Títulos en Detectives tradicionales

Maigret non ha nessuna voglia di recarsi a Sancerre, dove in una stanza dell'Hôtel de la Loire è stato trovato il cadavere di Émile Gallet, grigio rappresentante di commercio. Ma l'apparenza inganna e il morto, la sua personalità sfuggente, il suo mondo in bilico tra realtà e immaginazione, presente e passato, trascinano il commissario in un viaggio ossessivo alla ricerca della verità.

Colin Lamb lavora per i servizi segreti britannici e durante una perlustrazione, si trova a essere testimone di un delitto. Dal civico 61 di Wilbrahan Crescent, una ragazza terrorizzata scappa in strada e va a finire proprio tra le sue braccia. Si chiama Sheila Webb, è bellissima, e ha appena visto il cadavere di un uomo. Dick Hardcastel, il capo della polizia locale, indaga su quel mistero che si somma ad altri misteri, a uomini e donne insospettabili che in realtà nascondono inquietanti segreti, a coperture apparentemente perfette che celano pericolose spie straniere.

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous.

When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the NYPD to restructure its homicide department. As the deceased was highly critical of Inspector Lionel Cramer, the longtime head of homicide is temporarily relieved of his badge. But it seems Cramer was not just a scapegoat. He was seen dining in Little Italy with mob kingpin Ralph Mars. If Cramer's provisional replacement, Captain George Rowcliff, becomes permanent, PI Nero Wolfe's future dealings with the force will be much compromised.

In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street, helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram, establishes a link between two missing lighthouse keepers and the royal treasures of King John, contends with a supernatural curse places upon an eccentric aristocrat, and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron.

Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened. This exclusive audio collection features 11 Max Carrados stories.

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale---the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted."

Il Crocevia delle Tre Vedove è un angolo sperduto e nebbioso nella campagna parigina. Tre case, tre coppie e il cadavere di un noto ricettatore di diamanti. Una matassa ingarbugliata, quella che Maigret si trova tra le mani. E su tutto e tutti domina la figura di una donna sensuale e misteriosa, Else, che turba non solo il commissario ma anche i suoi lettori.

Chiamato a Concarneau per indagare sul misterioso ferimento di un negoziante di vini, Maigret si trova ad affrontare una serie di omicidi, o di tentati omicidi, che coinvolgono alcuni notabili della piccola e sempre più spaventata cittadina bretone. Unico testimone di ogni disgrazia, un malandato cane giallo senza padrone. A intenerire Maigret sarà anche Emma, la cameriera dallo sguardo inquieto, che sembra nascondere qualche segreto.

Sono le quattro e mezzo di mattina quando Arlette, una giovane spogliarellista di Pigalle, varca il portone del commissariato. Un po' sbronza, il rossetto sbavato, la ragazza sostiene di aver sentito al night due uomini complottare l'assassinio di una contessa. Nessuno la prende sul serio e Arlette ritira tutto. Ma poco dopo viene ritrovata strangolata e, a distanza di qualche ora, la stessa sorte subisce la contessa von Farnheim.

In pensione da un anno nella sua casa di Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret riceve la visita di Jean Maura, il figlio di un ricco uomo d'affari di New York. Con l'aiuto del suo notaio, Jean convince Maigret a imbarcarsi con lui alla volta della metropoli americana, dove teme che il padre sia in grave pericolo. Al loro arrivo, però, la situazione si complica: Jean scompare. Questa volta l'indagine di Maigret dovrà rimestare nel passato di amicizie turbolente, portando alla luce vecchi misfatti e tradimenti.

Joseph Heurtin, condannato a morte per l'omicidio di una ricca vedova americana e della sua cameriera, attende in prigione il giorno dell'esecuzione. Ma Maigret non crede alla sua colpevolezza e, giocandosi tutta l'onorata carriera, organizza in segreto la sua evasione. È infatti convinto che sarà proprio Heurtin a condurlo sulle tracce del vero assassino.

Cinq témoignages accablants ont fait condamner à la détention perpétuelle Caroline, la femme d'Amyas Crale, peintre renommé, mort empoisonné. Seize ans plus tard, Hercule Poirot prend l'affaire en main. Ne s'arrêtant pas aux évidences, tirant parti du moindre indice, il fait éclater une vérité à laquelle personne ne s'attendait. Un des meilleurs Hercule Poirot qui, au-delà de l'intrigue, dépeint le milieu artistique des années trente, l'amour et la jalousie. Un roman policier sombrement chatoyant magnifiquement servi par Samuel Labarthe.

Ce n'est pas très joli de voler son fiancé à sa meilleure amie pour se marier avec lui. Et même si l'amie en question semble se résigner, la ravissante et riche Linnet Ridgeway a bien des raisons d’être inquiète... Surtout quand le hasard les rassemble, pour une croisière sur le Nil, avec d'inquiétants personnages, dans une atmosphère lourde de sensualité et de cupidité. Un petit revolver, un crime étrange, une énigme de plus à résoudre pour un passager pas comme les autres : Hercule Poirot.

Archie Goodwin’s aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe’s New York brownstone. After a phone call, he heads off to Ohio, where the president of Farmer’s State Bank and Trust, an elderly widower, has died in an apparent suicide. But Archie’s aunt has expressed nagging suspicions - which only grow stronger when someone takes a shot at a local reporter who wrote about the case.

The powerful Lord complains loudly to the local bishop, who asks Father Max Tudor, vicar of Nether Monkslip and former MI5 agent, to investigate. Just as Max comes to believe the poisoning was accidental, a body is discovered in the cloister well. Can Max Tudor solve the case and restore order in time to attend his own nuptials?

Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett’s last - and most successful - novel. Following the enormous success of The Thin Man movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas for the films that became After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man.

When the body of the glamorous film star Margot Browne washes ashore, Max's former colleague, Patrice Logan, requests his help. It's a perfect closed-circle murder: Margot must have been killed by one of the actors, stylists, scriptwriters, or second-tier royalty aboard the yacht. Patrice suspects the yacht's owner, a playboy film director she's been keeping tabs on for smuggling, but Max isn't so sure.

Springtime in Mississippi is abloom with beauty, but the library's employees are too busy worrying to stop and smell the flowers. The new library director, Oscar Reilly, is a brash, unfriendly Yankee who's on a mission to cut costs - and his first targets are the archive and the rare book collection. But his biggest offense is declaring all four-legged creatures banned from the stacks. With enemies aplenty, the suspect list is long when Reilly's body is discovered in the library.