Résultats pour "Noir" dans Détectives privés

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel - the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. 'A highly entertaining, satisfying blend of classic detective noir and inventive speculative...

In una Bari sonnolenta e distratta, dove i tanti scandali scuotono il perbenismo della città, un bambino scompare, e qualche giorno dopo viene ritrovato senza vita nel giardino della villa di famiglia. Le indagini di polizia si rivelano subito piuttosto complesse. Tra i sospettati c’è la...

Jack Manson is missing, but then again, so is the city's biggest crime boss. Roger York and others search, but no one can seem to figure out who is behind the disappearances. But there is one man - a private eye in the gritty fifties. His name is Dillon Sheppard, and he is on the case. Also, girls are being abducted and murdered. Vinnie Van Johnson and Lips Malone are running the streets.

Che triste autunno, questo autunno, per il detective privato Mario Borri, 65 anni d'età per 165 centimetri d'altezza. La pensione è alle porte. E mentre sta provando inutilmente ad ammorbidire II magone per l'ormai imminente addio alle armi con qualche dose non troppo sparagnina di Jack Daniel's liscio. Si presenta nel suo ufficio una sventola dal capelli fulvi che gli propone un lavoretto all'apparenza facile facile. Non a Milano, però: in un paese lacustre lontano dalla sua amata città.

When poor little New Hampshire rich girl Mindy Hollis gets lost in Los Angeles, her big sister hires private detective Ed Traynor to find her. Traynor and Hollis's security chief, Jack McMahon, take off for Tinseltown to track down the aspiring actress - but they discover the only part she ever got was the one that killed her. Their hunt for her killers takes them from the bowels of Mexico City to the glitz of Los Angeles, north to the set of The Black Orchid in Vancouver, and then back again to Hollywood, where the angels are dying.

It’s a slow, steamy summer in New Orleans’ French Quarter, but Franki Amato is busy planning her bridal shower—that is, until a hit-and-run outside a coffee shop gets her PI senses percolating. The victim is linked to crimes at a fancy society wedding in a haunted hotel where Franki’s fiancé’s family is staying. As for the java joint, it’s straight out of a hardboiled detective movie, and there’s something hinky about its walnut liqueur coffee.

Gianluca, cassiere in una importante banca milanese, ha trovato il modo di appropriarsi dei soldi destinati agli sportelli bancomat della sua filiale. Greta, impiegata nella stessa banca, si impadronisce di un progetto abbandonato nel caveau e giudicato senza valore. I loro destini si incrociano in una Parigi scossa dagli attentati e dove la loro stessa vita è in pericolo a causa di un segreto custodito da Gianluca. L'entrata in scena di Simona Fontana e Paolo Bosco (già protagonisti de "La Vincita") sembra rimettere ordine alla situazione: ma il loro intervento sarà risolutivo?

Ray Kerze hasn't been having the best time of it. His closest friends are the guys in line with him at the liquor store before breakfast. He lives in his office in the decaying heart of Detroit, and that's only because the building is so far gone, no one shows up to collect rent. An ex-cop turned private investigator, he's not so much investigating as drowning himself in whiskey and helping out other struggling denizens of downtown in his sober moments. His life becomes a bit more interesting—and, some might say, worth living—when a young woman shows up at his office.

Zwei Gruppen von Schülerinnen verschwinden spurlos. Holmes und Lestrade stehen vor einem Rätsel. Ein Blind-Date am Abend sorgt für weitere Verwirrung beim Meisterdetektiv. Mrs. Hudson scheint ihn loswerden zu wollen.

This rock ‘n roll noir novel follows music exec James Dual as he battles ghosts of his past in watering holes from Hollywood to Nashville to Mexico. James finds himself quickly drawn into a web of blackmail, violence, and murder after he receives a cassette tape from a neo-noir femme fatale implicating him in a tragedy from 20 years ago. The story pulses with mythic songs and stories from when music defined reality and meant everything to those who gave their lives over to it.

In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction. Now a major film, Marlowe, starring Liam...

Das Ehepaar Bennet ist glücklich verheiratet. Jedoch ist die Idylle trügerisch. Mit Schrecken muss Roger miterleben, wie seine Frau sich zunehmend radikalisiert. Als dann sein Chef ermordet aufgefunden wird, hegt Bennet einen schrecklichen Verdacht.

Der Straßenjunge Pedro träumt davon, Fotograf zu werden. Aber gerade, wo sein Geschäft anläuft, kommen ihm die Maler einer Factory in die Quere. Da sie den Jungen als Konkurrenten fürchten, wollen sie ihm eine Lektion erteilen. Doch endet das Ganze tödlich.

Holmes erwacht in der Drachenhöhle von Chiu Chung. Im Wahn taumelt er umher. Er weiß nicht, wie er hierhergekommen ist. Als Lestrade mit seinen Leuten zur Tür hereinstürmt, sieht er den Meisterdetektiv mit einer Waffe in der Hand neben einer Leiche stehen. Noch ahnt keiner der beiden Ermittler, dass sie Teil eines perfiden Spiels sind.

Die legendäre Pilzkopfbande aus Liverpool will die Kronjuwelen der Königin stehlen. Ihr Partner in Crime ist der abgehalfterte Hofnarr Frederic Flanery. Durch ihn erhoffen sich die Pilzköpfe, an den Schlüssel der Schatzkammer zu gelangen. Allerdings läuft das Unternehmen anders als geplant.

Sherlock Holmes bekommt einen sonderbaren Brief. Der Name des Absenders ist Daniel Drake. Er bittet Holmes um Hilfe. Jedoch geht aus dem wirren Schreiben nicht hervor, in welcher Angelegenheit. Wie Holmes herausfindet, ist Drake der Autor eines Schauerromans. Die Geschichte spielt in dem Ort, in dem der Brief abgestempelt wurde. Es geht um einen Schriftsteller, der aufgrund von Einsamkeit den Verstand verliert. Holmes entschließt sich, der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen.

Besucher stehen Schlange vor dem Ausstellungsraum, um die Skulpturen der Künstlerin Theresa Tinderdate zu sehen. Die begehrten Exponate haben eine enorme Anziehungskraft. Sie wirken beinahe lebendig.

Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons - a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted when his brother - another homicide detective, still on the force - enlists his help looking into the death of a young woman whose dismembered body is found beside the railroad tracks. 

In a throwback to the literary era of Mike Hammer and Shell Scott, Denver private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where the women are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than Havana asphalt. In this riveting pulp noir thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last minute, Wilde finds himself spiraling into a string of murders, with the next one likely to come by Friday.

When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest-disgraced knight turned detective - begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope.