Títulos en Detectives tradicionales

Il destino ha riunito un eterogeneo gruppo di viaggiatori sul lussuoso battello da crociera Karnak, in navigazione sul Nilo. Tra di essi la personalità dominante è senz'altro rappresentata dall'affascinante Linnet Ridgeway, la ragazza più ricca d'Inghilterra, abituata a essere sempre al centro dell'attenzione. Attorno a lei gravitano un fidanzato respinto e diversi accaniti ammiratori che se ne contendono i favori. Ciascuno dei personaggi ha però una sua storia e un suo segreto da custodire, accuratamente nascosto sotto un'inappuntabile facciata di rispettabilità e di perbenismo.

C'est avec cette série d'aventures que "Sherlock Holmes" conquit complètement les goûts des lecteurs, établissant les bases du roman policier moderne, avec une rigueur scientifique, tout en redressant les torts de l'Angleterre victorienne. Le Dr. Watson relate plusieurs enquêtes, certaines humoristiques, d'autres criminelles, que Sherlock Holmes mena dans les années qui suivirent leur rencontre.

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".

Un très bon polar, qui comblera les attentes des lecteurs du genre. Un style soigné et littéraire, un scénario et une procédure cohérents. Des personnages hauts en couleur qui prennent vie au fil des pages et des rebondissements.

Una rilettura della tradizione del giallo all'italiana, capace di coniugare crimine e passione, lo sguardo più dolente alla risata più sfrontata. In autunno su Rai Due la serie televisiva tratta dai romanzi di Rocco Schiavone. Con Marco Giallini e Isabella Ragonese.

C'è un cadavere nei boschi della Normandia, sul sentiero dove da mille anni i prescelti vedono passare la Schiera furiosa. Ovvero la cavalcata dei morti, un'armata di cavalieri spettrali in cerca di anime nere da trascinare via, lontano dal mondo dei vivi, che non è stato in grado di punire i loro delitti. Una giovane, la luminosa Lina, ha visto la Schiera. È solo una visionaria, o le foreste normanne celano segreti più spaventosi di una cupa credenza?

A weekend escape. A body in the water. And nowhere to run when the storm closes in. Mal Peck’s peaceful bridge weekend at an idyllic Cornish island hotel takes a deadly turn when the young bride of a fellow guest is found drowned. Her plans shattered, Mal is pulled into a spiralling puzzle, one that turns darker still when another body surfaces. As a savage storm cuts the island off from the mainland, Mal teams up with her friend Jacques Pellofey to hunt a killer.

In the dead days between Christmas and New Year, a body turns up on the grounds of Liggan Manor, and Malachite Peck is called in. The lady of the manor swears her family has nothing to do with it—and she wants Mal to prove it. Mal isn’t convinced, but with too much time on her hands, she agrees. What starts as a simple case quickly unravels into a tangle of family secrets, a whispered new will, and a surprising new heir no one saw coming. As generations clash over the sprawling estate, another second body is discovered, and it’s clear—a killer is hunting the Liggan heirs one by one.

La sesta inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Maggio 1993: in Algeria i fondamentalisti islamici uccidono quattro suore. La quinta donna massacrata è una turista svedese. La polizia algerina cerca di insabbiare il caso. Settembre 1994: una serie di delitti scuote il Sud della Svezia. Omicidi crudeli, perpetrati con una tecnica che non lascia dubbi sull’esistenza di un unico colpevole. Tocca ancora al commissario Kurt Wallander aprire un faticoso spiraglio tra le indagini e mettere insieme i pezzi di una storia incredibile.

With the help of old associates Chief Inspector Jellicoe, the newly promoted Detective Inspector Wellbeloved, and Rufus Watts, Kit and Mary soon find themselves in the middle of a race against time before the murderer strikes again in a case where revenge is the motive and everyone is putting on an act. After the Indiana Jones-like adventure in The Tangier Tajine, Kit and Mary Aston return to a more traditional murder mystery set in the world of post-war variety theatre just before the arrival of moving pictures and radio sounded the death knell to this wonderful realm of entertainment.

その孤島に招き寄せられたのは、たがいに面識もない、職業や年齢も様々な十人の男女だった。だが、招待主の姿は島にはなく、やがて夕食の席上、彼らの過去の犯罪を暴く謎の声が……無気味な童謡の歌詞通りに、彼らが一人ずつ殺されてゆく！　強烈なサスペンスに彩られた最高傑作。新訳決定版。

Ambrose Chitterwick is in the lounge of the Piccadilly Palace Hotel, away from his overbearing aunt, to enjoy some afternoon refreshments when he witnesses a murder. It looks like suicide but he saw something being put into the lady’s coffee cup. He is Scotland Yard’s chief witness but he also conducts an investigation of his own. Despite his diffidence and self-deprecation, his sleuthing is not to be sniffed at. There are plenty of twists and turns in this journey to enjoy, especially with master narrator David Timson in the driving seat.

In the comfortable English Dorsetshire village of Anneypenny in the 1930s, fruit farmer Douglas Sewell–narrator of the story–sees his friend John die in agony. The death certificate states gastric ulcers but the post mortem’s revealing of poison punctures Anneypenny’s idyllic backdrop. Soon every friend and neighbour seems to harbour something suspicious. Douglas challenges his readers, or listeners, to answer the key questions before throwing out several scenarios and turning them upside-down in a tantalising path to the truth.

In the little hamlet of Wyvern’s Cross, where good manners, tennis and tea are pivotal to the functioning of society, little Dr Bickleigh has a rather large problem: he needs to erase his insufferable wife. His meetings with Ivy are becoming tiresome, and although his burning passion for Gwynyfryd Rattery does not play out as imagined in the toolshed, there is now the infinitely superior Madeleine Cranmere to be worshipped… Resourceful but impulsive, Dr Bickleigh is consumed with the image of his goal.

The Continental Detective Agency's Operative is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town "Poisonville," and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, floozies, bootleggers, and hit men are all in Dashiell Hammett's first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective.

It could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns about his withdrawn and mysterious wife, Flavieres didn't have the heart to refuse. Soon, he would be scouring the streets of Paris in search of an answer - in search of a girl who belonged to no one, not even to herself. Intrigue would be replaced by obsession, and dreams replaced by nightmares.

Vejo, verano de 1996. El cadáver de una joven aparece a orillas del Río Viviesa y alerta la tranquilidad de un pueblo que aún recuerda la desaparición de la pequeña Nico hace veinte años y el enfrentamiento que desencadenó entre las familias Alonso y De la Vega. El veterano teniente Laza, tras una brillante trayectoria en la Unidad Central Operativa de la Policía Judicial y a un mes de su jubilación, regresa a ese mismo lugar que todavía le atormenta.

In the small Bedfordshire town of Biggleswade, retired detective Albert, and former police dog, Rex, are enjoying a peaceful break from the murder and mayhem of the last week. Until the waitress serving him is arrested for murder....

While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo—now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS. Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love… and flat...