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The Azad Hind Fauj plans to set up the Azad Hind Bank at Port Blair, after the liberation of the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the British. However, the treasure and men sent to open the branch are mysteriously lost. A British police officer is on a dangerous mission to acquire a mysterious weapon in a forbidden island on Nicobar, which can help them win the WWII. The clue to finding this liquid is hidden in a poem.

A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: $10.25 million in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin.

London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris. Mlle La Victoire, a beautiful French cabaret star writes that...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a...

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king. With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; women in...

Fresh out of high school and off to college, Cassie thought she had the world by its tail, and then she met Mike. Tall, handsome, and a police detective to boot, he swept her off her feet and into a whirlwind relationship that led to an engagement ring. But things aren't always as they seem, and Cassie comes to discover that Mike has a dark side. When she learns just how dark it can be, she comes face-to-face with the greatest forward she could imagine, and it leaves her burned and scarred for the rest of her life.

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean. Ferocious Hurricane Mabel is predicted to pass harmlessly amongst the islands of the Caribbean. But David Wyatt has developed a sixth sense about hurricanes. He is convinced that Mabel will change course to strike the island of San Fernandez and its capital, St Pierre. But nobody believes him, and the hurricane is only one of the problems that threaten San Fernandez....

Ein mutmaßlicher Giftmord an einem Chirurgen gibt Scotland Yard Rätsel auf, so dass bald Holmes und Watson hinzugezogen werden. Es scheint ein Motiv zu fehlen, zumindest auf den ersten Blick. Tiefergehende Nachforschungen führen Holmes an die Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, wo er bald einem veritablen Medizinskandal auf der Spur ist - und Watson mit den dunklen Seiten seines Berufsstands konfrontiert wird.

A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed master of action and suspense. A rolling for Knox. is how the journalists describe the Presidential motorcade as it enters San Francisco across the Golden Gate. Even the ever-watchful FBI believe it is impregnable - as it has to be with the President and two Arab potentates aboard. But halfway across the bridge the unthinkable happens. Before the eyes of the world a master criminal pulls off the most spectacular kidnapping in modern times....

The assignment begins with a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. The desolate terrain is obstacle enough. But when Stewart realises he has been double-crossed and that the opposition is gaining ground, his simple mission seems impossible....

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime...

An action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Malta. The Scarperers, a brilliantly organised gang which gets long-term inmates out of prison, spring a notorious Russian double agent. The trail leads Owen Stannard to Malta and to the suave killer masterminding the gang. Face to face at last with his opponents, Stannard must try to outwit both men - who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by his death....

When a sniper leaves Ben Hope's friend fighting for his life, the former SAS major declares war on the men responsible. But what begins as a straightforward revenge mission gets complicated when a mysterious letter reveals Ben to be the real target. And his isn't the only name on a crazed killer's list. Professor Anna Manzini has no idea she's in grave danger from a man she'd thought dead. She's on the cusp of a major discovery: the location of the lost Babylon idol, a golden statue of immeasurable value.

So einen Fall hatte Sherlock Holmes noch nie: Vom Planeten Osikka sind angeblich alle Siedler und Siedlerinnen verschwunden. Wo die 26.000 Menschen geblieben sind, ist ein Rätsel. In den verwaisten Gebäuden lauert etwas, das jenseits aller Logik zu sein scheint.

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the Pacific. When Mark Trevelyan dies on a journey to a remote Pacific atoll, the verdict that it was natural causes doesn’t convince his brother, Mike. The series of violent attacks that follows only adds to his suspicions. Just two clues...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in South America. Jeremy Wheale’s well-ordered life is blasted apart when his brother is murdered. The killer was after a family heirloom – an antique gold tray – which sets Wheale on a trail from Devon to the tropical rainforest of...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Diesmal muss sich der Meisterdetektiv mit einem scheinbar banalen Fall abgeben: Wettbetrug beim Pferderennen. Doch die Pferde sind künstlich, die Kriminellen kaltblütig und ein Verdächtiger ist bald mausetot!

Die galaktischen Fälle des Sherlock Holmes (Band 6): Der großartige Sherlock Holmes braucht nicht auf die Wiederauferstehung des Fleisches zu warten! Über 200 Jahre nach seinem Ableben benötigt die Crew des Raumschiffes Ultimo-1 dringend einen cleveren Detektiv und reist in die Vergangenheit, um ihn abzuholen. Leicht irritiert vom technischen Fortschritt und teils lockeren Sitten, kann Holmes dennoch seine Logik zielgerichtet einsetzen und knifflige Fälle lösen, denn das Böse lauert immer und überall...

Die galaktischen Fälle des Sherlock Holmes (Band 10): Der großartige Sherlock Holmes braucht nicht auf die Wiederauferstehung des Fleisches zu warten! Über 200 Jahre nach seinem Ableben benötigt die Crew des Raumschiffes Ultimo-1 dringend einen cleveren Detektiv und reist in die Vergangenheit, um ihn abzuholen. Leicht irritiert vom technischen Fortschritt und teils lockeren Sitten, kann Holmes dennoch seine Logik zielgerichtet einsetzen und knifflige Fälle lösen, denn das Böse lauert immer und überall...