Showing results for "Marlowe" in Crime Fiction

Barnes has left the Minneapolis PD and begins a new chapter of her life in Lake County, Minnesota, as Sheriff Sam MacDonald’s chief detective. The murder of a young man on the shores of Lake Superior sets off a series of seemingly unrelated crimes that challenge Barnes and MacDonald and include the kidnapping of a mining executive and the use of deadly chemical weapons. Despite the FBI’s involvement, Barnes takes center stage with a lively cast of new characters who will keep the listener guessing and second guessing. And, of course, Barnes is still obsessed with Judge Robin Gildemeister.

Christopher Marlowe turns government spy in these four comedy crime dramas. Murder and intrigue are all in a day's work for Kit Marlowe, England's leading playwright and undercover agent in Her Majesty's Secret Service. Amid the squalor and splendour of Elizabethan London, he probes a series of baffling mysteries, aided by his trusty underworld accomplice Bartholomew Ratsbane.

A Hawaiian caper on the trail of the fabulous historic relic. Marlowe finds murder and intrigue...including a dead Philip Marlowe, found in a lily pond! A good dramatic conclusion on the Pali of Oahu. It started at dawn in a Los Angeles taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the pacific all because of a dustman with $50,000, a corpse in a lily pond and an oriental with a chauffer who wanted a cloak made of nothing but feathers....

Special Agent Constant Marlowe is tasked with taking over the investigation of an obsessed serial killer trolling the small town of Clark Valley in the quiet—and eerie—plains of the Midwest. Two female victims in quick succession, the same brutal MO, and every indication that victim number three is only days away. Also in the killer’s scope is Constant herself. When she interviews a local family who may be potential witnesses, she leads the devil to their doorstep, throwing their lives into chaos.

Wo steckt Crystal Kingsley? Ist sie wirklich mit ihrem Liebhaber nach Mexiko durchgebrannt? Um seinen Ruf zu schützen, beauftragt ihr Ehemann Detektiv Marlowe mit der Suche nach ihr. Fern von seinem Stammgebiet Los Angeles findet Marlowe sich an einem Bergsee wieder. Fast schon Urlaub. Doch da bekommt er es mit mehreren, nur scheinbar blauäugigen Blondinen zu tun. Der Ferienort wird zur Gänsehautidylle. Der Showdown mit einer korrupten Welt lässt nicht auf sich warten.

General Sternwood ist steinalt, steinreich und hat zwei schöne, wilde Töchter. Die aufreizende Carmen wird erpresst, und Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe soll die Sache aus der Welt schaffen...

They never came tougher than Marlowe, a cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novels.

The Sternwood family, immortalized in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, is in trouble again. Lovely Vivian's psychotic sister, Carmen, has disappeared from the sanitarium, and Vivian herself has once again fallen into the clutches of the shady underworld character Eddie Mars. Enter Philip Marlowe, the original tough-but-tender private eye. He saved the Sternwoods once before. The question is: Can he do it again?