Títulos en Detectives tradicionales

Christmas in Wensleydale is just around the corner, and a beautiful blanket of snow covers the fells. But then a blizzard hits, and everyone knows that a white Christmas in the Dales spells danger for farmers and remote communities. In the town of Hawes there is little festive cheer as the snow closes in, the Christmas fair is cancelled, and the generator goes missing from the market hall. Then the local food bank is broken into.

Impossible crime stories have delighted people since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. Featuring more great stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Margery Allingham alongside newly rediscovered writers, this selection of stories will bring you more insight into one of the most celebrated and dazzling sub-genres of detective fiction.

Set in London in the early 1900s, this metaphysical thriller follows undercover policeman Gabriel Syme, who, in partnership with a Scotland Yard task force, attempts to take down underground anarchists. Syme encounters Lucian Gregory, a passionate anarchist, who eventually takes him to a secret meeting place. Once there, Syme begins to influence the anarchists and is eventually elected to the central council. In his attempts to destroy the council of anarchists from the inside, he starts to uncover more secrets, each more mysterious than the last.

Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes es un libro que recopila cuentos policíacos escritos por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle en donde el protagonista es su celebre detective privado "Sherlock Holmes". El libro original fue ilustrado por Sidney Paget. Aquí se cuentan las primeras aventuras de Sherlock Holmes.

Sceneggiatura su testo originale di Agatha Christie Limited, versione integrale. Nella campagna del Middleshire Natale è il calore piacevole di un caminetto acceso, e le chiacchiere piacevoli di un caro amico. La rilassante vigilia di Natale di Hercule Poirot inizia esattamente in questo modo ma durante la serata dovrà occuparsi di un omicidio. In un palazzo di Longdale un uomo anziano viene assassinato con una crudeltà inaudita. Si tratta del vecchio Simeon Lee, uno dei personaggi più in vista della contea, celebre per la sua ricchezza ma anche per il suo egoismo.

The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards – A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story. As the year comes to a close, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must set out through snow laden London to investigate the theft of a priceless clock and the receipt of seven macabre Christmas cards. Will they solve...

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home–and just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire erupts and kills him on the spot.

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.

Mañana a las cuatro de la tarde, Sherlock Holmes, el gran policía inglés para quien no existen misterios; Sherlock Holmes, el más extraordinario descifrador de enigmas que jamás se haya visto, el prodigioso personaje que parece forjado de pies a cabeza por la imaginación de un novelista, será mi huésped. Hubo exclamaciones. ¡Sherlock Holmes en Thibermesnil! ¿Era esto en serio? ¿Arsenio Lupin se encontraba entonces realmente en aquella región?

Una de las novelas de juventud del exitoso autor Andreu Martín, en la que ya muestra su tendencia a retratar el lado oscuro de la sociedad, la violencia más descarnada y los bajos fondos que están presentes sin que lo queramos en nuestras vidas. Dos policías muy dispares, uno tímido y acomplejado y el otro impulsivo y pendenciero, deben de colaborar en el caso de asesinato de una mujer. Todos saben quién es el asesino, pero lo difícil será dar con su paradero.

È ricco di personaggi ambigui questo sorprendente audiobook della grandissima Agatha Christie: ci sono l'amico fedele, l'amico innamorato, la sorella sfregiata, la governante che odia gli uomini, la bellissima amante Elsa Greer. Gravitano tutti attorno a Caroline - la moglie tradita - e Amyas, il marito fedifrago. Il loro matrimonio travagliato si concluderà con una tragedia. In questo romanzo, del 1942, la Christie ha realizzato uno dei suoi più interessanti esercizi di bravura, costruendo un meccanismo tanto intricato quanto perfetto, dove tutto è diverso da quella che sembra.

In Paris, two women have been brutally murdered, and newspapers report an assortment of clues and the arrest of a man with seemingly little link to the case. One man, C. Auguste Dupin, believes that the clues reported and the findings of the investigators assigned do not match up. Dupin takes the investigation upon himself and begins to seek out the truth in this odd circumstances.

El inspector Diesí, no va a permitir bajo ningún concepto que Arsenio Lupin que está bajo su custodia en prisión pueda ponerse en contacto con sus cómplices fuera de la misma, para seguir llevando a cabo sus fechorías desde la coartada perfecta, dentro de la cárcel. Sin embargo, no saben cómo, Arsenio Lupin sigue comunicándose con el exterior, e inexplicablemente el día del juicio de Arsenio Lupin, este parece haber desaparecido, ocupando su lugar un mendigo, débil mental. ¿Cómo ha podido escaparse con las medidas de seguridad que la prisión tiene?

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

Sherlock Holmes, a mas de un siglo de sus primeras apariciones, sigue siendo uno de los mas populares detectives de toda la literatura. Su metodo de deduccion, su sistema de eliminar todo lo imposible para que lo que quede sea lo cierto y su personalidad han logrado que muchos consideren a ese personaje como si fuera real.

The major part of the human population lives under the surface of Earth. Humankind has created a Machine which meets all possible needs. Travelling is permitted but people do not feel the need for it. Everybody lives in a separate room and communication is made via messages and videos only. However, not everyone is content with this life. There are rebels like Kuno who want to explore and get out of the limitations set by the Machine. Kuno will try to escape but without success.

Sherlock Holmes decodifica una advertencia cifrada de la organización del profesor Moriarty, que lo lleva a abocarse al esclarecimiento de un extraño caso en la provincia de Inglaterra: un hombre llamado John Douglas, ha sido violentamente asesinado en su mansión del condado de Sussex.

Sherlock Holmes, a mas de un siglo de sus primeras apariciones, sigue siendo uno de los mas populares detectives de toda la literatura. Su metodo de deduccion, su sistema de eliminar todo lo imposible para que lo que quede sea lo cierto y su personalidad han logrado que muchos consideren a ese personaje como si fuera real.

Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction.

When Constable Evan Evans discovers a beautiful shepard's cottage in the mountains of Llanfair, Wales, he and his fiancée are thrilled. It's only months before their wedding, and they are eager to begin their new life together. The cottage is in need of renovation, so Evan wastes no time before he begins making much-needed repairs.