Résultats pour "The Rain" dans Détectives traditionnels

Dave Robicheaux has been warned that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp. Robicheaux uncovers a web of corruption that leads him to a terrifying confrontation with the one horror he fears most of all.

Some places look ordinary until one impossible detail changes everything. Rain falls across an entire valley except around one isolated house. A light appears inside an apartment with no electricity. Three antique keys belong to a house demolished decades ago. An abandoned railway platform is missing from modern maps. A drought reveals a forgotten village beneath a reservoir. And those are only the beginning. The Rain Stopped at One House is a collection of ten atmospheric mystery and suspense stories in which ordinary people encounter strange clues hidden inside familiar places.

From the doyenne of detective novels and the inspiration for the major TV series Murder in a Small Town (starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk), the third Karl Alberg detective story, where a new resident ties Alberg's life up in knots. Murder in a Small Town will air Tuesdays this Fall...

Graduate student Raina Sun is trying to keep her head above water as the bills roll in, when her dashing college adviser cons her out of several months of rent. Her quest to retrieve the money sets in motion a streak of even worse luck. First, she stumbles on her advisor's dead body and becomes a suspect in his murder. Next, the only man she's ever loved reappears as the lead detective to the case. Raina's having trouble interpreting his signals. Does he want to reignite their passion, or just stay close to his prime suspect?

When Sherlock Holmes joins his sidekick and friend, Doctor Watson, at the wake for Brigadier Buffington, they wonder how Buffington acquired a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting. And, after a curious incident or two, another question arises: Did Buffington die of natural causes? Or was he murdered?

Something's stalking the streets of London's West End. People are dying, and all signs point to a killer of unfathomable strength and brutality. On the night of the full moon, Doctor John Watson is called upon to save a colleague who's been brutally attacked by what appears to have been a pack of wild dogs. As his friend succumbs to his wounds, his dying words seem to implicate a "wolf man." Confused, Dr. Watson turns to his good friend for help.

Sherlock Holmes, legendary sleuth of Victorian London, is asked to authenticate the work of what appears to be a long-lost Shakespearean play. Alas, just as the famed detective is about to announce his conclusion, the manuscript is stolen. As Sherlock and his trusted sidekick, Dr. John Watson, begin to unravel the mystery of the missing play, their investigation leads them on a convoluted but logical path. But the closer they come to the missing play, the more their lives are endangered.

Private investigator Jim Knighthorse returns in "Easy Rider", a standalone short story where he discovers a female burglar sleeping in his office. Camry is a woman who knows too much. Down on her luck, she asks for Knighthorse's protection from her biker ex-boyfriend, Steel Eye, whom she says has murdered someone. She's a witness on the run and she also has problems of her own making. She wants to leave the biker gang, but no one ever leaves this one alive.

Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts filmen Fotografen die ersten bewegten Bilder. Straßenszenen aus dem pulsierenden Leben New Yorks gehören zu den beliebten Motiven. So wird auch zufällig die Ausführung eines raffinierten Mordes auf Film gebannt, wobei dies in dem Getümmel zunächst niemandem auffällt. Bei einer Wiederaufführung dieser Filme erkennt ein Mann im Publikum die Zusammenhänge und will sofort zur Polizei. Auf dem Weg dorthin wird er ermordet.

Im Hochmoor von Abbot Grange findet eine Jagdgesellschaft die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Schnell ist der geistig behinderte Sohn des Farmers McElwood als Täter ausgemacht und wird zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt. 25 Jahre später überschattet wieder ein mysteriöser Todesfall den kleinen Ort. Eric Landory, ein angesehener Bürger, wird Opfer eines Giftanschlags. Beim Tanz auf dem alljährlichen Dorffest erleidet er einen Anfall und stirbt vor den Augen von Pater Brown. Kaum hat der Geistliche mit Unterstützung durch seinen Freund und Helfer Hercule Flambeau eine erste Spur aufgenommen, kommt es zu einem weiteren Giftmord. Bei ihren Nachforschungen tauchen die beiden immer tiefer in die dunkle Vergangenheit des Dorfes ein.