Títulos en Detectives tradicionales

Eigentlich sollte die Eröffnung der 800 Jahrfeier von Gutts Hill ein Tag für die Gemeinde werden, an den sich jeder noch lange Zeit erinnern würde...

The distraught head of an elite boarding school hires Holmes and Watson to investigate the sensitive disappearance of the young heir of a local nobleman. Searching in the fields surrounding the school, they make a grisly discovery - the dead body of one of the boy’s teachers. Sensing the growing danger to the young boy and suspecting the interference of the duke’s secretary, Holmes and Watson question the duke himself, who reveals a shocking detail to them. 

Eine Dame meldet sich nicht mehr. Pater Brown reist auf Bitten seiner Nachbarin nach Cornwall, wo die Vermisste in einem Sanatorium gearbeitet hat. Mit Hilfe der jungen Lucy Paxton startet er seine Recherchen und macht kurz darauf eine grausige Entdeckung. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt scheint niemand in dem Sanatorium hoch über Manderley Cove mehr sicher zu sein. Die Legende der schwarzen Nonne ist plötzlich wieder in aller Munde, und tatsächlich wird die geisterhafte Erscheinung gleich von mehreren Personen gesehen.

Auf einer Italienreise wird die Kutsche des englischen Bankiers Samuel Harrogate vom berühmten Räuberhauptmann Montano entführt. Pech für den König der Diebe, dass in derselben Kutsche ausgerechnet Pater Brown sitzt, dem diese Entführung irgendwie merkwürdig vorkommt...

Lady Casterton is found strangled in her bedroom shortly after seven when her housekeeper went to discover why her employer had not appeared for dinner. From an examination of the body, it was clear that she had been killed a little after six at the very earliest. Suspicion naturally fell onto her nephew, her inheritor, with whom relations had been strained in recent weeks. He would have looked like a prime suspect were it not for the testimony of the housekeeper. But then the nephew turns up dead in a locked room. The question for John Handful is who murdered the murderer?

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war.

To avoid a scandal at a prestigious school, Holmes must determine how and by whom the answers to an extremely difficult Greek exam, which will result in the award of a scholarship, have been copied.

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

As the glamour of the Bright Young Things crashes into the world of the Mitford sisters, their maid, Louisa Cannon, finds herself at the scene of a gripping murder mystery. Meet the 'Bright Young Things', the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. One such game takes place at the 18th birthday party of Pamela Mitford but ends in tragedy as cruel, charismatic Adrian Curtis is pushed to his death from the church neighbouring the Mitford home. The police quickly identify the killer as a maid, Dulcie.

The Secret Agent is a Victorian terrorist tale that has found a new audience with today's audiences. Set in 1866 London, this book tells the story of Adolf Verloc, a shopkeeper turned anarchist.

Read by David Suchet and Stephanie Cole Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie. First there was the...

Miss Alice Turner demande l'aide de Sherlock Holmes pour qu'il vienne disculper son fiancé que tout semble accuser du meurtre de son propre père. On l'a vu se disputer avec lui, mais il clame son innocence. L'enquête minutieuse de Sherlock Holmes permet de définir les caractéristiques de l'assassin. Le moins que l'on puisse dire est que les résultats de l'enquête de Holmes vont surprendre tout ce petit monde.

Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And when you're the county's prosecuting attorney, calls from the sheriff are rarely good news, either. So when Bell Elkins picks up the phone, she already knows she won't like what she's about to hear, but she's still not prepared for this: sixteen-year-old Lucinda Trimble's body has been found at the bottom of Bitter River. And Lucinda didn't drown - she was dead before her body ever hit the water. With a case like that, Bell knows the coming weeks are going to be tough. But that's not all Bell is coping with these days.

Some say the Hotel Tempesta is cursed, but its owner, Mr. Gallo, refuses to believe it. When he's brutally murdered one night, the suspicion falls on his guests. Ten suspects in total. And Penny Green is one of them. Does Mr Gallo's murder have anything to do with the criminal mastermind on the run from America? Penny and Inspector James Blakely must negotiate a world of courtesans, stolen paintings, and secret codes to prove Penny's innocence and uncover the truth.

Professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, first learn of the Clutching Hand and his gang when they investigate a string of murders involving the policyholders of Taylor Dodge's insurance company. After receiving a threatening note, Dodge himself is robbed and killed, and his daughter, Elaine, turns to Kennedy for help. Using the latest advances in forensic science, the professor uncovers the exotic and deadly scheme behind the murders. But when the Clutching Hand and his band of evildoers kidnap Elaine, Kennedy must leap into action.

Middlemarch is considered one of the masterpieces of English fiction. Published in 1874, it is the seventh and penultimate novel by George Eliot. It pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education.

The Patience of the Spider is the eighth novel in Andrea Camilleri's wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. 'A brother,' he said. Jesus Christ! Now where'd this brother come from? Whose brother? Montalbano had known from the start that between all the brothers, uncles, in-laws, nephews and...

Der letzte Fall für Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes ist alt geworden. Auch Inspektor Lestrade wurde von seinem Sohn bei Scotland Yard abgelöst. Als der junge Inspektor in Zweifel zieht, dass Sherlock Holmes so brillant ist, wie stets durch Watsons Feder gezeichnet, fordert ihn Holmes verärgert zum Duell heraus: Es gilt, den Fall einer Wasserleiche aufzuklären, die mit einem Schweinefuß in der Jackentasche aufgefunden wurde. Siegesgewiss beginnt Holmes zu ermitteln.

Eigentlich führt Mrs. Maberley ein friedliches, zurückgezogenes Leben, doch dann ereignen sich in ihrem Haus seltsame Dinge. Zuerst versucht ein dubioser Makler, es für einen völlig überteuerten Preis zu kaufen, und dann wird die alte Dame des Nachts überfallen. Die Diebe aber stehlen keine Wertgegenstände, sondern nur ein Romanmanuskript ihres verstorbenen Sohnes. Ein Fall für Sherlock Holmes.

Det sägs att en man begått självmord genom att skjuta sig själv i ett låst rum. Men varför var pistolen i hans vänstra hand, när han är högerhänt? Kommissarie Japp, Hastings och Poirot är i den lilla staden Market Basing för att få lite semester. Men snabbt dras de in i ett nytt, knepigt mordmysterium och måste hitta sanningen innan det är för sent... Denna novell ingår i samlingen "Poirots problem". Agatha Christie föddes 1890 och dog 1976.