Showing results for "Swift" in Traditional Detectives

Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny...

England, Summer 1926. When Lord Edgington receives a letter from Hugo Templeton-Swift, a famously rich old man who believes he’s being poisoned, the renowned detective fetches his assistant, his golden retriever, and a full staff of servants and heads off to the countryside to investigate. But when the bodies start falling in the enigmatic manor of Riverside Keep, anyone could be guilty.

Młoda guwernantka Violet Hunter zwraca się do mistrza detektywa Sherlocka Holmesa i jego przyjaciela Dr. Watson o pomoc. Jej nowy pracodawca, pan Charles Rucastle, zachowuje się tak tajemniczo, że podejrzewa ona popełnienie przestępstwa. Dlatego Holmes i Watson udają się do mrocznej willi Krwawa Bukowina i odkrywają zagrażające życiu wydarzenia, które potwierdzają straszne przypuszczenia panny Violet.

As we listen to each character tell their version of the events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds to the final and astonishing denouement of the first, and most magnificent, English detective novel.