Resultados para "The Bell" en Histórico

Torino, 1911. A tre giorni dall’inizio dell’Esposizione Universale che sta attirando sulla città le attenzioni del mondo intero, Carolina Invernizio, la scrittrice italiana più amata dal pubblico e disprezzata dai critici, lavora al suo nuovo romanzo e non smette di cercare ispirazione nelle più efferate notizie di cronaca nera. Una su tutte cattura la sua attenzione: Emilio Salgari – quel Salgari, il creatore di Sandokan e del Corsaro Nero – è stato trovato morto in un bosco, sulla cima di una collina. Si è ucciso a colpi di rasoio, dicono i giornali, e lo dice anche la polizia.

For Inspector Sebastian Bell and nurse Gemma Tate, a night at the theater becomes a deadly spectacle when the two lead actors are found dead on the stage, murdered before a stunned audience. Drawn into a shadowy backstage world, they encounter a cast of suspects, each with desperate secrets to hide…Sebastian is determined to get justice, and to keep Gemma safe from the dangerous killer circling the cobbled streets of Covent Garden. But she is already too deeply involved, and, in a world where everyone wears a mask, could she have trusted the wrong person…?

After a drugs bust goes wrong, Deputy Sheriff Garrett Nelson is left with a limp and, unfit for active police service, accepts a job at a Florida penitentiary on an old Spanish mission. The prison's chapel, a working bell tower, is now an execution chamber. But after a terrible mistake leads to an escape and manhunt through the Everglades, Nelson must decide whether his first duty is to the law or to himself? And could doing the right thing mean taking an innocent man to the bell tower?

The running wolf inscription told the world that a Solingen blade was at its throat. When a German smuggler is imprisoned in Morpeth Gaol in the winter of 1703, why does Queen Anne's powerful right-hand man, the Earl of Nottingham, take such a keen interest? At the end of the turbulent 17th century, the ties that bind men are fraying, turning neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and brother against brother.

Berlin 1919 - Kriminalkommissar Paul Morgenthal hat während des Krieges viel erlebt, dennoch lassen ihn die Taten des Berliner Schlächters, nach dem seit Jahren erfolglos gefahndet wird, nicht kalt. Der Gesuchte schneidet jungen Frauen große Stücke der Haut ab, legt danach die verstümmelten Opfer mitten auf die Straße und deckt sie mit einem Tuch zu. Gemeinsam mit der Stenotypistin Ruth Falkenburg sucht Paul Morgenthal Rat bei Gerichtsmediziner David Hornoff, der einen fast schon krankhaften Wissensdrang in Bezug auf die menschliche Psyche hat

On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the...

In the early morning of September 28, six shots ring out on the otherwise quiet grounds of the Lexington Country Club. As dawn breaks, news spreads that golf champion Marion Miley - winner of every US women’s amateur tournament save the National Title - has been brutally murdered. A giant manhunt begins, and a flood of support pours in from around the country to bring the killers to justice.

“Riveting! Camilla, high-five! Amazing work!”—Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history--and the men who...

A construction project beneath the National Mall reveals a dark secret dating back to the Civil War, something buried by a cabal of scientists, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who helped found the Smithsonian Institution. It is a cache of bones, preserved in amber, protecting a wonder like no...

Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail—a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga. After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican...

Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail—a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga. After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican...