Résultats pour "Noir" dans Historique

Août 1926. Chatham, Nouvelle-Angleterre : son église, son port de pêche et son école de garçons fondée par Arthur Griswald qui la dirige avec probité. L'arrivée à Chatham School de la belle Mlle Channing, prof d'arts plastiques, paraît anodine en soi, mais un an plus tard, dans cette petite ville paisible, il y aura eu plusieurs morts. Henry, le fils adolescent de Griswald, est vite fasciné par celle qui l'encourage à "vivre ses passions jusqu'au bout". L'idéal de vie droite et conventionnelle que prône son père lui semble désormais un carcan.

Le commissaire impérial Antoine de Barjac et l'illusionniste Louis Comte sont envoyés dans les Combrailles pour enquêter sur la mystérieuse disparition de nombreux conscrits, sur fond de légendes locales terrifiantes. Au cœur de cette région reculée, ils devront affronter des forces maléfiques et une menace invisible susceptible d'ébranler les fondements de l'Empire.

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Sommer i Berlin 1928. Stemningen i byen er kaotisk, dekadent og desperat. Livet leves i sexklubber, til kabaretter, med slagsmål i gaden, og Weimarrepublikken synger på sidste vers, for jødehadet vokser, og nazismen breder sig. Bernie Gunther har kun været få år ved politiet, men med fire...

Året er 1948, og Anden Verdenskrig er slut. Den flabede, hårdkogte privatdetektiv Bernhard Gunther er sluppet helskindet gennem krigen. Og i det sønderbombede Berlin, hvor spændingerne mellem de vestlige stormagter og Sovjetunionen er voksende, forsøger Gunther at videreføre sin virksomhed...

Vivere senza dolore, era questa la speranza di Isa Lodi, una giovane donna che era stata staffetta partigiana sull'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano durante la Resistenza. Ma un giorno di novembre del 1948 viene uccisa nel suo appartamento sui Navigli, strangolata con un giubbotto celeste ricavato dalla stoffa di un paracadute. A trovarla senza vita è il suo convivente, Ludovico Colzi, il tenente che sui monti si faceva chiamare Mosca. Qual è il mistero che si cela dietro questo crimine che sembra venire dagli anni della guerra?

Mr. Saltz—known only as The Undertaker—runs a funeral parlor with secrets hidden beneath every floorboard. Emotionless, tasteless, and cold by nature, Saltz disposes of bodies for the city's most powerful crime boss, Manford Van Johnson. But when a relentless detective begins to connect the dots, and rival families move in to clean house, the quiet shadows start to stir.

1963, France: A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A tramp's body is discovered in a burnt out truck. All this occurring after multiple attempts on the President's life. Inspector Lucas Rocco knows there's a connection somewhere, and is recruited by Colonel Saint-Cloud to assist with the President's Security.

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...

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. 

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.

Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde... It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson.

La seconda indagine del maggiore Morosini nell'Africa coloniale italiana. Un viaggio nel tempo suggestivo e avvincente.1935: l'Italia e il regime fascista cercano d'imporsi fra le grandi potenze internazionali per trovare «un posto al sole». La guerra con l'Abissinia è ormai imminente. Ma in Somalia, dove il generale Rodolfo Graziani sta per lanciare l'offensiva dal fronte sud, alcune morti misteriose fanno serpeggiare l'inquietudine nella popolazione e mettono a rischio l'avanzata delle truppe italiane.

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.