Résultats pour "Frank" dans Détectives traditionnels

A thrilling World War One spy story from the author of the acclaimed Jack Haldean series .“There’s a spy in England. Frankie’s letter. Read Frankie’s letter... ” The last words said by a dying man to Anthony Brooke in Kiel in Germany during the height of World War One. But who is Frankie? With his cover blown and the German army at his heels, English secret agent Anthony Brooke’s search to discover the truth leads him to an innocent-seeming country house.

Follow the exploits of amateur detective Lamont Cranston and his alluring companion Margo Lane. Cranston learned the secret of clouding men's minds to make him invisible, allowing him to become The Shadow and work on the side of law enforcement to prove, to young and old alike, that crime does not pay!

The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.

In this book, Frank Emerson has uncovered a previously lost narrative by Dr. John H. Watson that illustrates how he and Sherlock Holmes, working in tandem with Detective Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard, conducted an intense 15 year investigation and pursuit that culminated with the unmasking, arrest, trial, and ultimate execution of the real Jack the Ripper.

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them are the Welsh author Frank Howel Evans, whose biggest success was a series of short stories about a French detective.

Meticulous private investigator Stanley Melvin likes to keep his work grounded in reality, not at all like the classic detective novels he has read incessantly since childhood. But his best friend and annoying neighbor Rudy quickly points out that his routine "cheater" case is rapidly taking on all of the features that Stanley steadfastly insists are mere fictional tropes of the genre. Stanley isn't too sure how he feels about this. But as a professional, he forges ahead, despite getting out of his comfort zone.

El hallazgo de un cadáver en una playa interrumpe bruscamente la serenidad del paraíso natural de las islas Cíes. Las gaviotas acorralan con su macabro vuelo los restos de un cuerpo que ha sido acuchillado y que tiene el rostro desfigurado de manera brutal. No hay duda: entre los habitantes del camping cercano se esconde un asesino, y el idílico paisaje no recobrará la calma hasta encontrarlo. Nora Pardo, una detective en horas bajas, se ve obligada a tomar las riendas de la investigación y poner a prueba sus capacidades con el fin de desenmascarar al autor del crimen.

La Piedra Lunar, valiosa joya robada de un santuario hindú y de la que se cuentan toda clase de leyendas maléficas, llega a las manos de Raquel Verinder, heredera de un lord inglés, como regalo de cumpleaños. Sin embargo, después de la cena de celebración la gema desaparece.

"'It is no use!' she cried, at last, pushing back the mass of thick black hair falling over her white brow; 'I shall never be able to get India by heart, unless I can see the places. I wish papa would let us go reconnoitering amongst the ruined temples and other mysterious buildings; it is so annoying staying here day after day, never seeing anything outside the palace.

It wasn’t much of a story, just an obituary. Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes, heart failure. But what’s natural about killing yourself with a scrubbing brush? It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn’t stopped him on his way out of the building.

Randy didn’t have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a 20-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman, worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge of the $650,000 payroll robbery in the sensation of 14 years ago.

Mystery, adventure, and international intrigue surround Ken Thurston, The Man Called X! Radio's most enduring cloak-and-dagger drama presents suave stage and screen star Herbert Marshall in 16 tales of globetrotting espionage! Announcer John McIntire tells of the man "who crosses the ocean as readily as you or I cross town." Leon Belasco costars as Pegon Zellschmidt, with a supporting cast that includes Ge Ge Pearson, Steven Geray, Ted von Eltz, Frank Graham, Alan Reed, Cathy Lewis, William Conrad, and more.

Hier ist sie wieder, in Begleitung ihres loyalen und geduldigen Partners Eustace Trubshawe: Evadne Mount auf den Spuren eines noch gemeineren, genialen Mordes. Ihre beste Freundin, die Schauspielerin Cora Rutherford, wird vergiftet, und zwar nicht nur vor laufender Kamera, sondern auch vor aller Augen am Set im Filmstudio. Nicht nur für die Kenner des erfolgreichen Romans "Mord auf ffolkes Manor": Die brillante neue Hommage an das Goldene Zeitalter des englischen Kriminalromans und seine berühmteste Autorin Agatha Christie.

Hotel Kronprinz. Halle an der Saale. Einem Gast aus England wird ein wertvolles, indisches Juwel gestohlen. Der Dieb - ein Zimmerkellner - entkommt. Das sind die Fakten in einem einfach erscheinenden Fall. Der zufällig vor Ort weilende Meisterdetektiv sieht das jedoch ganz anders.

Eigentlich will der belgische Meisterdetektiv Émile Poiret an der französischen Riviera nur etwas Ruhe und Entspannung finden, da ereignet sich vor seinen Augen ein mysteriöser Todesfall...