Resultados para "Kim" en Detectives tradicionales

Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together, Chandler and Karloff will find out more than they should about the way this town works.

Kriminalkommissarie Arnold Nyman har motvilligt omplacerats till Göteborg. Han famlar sig fram i en för honom okänd stad, sökande efter en försvunnen kvinna som tros vara mördad. En kropp hittas, men förvirring uppstår när den visar sig tillhöra någon annan. Resten av roteln utreder ett sprängningsattentat och när spåren leder till en individ inom det politiska toppskiktet ter sig situationen allt mer invecklad.

Kvinnorna inom den Sicilianska maffian börjar ta för sig medan männen sitter i fängelse. En man flyr från staden Corleone och sin hustru till Sverige. Samtidigt hittas ett man med ett kulhål i höger tinning, på mannens privata strand i det förmögna Saltholmen i Göteborg. Det är bara ett av flera nyligen begångna mord som förbryllar polisen. Kriminalinspektör Elisabeth Andersson kopplas på fallet.

Imagine the twisted evil twins of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Professor James Moriarty - wily, snake-like, fiercely intelligent, terrifyingly unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian Basher Moran - violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike. When a certain Irene Adler turns up on their doorstep with a proposition, neither man is able to resist.

Sherlock Holmes' relationship with the band of street Arabs, known at the Baker Street Irregulars, has largely been untold - until now. Holmes sometimes relied upon a gang of adolescent boys and girls who he recruited from the slums of London. Indeed, some of Sherlock Holmes's most bizarre cases involved the irregulars: a hideous execution of a man who had been strapped to the barrel of a cannon, a fiend who hoped he could live forever on the blood of others, and the largest jewel robbery in Britain.

An enigmatic jewelry case, holding human remains, arrives at the cottage of Sherlock Holmes, enticing him from his retirement refuge in the Sussex Downs. Holmes sets out on the trail of the murderer taunting him, joining forces with one of his former Baker Street irregulars, Tessa Wiggins. The two find themselves battling forces arising from a time before England was a country - when the Celts were fighting for survival. Though set in 1919, The Celtic Phoenix is steeped in the enigmatic culture of the ancient Celts who reigned over much of Europe 3,000 years ago.

A fascinating mystery featuring Ladarat Patalung, the first and only nurse detective in Thailand. As a nurse ethicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of a "good death." But when wealthy foreign...

Everyone at the party had a secret. Someone killed to keep theirs. London, 1922. Draper’s daughter Marjorie Swallow is 24, independent, and determined to live life to the full. A secretarial post with enigmatic American detective Mrs Jameson looks just the ticket. And soon she’s in the thick of it. When the bohemian party they attend ends in murder, there is no shortage of suspects. Half of Bloomsbury wanted Mrs Norris dead – but who wielded the knife? Was it the handsome but troubled artist? The vivacious young actress? Or even the aristocratic lady novelist?

Kaum zurück in London, begeben sich Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes daran, den Bombenanschlag auf den Übungsplatz aufzuklären. Währenddessen erfährt Irene Adler von einer Einbruchserie, der sie zunächst keine Bedeutung beimisst. Als in nur einer Nacht drei wichtige Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Militär Opfer der Diebesbande werden, stellt sich die Frage, ob nicht doch etwas Größeres hinter der Einbruchserie steckt. Moriarty gibt Tesla den Auftrag, eine Anlage zu bauen, mit deren Hilfe Personen geortet werden können.

Auf drei der sieben großen Londoner Friedhöfe, dem Highgate Cemetery, dem Brompton Cemetery und dem West Norwood Cemetery, kommt es zu schweren Grabschändungen. Mycroft Holmes setzt Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes auf den Fall an. Da die sterblichen Überreste der Verstorbenen unversehrt geblieben sind, liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass in den Gräbern nach etwas gesucht wurde. Schon bald gibt es eine erste Spur. Doch dann geschieht etwas, was die Sicherheit des Königreichs in große Gefahr bringt und die Arbeit der Sonderermittler für immer verändern wird.

The beguiling young sleuth Emma Graham returns. Martha Grimes returns to her twelve-year-old heroine, Emma Graham, in this suspenseful sequel to the bestselling Belle Ruin. Emma continues her investigation into the strange disappearance of the four- month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel...