Résultats pour "The Moor" dans Détectives traditionnels

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about. Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law. None of which the stubborn old woman denies.

In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband - and of a hound with a single glowing eye.

When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Mattiew Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation. But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in another world – one of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent forgotten underbelly of society – Lombard begins to make unexpected connections.

When an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard to find the perpetrator. Instead, Lombard discovers a wealth of secrets, grudges, and feuds in the idyllic town of Saint-Genèse-sur-Loire. He begins to suspect that the remaining members of the Comité des Fêtes know more about the death than they are letting on.

In this newly unearthed journal, Sherlock Holmes offers his own account of the dark events on Dartmoor, with annotations by Mycroft Holmes. An investigation shadowed by secrets, moral ambiguity, and dangers Watson chose not to reveal. As Holmes navigates the spectral legends, a brooding landscape, and the troubled Baskerville legacy, the case proves more complex, and more human, than you the listener ever knew.

Wenn Muriel Drake auf der Knochenflöte spielt, so heißt es, dann verschwinden Menschen im Moor. Und so geschieht es. Der amerikanische Industrielle Fitzgerald, sein Sohn und ihr einheimischer Führer werden vermisst. Der Angestellte Colin Finch konnte sich retten und berichtet Sir Henry Baskerville von dem Vorfall. Dieser kontaktiert Sherlock Holmes, der sich auf den Weg in das Grauen macht.

Claire Morton verschwindet spurlos. Kurz darauf trifft eine Karte der jungen Frau aus dem entfernten Leicester ein. Claire hatte sich mit ihrem Vater nie gut verstanden und scheint nun ein neues Leben fernab von Breckenridge beginnen zu wollen. Doch die Karte bleibt ihr einziges Lebenszeichen. Claires Bruder Daniel entdeckt das Tagebuch seiner Schwester, das beunruhigende Informationen enthält.