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Victor a disparu. Tous les mercredis depuis le divorce, l'enfant est raccompagné par son père chez sa mère. Il aime prendre l'ascenseur tout seul et, par jeu, il appuie sur les boutons, s'arrêtant sur chaque palier avant d'atteindre celui de sa mère, au dernier étage. Mais, ce jour-là, la porte s'ouvre sur une cabine vide. C'est ce qu'essaient de comprendre la commissaire Jeanne Péroni et la capitaine Pauline Brézulier, amies et collègues complices qui vont avoir treize jours pour tenter par tous les moyens de retrouver Victor.

Es war das angesagteste Hotel in London, bis Mord ein Zimmer reservierte. Rätseln Sie mit bei diesem neuen Krimi der USA Today Bestsellerautorin der Glass and Steele Reihe. Dezember 1899. Nach dem Tod ihrer geliebten Großmutter zieht Cleopatra Fox in das Luxushotel ihres entfremdeten Onkels...

Der Mann, der verdreht, aber hip war: Wir schreiben das Jahr 1897, Frankreich ist durch die Dreyfus-Affäre zerrissen. Westminster braucht Sherlock Holmes' Hilfe, um die Ausbreitung des Antisemitismus, der Frankreich erfasst hat, zu verhindern. Ein junger Offizier im Auswärtigen Amt kündigt plötzlich seinen Posten. Seine Frau bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe.

In einer kalten Nacht verschwindet im irischen Dorf Ardnakelty eine junge Frau: Rachel Holohan stand kurz vor der Hochzeit mit dem Sohn des lokalen Großgrundbesitzers, nun treibt sie leblos im Fluss. Alles weist auf einen Selbstmord hin. Ex-Cop Cal Hooper hat hier Freunde, denen er Loyalität schuldet. Seine Verlobte Lena und seine Ziehtochter Trey wollten nie etwas mit Ardnakelty zu tun haben – doch als uralte Fehden aufflammen, geraten sie selbst in die Schusslinie.

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...

This story tells of happenings involved with the Blue Train that runs from London to the Riviera. It involves the murder and theft of expensive jewels of the pampered daughter of a wealthy industrialist. She was wanting very much to have a divorce and this brought about her vicious death that...

The term “sour grapes” is often used in reference to an instance in which someone adopts an attitude to something because they can’t equal it themselves. That was certainly the case when a 20th century critic wrote a derogatory article in the New York Magazine, stating: “Who cares Who...

When the recently orphaned Anne Beddingfield moves to London to live with her late father’s solicitor and his wife, she is ready for adventure to find her, and find her it most certainly does. While waiting for the tube after a failed job interview, Anne witnesses a man fall off the...

Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty...

From domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate. Neal Carey's three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a...

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man’s suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all, Ross Macdonald’s private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of...

When private investigator Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who’s run off with his client’s girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a...

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantel of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the...

Sleeping Beauty plunges private detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the southern California coast. It leads Archer into a load of trouble involving ransom, a lethal dose of Nembutal, the death of a stranger found floating off shore...

Celebrated private eye Lew Archer is hired by a father intent on preventing the marriage of his daughter to a penniless and possibly murderous artist. The chase takes Archer from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and from the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles as more than one murder crowds the...

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle...

Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he's out with the Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have "real jobs": Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos, and in the water whenever the waves are "epic macking crunchy...

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and...

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Lew Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the...

In this masterful Macdonald mystery, the desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness, and only Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. The era is the 1970s, the settin, Southern California. Private investigator Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a...