Resultados para "Prague" en Misterio

Come ogni mattina, Franz Kafka si reca nel suo ufficio di impiegato, ma questa volta alla scrivania trova seduto uno sconosciuto. Una situazione degna dei suoi romanzi. Lo sconosciuto gli rivolge domande allusive, inquietanti, sembra al corrente di qualcosa che l'interrogato ignora, e infine si dilegua minacciando di tornare presto. Nessuno, nell'edificio, lo ha visto né entrare né uscire.

Christian Stern, un joven alquimista, erudito y ambicioso, llega a Praga en el amargo invierno de 1599 con la intención de hacer fortuna en la corte del Sacro Emperador Romano, el excéntrico Rodolfo II, sobrino de Felipe II. La noche de su llegada, borracho y perdido, Christian tropieza en el Callejón del Oro, junto al castillo, con el cuerpo de una joven tendido en la nieve. Vestida de terciopelo y con gorguera de encaje, luce en el pecho un gran medallón de oro y un profundo tajo a lo largo del cuello.

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of...

Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Prague Nights by Benjamin Black, read by Sean Barrett. 'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in...

Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna's time is about to expire - on his visa, that is. Having fled the demons that haunted him in the U.S., Ash has been laying low in Prague for nearly three months. Now, it's time to move on. But as he contemplates his next stop, a man named Roman appears, claiming to work for the U.S. government, and possessing intimate knowledge of Ash's many sins. Sins nobody should know. Roman offers to protect him...in exchange for a favor.

Prag 1910. Kisch ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall. Prag ist in Aufruhr. Der Weltuntergang steht bevor. Im Mai 1910 soll die Erde den Schweif des Halley'schen Kometen kreuzen - ein jeder blickt zum Himmel, und die Verbrecher auf Erden haben leichtes Spiel. Egon Erwin Kisch, berühmt-berüchtigter Reporter der "Bohemia", ermittelt auf eigene Faust in seinem ersten Fall. Er lässt sich sogar als Schwerverbrecher ins Gefängnis sperren, um mit dem Kopf der Prager Unterwelt Portwein zu trinken.

Times are tough in L.A. and Robert Klayman, substitute teacher, attempts to solve his money woes along with a mid-life crisis by trying on a new career as a private detective. His efforts and schemes to find a murderer take him on a spine tingling journey through the violent underworld of private detection.