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Auf der Insel Malta setzt sich Watson mit der entscheidenden Frage auseinander, ob die Überführung der Gebeine des Heiligen Nikolaus von Anatolien nach Italien seinerzeit eine Rettungstat oder Grabräuberei war. Holmes widmet sich unterdessen einer gänzlich anderen Spur.

Watson und McCallum öffnen die alte Metalltruhe mit den Gebeinen des Nikolaus von Myra. Es dauert Stunden, bis die beiden Mediziner die einzelnen Knochen zu einem fast vollständigen Skelett zusammensetzen können. Danach präsentieren sie den Delegierten ihre ersten Ergebnisse und Erkenntnisse.

Einer der Diebe, der sich als Abgesandter des Organisierten Verbrechens aus Neapel entpuppt, trifft sich mit Holmes und Watson am Strand außerhalb Baris. Dort stellt er im Gegenzug für einen Gefallen die Herausgabe der Reliquien in Aussicht.

Im Hafen des britischen Stützpunktes Gibraltar legt die HMS Minotaurus zu einem Zwischenaufenthalt an. Holmes und Watson nutzen die Gelegenheit, um an Land zu gehen und den berühmten Felsen zu besteigen. Dabei kommt es zu einem unangenehmen Zwischenfall.

Das silberne Pferd, geschmort: Tote Jockeys können keine Pferderennen gewinnen. Was geschieht, als der favorisierte Jockey auf der Rennbahn Epsom Downs tot aufgefunden wird? Sherlock Holmes erkennt, dass er ermordet wurde. Die Nachricht von dem verdächtigen Tod verbreitet sich in allen Zeitungen. Gerüchte über Drohungen, Bestechung und Doping machen die Runde. Scotland Yard ist ratlos.

An ihrem letzten Tag an Bord der HMS Minotaurus dinieren Holmes und Watson nochmals mit Kapitän Abercromby. Dieser erweist sich als eifriger Leser der abenteuerlichen Fälle von Holmes, die von Watson aufgeschrieben werden. Um Watsons Gesundheit steht es zwischenzeitlich weniger gut.

A series of seemingly random disappearances - stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back... It's been some time since Rebus was forced to retire, and he now works as a civilian in a cold-case unit. So when a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate...

A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age. When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little...

A summer wedding.... An eccentric aunt.... What can possibly go wrong? Libby's instincts tell her there's something amiss in the picturesque villages, small towns, and rural farms of Exmoor. Then, people begin to disappear.... She's joined forces with on-off partner Max in a private investigation business, but she's getting cold feet about the idea of marriage. After all, it's taken plenty of hard work to regain her independence after her husband's death. Meanwhile, a sinister new acquaintance sends shivers down her spine....

August Heat by Andrea Camilleri, is the tenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, adapted as a major BBC4 television series. Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut and sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia's torch shone on his face, he automatically smiled. 'What's in the...

The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the depths of winter, a member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the eccentric elderly detectives who run London's strangest crime division, aren't on hand to solve the crime. They've ventured into the heart of the English countryside, only to become stranded on a desolate snowbound section of road.

A woman is slaughtered in vicious attack, and left in an abandoned building, handcuffed to a chair. Invited by a former colleague to join a new team in the South of England, DCI Jon Pilgrim takes on the case of the murdered young woman. Partnered with the captivating DS Kate O’Connell, they hunt for the killer. Jon must deal with gang bosses, jealous partners, and come to terms with his own tragic past to find the killer before the death toll rises. But as things escalate, Jon fears the past is about to repeat itself, and tear him apart.

Welcome to Ambleside. A quaint village of houses built from local stone in an ancient part of Cumbria. A place where everyone is welcome…until an elderly recluse artist is found dead in her remote stone cottage. Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow and her team are brought in to investigate. The manner of death is so abhorrent it is clear at once that murder is at play.

A collection of the comic master's early stories of perpetually in-the-soup Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, including their debut in "Extricating Young Gussie" and all 28 stories from "The Inimitable Jeeves" and "Carry On, Jeeves".

An evening out leads to a gruesome surprise. When Jasmine accepts an invitation to visit a vintage circus and funfair she doesn’t expect to be confronted with a dead body. And yet here she is, watching the carousel while innocently munching a hot dog, when a dead man lands at her feet. The police solve the case in double quick time and a suspect is arrested. However, his nearest and dearest believe he has been wrongly accused and enlist the help of the Breakfast Club Detectives to investigate and clear his name. But the more they discover the more guilty the suspect appears.

London, 1899: Lady Constance has seen too much, and now, her life is in danger. The beautiful, aristocratic newlywed is the sole witness in a murder case, and without her testimony, a killer will walk free. Her husband is distraught, thinking any harm might come to his young bride, whose affection is the only thing that has given his wayward life purpose.

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.

Two years after the trial for the murder of her lover, the blaze of publicity surrounding mystery writer Harriet Vane has begun to die away and Harriet decides it's time for a break. But the peace of a North Devon walking tour is rudely shattered when she discovers the body of a man on the beach...

In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of a monumental antique clock embedded in his neck. For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some seemingly impossible questions. Why was Calvin Boscombe standing near the corpse with a silencer on his gun? Who locked the attic door? And what has become of the 16th-century death-watch?