Resultados para "The Millionaire" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

"The Millionaire" is in jail on a murder charge. Violent inmates beat him savagely, trying to extort money. To save his life, Maureen Gould must find the truth and free her client.

A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six year old daughter, Gwendolen, missing since the afternoon of August the 16th, from her home in New York. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. She is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective.

During the wealth and glitter of the Gilded Age, a six-year-old heiress goes missing from her opulent hilltop estate. Detective Robert Trevitt sets out to find her. Using inside knowledge of her family's secrets, he searches for little Gwendolen where no one else can, and uncovers truths hidden to all eyes but his. The mystery unwinds in a tale of ghostly regrets, desperate deeds of love, and hopes of forgiveness.

They were a picture-perfect family - until a bitter divorce drove Darren Mack over the edge. A Reno millionaire, Mack was ordered by the court to pay his wife $10,000 a month in alimony. Instead, he stabbed her in the garage while their daughter watched TV upstairs. The only person Mack hated more than his wife was the family court judge who presided over their divorce. So, after killing his wife, he loaded his gun and went after the judge...and headed for Mexico with a stash of concealed weapons.

May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine laced with poison, killing his entire family including himself. Married to a Millionaires' Row doctor, the infamous con woman Cassie Chadwick posed as Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter and forged a fake $5 million check.

A hauntingly handsome young British man, aspiring to model stardom, finds an escape from romantic and financial problems when a train conductor at Grand Central shares a hidden secret with him. What at first seems an amazing underground palace of mystery leads him to unexpected consequences. Later in the story, ghostly cocktails are toasted in the Campbell Apartment (another Grand Central secret).

No one's life is perfect, but Henley doesn't have many complaints. She graduated from college, landed a great paying job in Dubai, and married a man who swept her off her feet. The only thing missing from the equation is a child. Henley and Ethan are working hard to add to their family, and when Ethan suggests an unconventional method Henley is thrown for a loop. Is the proposition weird or is her man just that loyal that he would do anything to ensure she was able to have a child?

Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Then, just as Grover is trying to buy a bigger plane to set more records and attempt to fly to Europe a decade before Lindbergh, they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials. Running and hiding from their war duty, the fugitives are so reviled by nationalistic Americans that two older brothers change their names to avoid infamy.

Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion race car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s. Grover, the most notorious, is celebrated for his daring record-setting flights in a Wright Brothers airplane. Erwin drives a powerful Benz to win a prestigious motor car race, the equivalent of the Daytona 500. Then they're snared by vengeful local military draft officials.

The world’s most famous sleuth is back for new adventures. The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show that aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.

An anonymous murder victim and a missing journalist: can Lesley uncover the truth? DCI Lesley Clarke has too many suspects to choose from when a wealthy lawyer and her unidentified companion are found brutally murdered in a Sandbanks mansion. Was it the victim's ex-husband, resentful at her new lifestyle? Her housekeeper, who found the bodies? Or could it have been a murder-suicide? Lesley and her team must unravel the evidence and find the real killer, while also investigating the disappearance of local journalist Sadie Dawes.

When Anna Blackwell opens an email from an unknown sender, the shocking image attached shatters her perfect world. A woman has been killed. And Anna knows who did it. The past is catching up with her. Is it her turn next? To protect herself and her husband, Will, she must tell him the terrible truth about her first love. But as the secrets of her life unravel, Anna begins to realize that she is not the only one who has been living a lie.

New York City, 1880, in a time of industry, mystery, and glamour. All to be found is vice, corruption, and injustice. When prominent New York City socialites are found brutally murdered in their lavish Millionaires' Row mansions, junior detective Charles Reed, new to the city and with no experience, gets partnered with unconventional senior detective and war veteran Lucas Briggs as they're called in to investigate the most recent killing. But in their search for the murderer, the detectives realize the killings are the start of something far worse.

Olivia Cadwell, brilliant with numbers but still having trouble figuring out where she fits into the world, is on the run from her hometown, courtesy of her mother's boyfriend—who has decided that Olivia is his next target.

Eigentlich hat Cole alles, was ein Mann sich nur wünschen kann: Tolles Aussehen, gute Freunde und überaus nette Geldbeträge auf seinen Bankkonten. Nach dem Verkauf seiner ersten Firma hat er sich sogar einen Traum erfüllt und seinen eigenen, exklusiven Golfclub ins Leben gerufen. Doch obwohl die Frauen ihm scharenweise hinterherlaufen, findet sich unter ihnen nicht "die Eine". Bis er Marielle begegnet! Sie verkörpert alles, was Cole anspricht. Dumm nur, dass sie Stammgast in seinem Golfclub ist. Denn er hat sich geschworen, niemals etwas mit einer Frau anzufangen, die regelmäßig seinen Club besucht.

Lola Barnes only wants one thing: to get her life under control. No more chasing alphas who abuse and toss away betas like her. No more hiding in her cousin’s apartment licking wounds that won’t heal. Armed with her dream job and her less than dreamy apartment, Lola is ready to start a new chapter of her life without alphas. But that’s easier said than done when one stumbling incident after another leads Lola closer to an alluring pack of captivating men.

Summer and A’Zaya are far from strangers, but an untimely incident from their past ripped their once picture-perfect friendship completely apart. The world becomes much smaller than they think when one of them is about to become the wife of one of Atlanta’s most successful men. The Dupree men are amongst the most influential families in the city of Atlanta, but even for them, is life truly what it seems? In many cases, enemies hide in the shadows, but an enemy of a different sort can be hidden in plain sight.

Passiert mir das gerade wirklich - unglücklich verliebt und verlassen am Flughafen zu stehen? Caroline, verheiratet und frisch betrogen, hat mit allem gerechnet, aber nicht damit: Auf einer Geschäftsreise nach London, auf der sie sich nur auf den Job konzentrieren und ihr in Scherben liegendes Privatleben vergessen wollte, sieht sie sich plötzlich dem attraktiven, reichen und geheimnisvollen Fremden gegenüberstehen. Obwohl er seine Identität nicht preisgeben will, verliebt sich Caroline Hals über Kopf in ihn.

Was ist mit ihm geschehen? Was versucht er zu verbergen? Durch Zufall rettet Elisabeth Graham ihren Boss Chris Townsend, den begehrten Londoner Junggesellen, aus einer lebensgefährlichen Situation und entdeckt, wieso sich der Millionär vor der ganzen Welt versteckt. Ohne dass sie sich dagegen wehren kann, zieht er sie unaufhaltsam in einen Strudel kühler Berechnung in sein Leben hinein und schottet sie von der Außenwelt ab.

Aiden Maxwell, a charismatic Millionaire CEO of a successful tech firm in New York City, is known for his playboy antics and is the forbidden fruit for many. However, when his best friend and COO steps down, he finds himself working closely with Lena Joel, a spirited struggling artist, and the younger sister of his former COO.