Résultats pour "The Letters" dans Historique

1905. A year after 'the affair' in Dinas Powys, Thomas Bexley has become a drunkard and recluse, haunted by terrible visions of the dead. But when news of a spate of extraordinary kidnappings reaches him, Thomas is shocked to learn that his dear friend and former mentor, Professor Elijah Hawthorn, is the lead suspect. Discovering a plea for help from Hawthorn claiming to have unearthed a gruesome conspiracy at the heart of the Metropolitan Police, Thomas embarks on a journey to prove Hawthorn's innocence.

Beatrice Richards was 39 years old on her last birthday. That may have been accurate, it might not have been. It mattered not to her friends—of which she had only a few—and it certainly didn’t matter to her husband, in large part because he simply didn’t care. Beatrice was wealthy, entitled, snobbish, unhappy and bored. That is until “it” came.

Napoli, 19 settembre 2000. Il custode della Cappella Sansevero scopre il cadavere di un uomo al posto del Cristo Velato: la scultura marmorea, capolavoro di Giuseppe Sanmartino, è scomparsa. Il corpo mostra una ferita al cuore e reca al collo un cartello con la scritta: Per aspera ad veritatem. Paolo Manfrè e Sandra Bianco, consulenti scientifici del SISDE, vengono chiamati a Napoli per risolvere il caso insieme al Capitano Monti. Il dirigente della Squadra mobile, Rocco Siani, è convinto che il crimine possa ricondursi a una tipologia rituale di tipo massonico.