Resultados para "Vienna" en Procedimientos policiales

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.

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.

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.