Résultats pour "The Cellar" dans Détectives amateurs

She awakes in a dark place. A young woman with a shattered memory, she knows neither who she is nor how she came to be in this abandoned house. All she possesses is a faint sense that someone is lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Horrifyingly, she is correct. In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver’s shell. The amnesiac flees and finally has a stroke of luck: She meets Maud Silver.

Local legends speak of a Cadburn daughter who ran off to fight in the Civil War, disguised as a boy, and never came home. Other legends tell of a girl's ghost, in Civil War costume, haunting Cadburn Creek. Three years ago, those rumors mixed with the usual wrangling between the two rival historical societies in Cadburn Township, complicated by the activities of the Spirits of '62, the local Civil War reenactors group, and the bickering between their leader, Steve, and Lyndsy, a history student hoping to make a name for herself, no matter the cost.

The dead don't lie. The living do. When wine consultant Sarah McKee arrives at Belle Vue Winery, the plan is simple: locate a hidden vault, assess its contents, and go home. But nothing at Belle Vue is simple. Not the legends. Not the people. And definitely not the body lying face down in a chamber that should’ve stayed sealed for centuries. There’s no treasure. Only questions. And one cold, brutal fact—Someone at the winery is a killer. Trapped on the estate and cut off from help, Sarah must unravel a web of lies before history repeats itself.

In Der stille Keller von Salò muss sich die neunzehnjährige Amateurdetektivin Kim endlich den unerwarteten Konsequenzen all der Lügen stellen, die sie seit ihrer Ankunft in Italien erzählt hat. Sie gerät in eine wirklich schreckliche Situation und muss ihr inneres Selbst nach jedem Körnchen Ausdauer, Einfallsreichtum und List durchsuchen, um ihr eigenes Wohlbefinden zu sichern, sowohl körperlich als auch geistig.