Résultats pour "Anna" dans Détectives traditionnels

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic American detective novel from 1880 by Anna Katharine Green, widely regarded as the mother of the detective novel. When a young housemaid, Emily, vanishes without a trace from the fashionable Blake residence in New York, detective Mr. Gryce and...

En dag banker det på døren hos forfatterinden Almi Graan. Udenfor står tre forfatterkolleger, der vil have hende med i en alliance mod forfattersammenslutningen Detektivakademiet i Stockholm. Men det bliver en hård omgang, da det viser sig, at forfatterne er rivende uenige om alt andet end...

A young American actress arrives in London hoping to learn her identity, just as Sherlock Holmes is closing in on a master criminal. Their worlds collide, and not even Holmes could have foreseen the impact!

New York 1939 : Thomas Danforth, jeune héritier à la Gatsby, voit son destin basculer lorsqu'il rencontre Anna Klein, espionne polyglotte. Pour elle, il rejoindra le "projet" des services secrets américains : assassiner Hitler. Après leur échec, Anna est arrêtée et l'on perd sa trace. Obstinément, Danforth la recherche à travers l'Europe dévastée. Sans cesser de se demander : qui a-t-elle trahi ?

When vital aerial reconnaissance photographic plates are stolen by the enemy, former Sherlockian Irregulars Becky and Flynn are called to action. As they traverse the war zone incognito with Madame Curie and her daughter in a mobile radiology lab, they help wounded soldiers and civilians, facing increasing dangers and betrayals. With their relationship deepening amidst the chaos, they'll need their wits, courage, and each other. Especially without Sherlock Holmes by their side. Will it be enough?

The Western Front, 1915. It's been 20 years since Becky and Flynn first met, in the adventures recorded in the Sherlock and Lucy Mystery Series. Now they're fighting for England in the Great War. But they still have an incomparable ally in the great detective himself.

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. 

Das Böse sprengt jede Grenze – der fünfte Band der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Serie um das deutsch-österreichische Ermittlerteam Alexa Jahn und Bernhard Krammer ...

Hired to trace Anna Ball, who has vanished, Miss Maud Silver encounters an eccentric art colony, bank robberies, and counterfeiting. As with other Miss Silver mysteries, the story relies on character development. Nadia May reads clearly and distinguishes individuals well; her British voice is ideal for this genteel period thriller (1951). Agatha Christie fans will enjoy this one.

When a young influencer is found dead in an Edinburgh graveyard, the contents of her last video provide an enigmatic, if not downright cryptic, view of the woman's last moments. DI Grant McKenzie cannot shake the feeling that the woman was trying to communicate more than a historical tale to her followers. Did she know what was about to happen? As more influencers fall prey to the same killer, the DI and his team face a heart-stopping race to find an evil psychopath who sneaks up on preoccupied prey; the person the press has named The Gimbal Killer.

Alle Vögel sind schon tot – vier Hobby-Ornithologen ermitteln in ihrem ersten Fall am Chiemsee. Harald, Katja, Thilo und Sabine sind Vogelbeobachter. Oder Birder, wie es in Fachkreisen heißt. Jeden Sonntag treffen sie sich in aller Herrgottsfrühe auf dem Beobachtungsturm im Grabenstätter Moos am Chiemsee, um ihrem Hobby nachzugehen und ein seltenes gefiedertes Exemplar vors Fernglas zu bekommen. So auch an diesem Sonntag, als sie das Nest eines brütenden Braunkehlchens entdecken. Nur dass sich unweit entfernt ein weniger schöner Anblick bietet.

Mia ist eine talentierte Fotografin und hat in ihrer Kunst einen Weg gefunden, sich ihren inneren Dämonen zu stellen. Schon bald geraten Mia und der Galerist Marc Berghoff ins Visier der Ermittler Kessler und Wagner. Der Täter tritt persönlich mit Mia in Kontakt und offenbart seine Bewunderung, doch diese verhängnisvolle Verbindung stürzt Mias Geist in eine gefährliche Abwärtsspirale.

Anna Katherine Green, the mother of the detective novel, introduces the world to the first "girl detective" in this delightful collection of nine stories published in 1915.

Hours after his lavish wedding in early 20th-century New York, millionaire Roger Ransom discovers his bride, Georgian, missing. The sinister man who crashed their reception seems to be the culprit, but evidence turns up that she left of her own free will. In a journey of surprising revelations, Ransom uncovers a truth more complex and bizarre than he could have imagined.

One of Author Anna Katharine Green's innovations was the idea of the “girl detective,” in the person of Violet Strange. Violet was a 17-year-old high-society debutante who led a double life as a sleuth, working for an unnamed detective agency to discreetly ferret out solutions to mysteries...

Deception, mystery, romance, inheritance—this novel has it all! Written by Anna Katharine Green and published in 1923, it is one of her best. Wealthy Edgar Quenton Bartholomew has a beautiful daughter, a great estate, and vast business holdings. It is his final wish that the man who marries his daughter will inherit it all. When he dies it is thought to be of natural causes until a young woman viewing the casket cries out that he appears to be poisoned ... and the investigation begins! Where is his final will? Who poisoned him?

Several girls, all bearing the name "Jenny Rogers", are being killed in the city of New York. In the middle of it, there are two suspects: a famous painter and a visiting stranger, who also happen to bear, in their turn, identical names. Behind it all, the dying wishes of a man and a nefarious plot to lay claim to a matter of millions.

The series of detective stories Anna Katherine Green wrote were among the earliest in the 20th century, and depict modern America and the workings of the police departments. These unfold and are full of the details of a new 20th century world. Initials Only is set in New York, and purveys a certain atmosphere unique to that period. It revolves around the workings of the retired Detective Gryce and his young assistant, Mr Sweetwater. A seemingly unsolvable mystery, the death by apparent suicide of an heiress, is investigated by the two detectives and the New York Coroner.

Originally published in 1897, That Affair Next Door is Anna Katherine Green’s eighth book featuring the series detective Ebenezer Gryce and the first to feature the society spinster, Amelia Butterworth. Many consider the nosy Miss Butterworth to be the precursor to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver. The story is told from Miss Butterworth’s perspective as she relates the story of a murdered young woman and how she sets out to unravel the mystery.

En fantastisk berättelse om Drottning Blanka av oslagbara Anna Sparre! En klar oktoberdag 1335 styr ett skepp från Flandern mot Sveriges kust. I förskeppet står en ung flicka i guldskimrande vitt. Det är den fjortonåriga Blanche av Namur, Sveriges och Norges blivande drottning. I Bohus kungsgård blir hon Magnus Erikssons fru och som drottning Blanka intar hon sin plats vid det stränga svenska hovet. Hon är varmhjärtad, men skarptungad. Hon är älskad av många, hatad av andra. Hos henne hämtar den försiktige kungen handlingskraft.