Résultats pour "The Baby" dans Détectives privés

The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973. Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation—this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling’s seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer—filled with contempt for dope dealers—goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

Giorgia Cantini ha quasi quarant’anni, è single ed è un’investigatrice privata. È una donna complessa, contraddittoria; passa le notti ad ascoltare jazz in diversi locali di Bologna, le piace bere, ma soprattutto è tormentata dal dubbio di aver sprecato la propria vita. Sa che è dura vivere senza rimuovere, cioè accettare l’assenza di chi si ama. Questa volta l’indagine che deve seguire la costringe a scavare nel suo passato. Sarà una scatola da scarpe piena di lettere a cambiare la sua esistenza.

Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching would-be felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. When Sherrie, a returning client with a good heart but a penchant for bad boys, asks him to track down some evidence that will help with her case, Cecil agrees. Cecil treks out to the shady apartment complex she mentioned, only to find his teenage daughter, Blossom, inside. He manages to get both the box Sherrie wanted and his daughter safely home, and later discovers the "evidence" is a large pile of cash - fifty thousand dollars, to be exact.

Gil Vine is the quick-thinking, compassionate chief security officer at the fashionable Plaza Royale Hotel. While investigating a routine disturbance complaint in the Tower apartments, Gil finds himself enmeshed in a deadly struggle for control of a fabulous fortune in oil. As always in the Gil Vine mysteries, life behind the scenes of a large hotel is painted for the listener in fascinating detail. Vine is at his best in this installment of the series as the hotel detective does his best to protect the Plaza Royale's reputation and also stop the series of murders.

On a day when Casey Stone, a New York City private investigator, was worrying about his unpaid bar tab at Pat's Bar and Grill, a long-legged, blonde beauty named Rosemary Kelly walked into his office and handed him $2,000 to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption 16 years ago. Apparently the child's father, who abandoned Rosemary when he found out she was pregnant, felt remorse for his actions and secretly established a trust fund for their child, which now exceeded one million dollars. The trust was activated when he died recently.

Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women and desired by men. But she’s also famously insecure and temperamental and is being pilloried in the press for delaying the production of Something’s Got to Give. When the head of Twentieth Century Fox threatens to cancel her contract, Monroe hires “PI to the stars” Nathan Heller to tap her phones and record calls that might affect legal action. Less than three months later, Monroe is dead from an overdose....

Bonaparte 'Bone' Mizell, formerly of the DEA, has a problem on his hands; Dale Bristline, his 400 lb. client with a beautiful ex-stripper wife needs help dealing with a blackmailer - Brandy's first husband has returned from the dead and is making outrageous demands... and she mustn't be told about it. When drug dealer turned sex club owner Bristline needs some help dealing with the blackmailer, cash-strapped Bone accepts the case…

On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking. Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby–before it’s too late.