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Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world’s largest private collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, for the unveiling of George Cardavan’s latest acquisition: a bone fide Egyptian mummy. When a bloodstained body is discovered beside the empty sarcophagus, Ishmael is dismissive of the theory that the mummy’s curse is to blame.

Detective stories and novels now have a special place in English literature. No one has ever created a character as memorable as his detective Sherlock Holmes in Conantoy, who wrote brilliant detective stories through the famous English magazine 'Strand'. Detective Govindan has become a household name in Tamil Nadu just like Sherlock Holmes who inspires everyone from students to senior citizens.

Two-time Emmy Award nominee ( The Good Wife) and Audie Award winner for best narrator Alan Cumming here narrates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first-rate Yuletide whodunit "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle". Cumming adds his personal flair to the mystery classic and turns in an outstanding performance of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his pal, Watson.

A Vietnam special-forces veteran investigates a government conspiracy to build a superweapon that could alter the very fabric of reality. In San Diego, a cadre of American scientists toils on a weapon with the power to make things flit in and out of reality. If perfected, Project Vortex will make the atomic bomb look like a bow and arrow. They test it on a 727 on its way into Kennedy airport, and the experiment is successful, save for two dangerous aberrations.

Like most families, they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.

Carter Roth, Angestellter in einer Firma für Unterwassertechnik, stürzt während der Arbeit von einem Gerüst und wird schwerverletzt in ein Krankenhaus eingewiesen. Doch war es tatsächlich nur ein Arbeitsunfall? Schließlich war Carter Roth schon zuvor in eine Reihe merkwürdiger Unfälle verwickelt. Auf Bitten der Schwester übernimmt Sherlock Holmes den Fall. Schnell wird klar, dass in der Firma etwas aufbewahrt wird, das von großem Interesse für den Zirkel der Sieben sein könnte.

Brought to you by Penguin. Abduction. Murder. Conspiracy. When Jack Morgan is invited to the decadent Monaco coast, he thinks it's the perfect location for a new Private office. But the holiday is cut short after his partner, Justine, is kidnapped. Willing to do anything to get Justine back...

Fifteen grippling short stories of Arsène Lupin: one of the most famous and intriguing figures of French detective literature. He was created by Maurice Leblanc, a brilliant journalist, writer and storyteller, and is the hero of a total of 24 books, novels and short stories alike. The fictional gentleman thief is a master of disguise, a criminal genius and a moral figure well-set in righting a few wrongs himself when Justice can't be bothered.

As long-buried memories from his hidden past begin to resurface, Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny feel compelled to return to the small country town where Ishmael crash-landed in 1963; the place where his memories began. Norton Hedley is no ordinary town. Apparitions, sudden disappearances, sightings of unusual beasts: For centuries, the place has been plagued by a series of inexplicable events. Ishmael’s first task is to track down local author Vincent Smith, the one man he believes may have some answers. Ishmael and Penny aren’t the only ones seeking the mysterious Mr. Smith. 

A troubled young woman, Miss Mary Sutherland, arrives at 221B Baker Street in distress. Her fiancé, the mysterious Mr. Hosmer Angel, has vanished on their wedding day without a trace. Her stepfather insists there’s no cause for alarm—yet something in the case feels far from ordinary.

The final book of the Feline PI Chronicles. Raven and her best friends Clara and Carmella, go to Melbourne, Australia. They follow the twisted cases of Merrik Doyle. He has dubbed himself her Murdock Foyle.Book 5 of Feline PI...

A funeral on a remote country estate descends into chaos and murder when the deceased proves unexpectedly and most inconveniently alive in this latest Mr. Quayle mystery.England, 1926. Following the death of the Viscount Featherstone, his closest friends and most hated family descend upon his...

A first-class ticket, a fatal blade hidden on a speeding train, and a chilling secret left where nobody would ever think to look - welcome aboard a journey straight into terror. When a gruesome discovery is made beneath the seat of a first-class carriage on the Plymouth Express, a chilling panic...

Un thriller psicológico adictivo sobre secretos familiares, decisiones fatales y heridas que nunca cerraron. Amaia dirige una exitosa empresa, pero ha decidido centrarse en formar una familia. Sofía lucha por sobrevivir tras ser despedida. Carolina mantiene una relación con un hombre casado que le promete más de lo que cumple. Bárbara está enferma, y antes de morir, necesita confesar demasiado. Cuatro mujeres. Cuatro vidas marcadas por el dolor, la pérdida y la culpa.

Kleos Henry Mehlos und Joanna Santow von der Hyde Park Agency sind eingeladen auf Lansdowne Manor in Wimbledon. Der Chef eines hoch bewerteten Start-up-Unternehmens stellt ein sensationelles digitales Produkt vor. Mitten in seiner Keynote stirbt er live unter den Augen von Millionen Zuschauern aus dem Internet. Auf dem prächtigen Herrensitz mit Ballsaal, Park und Wintergarten ermitteln Mehlos & Santow zwischen Lordschaften, Influencern und exzentrischen Persönlichkeiten.

London, 1882. American agents Henry and Johanna McClellan need the help of the World’s End Bureau to find Bruno Schmidt, a cunning lecturer who cajoled a young American woman called Ava into eloping to Europe. Now Ava’s father wants her back. Though the McClellans have followed the missing pair’s trail to London, they can’t find their way around the busy city without help. PI duo Lily and Felix accept the case and soon discover a promising clue regarding Bruno and Ava’s whereabouts.

A man who poisons minds. A young missing American. Mysterious holes on farmland about to be flooded. And three dead bodies. The call from Mr Wolski disturbs Dale. He understands a father’s concern for his missing daughter, but Wolski hovers on the side of obsession. His daughter, Joanna...

A bioship has gone rogue, the crew are dead, and the survivors are lying. Open the hatch and climb aboard the CSS Ariadne, and remember: do not trust anybody. Vatic is a Company empath with a talent for reading people and a habit of being used. When the experimental bioship CSS Ariadne cuts...

Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have gone down in literary history simply for his creation...

A murder inside Chicago's ultra-Orthodox community.A woman arrested for the crime.And the one man who believes the police have the wrong suspect.When Jake Cooper's girlfriend is accused of murder, he begins asking questions inside a community where outsiders rarely see what happens behind closed...