre! En klar oktoberdag 1335 styr ett skepp från Flandern mot Sveriges kust. I förskeppet står en ung flicka i guldskimrande vitt. Det är den fjortonåriga Blanche av Namur, Sveriges och Norges blivande drottning. I Bohus kungsgård blir hon Magnus Erikssons fru och som drottning Blanka intar hon sin plats vid det stränga svenska hovet. Hon är varmhjärtad, men skarptungad. Hon är älskad av många, hatad av andra. Hos henne hämtar den försiktige kungen handlingskraft.

Das Böse sprengt jede Grenze – der fünfte Band der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Serie um das deutsch-österreichische Ermittlerteam Alexa Jahn und Bernhard Krammer ...

En fantastisk berättelse från Kalmarunionens tidevarv av oslagbara Anna Sparre! Året är 1406. Den tolvåriga prinsessan Filippa av England, dotter till Henrik IV, lämnar sitt hemland då hon är förmäld med Erik av Pommern, unionskung över Sverige, Norge och Danmark. Hennes titel blir Drottning av trenne riken, trots att hon aldrig sett sin blivande make eller satt sin fot i något av de tre rikena. Livet i hennes nya hemland blir inte så enkelt för den unga drottningen, men efter hand vinner hon allt fler hjärtan.

Anna Katherine Green, the mother of the detective novel, introduces the world to the first "girl detective" in this delightful collection of nine stories published in 1915.

Agatha Webb and her cook are found dead in the early hours of the morning after a successful party, and it seems just about anyone could be the killer. Some suspect her aging husband; others think it a robbery gone too far. A few nosy villagers draw a connection between this murder and the deaths of her six children so many years prior: Was she truly a victim, a grieving mother? Or did she play some role in these deaths? The list of suspects grows when a certain wealthy townsmen is blackmailed by someone who believes he murdered Agatha Webb and her cook.

Several girls, all bearing the name "Jenny Rogers", are being killed in the city of New York. In the middle of it, there are two suspects: a famous painter and a visiting stranger, who also happen to bear, in their turn, identical names. Behind it all, the dying wishes of a man and a nefarious plot to lay claim to a matter of millions.

Originally published in 1897, That Affair Next Door is Anna Katherine Green’s eighth book featuring the series detective Ebenezer Gryce and the first to feature the society spinster, Amelia Butterworth. Many consider the nosy Miss Butterworth to be the precursor to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver. The story is told from Miss Butterworth’s perspective as she relates the story of a murdered young woman and how she sets out to unravel the mystery.

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the communityand reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit her uncle's fortune at his death. As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just occurred. Leavenworth has been shot to death and circumstances point to one of his young wards.

"Horatio Leavenworth, Esq., a millionaire, is murdered in his library while he is engaged in reviewing a book he plans to publish. He was shot cleanly in the back of the head (with his own pistol), meaning that he did not turn his head when his assassin entered the room. This fact led detective Ebenezer Gryce to conclude that he recognized the footsteps of his assailant and felt he had nothing to fear from this person." Thus begins this first novel in the "Mr. Gryce" series.

Credited by many as the mother of the detective novel, Anna Katharine Green published her first mystery novel - The Leavenworth Case - in 1878, almost a decade before Sherlock Holmes made his appearance. Green's intrepid Ebenezer Gryce, a seasoned New York detective, takes up the case of a brutally murdered millionaire philanthropist. One of the murdered man's two nieces is set to inherit an immense fortune, and she and her cousin are high on the suspect list.

The series of detective stories Anna Katherine Green wrote were among the earliest in the 20th century, and depict modern America and the workings of the police departments. These unfold and are full of the details of a new 20th century world. Initials Only is set in New York, and purveys a certain atmosphere unique to that period. It revolves around the workings of the retired Detective Gryce and his young assistant, Mr Sweetwater. A seemingly unsolvable mystery, the death by apparent suicide of an heiress, is investigated by the two detectives and the New York Coroner.