Résultats pour "2" dans Historique

Pas encore! Avant de rendre leur amour officiel, Joséphine et Jérôme doivent obtenir l'accord des parents de ce dernier. Et ce n'est pas gagné... Car eux ont décidé qu'il s'unirait à une autre: Blanche d'Ambert, fille aînée d'un duc. Furieux, Jérôme jure qu'il ne l'épousera pas. Jamais! Hélas, le ciel semble l'entendre, car la pauvre Blanche est retrouvée morte peu de temps après, le crâne fracassé. Et vers qui les indices pointent-ils tous?

Three more dastardly deeds lead Holmes and Lucy into a lurid game of cat-and-mouse. The game won’t end until a climactic showdown between the Baker Street team and a ruthless and deadly ring of rogue cops who believe they’re above the law. Two wealthy, influential women have gone missing, both associated with a fashionable enlightenment group run by a charismatic guru. As the Baker Street team investigates, they are taken down dark twists and turns, and forced to confront an old enemy anew.

Newly widowed at twenty-two, Tabitha, Lady Pembroke, is determined never again to be anyone’s pawn. Her late husband’s cousin and heir, Jeremy “Wolf” Chesterton, is a former thief-taker whose rough edges and razor intellect make him both an unlikely earl and an even less likely ally. Yet when murder intrudes upon London’s drawing rooms and country estates, it is Tabitha’s keen mind and Wolf’s streetwise instincts that form an irresistible, if occasionally frustrating, team.

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - new season coming soon! London, 1946. Much of the capital, and indeed the country, remains beset by rationing and bomb damage. But for some there are other, more immediate concerns: crimes of a serious and sometimes deadly nature...

Dos clásicos imprescindibles de Agatha Christie reunidos en una colección de audiolibros llena de asesinatos, espionaje y misterio en la legendaria mansión de Chimneys. Incluye dos novelas completas protagonizadas por el Superintendente Battle: El Secreto de Chimneys y El Misterio de Las 7...

Yorkshire, December 1941. Polly Hope and her friend Freddie Fairbank are looking forward to visiting Westerby Abbey—a vast, stone-dark manor on the Yorkshire moors—to see if it will be suitable to use in the war effort. With snow expected, the house is cold enough to freeze the bones but there will be plenty of space for soldiers. That is, if they can convince the family to give up their home...

When a priceless ruby known as the Malabar Rose vanishes while being guarded by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, the formidable Mrs. Hudson sets out to give a lesson in criminal deduction for her most famous and logical of tenants, the master sleuth himself.

London, 1888: Angesichts der Zustände in den Armenvierteln werden die Mittel der Metropolitan Police aufgestockt. Ein neues Hauptquartier wird errichtet, das mächtige Kellergewölbe steht bereits. Doch der Bau gerät ins Stocken, als einer der Arbeiter eine grausame Entdeckung macht. Im frisch fertiggestellten Tresorraum findet er ein seltsames Paket. Darin eingeschlagen: der entsetzlich zugerichtete Rumpf einer Frau. Von ihrem Kopf fehlt jede Spur. Eine höhnische Botschaft an die Polizei?

Three murder mysteries. One diarist. Two brilliant but unlikely sleuths. Step into the dark heart of Restoration England with celebrated diarist, Samuel Pepys, and his loyal inquisitors, Abigail Harcourt and Jacob Standish, as they unravel deadly plotting behind respectable façades.

Im Wien der Ringstraßen-Zeit und der Belle Époque ermittelt Leopold Kern, ein geheimer Sonderermittler mit engen Kontakten zur Halbwelt, in seinem zweiten Fall. Während die Wiener den Feierlichkeiten zum 50. Geburtstag Kaiser Franz Josefs entgegenfiebern, hat Sonderermittler Leopold Kern nur eines im Sinn. Allen Verboten zum Trotz will er Rache für die Intrige nehmen, die zu seinem Ausschluss aus der Polizei geführt hat. Da bricht das Inferno in Form eines Bandenkriegs über die Leopoldstadt herein. Plötzlich befindet sich der Sonderermittler im Brennpunkt des Geschehens.

Linwood, kwiecień 1921. Kanonik Effingham dzwoni po duet detektywów-amatorów, Camberwella i Chaneya: w kościelnym sejfie zieje pustka, zniknęły cztery skarby–złoty kielich z pateną, iluminowana Godzinka i Ewangelie na purpurowym pergaminie. Zanim jednak przybysze zdążą ułożyć listę podejrzanych, w „ławie fundatora” odnajdują ciało miejscowego nicponia i kłusownika, Jima Skate’a. Obok–ledwie zardzewiały klucz francuski ze śladem krwi. Przypadek czy zimny, wyrachowany plan?

Lima, 1954: Auf Einladung eines spanischen Archäologenteams gelangen der amerikanische Archäologe Professor Crichton und seine Studenten um Max Falkenburg nach Peru. Die Spanier sind dort auf der Suche nach der legendären Inka-Stadt Paititi. Aber schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft in Südamerika werden die Archäologen das Ziel eines Anschlags. Der Gefahr trotzend, gelingt es den Forschern, einer der vergessenen Legenden der Inka auf die Spur zu kommen: Dem sagenumwobenen Stab des Inkarrí! Ihre Expedition führt sie bis in die entlegensten Gebiete der Anden, wo der Mythos seinen Ursprung hat.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson become involved in a case that begins with blackmail and then takes a horrifying turn. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard calls in Holmes for assistance in this baffling mystery. The case of The Iron Dog requires all of the deduction skills that Holmes can conjure as he weaves through deceit and murder. Dr. Watson is there to catalogue all the action in this new thriller.

El aristocrático clan de los Moidore, una de las mejores familias de Londres, a cuya mansión de Queen Anne Street acuden los más encumbrados personajes, nunca se había visto en vuelto en el escándalo. Ahora, sin embargo, la bella hija de sir Basil ha aparecido apuñalada en su propia cama y la noticia corre de boca en boca por la ciudad. El inspector William Monk recibe la orden de encontrar al asesino sin demora, aunque evitando causarle mayores trastornos a una familia ya abrumada por la tragedia.

Berlin 1889: Gabriel Landow und sein Kompagnon Orsini ziehen in ihre neu gegründete Berliner Hinterhofdetektei in Kreuzberg, die auch ihr gemeinsames Zuhause ist. Nach anfänglicher Flaute scheint es den ersten Auftrag zu geben: Der achtjährige Sohn der Nachbarin, der Bankiersfrau Frau Phillipi, ist von seinem Geigenunterricht nicht nach Hause gekommen. Doch das Glück ist nicht mit ihm: Der Junge taucht von allein wieder auf, unversehrt und adrett wie eh und je. Aber er sagt keinen einzigen Ton mehr, was immer seine Mutter auch versucht.

Roma, 1508. Il giovane Salaì, apprendista pittore e figlio adottivo di Leonardo da Vinci, è appena giunto da Firenze nella Città Eterna su incarico del suo celebre patrigno. Deve trovare a tutti i costi un libro appena stampato nella lontana Alsazia, in cui è contenuta la prima carta geografica dell'America. Ma nessuno lo deve sapere. Leonardo infatti, invidiosissimo di Colombo, Vespucci e degli altri grandi esploratori, vuole plagiare la carta dell'America e darla alle stampe a suo nome, per fare bella figura con gli amici fiorentini.

After solving a minor case for a major payout, Stetson embarks on a trip to America with Evelyn and her burlesque company, hoping to find her long-lost father. But the inventive detective leaves with an unidentified art thief still at large. Musician Evelyn has grown to love the unique woman who bends the rules to pursue her dreams. But facing the disapproval of her family and society at large, how can their relationship move forward?

Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin's bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she'd never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom. And such an opportunity presents itself when Alice is invited to a lavish ball. The high-society guests are in high spirits as they imbibe the finest wines. But one man, detested by nearly all the partygoers, quaffs a decidedly deadlier cocktail.

Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend, Effi, is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him safely stay in Berlin with Effi and his son, but now he’s being blackmailed. To free Effi, he must agree to work for the Nazis. They know he has Soviet connections and want him to pass them false intelligence. Russell consents, but secretly offers his services to the Soviets instead.

Una nuova indagine per Marco Pisani, avogadore a Venezia. 1753. È uno degli ultimi giorni di Carnevale quando suor Maria Angelica, monaca di clausura a Murano, viene trovata barbaramente uccisa nel suo appartamento segreto di Venezia. Mentre la città è in festa, tra balli in maschera nei palazzi e per i campi, spettacoli nei teatri e cortei notturni, l'avogadore Marco Pisani non tarda molto a scoprire che la religiosa aveva una doppia vita.