Resultados para "Vienna" en Misterio

Former intelligence expert Darren Priest tries to distance himself from his old life, and turns to a new vocation as a wine and food writer. He soon discovers that with his background, some things you can't un-volunteer for. Sent to Austria by the US President, Priest undertakes a covert mission where friend quickly turns to foe. With numerous enemies threatening his mission, can Priest figure out whom to trust - and expose the Vienna Connection?

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Lottie Sprigg and her employer, Mrs. Moore, are guests at Vienna's opulent Schönbrunn Palace. But their visit goes awry when the corpse of a renowned psychoanalyst is found in the grounds. There's a handful of suspects and-tragically for Mrs. Moore—one of them is her beloved Prince Manfred.

Per una fortunata coincidenza Ernestine Kirsch, insegnante di latino in pensione e grande amante dell’operetta, ha due biglietti omaggio per la prima de La giacca gialla, di Franz Lehár, al Theater an der Wien. Decide così di invitare l’amico farmacista Anton Böck che, pur detestando l’operetta, accetta di accompagnarla per trascorrere una serata insieme a lei.

After seeing her ex-boyfriend with another woman, her gorgeous spirit guide whom she could never have a relationship with, and a date with a well known office Romeo on Valentine’s Day; Vienna’s best friend talks her into a weekend getaway to clear her head. Little did she know that she’d not only have to deal with her cheating heart, but a lost soul in need of help.

A robbery in London. The murder of a priest at the end of World War ll. A genocide in Namibia. The discovery of the remains of Hitler's secretary. Something connects all this. Former British spy Jack Price knows the answer, and he's willing to die to keep the secret. The problem? He's not the only one who knows. It’s the lies that are not heard, but kept as secrets, that own us all. Deep in the world of espionage and deception, how far is Jack willing to go to fulfill his mission?

State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the Ministry for State Security. No one else quite trusts him, but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course.

Vienna, aprile 1711. Da dieci anni una guerra rovinosa insanguina l'Europa. Solo la capitale asburgica conserva miracolosamente la sua opulenza: mentre carestia e devastazione cancellano un'intera epoca, a Vienna si mangia, si beve e si balla. Il garzone protagonista di Imprimatur e Secretum, che in Italia si era ormai ridotto alla vita di stenti dello spazzacamino, trova salvezza proprio nella città imperiale: Atto Melani, agente segreto del Re Sole, gli ha saldato un antico debito. I due vecchi amici si ritrovano, ma troppe cose sono cambiate.

Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna--princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar--all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests… Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that her new husband, Malcolm, has also been tempted by Tatiana.

Vienna accepted a side job that she finds intimidating. She’s worried that it’s out of her league. She’s been hired to alleviate a house of a haunting. And in order to complete the task at hand, Vienna will need to use her newfound psychic abilities to communicate with the ghost. She’s never removed a ghost from a house before. Will she be able to solve this lost soul’s mystery and help the ghost crossover? Join Vienna and her best friend Kim in a hauntingly good A Lost Souls short story.

Was würdest du tun, wenn dein liebster Mensch plötzlich spurlos verschwände? Würdest du nicht Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen? Dein Albtraum wird wahr... ... wenn jene, von denen du Hilfe erwartest, deine Gegner sind. Der charismatische, aber unerfahrene Privatdetektiv Andorian van Anders wird beauftragt, eine vermisste Studentin zu suchen. Das Ausmaß dieses Falls kann er nicht im Mindesten erahnen. Auch die härteste Kommissarin des Wiener LKA, Danny Friedmann, wird plötzlich in die Geschehnisse involviert.

Alex Kovacs can see what’s coming – he can, all of his friends can, all of Vienna can. When an opportunity presents itself, a chance to thwart the Nazi invasion of Austria, he agrees to join an espionage network that will take advantage of his regular business trips to Germany to gather secret information. But a personal tragedy soon complicates Alex’s mission and entangles him with a suspicious Gestapo captain in ways that he never anticipated.

Die Special Agents Jeremiah Cotton und Philippa Decker werden nach Wien gerufen. Ihr Auftrag: Sie sollen einen wichtigen Zeugen sicher in die USA zurückgeleiten. Der Mann ist kein geringerer als Marek Kompowski, der ehemalige Buchhalter eines Mafiabosses, gegen den das FBI schon seit Jahren erfolglos ermittelt. Doch plötzlich verlangt Kompowski für seine Aussage eine Gegenleistung. Cotton und Decker sollen seinen entführten Sohn finden. Für die beiden Agents beginnt ein tödlicher Tanz auf blutigem Parkett.

Set against the enchanting background of post war Vienna, with its beautiful palaces and gardens, its disenchanted residents and scars of war, E.C.R. Lorac constructs a characteristic detective story, sure to puzzle and excite. This exceedingly rare mystery, first published in 1956, makes its triumphant return for the first time since its original appearance.

File clerk turned British agent, Fiona Figg, is more comfortable wearing a fake mustache than a ballgown. When a royal ball ends with a royal body in the middle of the dance floor, Fiona trades her dancing slippers for practical Oxfords and sets out to investigate. As she tracks her nemesis, the Black Panther, from Vienna to the Austrian countryside, a hunting accident makes her rethink her loyalties. Can Fiona prevent the Black Panther from striking again, save her own skin, and find a decent cup of tea, all before the emperor realizes she’s a spy?

Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him - in fact, to reimagine her life, period.

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his...

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his...

In order to make the nightmare stop, Vienna Rossi realizes she must take matters into her own hands. She’s compelled by an unseen force to hop on a last-minute flight to track down a murderer. Awakened within her is a psychic gift she never knew she had, a handsome spirit guide who drives her nuts, and the ability to help lost souls cross over to the other side. Vienna and her spirit guide, Jack, team up with Vienna’s best friend, Kim, for a dangerous murder-solving, ghost-hunting adventure.

In Wien und Umgebung ereignen sich mysteriöse Todesfälle an alten keltischen Kultorten, die das Landeskriminalamt in Alarmbereitschaft versetzen. Inspektor Karl Öhlinger und sein Kollege Osram Djago, „Django“, werden beauftragt, den rätselhaften Morden auf den Grund zu gehen. Widerwillig unterstützt von der scharfzüngigen Historikerin Professorin Frida Bartel, entdecken sie, dass die Verbrechen mit antiken keltischen Opferritualen in Verbindung stehen. Der Name „Balor", den der Täter an den Tatorten hinterlässt, verweist auf den keltischen Gott des Todes und Chaos.