Showing results for "The Park" in Traditional Detectives

When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn’t satisfied that Albert Smith’s death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a baffling mystery which crosses continents from deepest South Africa to the wilds of northern Scotland, where an almost identical crime appears to have been perpetrated.

The final audiobook in Maitland's critically acclaimed Belltree Trilogy. Harry Belltree's obsessive pursuit of justice has cost him everything - his job in homicide, his marriage and his newborn child. He has nothing left to lose, or so he thinks. Then his estranged wife disappears, leaving their baby daughter behind. The police think Jenny has murdered a man. Harry thinks she's in danger.

An early-morning jogger is murdered in Hyde Park. It's the center of London, but no one saw him enter the park, no one saw him die. He carries no identification, only a water-logged phone. As the pieces unravel, it's clear that the dead man had a history of deception. Is the murderer one of those that loved him? Or was it someone with a vengeance? It's proving difficult for DCI Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Homicide to find the guilty person—not that they'll cease to search for the truth, not even after one suspect confesses.

Having been widowed in the First World War, Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life at the home of her wealthy parents in genteel Oak Park, Illinois. Although she does her best to avoid emotional entanglements, Elizabeth forms a close friendship with gentle Mr. Anthony, who owns the local antiques store. But tragedy strikes when Mr. Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop. Why would anyone murder a mild-mannered antiques dealer? A robbery gone wrong? A gangland execution? Could it have something to do with the mysterious customer who bought a gold pocket watch?

London, 1812. At a fashionable address in leafy Mayfair, a far cry from Detective Stephen Lavender’s usual haunts, a man is found dead in his room. He has been brutally stabbed, but the door is locked from the inside, and the weapon is missing. The deceased is David MacAdam, an Essex businessman with expensive tastes. As Lavender and Constable Ned Woods travel between London and Chelmsford seeking to understand MacAdam’s final hours and unearth the grisly truth, they uncover a tangled web of deceit behind his stylish facade.

The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light: Was he actually a woman? At last the master - or rather, mistress - of disguise puts pen to paper to reveal this decades-long deception, and in so doing, discovers another fact she kept secret even from herself. The complex mind of the brilliant consulting detective is finally opened to the public in the chronicle of a new case never recorded by Dr. Watson - a case featuring Constance Moriarty, the beguiling daughter of Holmes’ infamous nemesis.

Geht es im Central Park um, genauer gesagt auf Belvedere Castle, der Burg inmitten des Parks? Oder sind die zahlreichen Toten der letzten Zeit auf dem Gelände eher das Resultat diverser Selbstmorde? Geht das Gespenst des Architekten der Burg - Calvert Vaux - dort um und tötet alle, die dessen Ruhe stören? Professor van Dusen glaubt zu keinem Zeitpunkt an solch einen Spuk, lässt sich wiederum aber auch nicht dazu erweichen, Hutchinson Hatch in den Park zu folgen und dem Journalisten zu helfen. Warum nur?

In Londons berühmtem Hyde Park geht ein Bogenschütze um, der die Erholungsoase mit seinen Morden in ein Zentrum des Schreckens verwandelt. Blitzschnell und erbarmungslos schlägt er zu. Zwischen den Opfern scheint es keinerlei Verbindungen zu geben. Scotland Yard hat es also offensichtlich mit einem geistig Verwirrten zu tun. Doch wie stellt man einen derartigen Psychopathen? Inspector Kenneth Stafford kommt hinter das unglaubliche Geheimnis.

Is the ‘perfect murder’ possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable—even to the most astute investigator? In this unique collection, legendary crime writers Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each attempt to create the unsolvable murder, which Superintendent Cornish of the CID then attempts to unravel.

Brought to you by Penguin. The first girl came back. The next might not be so lucky. 'A real gripper of a read' Peter James 'Masterful, engrossing, twisty' Rosamund Lupton 'All the Rage cements Cara Hunter's place as one of our most exciting crime writers' John Marrs...

A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar’s daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by...

Im Jahr 1911 kehrt der Paläontologe Professor Challenger von einer Expedition aus dem Amazonas zurück und behauptet, dort lebende Dinosaurier entdeckt zu haben...