Résultats pour "Sins" dans Détectives traditionnels

Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun. In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts...

When her wealthy Scottish employer dies of an overdose of heart medication, Nurse Latterly is charged with murder and locked up in Newgate Prison. To save his friend from the gallows, Inspector Monk works feverishly to identify a cold-blooded killer in the victim's greatly admired - and coolly silent - family.

Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement—doing morning...

A rich old man, Rupert Moncrieff, is beaten to death in the silence of his West Country waterside mansion, his head hooded and his throat cut. His extended family are still living beneath his roof, each with their own room, their own story, their own ghosts, and their own motives for murder. And in this world of darkness and dysfunction are the artefacts and memories of colonial atrocities that are returning to haunt them all.

At Oxford they jokingly called themselves The Seven Sinners. Now, 30 years later, they are being murdered - each in the manner of his particular 'sin'. Who is doing it and what is the connection with the twin serpents, the mysterious Emerald Lady and the holy Book of Kor? Holmes and Watson -with the aid of their new friend, Professor Challenger - must race against time and the killer...before one of the victims becomes his brother, Mycroft.

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.

Lady Casterton is found strangled in her bedroom shortly after seven when her housekeeper went to discover why her employer had not appeared for dinner. From an examination of the body, it was clear that she had been killed a little after six at the very earliest. Suspicion naturally fell onto her nephew, her inheritor, with whom relations had been strained in recent weeks. He would have looked like a prime suspect were it not for the testimony of the housekeeper. But then the nephew turns up dead in a locked room. The question for John Handful is who murdered the murderer?

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.

Alles sieht zunächst nach einem Routinefall aus, als Privatdetektiv Clyde Briggs den Auftrag erhält, die verschwundene Ausreißerin Shawna Donovan zu finden und sie zu ihrer Schwester nach Hause zu bringen. Briggs findet schon bald Spuren, die auf einen gestohlenen Wagen hinweisen. Allem Anschein nach ist Shawna nicht allein unterwegs. In den Bergen außerhalb von Los Angeles stößt der Detektiv auf ein einsames Haus, das sich jedoch als tödliche Falle entpuppt. Briggs wird gezwungen, in einen dunklen Abgrund zu blicken, in dem Täter zu Opfern werden - und umgekehrt.

In belgischen Gent kommt es zu einem dramatischen Kampf auf Leben und Tod. Die Maschinenmenschen des Erfinders von Kempelen sind erwacht. Doch handelt es sich hierbei nicht um die einzige Bedrohung. Moriartys Gegenspielerin, die junge Shanna Randall, ist mit den geheimen Aufzeichnungen des Erfinders verschwunden. Die Spur führt dabei zurück nach England. Moriarty erhält Unterstützung durch Sonderermittler Oscar Wilde. Die beiden Männer müssen sich einer Gefahr entgegenstellen, die weitaus bedrohlicher ist, als sie zunächst angenommen haben.