Traditional Detectives

Hercule Poirot und Arthur Hastings müssen sich gemeinsam einem teuflisch kniffligen Fall stellen. Poirot hat einen Brief erhalten, der einen Mord durch die Hand seines mysteriösen Absenders, „A.B.C.“, ankündigt. In einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit müssen die beiden Freunde die komplizierte Logik des Täters durchschauen, bevor am nächsten Ort in alphabetischer Reihenfolge jemand sein Leben verliert. Doch mit jedem Mord kommen mehr und mehr Verdächtige in Frage.

At Firenze, the reclusive artist Adrian Delafield's Florentine enclave in St John's Wood, the whispers of an impending tragedy are growing louder. The tension between the fanatical zealot of a housekeeper Miss Trimming and Delafield's sister Virgilia is just shy of fever pitch, when a cold morning at the house finds Trimming and Adrian sprawled at either end of the staircase – upstairs, an injury; downstairs, death.

A holy island. A haunted detective. A shocking murder. When the body of a young woman is found on the altar of the abbey church on Caldey Island, Detective Inspector Carys Morgan is plunged into a world where evil lurks in holy places. On this small island, reached only by boat, everyone is a suspect. Carys must navigate a closed world of islanders, monks, and pilgrims, each hiding a secret behind walls of silence and faith. When a second body surfaces in the monastery fishpond, it’s clear the murders follow a chilling religious pattern.

A village built on silence. A killer driven by legacy…When human remains are uncovered in a village allotment, the quiet Lincolnshire community of Nocton is forced to confront a past it has kept buried for generations. The discovery brings village life to a standstill — and exposes a silence that has lasted far too long. The victim is identified as Mary Patterson, just nineteen years old when she died nearly a century ago. As forensic analysis reveals evidence of sustained suffering, Detective Chief Inspector Freya Bloom realises this is no forgotten tragedy.

The Murder at the Vicarage introduces Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie’s quietly formidable observer of human nature. When Colonel Protheroe is found dead in the vicarage, the village of St Mary Mead becomes a web of suspicion, secrets, and motive. Through careful observation and a deep understanding of character, Miss Marple uncovers the truth where others see only confusion.

Months after a devastating discovery about the murder of her family, Leonora Spencer is still struggling to cope. She has kept her distance from Scotland Yard—and from Detective Inspector Jasper Reid—just as she has vowed to do. But when a bomb kills a young constable outside police...

Dark secrets. Devastating lies. Truths that must never be told. The chilling discovery of a body at a romantic beauty spot shakes the village of Gilsland. Everybody knows everybody in the tiny hamlet on the Scottish boarder. And everybody has a secret that outsiders must never know.

Squire Vane, a noble man from Cornwall, has three 'peacock trees' in his local village, imported by his ancestors. However, a sinister legend hovers around these trees: it is said that they are destined to spread disease and bring severe misfortune to those who cross them. A rationalist to his core and allergic to any form of superstition, Squire dismisses these rumours as nothing but foolish whispers. But when some local village people raise the topic with Squire, he can take no more – angered, he insists on spending the night sleeping beneath the trees to prove their harmlessness.

Die rätselhafte Zerstörung zweier Hochhäuser ruft Sherlock Holmes auf den Plan. Er soll gemeinsam mit Dr. Watson und dem Ersten Offizier Tornot einer Zeugin, die der letzten Katastrophe knapp entkommen ist, nähere Informationen entlocken.

Als Lady Cordelia und ihr Bruder Lord Woodbridge plötzlich aus London verschwinden, versetzt das die ganze Gesellschaft in Aufruhr. Gerüchte machen die Runde, dass sie Teil einer geheimen Organisation sind, die an einem illegalen – und höchst lukrativen – Handelssystem arbeitet, das die gesamte britische Wirtschaft bedroht. Charlotte und Wrexford, die mit den Geschwistern befreundet sind, glauben an deren Unschuld. Sie beginnen mit der Suche nach der Wahrheit und müssen dabei ihre zunehmend komplexen Gefühle füreinander entwirren.

Upon arriving in Brixford, Watson learns that three children have vanished without a trace. He informs his friend Sherlock Holmes about further mysterious incidents at Rosie's Hall. After extensive investigations, horrific machinations are uncovered, reaching into the highest echelons of the British Empire. Many years later, Watson unexpectedly receives an invitation from Dr. Smith to Brixford, Devonshire.

Therapeutinnen sind die besten Detektive – das Krimidebüt der internationalen Bestsellerautorin Mit Toten ist man in Westlinke vertraut; die Seven Sisters, weiße, ziemlich hohe Kalksteinklippen, ein Hotspot für traurige Seelen, die ihrem Leben ein Ende setzen wollen. Ermordete hingegen –...

Four new stories about the master detective Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and cocaine. What lies behind the addiction? Boredom? Or the difficult search for the big score? An Indian ruby is stolen and hidden so well that no one can find it. A case for the master detective. Can Dresden's Green Vault be robbed? Or can Sherlock Holmes prevent it? For Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler was always the woman of his life. Therefore, after years, he can finally fully solve the case of Scandal in Bohemia.

Als Dr. Watson zufällig auf Inspektor Lestrade trifft und ihm bei den Ermittlungen zu einem Mordfall behilflich sein möchte, entsteht eine Kette seltsamer Ereignisse. Falsche Identitäten, Missverständnisse und Verwechslungen verdecken ein älteres Verbrechen, das gesühnt werden will. Sherlock Holmes muss eingreifen.

Eigentlich möchte Carol nur in Ruhe ihren Lebensabend genießen. Doch das ist nicht so leicht – für eine Serienmörderin. Als sie ins Seniorenheim Sheldon Oaks einzieht, ist Carol selig: endlich ihre eigenen vier Wände. Endlich Freiheit. Denn die letzten 35 Jahre hat sie im Gefängnis verbracht. Wegen siebenfachen Mordes. Carol ist Serienmörderin. Na ja, war Serienmörderin. Jetzt ist sie im Ruhestand. Und froh, in Sheldon Oaks etwas für sie gänzlich Neues zu finden: Freundschaft. Bis genau vor Carols schönem neuen Balkon jemand ermordet wird.

In Lady Dragonfly and other Sherlock Holmes Stories, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson encounter criminals and enemies of various kinds and in different places. A kidnapped girl is rescued, a stolen skeleton is recovered, an inheritance is identified and returned, and the Great War brings them into conflict with German spies and enemy forces. Holmes also finds himself working in cooperation with Solar Pons, and with G. K. Chesterton Father Brown. In all of these stories, the game is unquestionably afoot.

»Welch bewegende Geschichte – halb Spannungsroman, halb Familienroman« Le Figaro Als Agnès von der örtlichen Polizei erfährt, dass ihre Tante Colette gestorben ist, traut sie ihren Ohren nicht. Die Schwester ihres Vaters, ihre Tata, ist doch bereits vor drei Jahren gestorben und liegt...

The only thing standing between Georgia and her fairy-tale wedding is a murder. Or two. When a young woman pleads for help from Georgia Fenchurch in locating a missing Crown investigator, Georgia resists. Her wedding is only a week away. Before she can say no, she's knocked to the ground by an assailant attempting to kill the young woman. Georgia now feels she must help. She soon finds herself up to her wedding veil in stolen treasure and coded letters. With the Duke of Blackford's help, Georgia follows a trail of missing men and dead bodies.

A Tommel Castle, un hotel di lusso, si danno appuntamento otto soci di un club per single, col desiderio manifesto di trovare la dolce metà. La persona che li ha riuniti, Maria Worth, è convinta di aver fatto un buon lavoro, ma gli otto si detestano quasi all'istante. Ad attirare le più forti antipatie è però la socia in affari di Maria, Peta, cafona, avida e golosissima.

Celebrity gossip can cut to the quick, but when it turns deadly it’s up to an aspiring reporter and her quirky neighbors to close the case in the first of a witty and nostalgic new mystery series. Baby doll top, gladiator sandals, and fully loaded iPod at the ready: it’s 2008 in Los Angeles...

Ein mysteriöser gelber Koffer samt schockierendem Inhalt wird in die Baker Street 221b geliefert und bringt Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson so auf die Spur eines schottischen Adligen, dessen Ehefrau offenbar um ihr Leben bangt. Die Herren zögern nicht, dem dringlichen Hilferuf zu folgen und machen sich auf in den hohen Norden der Insel...

Jeri Westerson presents Book 4 in the Irregular Detective series...

A religious scandal. A deadly homecoming. Moustafa Ghani El Souwaim has come far in life. Raised illiterate in a remote village in the Soudan, he set out at sixteen to better himself. His journey took him to the great archaeological sites of Africa, where he became a leading researcher versed in...

Capitaine Roger Blanc ist von Gadet ins benachbarte Salon-de-Provence versetzt worden, wo er ab jetzt vor allem rätselhafte Cold Cases aufklären soll. Sein erster Fall ist ein Mord, der vor sechs Jahren stattgefunden hat: Damals wurde eine Familie in ihrem Auto auf einem entlegenen Parkplatz in den Alpilles nahezu vollständig ausgelöscht. Ebenso starb dort ein Radfahrer, der scheinbar nichts mit den anderen Opfern zu tun hatte. Blanc und seine Kollegen ermitteln in Eyguières und in Aureille, zwei malerischen Kleinstädten, deren Bewohner jedoch dunkle Geheimnisse mit sich herumtragen.

Three eminent chiropodists have been abducted and Holmes is called in to rescue them. His search for them involves Holmes exploring the world of amateur musicians, and, with Watson's help, uncovering the nefarious activities of those involved in the taking and selling of pornographic photographs. In this adventure he has to use his musical skills in addition to his well-known talents for obtaining data and reasoning from those data. He is ably assisted in his investigations by a visiting detective from Glasgow, Superintendent MacPhail, who shares many of Holmes's abilities.