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1865. A passenger train stands in York station. Jack Follis, the guard, patrols the platform to make sure that everyone is safely aboard. Returning to the brake van to load a box into it, he is alarmed by a smell of burning. Before he can find the cause, there is an explosion and the van is engulfed in flames. Responding to summons from the North-Eastern Railway, Robert Colbeck and Victor Leeming are sent to investigate. The two are split on whether a murder has taken place. Although the information they received was scant, Colbeck is convinced this is a murder case.

1938. A pochi giorni dall'attesa visita del Führer, il commissario Alberto Sorrentino viene richiamato con urgenza a Napoli per indagare sulla morte di tre ragazze vittime di un tagliagole, che ha lasciato sui loro corpi incisioni incomprensibili e sulla scena del crimine un messaggio altrettanto misterioso. Sei anni prima, Sorrentino aveva risolto dei casi simili e il questore Massari spera che possa dare una svolta anche a questa indagine che sta mettendo a dura prova la questura.

Am berühmten Elite-Internat Eton kommt es zu einem mysteriösen Todesfall. Holmes, der dort gerade einen Lehrauftrag im Bereich Chemische Studien innehat, hegt sogleich einen Verdacht. Hat es die Schule mit einem genialen jungen Giftmörder zu tun…?

Während Holmes und Watson die Begebenheiten im Stephansdom untersuchen, wird einer der Verschwörer von der Polizei gefasst. Die Wiener Ermittler erpressen von ihm unter Gewaltmaßnahmen Informationen über die restliche Gruppe.

In 1943, Charlie Chaplin is far from the most popular man in America. His communist sympathies and romantic indiscretions with young women have enraged everyone from right-wing radicals and the Ku Klux Klan to furious fathers. But when a knife-wielding intruder breaks into his house one night, the maniac isn't talking politics. He demands Chaplin stop making his latest black comedy about a man who murders wealthy women for their money - and specifically tells him to stay away from one Fiona Sullivan.

Um an das Gold der Roten Schlange in der Bank of Ireland zu gelangen, benötigt das Team McLair den zweiten Schlüssel, der in den Händen der Fälscherin Tessa Prendergast liegt. Cody Roche und Wayne McLair dringen gemeinsam in das Prendergast-Anwesen ein, doch landet Wayne schnell in einem Käfig. Dem Tod ins Auge blickend bleibt ihm keine andere Wahl, als sein Leben den Schatten anzuvertrauen ...

Um an das Gold der Roten Schlange in der Bank of Ireland zu gelangen, benötigt das Team McLair den zweiten Schlüssel, der in den Händen der Fälscherin Tessa Prendergast liegt. Cody Roche und Wayne McLair dringen gemeinsam in das Prendergast-Anwesen ein, doch landet Wayne schnell in einem Käfig. Dem Tod ins Auge blickend bleibt ihm keine andere Wahl, als sein Leben den Schatten anzuvertrauen.

May, 1924. It's been months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted . . . and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she's too busy making her academic parents turn in their graves with her new job writing painfully historically inaccurate scenarios for Foremost Studios. So when one of Kitty's old flames calls Emma and tells her it's imperative he meet with Kitty that morning, she's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it.

England, December 1927. Arrogant Edward Linton has returned from years of living in Paris. But has he changed? Because, if not, the consequences for him might be deadly. When Mrs. Kate Forbes and her academically minded niece, Lady Jane Scott. are invited to a gathering at Linton Hall, the last thing they expect is to become amateur sleuths pitting their wits against Inspector Ridley of Scotland Yard to solve a shocking murder. Faced with an ensemble of social climbers, eccentrics, and schemers, our daring duo must untangle a web of secrets, lies and deceit if they're to discover whodunnit.

For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations. The first is her repentant father's offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his colleague on a new expedition. The second is a chance to enter the world of New York's wealthiest patrons who have been victims of art fraud.