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Thea Osborne and her trusty spaniel, Hepzie, have been asked by the Montgomerys to look after their house in Blockley while they take a much-needed holiday. Their elderly mother, Granny Gardner, shouldn't be any trouble - although she is slightly forgetful. Thea's got far more to worry about when a body is discovered in the house next door.

Certaines affaires remuent le passé que certains aimeraient mieux garder oublié… Quel lien entre le tournage d'un téléfilm à l'usine de concassage de galets de Tréguennec, la mort d'un retraité alsacien à Quimper et les zones d'ombre de cette page méconnue de l'histoire du pays...

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After two London men end their business partnership, one of them is savagely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset. Investigating the killing, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the victim was universally despised in Cambury - even the victim's wife and the town's police inspector are suspect. And yet in London circles, the man was highly regarded. What triggered his death?

Nesta coletânea de quatro contos da Rainha do Crime, o amado detetive Hercule Poirot está de volta para investigar casos nada comuns. Em Assassinato no beco, prepare-se para narrativas envolvendo um homicídio disfarçado de suicídio, o roubo de planos militares ultrassecretos, a morte...

In 1924, Dashiell Hammett—considered the father of hard-boiled detective fiction - wrote two short stories in his Continental Op series of mysteries: "The House on Turk Street" and "The Girl with the Silver Eyes." Rather than create two stand-alone stories, however, Hammett instead sends the Continental Op into a maze of stolen bonds, missing women, criminal rivalries, and lethal betrayals, all of which lead him to the mysterious, red-headed vixen named "Elvira," an elusive, intelligent, and dangerously charismatic woman who manipulates everyone around her while preserving her own secrets.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Agatha Christie's first novel featuring Hercule Poirot! When Emily Inglethorp, the wealthy matriarch of Styles Court, is found dead from strychnine poisoning, the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the case. With his friend...

Ein abgelegenes Hotel in den schottischen Highlands, dichter Nebel, keine Straße führt hinaus. Als ein Lord tot in seiner Suite aufgefunden wird, deutet alles auf Selbstmord hin. Doch Detective Holloway, eigentlich auf Urlaub, erkennt die Inszenierung. Unter den eingeschlossenen Gästen verbirgt sich nicht nur ein Mörder, sondern auch jemand, der bereit ist, alles zu tun, um ihn zu schützen.

A Case of Identity: Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance.

Sherlock Holmes ist eine 1886 vom britischen Schriftsteller Arthur Conan Doyle geschaffene Kunstfigur, die in seinen im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert spielenden Romanen als Detektiv tätig ist. Die verschwundene Braut erschien erstmals im April 1892 im Strand Magazine. Noch im selben Jahr wurde der Fall in Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht.

Kurz nach der vorletzten Jahrhundertwende hat es Dr. Watson und den Großmeister der Detektive in die Neue Welt verschlagen. Was ursprünglich als Erholung für Sherlock Holmes gedacht war, nachdem er bei einem kürzlichen Abenteuer in London ernsthaft verletzt wurde, entpuppte sich schon bei der Überfahrt der beiden von Southampton nach New York als eine unhaltbare Folge von Kriminalfällen, derer Holmes sich nicht wegen fachlicher Akribie und Watson nicht wegen amouröser Anwandlungen entziehen konnte.

Sherlock Holmes und die Gruft: Wovon ich heute berichten möchte, hatte sich im Spätherbst des Jahres 1896 ereignet. Die Geschehnisse fanden im Londoner Sankt-Lukas-Hospital für Geisteskranke und in der kleinen Ortschaft Castle Hedingham statt. Sherlock Holmes und das Bild im Haus: Wovon ich heute berichten möchte, handelt von den Urinstinkten des Homo sapiens und spielte sich in einer kleinen Ortschaft namens Altham in der Grafschaft Lancashire ab.

John Achilles Fortune, der gut aussehende Londoner Anwalt, erhält seinen ersten eigenen Fall. Er wird beauftragt, mögliche Nachkommen der betuchten Eleanor Cavendish zu finden. Was zuerst nach reiner Routine aussieht, entwickelt sich bald zu einem mysteriösen Verwirrspiel. Denn die alte Lady umgab ein Geheimnis.

This story tells of happenings involved with the Blue Train that runs from London to the Riviera. It involves the murder and theft of expensive jewels of the pampered daughter of a wealthy industrialist. She was wanting very much to have a divorce and this brought about her vicious death that...

“If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.” In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective sees...

The term “sour grapes” is often used in reference to an instance in which someone adopts an attitude to something because they can’t equal it themselves. That was certainly the case when a 20th century critic wrote a derogatory article in the New York Magazine, stating: “Who cares Who...

This is the first story written about a man who became interested in criminal investigation as just a hobby. It came as somewhat of a surprise to him when it became an occupation. This was Peter Wimsey, referred to as Lord Peter because he was the younger son of a Duke, justifying the courtesy...

Published in 1920, this was the first book in a fantastic literary career for Agatha Christie. She went on to become the top-selling fiction author of all time with sales reaching an incredible one billion in English and another billion in a multitude of foreign language translations. Altogether...

With riches accumulated from an American crime spree, Professor Moriarty proceeds to annihilate his enemies. He murders the leaders of Europe's underworld one by one, then prepares his most hideous revenge for his arch-enemy, Sherlock Holmes. Will he succeed in this most terrible plan? In this...

Murder gets into the act in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable novel—and aShakespearean actor takes his final bow. Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor Sir Henry and his eccentric household. But she was not...