Résultats pour "Benjamin" dans Détectives traditionnels

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death.

It is St. John’s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January - Creole physician and music teacher - is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe - mystical and rebellious - is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe’s life - and his own - Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it.

Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it’s into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it’s more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife, Rose, have founded.

Das Sterben hat erst begonnen. Jakob Krogh und Mila Weiss stehen mit ihrer Sonderermittlungsgruppe 4 schon ein halbes Jahr nach ihrem traumatischen Fall der Krähenmorde wieder vor einem Rätsel: Sie erhalten eine kryptische Nachricht, versehen mit einer unheilvollen Botschaft: Das erste Sterben hat begonnen. Was Teile des Teams zunächst für einen schlechten Scherz halten, erweist sich als sehr ernstzunehmende Spur. In der brütenden Sommerhitze – die seit einiger Zeit über der Stadt liegt – stößt die Gruppe 4 auf einem verlassenen Bauernhof auf zwei Leichen.

Eine mörderisch nette Familie: Ernie Cunningham, passionierter Krimi-Liebhaber, nimmt nur widerwillig am ersten Familientreffen seit Jahren teil. Seit er seinen Bruder Michael wegen Mordes angezeigt hat, hängt der Haussegen schief. Dass dann ausgerechnet am Vorabend von Michaels Ankunft auch prompt eine Leiche in dem isoliert liegenden Skiressort auftaucht, macht die Stimmung bei den eingeschneiten Cunninghams nicht unbedingt besser. Da von der Außenwelt keine Hilfe zu erwarten ist, stürzt sich Ernie Kraft seines geballten Kriminalwissens in die Ermittlungen, um weitere Todesfälle zu verhindern.

When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families - makers of some of the world's most coveted supercars - and discovers that beneath the glitz and glamour of the Formula One circuit lurk sinister interests that may be prepared to kill to keep their secrets. Time and tide wait for no man - or woman - and while biology obliges one of Faidate Investigations' team to finally undergo a long-delayed operation, history catches up with another.

When Sherlock Holmes defeats Professor James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, he believes the “Napoleon of Crime” is finished. Then, in the pocket of a discarded coat, he finds the Professor’s private journal—and everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. Holmes opens not a memoir but a manifesto. In its pages lies the answer to the question: why would a calculating mind like Moriarty’s, knowing Holmes is a formidable fighter, choose close-quarters combat above a chasm?

Anthony Braid är en man med tvivelaktigt rykte som likväl tillhör en av de mest respekterade miljonärerna i staden. Han äger en tävlingshäst och hans största inkomstkälla kommer från börsen, framför allt diamanthandel. En dag får han skulden när ett oljebolag går bankrutt. Lord Frensham, som förlorat allt efter bankrutten, tar sitt liv. Braid hamnar i onåd samtidigt som de riktiga skurkarna håller på att komma undan. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) var en brittisk författare av kriminalromaner. Under sin livstid skrev han inte mindre än 175 detektivromaner och 15 skådespel.

Chrissy McMullen has made a career leap, all the way from slinging drinks at Chicago's most notorious nightclub to dispensing psychotherapy from her sleek new practice in LA. Even if she can't quite shed her too-loud, too-curvy alter ego - or the brawling family that insists on claiming kinship. So when her most famous client, buff football star "Bomber" Bomstad, starts chasing her around her desk and getting, well...unzipped...Christina gets just a little miffed - until Bomber has the bad manners to drop dead at her feet.