Resultados para "The Tower" en Misterio

El inspector Kieran Shaw durante dos años, ha estado recopilando pruebas contra una red organizada. La Operación Perseo está a punto de realizar sus arrestos. Cuando un miembro de la red es asesinado a puñaladas, la prioridad de Shaw es proteger su operación. No se puede permitir que una investigación sobre uno de los asesinatos de ojo por ojo de Londres descarrile a Perseo y deje libres a los maestros criminales. Se desencadena una cadena de eventos que atrae a la antigua adversaria de Shaw, la Detective Sarah Collins que amenaza a todos con una conexión con el asesinato.

Julia Ottley has a secret. She’s burst onto the literary scene with the highest ever advance paid to a British debut author. Her novel - featuring a fabulous tower of translucent icy crystal - is garnering rave reviews. But as she embarks upon her new life, she discovers that nothing can be hidden forever, especially when living within walls of glass. She fights to keep her secret, but as the stakes steadily rise, she faces a stark choice. How far is she really prepared to go to stop her life from coming shattering down?

The fiery crash of a private jet leaves a mystery in its wreckage. Alone in the devastation is a man, unhurt, who has no memory of the crash, himself, or his past. It is up to FBI Agent Gail Crane, Santa Maria Police Detective Darcie Devonshire, and ex-CIA Operative Morgan Garrett to solve the puzzle. Not an easy task, because for each question answered, two surface to take its place.

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot is invited to Glasgow University to celebrate a scholarship she generously established, she’s excited to return to her old stomping grounds. But the delightful champagne reception is interrupted by screams when a body plunges from the tower to the ground below… While everyone exclaims at the tragic death of the young student, Poppy is instantly suspicious. Just moments before the body fell, tutor Mary Christie told her a student died falling from the very same tower eighteen years ago.

Im Tower of London sitzt Sergeant Horatio Baigent, der Mörder des Ersten Leibarztes des Königs. Er allein scheint zu wissen, wer die Drahtzieher des Pest-Komplotts sind, welches das britische Empire an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt hat. Allerdings ist auch der Sergeant nur eine Marionette im perfiden Spiel der Großmächte. Sherlock Holmes versucht, das Geflecht aus Manipulationen, Lügen und falschen Fährten zu durchdringen. Währenddessen wird Mrs. Hudson entführt. Ihr Leben hängt am seidenen Faden.

Der angesehene Historiker Lester Davenport sucht Holmes auf, da sein Freund Archibald Caldwell vermisst wird. Bald schon muss Holmes feststellen, dass dieser ermordet wurde. Caldwell war nicht nur der Archivar des sagenumwobenen Londoner Towers, sondern auch im Besitz einzigartiger Informationen zu einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der englischen Geschichte - die Rosenkriege und das Verschwinden der Prinzenbrüder Eduard und Richard im Jahre 1483.

Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time. In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled...