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For 150 years, women have been going missing. And all of the investigators who went in search of them have disappeared, too. Now Sam Speedman, a most unique private detective, is on the case. Brilliant, direct and disarming, Sam is ... not your average detective. But then again, this isn't your...

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...

Dan Brown, autor de El código Da Vinci, regresa con una nueva y trepidante aventura de Robert Langdon. La novela más trepidante del maestro indiscutible del thriller. Una novela de acción, llena de giros inesperados y enigmas por descifrar capaz de entretener a los lectores como solo Dan...

Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining himself to be inside the mind of the criminal. This fourth collection of Father Brown stories contains the magnificent "The Chief Mourner of Marne"- a fascinating story with unexpected twists - about a duel and a case of mistaken identity.

In "The Incredulity of Father Brown," G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his "stumpy" Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, "common-sense" assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters. He loves showing, through his characters, how those who hold themselves superior to the "fantasies" of Brown's Catholic faith themselves devolve into superstitious blithering when faced with the tiniest of mysteries.

THE BRAND NEW MYSTERY IN THE BESTSELLING HAMISH MACBETH SERIES! Love is in the air in Lochdubh! Love, and murder... It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a...

Anne Beddingfeld is a young woman who is aching for adventure and that is exactly what she gets when she witnesses the death of man on the London Underground. Her notice of a mysterious man who suspiciously leaves the scene embarks Anne on a mystery that will take her all the way to Cape Town in South Africa. With a love interest also in her future, it will take all her faculties to set everything straight. The Man in the Brown Suit is an early publication in Agatha Christie’s long and illustrious career.

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos, armado únicamente con su paraguas, su inocencia y su sabiduría, intrincados casos gracias a un conocimiento sencillo a la par que es profundo de la naturaleza humana. Chesterton crea este singular personaje para mostrar que sólo una mirada sincera y que reconozca el misterio que la realidad encierra es capaz de salvaguardar la razón.

A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods - with an arrow in his chest and his trousers round his ankles. At first her old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes...

Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. After all, he is terrifyingly good at it. Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers. And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a...

When mystery novelist turned private detective, Marius Quin, is invited to speak at a gala dinner by the mysterious Mrs Thistlethwaite he jumps at the chance of a weekend away on the English Riviera. With his sleuthing partner, Lady Bella Montague, in tow, Marius arrives at Torquay’s Grand Hotel. But they soon realise that, behind the shiny exteriors, all is not what it seems. After Thistlethwaite turns Marius’s big night into a character assassination at his expense, he wonders why he was invited in the first place.

Der Priesterdetektiv Pater Brown wird von Scotland Yard beauftragt, einen mysteriösen Fall zu lösen, bei dem sein Glaubensbruder Gabriel verschwunden ist. Da Pater Brown in dieser Angelegenheit persönlich involviert ist und ihm der nötige Weitblick fehlt, bittet er Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Unterstützung. Gemeinsam durchsuchen die Drei die Klosterzelle von Bruder Gabriel und entdecken dabei einen Hohlraum im Boden...

Nachdem Pater Brown, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in Bruder Gabriels Klosterzelle wichtige Unterlagen zu seiner Pflanzenforschung sichergestellt haben, stoßen sie in seinem Chemielabor auf einen entscheidenden Hinweis auf die mittelalterlichen Ruinen im Epping Forest. Schnell machen sie sich auf den Weg dorthin, da sie befürchten, dass Bruder Gabriel dort einem lebensbedrohlichen pflanzlichen Experiment unterzogen wird...

Nachdem Pater Brown, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in Bruder Gabriels Klosterzelle wichtige Unterlagen zu seiner Pflanzenforschung sichergestellt haben, stoßen sie in seinem Chemielabor auf einen entscheidenden Hinweis auf die mittelalterlichen Ruinen im Epping Forest. Schnell machen sie sich auf den Weg dorthin, da sie befürchten, dass Bruder Gabriel dort einem lebensbedrohlichen pflanzlichen Experiment unterzogen wird.

Der Priesterdetektiv Pater Brown wird von Scotland Yard beauftragt, einen mysteriösen Fall zu lösen, bei dem sein Glaubensbruder Gabriel verschwunden ist. Da Pater Brown in dieser Angelegenheit persönlich involviert ist und ihm der nötige Weitblick fehlt, bittet er Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Unterstützung. Gemeinsam durchsuchen die Drei die Klosterzelle von Bruder Gabriel und entdecken dabei einen Hohlraum im Boden.

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of short stories featuring G.K. Chesterton's beloved detective, Father Brown, a humble and unassuming Catholic priest with a sharp mind for solving mysteries. Unlike the typical detectives of his time, Father Brown relies on his deep understanding of human nature, morality, and logic to unravel even the most perplexing cases. This complete collection includes classic stories such as The Blue Cross, where Father Brown first crosses paths with the brilliant thief Flambeau, and The Secret Garden, a dark and puzzling murder mystery.

Der Hilferuf eines Sterbenden erreicht Pater Brown, der daraufhin nach Dartford, Südengland, reist. Im Gasthaus des Mister Howard trifft der Pater auf Jayden Elliot, der ihn sogleich vor einem seltsamen Gast warnt. In der darauffolgenden Nacht kommt es im Gasthaus zu einem entsetzlichen Verbrechen. Doch dies ist erst der Auftakt zu weiteren Verwicklungen. Im nahe gelegenen Lagerhaus an der Themse wird kurz darauf ein Toter gefunden. Pater Brown ermittelt, noch bevor die Polizei den Tatort erreicht. Alles läuft auf eine Konfrontation mit dem Mörder hinaus.

Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thriller writing (Stephen King). Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a...

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Dieses Buch enthält 12 seiner schönsten Fälle. Inhalt: Das blaue Kreuz / Der geheime Garten / Die verdächtigen Tritte / Israel Gows Ehre / Der Unsichtbare / Missgestaltet / Die Sternschnuppen / Die Sünden des Prinzen Saradin / Der Hammer Gottes / Das Auge des Apoll / Das Zeichen des zerbrochenen Schwertes / Die drei Todeswerkzeuge