Resultados para "August" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

While Augusta Hawke is a successful author of eighteen crime novels, since her husband's death, she's been living vicariously through her Jules Maigret-like detective Claude and his assistant Caroline. Then a handsome police detective appears investigating a real-life mystery. Where are her neighbors, the Normans? No one has a clue what's happened—except Augusta. Although she isn't nosy, spending all day staring out the windows for inspiration means she does notice things. Like the Normans arguing. And that they've been missing a week.

Il commissario De Vincenzi lascia Milano per andare a Roma. Nella capitale, si troverà a indagare su una serie di misteriosi omicidi avvenuti nell'ambiente cinematografico, negli studi di Cinecittà di inizio anni Quaranta. Tra attori e registi di tutto il mondo, il commissario avrà di fronte un caso di omicidi seriali, molto probabilmente operati da una sola mano. Caratterizzato dalla solita atmosfera noir tipica dei romanzi di De Angelis, "Il Mistero di Cinecittà" coinvolgerà il lettore grazie a colpi di scena mozzafiato e a un protagonista estremamente umano e malinconico.

Chevalier Auguste Dupin, normalmente conocido como C. Auguste Dupin, es un detective de ficción creado por Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin hizo su primera aparición en ”Los crímenes de la calle Morgue” (1841) de Poe, considerado el primer relato policial. Vuelve a aparecer en “El misterio de Marie Rogêt” (1842) y en “La carta robada” (1844).

Milano, 22 dicembre 1928. La nebbia è impenetrabile. Sei persone ricevono un'identica busta azzurra che li fa precipitare nell'angoscia. Contemporaneamente, una cantante lirica cade svenuta al primo do maggiore durante un programma radiofonico. Chi l'ha barbaramente uccisa? E perché? In un crescendo musicale, fra personaggi equivoci, interrogatori meticolosi e un misterioso cofanetto, anche questa volta l'intuito del Commissario riuscirà a risolvere l'enigma. Una delle inchieste più intriganti del Capo della Mobile milanese.

È notte. De Vincenzi è al lavoro nel suo ufficio. Riceve la visita inaspettata di Giannetto Aurigi, un suo amico. Costui, dopo avere assistito alla Scala ai primi due atti dell'Aida, aveva lasciato il teatro per vagabondare fra le vie nebbiose della città. Ma proprio nell'appartamento di Aurigi, curiosa coincidenza, è stato commesso un omicidio... La prima inchiesta, in ordine di tempo del popolare commissario della Mobile milanese.

When an old acquaintance, finance magnate Eleanore Paget, hears August is back in town, she tries to hire him to investigate suspicious goings-on at her investment bank. August declines - detective work is no longer his beat. When Eleanore is found dead the next day of an apparent suicide, August doesn't buy it for a minute. His search for her killer will drag him into a rat's nest of Detroit's most dangerous criminals.

Mira James has had it up to here with Battle Lake, Minnesota. After her latest romantic prospects go bust, she’s ready to move back to the Twin Cities and get a lapful of cats. Funny how murder can stall the best-laid plans. Days before the August Moon Festival, high school cheerleader Lucy Lebowski, Mira’s library assistant and an all-around sweetheart, is murdered.

The day that Stephanie and Doyle meet, circumstances fight against romance. She thinks him rude, crude, and bossy, and while he loves her long legs, he thinks she seems snobbish and cold. However, he feels she has interesting possibilities, and she thinks he is a sexy hunk. How important are first impressions?

Am berühmten Elite-Internat Eton kommt es zu einem mysteriösen Todesfall. Holmes, der dort gerade einen Lehrauftrag im Bereich Chemische Studien innehat, hegt sogleich einen Verdacht. Hat es die Schule mit einem genialen jungen Giftmörder zu tun…?

De Angelis si dichiara “scrittore professionista di gialli” e afferma: “No, davvero, signori, non ho rimorsi a scrivere oggi romanzi polizieschi. È un far versi anche questo. E se il rimario di cui ci si serve è il manuale di criminologia o il trattato di Tardieu sui sintomi e sul decorso dei veleni, siamo sempre poeti”. Il giallo è per lui il genere letterario più adatto ai tempi moderni, in cui non c’è più tempo per la contemplazione.

When a sexy nudist hires him to protect her from whoever is threatening her life, Nick Bancroft becomes the target. Someone tries to burn him alive, beats the hell out of him, and, since that didn't run him off, uses him for target practice. Meanwhile, two people are murdered, Nick's true love, Maggie Atley, is more than somewhat perturbed by his relationship with his client, and a mysterious club seems to hold the answer. Nick survives another losing season by his beloved Chicago Cubs, a vicious attack by a couple of huge dogs, and eventually puts the finger on the bad guys.

Die schwarze Standuhr des Hexenmeisters Lucien Massard; liegt wirklich ein unheimlicher Fluch auf ihr? Zwei mysteriöse Todesfälle in der Villa Cartier erregen die Aufmerksamkeit von Auguste Dupin und Edgar Allan Poe. Um diesen Fall zu klären, begeben sich die Ermittler in tödliche Gefahr. Wenn die Uhr zur vollen Stunde schlägt, wird das Schicksal eines Menschen besiegelt. Können Dupin und Poe dem Spuk noch rechtzeitig ein Ende machen und werden sie beide dem Sensenmann entgehen ...?

El Gentleman espera la llegada del jueves. El resto de la semana su existencia solitaria y miserable le empuja a recordar un pasado mejor y se sume en la nostalgia. Sin embargo, los jueves queda con Olga, una joven prostituta que despliega sus encantos de saldo en la calle Montera. Pero al viejo no le interesa el sexo.

They call him el Carnicero—the Butcher. He is the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and when the city of New York incurs his wrath, he utters a single word: “¡Venganza!” With military precision, he strafes Central Park with 4,000 pounds of cocaine, killing hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon.

Six suicide bombers have slipped into Singapore. Their mission: to set off explosives on the country's 55th National Day. They were sent by Tun, an Afghan with a tragic past. Trying to stop them is Inspector Rahim, who is tracking a new terror group. And caught up in the plot is Henry, a single parent whose wife revealed a terrible secret on her deathbed.

Once more the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, walks on stage with a new sequence of adventures. In this fourth major collection, Solar Pons is engaged with an intriguing variety of problems - the curious puzzle of the antique sovereign boxes narrated in the novelette, "The Adventure of the Mosaic Cylinders"; the sanguine riddle of the body in the 13th coffin told in "The Adventure of the Mazarine Blue"; the perplexing matter of the man devoted to British bowlers - "The Adventure of the Hats of M. Dulac"; and others.

This second collection of pastiches of the immortal Sherlock Holmes offers 11 adventures of Solar Pons, who has been called by Vincent Starrett "a clever impersonator, with a twinkle in his eye, which tells us that he knows he is not Sherlock Holmes, and knows that we know it, but that he hopes we will like him anyway for what he symbolizes." Once again in the London of years ago "the game is afoot."

It will be good news to many devotees of the deductive story - particularly the pastiche of Sherlock Holmes - that Solar Pons is back in a third major collection after a lapse of seven years. In his introduction to this collection, Mr. Smith echoes the sentiments of many readers and listeners when he says, "These pastiches come the closest of any that have been written, consistently, to capturing the true flavor of the Holmesian saga and to making its people and its places and its happenings entirely credible."

The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner is a mystery novel likely written during the late 19th century. The story revolves around Joseph Muller, an unassuming yet brilliant secret service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, who possesses a keen instinct for solving crimes. As he navigates a case involving a murdered man found in a quiet street, the narrative unfolds with a series of intricate clues and the challenges Muller faces both from the bureaucracy of his job and the moral dilemmas embedded in his investigation.

In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian, and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that, for decades, seemed to have no real purpose. Canadian historian David O’Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was, in fact, a mission set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a “pinch” policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine.