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Nella Londra degli anni Cinquanta, l’armonia magica del Natale sembra avvolgere ogni cosa. Eppure, in uno squallido appartamento di Islington, si è consumato un delitto orrendo. La vittima è un’anziana e misteriosa principessa russa decaduta. Dei gioielli di famiglia non c’è traccia. Così come del nipote Ivan. Unico indizio, il nome di un gioielliere locale…

Eppure molti interrogativi attendono ancora una risposta: dov’è finito il nipote della principessa? E cosa può significare il biglietto con il nome e l’indirizzo di un gioielliere locale rinvenuto nella stanza della defunta?

Im Krankenhaus weichen Watson und Holmes nicht von Marys Seite, während Lestrade den verhafteten Sommerset ins Polizeigefängnis überstellt. Als Mary endlich das Bewusstsein wiedererlangt, kann sie sich an nichts erinnern.

Susan has always taken comfort in the peaceful rhythm of life on the Isle of Wight. But when her daughter Zoe invites her to a Halloween ghost walk at a remote castle, Susan has a sense of foreboding she can’t quite shake. It’s meant to be a bit of fun for the group of old school friends, the thrill of an overnight stay behind the castle’s ancient gates. But when one of them is found dead, the weekend away takes a sinister turn. With the castle locked down and the group trapped inside, it soon becomes clear the killer would have been amongst them.

When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki--with motive, access and opportunity--was the #1 suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires Kinsey Millhone, a...

Charles has been gone for months, and Mimi's not feeling like being a private detective anymore. She's had it with the liars and the cheats. Speaking of liars and cheats, when she takes on a missing person case for a new client, she's thrown into a web of lies and deceit that ends in murder. Come along as, once again, Mimi Capurro butts heads with her homicide detective boyfriend, Nick Christianson, when their cases cross paths. What surprises do her client and employees have in store?

In this rich, complex and gripping tale, Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested to its utmost as the private detective unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal--and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "'G' is for guilt and guile, for greed and...

1950s Staffordshire. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson. Kelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for its impeccable sense of place and detail, and for the emotional weight of its central crime. The novel is part of a shift from the cosiness of crime novels before to mysteries characterised by their psychological interest and affecting realism. An influential classic.

Der Mörder, der bald nur noch "Jack the Ripper" genannt werden wird, verfeinert seine Vorgehensweise. Das zeigt nach Opfer Nummer zwei - Emma Elizabeth Smith - auch sein drittes Opfer, Martha Tabram. Seinem Verfolger Sherlock Holmes gelingt es immer besser, neben dem "Modus Operandi", wie und wann der "Ripper" zuschlägt, auch die zahllosen Symbolismen in den Namen der Opfer und der gezielt ausgesuchten Tatorte zu deuten. Was aber nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen kann, dass die Morde des "Rippers" - wie auch der nächste an Mary Ann Nichols - zu immer grausameren Schauspielen werden.

Noch einen "Ripper"-Mord erwartet Sherlock Holmes. Doch der wird alles andere in den Schatten stellen! Allerdings ist "Jack the Ripper", wie alle Welt den so brutal wirkenden Mörder von Whitechapel längst nennt, durch die große Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit zur Untätigkeit verdammt. Das ändert sich einen letzten grausamen Abend lang, als ganz London auf den unerwarteten Rücktritt des Polizeichefs Sir Charles Warren starrt. Die Chance für den "Ripper", sein Werk zu vollenden - weshalb er sich als sein achtes Opfer am Abend des 8. Novembers 1888 eine wahre "Mary Jane Kelly" sucht.

With all the elements of a timeless mystery, Mary Roberts Rinehart first published The Window at the White Cat in 1910. John Knox is an attorney, not a detective, but Margery turns to him when her father, Allan Fleming, the State Treasurer, does not return home. There are reasons it should not be made known that he is missing. Where is he?

Im Krankenhaus weichen Watson und Holmes nicht von Marys Seite, während Lestrade den verhafteten Sommerset ins Polizeigefängnis überstellt. Als Mary endlich das Bewusstsein wiedererlangt, kann sie sich an nichts erinnern.

Crime just seems to follow lottery-winning couple Willy and Alvirah Meehan wherever they go. But now Alvirah can sleuth to her heart's content! In this collection of stories, the couple is targeted and pursued by ex-cons after winning the lottery in "Plumbing for Willy," they discover the body of actress Fiona Winter in their New York apartment in "The Body in the Closet," and they help Cynthia Lathem solve the murder of her stepfather in "Death at the Cape." The aura of suspense remains sky-high in two additional stories, "Stowaway" and "Milk Run."

The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and, except for a 1924 silent film based on it, was virtually unknown - having been eclipsed by Shelley's more popular works - until a scholarly revival in the 1960s. It contains semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Mörderische Provence. Marine Bonnet und Antoine Verlaque lieben das neue, angesagte Restaurant "La Fontaine" unweit vom Cours Mirabeau, der berühmten Hauptstraße von Aix-en-Provence. Sie haben vor kurzem geheiratet und sind dort häufig zu Gast. Als der Besitzer noch ein paar Freisitze einrichten möchte, bekommt er Ärger mit einigen Nachbarn. Kurz darauf entdeckt sein Tellerwäscher unweit des Brunnens im Garten eine Leiche und plötzlich sind die Hälfte der Einwohner des noblen Innenstadtviertels Mazarin des Mordes verdächtig.

A wealthy woman needs to find her sister to settle a will. It looks routine... boring. Still, business is slow and even a private investigator has bills to pay, so Kinsey Millhone takes the case. But this is not routine and the deeper Kinsey digs the trickier things get. The client tries to call...

Watson erreicht die anglikanische Kirche von Saint Mary. Der dortige Priester nimmt ihn freundlich auf und weiß einiges über die familiäre Vergangenheit von Bruder Emanuel zu berichten.

Watson erreicht die anglikanische Kirche von Saint Mary. Der dortige Priester nimmt ihn freundlich auf und weiß einiges über die familiäre Vergangenheit von Bruder Emanuel zu berichten.

Mord in Aix-en-Provence. Der betagte Postangestellte René Rouquet wurde in seiner Wohnung ermordet. Hier hatte der berühmte Maler Paul Cézanne einst seine letzten Lebensjahre verbracht. Rouquet hatte eine alte Leinwand entdeckt, auf der eine junge Provenzalin dargestellt ist. Ein echter Cézanne? Aber wer ist die lächelnde Frau auf dem Gemälde? Und wer hat Rouquet ermordet? Richter Antoine Verlaque und die schöne Juraprofessorin Marine Bonnet stehen vor einem komplizierten Fall ... Ein charmanter Krimi voller Lavendelduft, Kochkunst und Liebe.

After Sir Robert's injury from the battle of Waterloo begins troubling him again, his wife Lucy insists they relocate from the village of Kurland St. Mary to Bath, along with her sister Anna, so that Robert can take the waters and recover. At the Roman baths, Robert befriends an elderly and pugnacious businessman, Sir William Benson, ennobled by the Crown for his service to industry. Their acquaintance is short-lived, however, when the man is found drowned in the baths. Robert vows to find his killer, with Lucy's aid.

When Athena disappeared from St. Polycarp's College at Oxford, her friends assumed she had run away - to hide from her overbearing, wealthy Greek family, or even to marry some unacceptable young man. To their shock, they find out at their 10-year reunion that her body has been discovered in an excavation. Private investigator Regan Reilly, Athena's former college roommate, is determined to track down her friend's killer.