Resultados para "Frank" en Detectives tradicionales

Follow the exploits of amateur detective Lamont Cranston and his alluring companion Margo Lane. Cranston learned the secret of clouding men's minds to make him invisible, allowing him to become The Shadow and work on the side of law enforcement to prove, to young and old alike, that crime does not pay!

El hallazgo de un cadáver en una playa interrumpe bruscamente la serenidad del paraíso natural de las islas Cíes. Las gaviotas acorralan con su macabro vuelo los restos de un cuerpo que ha sido acuchillado y que tiene el rostro desfigurado de manera brutal. No hay duda: entre los habitantes del camping cercano se esconde un asesino, y el idílico paisaje no recobrará la calma hasta encontrarlo. Nora Pardo, una detective en horas bajas, se ve obligada a tomar las riendas de la investigación y poner a prueba sus capacidades con el fin de desenmascarar al autor del crimen.

La Piedra Lunar, valiosa joya robada de un santuario hindú y de la que se cuentan toda clase de leyendas maléficas, llega a las manos de Raquel Verinder, heredera de un lord inglés, como regalo de cumpleaños. Sin embargo, después de la cena de celebración la gema desaparece.

"'It is no use!' she cried, at last, pushing back the mass of thick black hair falling over her white brow; 'I shall never be able to get India by heart, unless I can see the places. I wish papa would let us go reconnoitering amongst the ruined temples and other mysterious buildings; it is so annoying staying here day after day, never seeing anything outside the palace.

Randy didn’t have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a 20-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman, worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge of the $650,000 payroll robbery in the sensation of 14 years ago.

It wasn’t much of a story, just an obituary. Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes, heart failure. But what’s natural about killing yourself with a scrubbing brush? It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn’t stopped him on his way out of the building.

Bernal Fitzhugh hade många strängar på sin lyra. Han var inte bara skeppsläkare hos amiral Sir Francis Drake utan även spion för drottning Elizabeth av England. Något som ledde honom från Oxfords stilla kloster till det rullande däcket på ett piratskepp, från plundringen av Cartagena till den spanska inkvisitionens fängelsehålor. Bernal Fitzhugh var en äventyrare och ett råskinn, men även en skicklig läkare och en sökare på jakt efter kärleken. Frank G. Slaughter (1908-2001) var en amerikansk författare vars böcker har sålt i cirka 60 miljoner exemplar över hela världen.

When a woman's skeleton is discovered in a shallow grave, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Gilchrist is tasked with finding her murderer. But a psychic's warnings, coupled with markings on a rusted cigarette lighter found among the rotted remains, take Gilchrist on a journey into his own past - a journey that brings him closer to discovering the identity of the person whokilled his brother in a hit-and-run case some thirty-five years before.

In this second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, Yakabuski is called in to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth. Two criminal gangs - the Shiners and the Travellers - are fighting with each other, and Yakabuski turns to his father, a now-retired detective who has a long history with the gangs, for advice in the interrogation. And as if this weren’t enough for one detective, a serial killer is taking a deadly road trip through the United States.

While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter's cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family's murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers.

The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South, but despite the glitz and excitement of his new surroundings and the beauty of the woman he shares them with, the city makes his skin crawl. Now a private eye, he is only at ease in the city's darker corners, among the whores, gamblers, and pimps who call Eighth Avenue home. That affinity for the socially isolated is what draws him to the case of Hannah Karlsberg, an elderly seamstress who deserved a better death than she got.

In this collection of sixteen detective episodes, you’ll hear Frank Sinatra as amateur detective Rocky Fortune, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Alan Ladd on Box Thirteen, Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, William Gargan as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, Vincent Price as Simon Templar aka “The Saint” and many more!

Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, musical, and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully-dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions.

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them are the Welsh author Frank Howel Evans, whose biggest success was a series of short stories about a French detective.

In this book, Frank Emerson has uncovered a previously lost narrative by Dr. John H. Watson that illustrates how he and Sherlock Holmes, working in tandem with Detective Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard, conducted an intense 15 year investigation and pursuit that culminated with the unmasking, arrest, trial, and ultimate execution of the real Jack the Ripper.

Meticulous private investigator Stanley Melvin likes to keep his work grounded in reality, not at all like the classic detective novels he has read incessantly since childhood. But his best friend and annoying neighbor Rudy quickly points out that his routine "cheater" case is rapidly taking on all of the features that Stanley steadfastly insists are mere fictional tropes of the genre. Stanley isn't too sure how he feels about this. But as a professional, he forges ahead, despite getting out of his comfort zone.

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime...

An Bord eines nagelneuen Kreuzfahrtschiffs soll sich eine Bombe befinden. Wenn die Reederei nicht 50 Millionen Euro an die Erpresser zahlt, werden über 3.000 Menschen in den Tod gerissen. Die Zeit ist knapp und die Chancen, eine versteckte Bombe auf dem riesigen Schiff rechtzeitig zu finden, sind nahezu aussichtslos. Jeremias Voss ist die letzte Hoffnung für den verzweifelten Reeder.

Nach dem Tod seines Erzfeindes Professor Moriarty und nach seinem eigenen spektakulären Verschwinden an den Schweizer Reichenbachfällen glaubt sich Holmes zunächst im sonnenbeschienenen Florenz gänzlich unerkannt, doch anlässlich der schicksalhaften Begegnung mit dem englischen Buchhändler David Tristram gibt er ihm gegenüber sein Incognito rasch auf. Er wird dafür mit einem Rätsel belohnt, das so ganz nach seinem Geschmack ist...

Undercover im Land der Fjorde. Nach dem Sturz in die Schweizer Reichenbachfälle gilt Sherlock Holmes offiziell als tot und reist unerkannt umher, begleitet von seinem Assistenten und Biografen David Tristram. Er nennt sich Sven Sigerson und gibt vor, Norweger zu sein. Und das obwohl er kein Wort norwegisch spricht. Kann das gutgehen? Die Feuerprobe wartet auf ihn, als ihn ein äußerst bizarrer Fall ausgerechnet nach Norwegen lockt: Dort ist die Stabkirche von Storavik spurlos verschwunden.