Resultados para "man" en Detectives tradicionales

A classic Agatha Christie adventure-mystery filled with twists and suspense. A fearless heroine whose curiosity leads her into extraordinary danger. A chance encounter. A mysterious death. A journey across oceans into the heart of Africa. When adventurous Anne Beddingfeld witnesses a man fall to his death in a London Underground station, she discovers a cryptic scrap of paper that leads her into a dangerous web of murder, stolen diamonds, secret identities, and international intrigue.

Upon finding a mysterious note at the scene of an accident, spunky Ann Beddingfeld throws caution to the wind and sets sail for an adventure to South Africa. She gets more thrills than she bargained for when she finds herself embroiled in a crooked diamond scheme, a murder, and in the clutches of the mysterious “Colonel". 

Una amiga del doctor Watson, Isa Whitney, viene a pedirle ayuda para encontrar a su marido, que sin darse casi cuenta se ha convertido en un drogadicto. Ahora lleva varios días desaparecido y su mujer está desesperada.

Horne Fisher – a brilliant yet disillusioned amateur detective – has intimate ties to Britain’s political elite: his father is friends with the Prime Minister, his sister is married to the Foreign Minister and the Chancellor of Exchequer happens to be his first cousin. Although unprecedented access to the inner workings of the government has its benefits, Horne finds it more of a curse than a blessing… With his sharp intellect and profound understanding of human nature, politics and power, Horne unravels a series of mysterious events...

It is early in the twelfth century, and the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud rages with renewed vigor. In the battle of Lincoln, the sheriff of Shropshire is captured, and the king himself is detained by his enemies. An exchange of prisoners is arranged: the sheriff will be bartered for a young Welsh lordling who has been captured during a misguided assault on a convent.

In this early science-fiction novel, H.G. Wells takes listeners on a journey with Griffin, a scientist who discovers a way to turn one’s self invisible. This mysterious man turns up in a village during a snowstorm and acts strange, wearing excessive clothing and demonstrating unkindness to the village’s townspeople. As his identity is revealed to more people, Griffin takes advantage of his condition to commit violent acts and terrorize the people who cannot see their assailant.

Enter the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London in The Man with the Twisted Lip, one of the most clever and psychologically intriguing cases of Sherlock Holmes. When a respected gentleman mysteriously vanishes and a grotesque beggar is suspected of foul play, Holmes uncovers a truth far stranger—and more unsettling—than murder.

January 1983: Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is getting married to the love of his life Merilee at New York City Hall. Hoagy's college chum, Ezra Spooner, stands up for him. Merilee's lovely cousin, Phoebe, stands up for her. After they say "I do" and pop open the Dom Perignon, Phoebe somberly announces...

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES. It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen...

Don Paico, viejo vagabundo, ha engañado por años a campesinos de la zona con su historia de la mano pegada. Sin embargo, el nuevo juez de la región, don Simón Antonio, consigue desenmascararlo.

Kurt Wallander potrebbe finalmente realizzare uno dei suoi vecchi sogni e trasferirsi in una casa di campagna, fuori Ystad. Un giro di ricognizione del giardino lo porta però a fare una macabra scoperta: dal terreno spuntano le ossa di una mano. A chi apparteneva? Da quanto tempo quel corpo è sepolto nel giardino? Lì intorno non c’è nessuno in grado di fornire una spiegazione. Con l’aiuto dei suoi colleghi e di Linda, la figlia da poco entrata in polizia, Wallander dovrà scavare indietro nel tempo nel tentativo di ricostruire la storia di una morte oscura.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband.

John "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens an old book, and begins to read aloud.

"The Man with the Twisted Lip", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1891. Doyle ranked "The Man with the Twisted Lip'' sixteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Late at night, Kate Whitney, a friend of Dr. Watson's wife, calls on them. Her husband Isa has been absent for several days. Frantic with worry, she begs Dr.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window.

In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest the curse of the Baskervilles once and for all. The perpetrator escaped into the night and was presumed drowned, consumed by the murky bog... In truth, the criminal mastermind survived the night to nurse his wounds and plot his revenge against Sherlock Holmes.

When the body of a local angler is found near a NATO seismology station, Detectives Thane and Moss are drawn into a web of intrigue and mystery that stretches from Glasgow’s back alleys to beyond the Iron Curtain. As they delve deeper, they find themselves frantically navigating a maze of political secrets, hunting for a brutal fugitive on a quest for revenge. With the threat of more violence and international tensions looming, can Thane and Moss piece together the clues in time to prevent a devastating catastrophic event?

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window.