Resultados para "Intrige" en Detectives tradicionales

Parker Pyne è in vacanza a Maiorca quando una donna gli chiede di aiutarla a "salvare" il figlio da un matrimonio a suo parere funesto... In visita a un amico, il signor Satterthwaite viene a sapere dell'omicidio di Sir James Dwighton. La moglie e il suo amante sono i primi sospettati. Ma chi è davvero l'assassino? Infine, una domanda per Poirot: può un uomo morto spararsi? Otto racconti di suspense, tra le indagini di tre mitici investigatori - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne e Harley Quin - e le misteriose atmosfere create da Dame Agatha.

El caso número 30 del comisario Brunetti. La tragedia de los inmigrantes es la fortuna de los mafiosos. «La dama del crimen más popular de la actualidad» El Mundo «Donna Leon es un clásico de la literatura policiaca» Lluís Fernández, La Razón La aparición de dos chicas jóvenes...

Nella Londra degli anni Cinquanta, l’armonia magica del Natale sembra avvolgere ogni cosa. Eppure, in uno squallido appartamento di Islington, si è consumato un delitto orrendo. La vittima è un’anziana e misteriosa principessa russa decaduta. Dei gioielli di famiglia non c’è traccia...

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.” In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective sees...

Dans Une ténébreuse affaire, l'un des volumes les moins connus de la Comédie humaine, Balzac utilise un fait divers - l'enlèvement mystérieux, sous le Premier Empire, d'un sénateur averti du complot ourdi par Fouché contre Napoléon Bonaparte - pour écrire un livre où il met son talent...

Adventure can be a deadly business. 'A marvelous, rollicking tale of derring-do' Peter James 'A beautifully written masterclass' Janice Hallett ‘007 meets Tintin meets Sharpe' Damien Lewis 'A delight!' Fern Britton 'A superb read' Simon Scarrow 'Brilliantly gripping' Susan Lewis 'An...

When writer Frank Theydon emerges from a London theater, he notices an attractive young woman and an older man waiting for their car. He arrives home after a short delay and notices the older man, whom he’d overheard tell his companion he was stopping at his club, outside the building.

These classic Sherlock Holmes tales tell of treachery, murder, and theft. In "The Crooked Man," a long-lost love returns horribly changed, revealing an awful treachery that has been kept secret for decades. Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft, appears in "The Greek Interpreter," to lead Holmes and Watson to a hideous murder and the betrayal of a foreign heiress. In "The Naval Treaty," an innocent man's honor, position, and health are at stake when a treaty of the utmost importance is stolen from his office. 

An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre. Autumn is the season of misty mornings and cosy nights in, but as the leaves begin to fall the nights get longer and the shadows grow darker… Secluded cottages, eerie manors and ghostly hauntings and cursed tombs...

Sister Fidelma returns in another gripping Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of THE SUBTLE SERPENT, SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN and many more. Ireland, AD 670. When the body of a murdered young noble is discovered not far from Cashel, the King calls upon Sister Fildema and her...

Der fünfte Fall für das Kriminalistenduo Pia Kirchhoff und Oliver von Bodenstein – packend und voller Intrigen Wer Wind sät, wird Mord ernten … Kriminalkommissarin Pia Kirchhoff wird zu einem ungewöhnlichen Tatort gerufen: Ein toter Nachtwächter lag mehrere Tage unentdeckt in einem...

While investigating the savage murder of a religious magnate, Sister Fidelma uncovers a dark world of slavery and abuse within the abbey walls, in Peter Tremayne's thrilling nineteenth mystery, THE COUNCIL OF THE CURSED. It is AD 670, and Bishop Leodegar has called the church leaders together...

THE CLUE is the first book in the Fleming Stone Mystery series by famed New Jersey mystery writer Carolyn Wells (1862-1942). Librarian, author, poet, journalist Wells wrote a total of 170 books, including poetry, humor, and children’s books, but she is best remembered for her mystery novels...

Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well. For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong. A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks?

1957 - Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe. As she travels the world to try and build bridges, the Queen is advised by the 'men in moustaches', as Philip calls them -...

The delightfully clever mystery in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves a murder at Buckingham Palace, expertly narrated by Samantha Bond (Golden Eye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day, Downton Abbey, The Queen and I, The Queen, Home Fires) Queen Elizabeth II is having a royal nightmare...

This program is read by Downton Abbey actor David Robb, and includes footnotes read by the author. In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a...

Der fünfte Fall für das Kriminalistenduo Pia Kirchhoff und Oliver von Bodenstein – packend und voller Intrigen Wer Wind sät, wird Mord ernten … Kriminalkommissarin Pia Kirchhoff wird zu einem ungewöhnlichen Tatort gerufen: Ein toter Nachtwächter lag mehrere Tage unentdeckt in einem...

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a “ghostly” hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a...