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Isabella, l'amata figlia di Shasa Courtney, gode di tutte le libertà che la Londra degli anni Sessanta può offrire. E quando conosce un uomo affascinante e bellissimo, che le fa una corte spietata, non ha dubbi: perché resistergli? Ma quell'uomo non è un semplice ammiratore: è Ramon de Santiago y Machado, una spia del KGB nota come Volpe dorata, e la sua missione è reclutarla come agente segreto e carpirle preziose informazioni sugli affari segreti di suo padre.

Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job—looking into the background of her cousin’s fiancé, Alfred. Alfred burst into the world of London’s high society, but his answers to questions about his past are decidedly vague. Before Olive can gather more than the basics, a murder occurs at a posh party. Suddenly, every Bright Young Person in attendance is a suspect, and Olive must race to find the culprit because a sly murderer is determined to make sure Olive’s first case is her last.

Band 2 der mehrfach preisgekrönten SPIEGEL-Bestsellerreihe um Journalistin Vera Bergström. Heftige Regenfälle läuten das Ende des Sommers im schwedischen Åre ein. Das führt schließlich zu einem Erdrutsch mit tragischen Folgen. Zeitgleich wird in Stockholm das Armband des vor Jahren in den Bergen verschwundenen Schafzüchters Jonte Andersson gefunden. Neugierig geworden, beginnt Vera zu recherchieren.

September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn’t found a new client. She’s taken a job as a hat model to pay for her poky boarding house room. But then a job offer comes her way—make discreet inquiries about a famous author who’s disappeared. Olive travels to the English countryside to hunt for the missing mystery author. But soon after she arrives in the sleepy village, a body is discovered. Then a second murder focuses the police’s attention on Olive, and she must clear her name before the murderer pens a plot that frames her.

It’s October, 1923, and Olive Belgrave has a new case. Her client, Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses, and she hires Olive to prove her Egyptologist uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates and discovers the truth is much worse—it’s murder. Can Olive debunk the curse and reveal the true culprit before the supposed curse claims another victim?

Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she’s made several friends, including the modern career woman, Minerva, who draws a popular cartoon about a flapper for a London newspaper. But then Minerva comes to Olive for help after catching a glimpse of a disturbing sight—a dead body. At least, that’s what Minerva thought she saw, but there’s not a dead body anywhere in the posh building, and the residents are continuing with their lives as they normally do. Is Minerva seeing things? Is she barmy? Or is there a more sinister explanation?

Всем любителям увлекательных скандинавских детективов, сильных героинь и подробных производственных романов, приоткрывающих тайны работы полиции: «Зелёная пыль», первый роман датской писательницы Сары Блэдель в целой серии детективов о приключениях Луизы Рик. В парке находят труп молодой женщины – она была задушена. На задворках роскошной гостиницы Копенгагена убивают журналиста. Детектив Луиза Рик берется за расследование, и очень скоро обнаруживает, что два преступления очевидно связаны.

Crime, thriller, and noir fans will delight in this fourth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, an exciting series featuring short fiction by legendary writers, past and present. From Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Georges Simenon to Lawrence Block and Sara Paretsky, this unique collection—compiled and edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler—is a captivating mixture of mystery and suspense.

Epäiltyjen määrä tarkentuu kolmeen. Tutkinta saa odottamattoman käänteen, kun Gisela Forsell ja hänen kollegansa pääsevät lähemmäksi totuutta. Puukotusten osoitetaan liittyvän monta vuotta sitten tapahtuneeseen rikokseen. Mutta mikä sai tappajan ilmestymään juuri nyt? Pahaa pyhäinpäivää 3 on jännittävän kolmiosaisen juhlapyhäkalenterin päätösosa.

The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Maori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin - the moko - is worn only by Maori women. So her ethnicity is a given. Finding who murdered her and dumped her body in the pool at the base of Mason's Rock waterfall is DI Nyree Bradshaw's latest case.

Egypten 2000 f.Kr. Hemma hos prästen Imhotep och hans familj råder lugn. Men plötsligt en dag skaffar sig Imhotep en älskarinna, den unga och vackra Nofret. Och från det ögonblicket förändras allt, spänningarna växer mellan familjens medlemmar. En dag leder det till att ett mord begås inom familjen. Tyvärr är det bara det första i en lång rad... Agatha Christie (1890-1976) var en brittisk deckarförfattare och världens bäst säljande författare efter Shakespeare med över 4 miljarder böcker sålda på engelska och andra språk.

In this brief crime novel, set in the days of Lincoln's presidential election, a man responds to a cry for help from a woman who lives in the same block of apartments. She claims that a ring has been stolen from her finger and asks the man to assist her in recovering it.