Resultados para "The Bet" en Misterio

A wedding on the edge of a Hawaiian volcano sounds risky to Dinah Pelerin, the bride’s best friend and maid of honor. The bride, Claude Ann Kemper, has bet her heart that she’s found the right man at last. The groom has gone all in on a real estate deal that he believes will set him and his new wife up for life. But Hawaii is a tinderbox of ancient myths and modern conflicts over who should control the land so cherished by its native people. A group of native Hawaiians claims that the sacred bones of an ancestral king are buried on the land that the groom plans to sell, and one of them has vowed do whatever it takes to stop him.

Une femme a disparu. Sa voiture est retrouvée au départ d'un sentier de randonnée qui fait l'ascension vers le plateau où survivent quelques fermes habitées par des hommes seuls. Alors que les gendarmes n'ont aucune piste et que l'hiver impose sa loi, plusieurs personnes se savent pourtant liées à cette disparition. Tour à tour, elles prennent la parole et chacune a son secret, presque aussi précieux que sa propre vie. Et si le chemin qui mène à la vérité manque autant d'oxygène que les hauteurs du ciel qui ici écrase les vivants, c'est que cette histoire a commencé loin, bien loin de cette montagne.

Voilà cinq ans que le monstrueux chien des Baskerville et son maître, le naturaliste Jack Stapleton, sont morts. Sir Henry Baskerville vit heureux dans son manoir ancestral avec son épouse Audrey et leur fils. Du moins jusqu'au jour où l'on retrouve sur la lande le corps exsangue d'Audrey. Une nouvelle créature démoniaque hanterait-elle le Dartmoor ? Lorsqu'on les appelle à la rescousse, Sherlock Holmes et le Dr Watson sont confrontés à une véritable créature de cauchemar. Il semblerait que Jack Stapleton ait survécu et qu'il soit décidé à se venger...

While hosting a party, a banker makes a bet with one of his guests, who is a lawyer. The topic of the bet is capital punishment and whether it is worse or better than a life sentence. The banker sees the capital punishment as more humane than life imprisonment, whilst the young lawyer completely disagrees. The bet is as follows: if the lawyer spends fifteen years in complete isolation, the banker will give him two million rubles. As the years pass, the banker realizes that he will go bankrupt if he loses the bet.

The world felt pure. Nature made the location pristine again, hiding the scene from prying eyes. As if no one had died there at all. In the months since Bet Rivers solved her first murder investigation and secured the sheriff's seat in Collier, she's remained determined to keep her town safe. With a massive snowstorm looming, it's more important than ever that she stays vigilant. When Bet gets a call that a family of tourists has stumbled across a teen injured in a snowmobile accident on a mountain ridge, she braves the storm to investigate.

Interim sheriff Elizabeth "Bet" Rivers has always had one repeat nightmare: a shadowy figure throwing a suspicious object into her hometown lake in Collier, Washington. For the longest time, she chalked it up to an overactive imagination as a kid. Then the report arrives. In the woods of the Cascade mountain range, right in her jurisdiction, a body floats to the surface of Lake Collier. When the body is extricated and revealed, no one can identify Jane Doe. But someone must know the woman, so why aren't they coming forward?

Voicing her reluctance to help Gloria Scope's jealous daughter claim the family inheritance by tarnishing Gloria's name, Freddie O'Neal is nevertheless drawn into a deadly family plot when Gloria is suddenly murdered.

A special agent... A journalist... Only they can stop a genocide. Out of the chaotic political turbulence in Europe emerges a frightening new transnational extremist movement called Destiny, modelled on the Nazi Final Solution for the systematic removal of Europe’s Jews. In response, Israel’s government instructs the countries formidable spy agency, Mossad, to sabotage Destiny. The agency implements Operation Aleph Bet to neutralise Destiny’s leadership.

Cultureclash im Schrebergarten und eine Leiche im Gemüsebeet: Rosenkohl und tote Bete ist der erste Band einer humorvollen Krimi-Reihe rund um eine Schrebergarten-Kolonie in Berlin. Eben hatte sich Ex-Polizist Manne Nowak noch voller Vorfreude auf das Garten-Jahr eingestimmt, da wird die Ruhe in der Berliner Kleingartenanlage "Harmonie" empfindlich gestört - und zwar von Mannes neuen Nachbarn.

Cultureclash im Schrebergarten und eine Leiche im Gemüsebeet: Rosenkohl und tote Bete ist der erste Band einer humorvollen Krimi-Reihe rund um eine Schrebergarten-Kolonie in Berlin. Eben hatte sich Ex-Polizist Manne Nowak noch voller Vorfreude auf das Garten-Jahr eingestimmt, da wird die Ruhe in der Berliner Kleingartenanlage "Harmonie" empfindlich gestört - und zwar von Mannes neuen Nachbarn.

A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and then disappeared. But the missing dealer...

Officiellement, la villa des Prunelliers est un foyer d'accueil d'urgence pour mineurs ; en réalité, c'est là où on envoie les enfants placés dont le système ne veut plus, et où les éducateurs en sous-nombre finissent tous par craquer. Quand Till, l'un d'eux, finit par lever la main sur Audrey, quatorze ans, celle-ci fugue et se fait percuter par un chauffard. Rongé par la culpabilité, Till va la voir tous les jours à l'hôpital, délaissant le reste du monde.

Twenty years after the Holocaust and the Nazi reign of terror, Thor, a neo-fascist organization born out of the Nazi defeat in Europe, is ready to take over the United States. Rabbi Ben Zvi Kantorwicz, an escapee from Auschwitz, and his organization the Aleph Bet, is determined to stop them from achieving their objective - new world order of blond-haired, blue-eyed super people with a hand-raised American president as its Fuhrer, continuing the policies and philosophy of the Third Reich.

Ro Bergeron’s grandparents raised her to be, well, helpless. She can’t boil an egg or keep a plant alive. When Ro inherits her childhood home, she decides to open a bed and breakfast for humans and their canine friends. Running a business catering to people is a big undertaking for thirty-two year old Ro—let alone pets too—yet with faith she is confident she can handle it. She even has her first guests booked for the coming weekend!

Black Rock Cove, on the coastline of Oregon, has a unique and sinister charm. It is a quaint fishing village and charming resort for summertime visitors by day, but by night...well, that’s a different story. The murder of Oliver Bateman was purely the strangest of all crimes. A gunshot was heard as he fell dead in the courtyard, but bullet holes were missing from his body. Three deep knife wounds, however, covered his chest. Even stranger, Elizabeth Knight, daughter of famed Nobel Prize winner William Knight, was discovered in her locked bedroom on the brink of death.

A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and then disappeared. But the missing dealer...

Join radio's most popular crime-solving couple, Mr. & Mrs. North, in 12 episodes of mayhem and murder - with a light touch. The Norths aren't your standard detectives: husband Jerry is a book publisher by day, and wife Pam is his stay-at-home better half and most often the catalyst for their exploits when death falls in their laps!