Resultados para "The Cone" en Thriller criminal

Echando la vista atrás, todo comenzó el día del atropello. Fue en el verano de 1999 cuando las vidas de Diego y su pandilla comenzaron a desmoronarse. Veintidós años después, Diego lleva una vida tranquila en la villa costera de Getxo, su ciudad natal. Una mañana, recibe dos paquetes anónimos: contienen un reproductor de CD y un compact disc. Entonces se da cuenta de que el pasado está de vuelta. Y quiere cobrar sus deudas.

Un nuevo misterio. Una revelación. La saga de Santa Rita alcanza su esperado final. El invierno ha llegado a los jardines de Santa Rita y, con él, nuevos misterios acechan a los habitantes del balneario. La hija de uno de los residentes ha confesado el asesinato de su exmarido, un productor de cine cuya empresa se había adentrado en terrenos más oscuros. El excomisario Robles trata de frenar a dos personas que rematan los detalles de otro plan homicida. Y, como telón de fondo, encontramos el pasado de Santa Rita, cuyos secretos finalmente saldrán a la luz.

La estudiante de perfilado de criminales (y recién casada), Jessie Hunt, de 29 años, descubre que en su nuevo hogar en los suburbios acechan secretos ocultos; cuando aparece un cadáver, se ve atrapada entre el punto de mira de sus nuevas amistades, los secretos de su marido, el trabajo con casos de asesinos en serie—y los secretos de su propio pasado tenebroso.

Holmes y Watson son llamados a investigar los extraños crímenes aparentemente relacionados con la antigua maldición que pesa sobre la familia Baskerville. El "asesino" parece ser un "animal enorme y negro con forma de perro, aunque mayor que ningún otro visto jamás por criatura humana."

Tras la desaparición del capitán Morstan, su hija Mary empieza a recibir perlas que tienen un valor incalculable, y no tiene ni idea de quien se las está enviando. Cuando el desconocido benefactor le pide a Mary que se reúna con él, ésta, asustada, solicita ayuda a Sherlock Holmes para que junto con Watson la acompañen a su cita.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year.

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro", which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes". Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque".

En El Tipo Perfecto (Libro 2), la perfiladora criminal novata Jessie Hunt, de 29 años, recoge los pedazos de su vida trastocada y sale de los suburbios para empezar una nueva vida en el centro de Los Ángeles. Sin embargo, cuando asesinan a uno de los ricos y famosos, Jessie, a quien han asignado el caso, se ve de nuevo en el mundo de los suburbios de imagen impoluta, a la caza de un asesino demente entre falsas fachadas de normalidad y mujeres sociópatas.

Bridge and Nicole are hired by a woman who's lost her gold coins. They follow the man that took them down to South America, where he intends to sell them to the highest bidder. Things don't quite go according to plan, though, as they run into the con man before he's able to rid himself of the coins. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game between Bridge and the con man, who acts more like a friend than a foe. Can Bridge and Nicole take the coins before the man can get rid of them? Or will they have to alter their plans if they're unable to stop him?

Una nuova serie legata al mondo dell'arte, con una protagonista esplosiva e l'incantevole scenario dell'entroterra ligure. Edna Silvera, cinquantasette anni, è storica dell'arte e restauratrice di grande talento. Abita in una villetta a Chiavari e l'unica compagnia che gradisce è quella del gatto Cagliostro e delle sue galline, che adorano la musica degli Abba e hanno nomi da dive del cinema (la Garbo, Marilyn, Bette Davis, la rossa Rita Hayworth).

Una sera a Roma, accarezzata dal Ponentino. Alla fine del turno mancherebbero due ore, ma per Debora Camilli, la tassista più insubordinata di Roma, la tentazione di staccare prima per concedersi uno Spritz è fortissima. Purtroppo dall'autoradio la voce perentoria dell'impiegata della cooperativa la richiama all'ordine: c'è una chiamata in zona, Siena 23, al Lungotevere Flaminio, poche storie! Appena svolta sul Lungotevere, un'onda di adrenalina la invade: la luce intermittente delle volanti ha su Debora un effetto potentissimo.

Master grifter Billy Cunningham has built a lucrative career conning a long list of Las Vegas casinos. In fact, he's never walked into one he couldn't rip off. Now he's scheming a "super con" with a gang of high-profile cheats - a one-time-only scam that could rake in a cool multi-million-dollar payday.

Un lunedì mattina di fine maggio, un grido rompe il silenzio in cui è ancora immersa quell'ala dell'Università. A terra, nell'aula di fronte alla segreteria, giace il corpo inerte, la testa in una pozza di sangue, di una vecchia professoressa. A indagare è il giovane ispettore Giuseppe Meneghini, ex studente della stessa facoltà. Con l'aiuto dell'affascinante Sara Katz, unica tra i professori a dimostrarsi collaborativa, Giuseppe si trova a ricostruire gli avvenimenti che hanno portato al delitto.

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most emotionally powerful Sherlock Holmes mysteries, blending deception, greed, and friendship into a masterful tale of crime and loyalty.

Matteo De Foresta, giornalista che abita e lavora a Genova, convive con Barbara. Hanno una figlia ma la loro relazione è in crisi. Decide di aiutare Evgeni, un suo amico scassinatore a cui deve la vita, a scoprire chi ne ha ucciso il cugino. Le indagini lo portano ad un misterioso giocatore del poker online. Con l'aiuto di Attilio, giocatore di poker paralizzato e sulla carrozzina, si infiltra nelle partite clandestine a casa di Rodolfo Mutti, avvocato e primo sospettato.

The Hound of Baskervilles holds the listener in suspense as few murder stories do. Its combination of horror, homicidal villainy, the fogs of remote Dartmoor, the Baskerville Curse ‘a great black beast shaped like a hound’, are as unforgettable as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.

The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place.

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1893, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had decided that these would be the last collection of Holmes's stories, and intended to kill him off in "The Final Problem". Reader demand stimulated him to write another Holmes adventure - The Hound of the Baskervilles. In "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Holmes relates the aftermath of "The Final Problem", and how he survived.

"Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "Silver Blaze" 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker. Holmes and Watson arrive at King's Pyland, from which Silver Blaze is missing.