Resultados para "Weiß" en Misterio

Private investigator Cole Harper doesn't go looking for trouble, but when a woman walks into his office claiming her husband is cheating, a simple domestic case turns into something far more dangerous. A photo, a Chinatown receipt, and a string of half-truths lead Harper into a fog of deception, opium dens, and velvet-draped rooms where the wrong question can get a man killed.

Cape May, 1947. Cole Harper thought he was taking a simple case—check on an aging vaudeville star for his worried son. But Marigold House, a crumbling seaside boarding house filled with retired vaudeville performers, has more secrets than applause lines.

Cole Harper came to Atlantic City for a break—a few days to clear his head, sip a drink, and forget the mess he left behind in Philly. But when a redhead with a Southern drawl and a face he almost recognizes wins big in a backroom casino, then ends up bound to his hotel bed, vacation is over.

Philadelphia, 1947. When private investigator Cole Harper is summoned to the penthouse of Sam Hensley—a powerful but shadowy industrialist--he knows it's no ordinary case. Luxury goods, military surplus, and counterfeit money are disappearing from Hensley's warehouses, and the clues point to an operation as sophisticated as it is ruthless. But Harper soon discovers this is no simple theft—this is the black market at its most dangerous.

Three of the most popular mysteries of all time in one audiobook. Includes stories of Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe's detective Auguste Dupin. Adapted and narrated by Jim Weiss.

Business at the bakery may have slowed down, but Val Harris isn't about to eat humble pie - not until a reality cooking show decides to whip the struggling Pie Town into shape. If Val can tolerate criticism from an abrasive pastry chef during filming, the free publicity might turn the unusual opportunity into the sweetest deal she didn't know she needed. Except no one in San Nicholas has an appetite for dessert once murder steals the spotlight.

A poetry slam at a bakery? Why not! Even though Pie Town proprietor Val Harris would rather be spending time with her newfound half-brother, she knows her employee, Abril, is beyond excited to be hosting the event. Especially since it stars the apple pie of Abril's eye, poet and professor Michael Starke. But the evening ends on a sour note when Professor Starke is found murdered mere moments after being accused of plagiarism. Just like that, Pie Town is at the center of another criminal inquiry. At Abril's request, Val and Charlene decide to investigate Starke's death.

As the owner of Pie Town, Val's been tapped to judge the pie-making contest at the annual pumpkin festival in the coastal California town of San Nicholas. Things could get sticky though - her boyfriend, cop Gordon Carmichael, is entering the competition with his "special" family pumpkin pie recipe. But Val's got bigger problems than a conflict of interest when she and her flaky piecrust-maker Charlene discover another contestant crushed under an enormous pumpkin.

After Special Agent Jennifer Morton is fired from the IRS, she pursues a fat-cat financial felon who has fled to an island with no extradition laws. While off the grid, she discovers a community that shelters some of the most wanted white-collar fugitives in the world. Just as she's about to expose the entire web, she unearths the truth about her father and must choose between two very different kinds of betrayals.

When the bodies of two men are found shockingly posed in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples' decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances but also those of the city as a whole. A Few Drops of Blood is a riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty.

Ein Bilderbuchsommer an der Nordsee und halb Fredenbüll macht Urlaub auf Amrum. Nicoles kleiner Sohn Finn baut begeistert eine Sandburg, als er mit seiner Schaufel einen abgetrennten Frauenfuß zutage fördert. Gleichzeitig wird nahe der Küste ein weißer Heilbutt, der König der Raubfische, gesichtet. Die Presse überbietet sich mit dramatischen Schlagzeilen über den "Mörder-Heilbutt vor Amrum".

Mit dem wichtigsten Mode-Event des Jahres will das Management der Ferienanlage Weiße Düne stilvoll die neue Saison eröffnen. Die Jungdesignerin Isabella Caspari tritt zum ersten Mal gegen die Altmeister Hubertus Hohenfels und Titus Seidensticker an, um in einer aufsehenerregenden Modenschau ihre Haute Couture zu präsentieren. Doch nichts verläuft an diesem Wochenende nach Plan. Während der letzten Vorbereitungen meldet die Journalistin Gloria von Brandenburg einen Einbruch in ihren Bungalow. Da Torge Trulsen seine Unterstützung verweigert, wendet sie sich direkt an die Polizei.

Rick and Scotty go to work on a project at an experimental rocket installation in Nevada at the request of Dr. John Gordon. Someone has been trying to sabotage the rocker launches and leaves pictures of a knight sticking a sword through a rocket. The person calls themselves The Earthman.

Commander Walter Topham, assigned as an attaché in Japan, is requested by the Secretary of State to deliver a sealed secret document via the Berlin embassy en route to Japan. Topham agrees to travel to Japan via Berlin. He meets and falls in love with the Countess de Ouro Preto on the steamer voyage, not knowing she is part of a conspiracy. He is drugged on the sea journey and attacked while traveling by train to Berlin by plotters who want to prevent the document from reaching Berlin.

Sylt im April. Bei Sandaufspülungen vor Westerland wird die Leiche einer misshandelten jungen Frau geborgen. Kommissarin Liv Lammers von der Mordkommission Flensburg steht vor einer Zerreißprobe: Sie stammt aus einer reichen Sylter Familie, ist mit dieser jedoch heillos zerstritten und meidet die Insel seit Jahren. Andererseits steht sie dem Tatverdächtigen nah, zu nah. Der Fall wird zu einer Konfrontation mit ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit.

Biff Brewster receives a mysterious, urgent telegram from his uncle, Charles Keene, from Martinique, asking him to come quickly. Biff's parents reluctantly allow Biff to make the trip. During the airline trip, Biff meets another boy, Derek, who looks like Biff. After making friends on the flight, they decide to play a trick on Biff's uncle by exchanging identities. The exchanged identity backfires as Biff is kidnapped by thieves hoping to find and steal a pearl fishery that Dere's father has discovered.

The main characters are Dr. Mark Ransford, his two wards, Mary and Dick Bewery, and one Dr. Pemberton Bryce - an assistant to Dr. Ransford. Bryce makes unwelcome advances to Mary Bewery and Ransford, after having warned him against these advances, dismisses Bryce. Bryce sets out to make Mary his own while suspecting Ransford and implicate him in the murders. A surprising twist toward the end of the story.

Barby, Rick Brant's sister, and Jan Miller have sighted a Civil War ghost while vacationing in Virginia. The ghost is, apparently, a Civil War Union soldier who died while visiting his sweetheart across Confederate lines. The ghost always appears exactly at 9 p.m., and then only when there is a considerable audience. Rick and his ex-Marine pal Scotty, travel to Virginia to investigate the ghostly sightings. A cave, a pool, clouds of mist, figures walking over the fields at midnight picking up the invisible dead from the war...are they real ghosts or people.

Mysteriöse Morde - ein Bundesland im Ausnahmezustand und eine Kommissarin, die an die Grenzen ihrer Kraft gerät. Ein Serienkiller zieht seine Kreise im Saarland. Er tötet nach einem Muster und er ist nicht aufzuhalten. Hauptkommissarin Franziska Merten versucht ihn zu stoppen. Sie ist einem alten Geheimnis auf der Spur.

Nur mit knapper Not sind Adam Salton und Nathaniel de Salis der unbarmherzigen Arabella March nach Indien entkommen. In Bombay treffen sie auf eine alte Bekannte Nathaniels - Helena Blavatsky, die Begründerin der Theosophischen Gesellschaft. Die geheimnisvolle Frau und Nathaniel scheint ein Geheimnis zu einen - das Wissen um den Heiligen Speer -, das Adam nach wie vor verschlossen bleibt. Als sich aber in den geheimen Tunneln der Parsen ein schwerwiegender Unfall ereignet, ist es an Adam, das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Ihm bleibt nur noch wenig Zeit - doch die Zeit ist nur ein Gefäß ...