Showing results for "Vienna" in Mystery

Per una fortunata coincidenza Ernestine Kirsch, insegnante di latino in pensione e grande amante dell’operetta, ha due biglietti omaggio per la prima de La giacca gialla, di Franz Lehár, al Theater an der Wien. Decide così di invitare l’amico farmacista Anton Böck che, pur detestando l’operetta, accetta di accompagnarla per trascorrere una serata insieme a lei.

Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests… Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, has also been tempted by Tatiana.

Was würdest du tun, wenn dein liebster Mensch plötzlich spurlos verschwände? Würdest du nicht Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen? Dein Albtraum wird wahr... ... wenn jene, von denen du Hilfe erwartest, deine Gegner sind. Der charismatische, aber unerfahrene Privatdetektiv Andorian van Anders wird beauftragt, eine vermisste Studentin zu suchen. Das Ausmaß dieses Falls kann er nicht im Mindesten erahnen. Auch die härteste Kommissarin des Wiener LKA, Danny Friedmann, wird plötzlich in die Geschehnisse involviert.

Set against the enchanting background of post war Vienna, with its beautiful palaces and gardens, its disenchanted residents and scars of war, E.C.R. Lorac constructs a characteristic detective story, sure to puzzle and excite. This exceedingly rare mystery, first published in 1956, makes its triumphant return for the first time since its original appearance.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Lottie Sprigg and her employer, Mrs. Moore, are guests at Vienna's opulent Schönbrunn Palace. But their visit goes awry when the corpse of a renowned psychoanalyst is found in the grounds. There's a handful of suspects and-tragically for Mrs. Moore—one of them is her beloved Prince Manfred.

Die Special Agents Jeremiah Cotton und Philippa Decker werden nach Wien gerufen. Ihr Auftrag: Sie sollen einen wichtigen Zeugen sicher in die USA zurückgeleiten. Der Mann ist kein geringerer als Marek Kompowski, der ehemalige Buchhalter eines Mafiabosses, gegen den das FBI schon seit Jahren erfolglos ermittelt. Doch plötzlich verlangt Kompowski für seine Aussage eine Gegenleistung. Cotton und Decker sollen seinen entführten Sohn finden. Für die beiden Agents beginnt ein tödlicher Tanz auf blutigem Parkett.

Vienna, aprile 1711. Da dieci anni una guerra rovinosa insanguina l'Europa. Solo la capitale asburgica conserva miracolosamente la sua opulenza: mentre carestia e devastazione cancellano un'intera epoca, a Vienna si mangia, si beve e si balla. Il garzone protagonista di Imprimatur e Secretum, che in Italia si era ormai ridotto alla vita di stenti dello spazzacamino, trova salvezza proprio nella città imperiale: Atto Melani, agente segreto del Re Sole, gli ha saldato un antico debito. I due vecchi amici si ritrovano, ma troppe cose sono cambiate.

State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the Ministry for State Security. No one else quite trusts him, but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course.