Résultats pour "The Tower" dans Détectives traditionnels

On a brisk fall day, a six-year-old boy and his nanny vanish without a trace during a trip to the London Tower. When the boy’s father, Lord Rollings, is summoned to the Tower to receive ransom instructions, he immediately puts Sherlock and Lucy on the case. The clues are scant and the tension is high - every moment that passes could bring the boy closer to danger.

A seaside town on its knees. A group hell bent on making it a better place, by KILLING. Can DCI Walker stop whoever it is before things get completely out of hand? When the Head Clown at Blackpool Tower Circus turns up dead in suspicious circumstances, a criminal investigation ensues, headed by DCI Walker. But when another body turns up just days later, with the same modus operandi, the double homicide becomes the talk of the town. The murderer, calling himself The Defender, wants people to be kinder to each other, and he’s prepared to kill to make it happen.

In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher - recent mother of twins - resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London - the Bloody Tower - for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies), since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat.

It is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to Scotland for crucial negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert Dudley is at her side. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short when the courts master lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet beneath the queen's window. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth's privy council do not accept the official verdict of accidental death. Their fears are borne out when another tragedy rocks the realm, and points the way to a conspiracy to bring down Elizabeth and seize the throne.

Im Tower of London sitzt Sergeant Horatio Baigent, der Mörder des Ersten Leibarztes des Königs. Er allein scheint zu wissen, wer die Drahtzieher des Pest-Komplotts sind, welches das britische Empire an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt hat. Allerdings ist auch der Sergeant nur eine Marionette im perfiden Spiel der Großmächte. Sherlock Holmes versucht, das Geflecht aus Manipulationen, Lügen und falschen Fährten zu durchdringen. Währenddessen wird Mrs. Hudson entführt. Ihr Leben hängt am seidenen Faden.

Der angesehene Historiker Lester Davenport sucht Holmes auf, da sein Freund Archibald Caldwell vermisst wird. Bald schon muss Holmes feststellen, dass dieser ermordet wurde. Caldwell war nicht nur der Archivar des sagenumwobenen Londoner Towers, sondern auch im Besitz einzigartiger Informationen zu einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der englischen Geschichte - die Rosenkriege und das Verschwinden der Prinzenbrüder Eduard und Richard im Jahre 1483.

Bei Bauarbeiten im Tower wird eine Leiche gefunden. Mord? Unfall? Zunächst nicht feststellbar, denn der Tote hat keine äußerlich sichtbaren Verletzungen. Sherlock Holmes wird eingeschaltet und kommt einem raffinierten Komplott auf die Spur.

"On the Top of the Tower" is a short story in the "The Eight Strokes of the Clock" collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Their main character: Arsène Lupin, the beloved gentleman thief, one of the most famous characters of the detective genre. All eight stories are independent but brought together by a leading thread. Posing as Prince Rénine, Lupin uses his legendary wit to free a young woman from a tedious destiny before having her make him a promise: she will become his bride if together, they manage to solve seven other mysteries before the eighth stroke of the clock, three months from then.

A stroke of luck, most often reserved for other people, offers a lifeline. Writing a TV script based on a true story could be his way out. Trouble is, he only knows half the facts behind a series of daring robberies that ended in murder. Turning detective, he teams up with a lapsed arsonist and sets out to reveal the truth. With his search threatening to put his loved ones in danger, he must uncover the mysterious Fifth Man.

Frankie is in love with Jen but is afraid to tell her. Together, they are working on a film script about a kidnapping. Roddy Lightning was a big star in the 60s, with his band, The Thunderbolts. A teen idol, with a habit of marrying his fellow Thunderbolts, he became a punk rebel in the 70s, a Hollywood star in the 80s, and a junkie in the 90s. At 78, he's a loveable senior with a twinkle in his eye, a lust for cake, and a failing memory.