Showing results for "Victor" in Traditional Detectives

Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box, Hazell hatches a daring plan to retrieve a highly sensitive government document before it reaches the German Ambassador. In...

Fifteen golden age railway-themed stories of mystery and adventure, many featuring Thorpe Hazell—bibliophile, food and exercise crank, and railway expert—one of the first “specialty detectives” in mystery fiction. Including tales of smuggled cigars and stolen diamonds; a vital document in a German dispatch box; a child disappeared from a train; a runaway engine; and some clever signaling tricks, not all of them of the railway variety....

Victor Hautin, "Inspecteur Victor" de la Brigade mondaine, est un policier, habile, retors, hargneux. Apprécié de sa hiérarchie en dépit d'un esprit assez indépendant, il a vu sa promotion pour le poste d'inspecteur de la Sûreté compromise par des scandales portant sur sa vie privée, tumultueuse.

Owen Bradwell is a courageous naval officer who returns to England in the 1930s. He believes that his career is over because he has become colour-blind – but with Nazi Germany an increasing menace, the authorities cannot do without Bradwell, and he is assigned a special mission.

A former acquaintance of Bradwell's has been trapped into betraying his country's secrets by a Nazi agent. Bradwell is sent to spy on the spy, and travels down the Thames on a surveillance trip. Things soon take an unexpected turn, and Bradwell finds himself in the company of a dead man, and a pretty young interior decorator called Sally. Will Bradwell triumph over the villains, and will he and Sally fall in love?

Una magnífica novela sobre el pasado que siempre vuelve. Unos personajes que luchan por volver a empezar y seguir siempre adelante. Germinal Ibarra es un policía desencantado al que persiguen los rumores y su propia conciencia. Hace tres años que decidió arrastrar su melancolía hasta una comisaría de La Coruña, donde pidió el traslado después de que la resolución del sonado caso del asesinato de la pequeña Amanda lo convirtiera en el héroe que él nunca quiso ni sintió ser.

He's respected - not very respected - chief had been grumbling all the way from London, and now the speeding Alvis was well into the wild and hilly country of Derbyshire, he was more caustic than ever. When Chief Inspector Bill 'Ironsides' Cromwell accepts an invitation to spend Christmas at his sergeant's family seat, Cloon Castle, he doesn't realise the mysteries he'll encounter. First, there is a mysterious figure who leaves no footprints, despite the heavy snow.

Dylan Scott has problems. Dismissed in disgrace from the police force for assaulting a suspect, he has no job, his wife has thrown him out and - worse luck - his mother has moved in. So when Holly Champion begs him to investigate the disappearance of her mother 13 years ago, he can’t say no - even though it means taking up residence in the dreary Lancashire town of Dawson’s Clough for the duration. Dylan’s inquiries turn up plenty of potential suspects....

After his ex-wife bled to death in a bathtub, covered in his fingerprints, the case against Aleksander Kaminski seemed open and shut. Though sentenced to life in prison, he swears he's innocent, a claim supported by his current wife. Private investigator Dylan Scott finds himself drawn back to dreary Lancashire in a search for justice.

Ten months ago, Samantha Hunt set off for work…and was never seen again. Despite the statistics of cold cases, Dylan Scott wants to believe the young woman's alive - and not just because her father, his client, is desperate to find his missing daughter before he dies of cancer. By all accounts Sam was a lovely girl, devoted to her younger stepsisters, well-liked at her work, in love with her boyfriend. But as usual not everything is as it seems in sleepy Dawson's Clough. Sam's boyfriend has a violent past.

Conan Doyle creó al conocido detective llamado "Sherlock Holmes", junto a su compañero, el "Doctor Watson". Holmes es el ejemplo por excelencia del investigador deductivo y cerebral. Se destaca en sus historias por la capacidad para leer las pistas y los indicios.