Showing results for "The Palace" in Crime Fiction

India 1922. When a tiger, turned man-eater, starts terrorising the northern villages of Ranipur, Governor Sir George Jardine dispatches Joe Sandilands, war hero and Scotland Yard detective, to join in a hunt for the beast as the guest of the maharajah. But Joe's suspicions are soon roused about the true nature of his trip. The maharajah is dying and his succession is unclear. The first heir to the throne has already died in a panther-wrestling incident and a second violent death occurs as Joe approaches the city.

When one of the ladies in residence at Hampton Court Palace fails to answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate. What Mrs Bramble finds sends shockwaves through the whole palace: Miss Philomena Franklin, slumped over her desk, a knife in her back.

The Vincents' nightclubs are popping up all over London. The O'Connells plan to get their hands on the Palaces...but gypsies have no place in the Vincents' business. Disregarding the warnings and the rumours of the disappearance of the entire McManners family, the O'Connells plot a scam so cruel even their own kind shuns them. Ruby Vincent is now 15, and she may look like her aunt Francesca, but she still has Jesse Right's blood running through her veins. Turning her back on the family, she goes in search of the truth.

The third in the best-selling series featuring Inspector Carlyle. When Inspector John Carlyle discovers a disorientated girl in a park near Buckingham Palace, he takes it upon himself to find out who she is and where she's from. His hunt for the identity of this lost girl takes him from Ukrainian gangsters in North London to the lower reaches of the British aristocracy. Soon, the inspector is on the trail of a child-trafficking ring that stretches from Kiev to London, and back to the palace itself...

Ausgerechnet kurz vor den Feierlichkeiten zur Krönung von Elisabeth II. kommt es im Buckingham Palast zu einem Mord. In diesem Umfeld der Intrige schwebt auch die Königin in spe in allerhöchster Gefahr. So ist auch Elisabeths Mutter in Sorge, dass jemand nach dem Leben der Tochter trachtet. Verdeckt soll nun Mimi Rutherfurt im Palace ermitteln. Ihr wird schnell klar, dass der Mord eine Art böse Generalprobe war. Der Mörder treibt sich noch unter den Gästen der Feier herum und fordert Mimi und ihr Gespür bis auf Äußerste.

When honorable ex-con Jack attempts to repay an unstable criminal who saved his life, he finds himself and his new girlfriend caught in the middle of a mob war.