Showing results for "Gold" in International Mystery & Crime

As the first in line for the Saudi throne, Prince Tefwik Hassan cannot afford public embarrassment. So when he loses his fortune in a failed scheme to corner the world’s reserves of silver, Hassan is left scrambling. To recoup his millions, he devises an intricate plan that spans the globe and involves players from the upper echelons of both American and Soviet power: Hassan begins buying gold.

Retired army Sergeant Boonzie McCulloch travels to the wintry Highlands of Scotland to help a relative in danger but is soon deeper in it himself than he’d bargained for. Ruthless, controlling thugs are running amok across the region and will kill anybody to get their hands on a historic hoard of lost gold treasure....

When WWII ended, the allies discovered that a huge amount of gold bullion plundered by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had gone missing. Some believed the gold had been hidden in a train box car in Poland. Others that it was secreted in Lake Toplitz in the Austrian Alps. And a few thought it was buried in the Republic of Ireland, which was neutral during the war.

Ein Todesfall erschüttert die frühsommerliche Idylle auf Norderney: Am Strand wird die Leiche eines Apothekers gefunden. War es ein Unfall oder Mord? Letzteres kann von den Behörden nicht ausgeschlossen werden, weshalb man Rieke Bernstein vom LKA anfordert. Zusammen mit einer Journalistin stößt die Kommissarin auf eine jahrhundertealte Fehde zwischen der Familie des toten Apothekers und einer Hoteldynastie, die offenbar schon früher Tote gefordert hat.

The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is the backdrop of this tale about embezzlement and fraud, gold medals, disco, parting, marriage, and romance, with Brad Withers providing one his classic turns, Everett Gabler being Everett, and skiing and murder that John Putnam Thatcher solves by following the money trail.

Darko Dawson has just been promoted to chief inspector in the Ghana Police Service - the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. When Dawson arrives at the Obuasi headquarters, he finds it in complete disarray.

Durante años, las aguas más peligrosas del mundo han sido las que bañan la costa del golfo de Guinea. Cuando el país más rico de África quiere seguir vendiendo su crudo, solo una naviera se atreve a sacarlo de allí. Pero bajo una premisa: su propio barco de guerra protegerá la exportación. Absorto en su vida personal tras la victoria en Somalia, Pablo se ve arrastrado otra vez al Albatros, donde le espera una trama más oscura y frenética si cabe.