Résultats pour "The Tree" dans Détectives traditionnels

Agosto de 1950. Patro y Miquel se disponen a pasar un día de playa. Todo se tuerce cuando ella desaparece y él recibe una nota muy explícita: Patro morirá si en tres días no resuelve un caso inconcluso de 1938. Este caso se remonta a los crueles bombardeos de marzo de ese año en Barcelona, los más sanguinarios después del de Guernica. La bomba que cayó en la esquina de la Granvía con la calle Balmes dejó un cadáver inesperado, un asesinato, el de un soldado de la República.

Considerato uno dei capostipiti del legal thriller all'italiana, "Tre giorni nella vita dell'avvocato Scalzi" non è solo un giallo avvincente per quanto atipico ma anche un percorso illuminante nel labirinto della giustizia e burocrazia italiane. Seguendo le vicissitudini del burbero avvocato fiorentino Corrado Scalzi, veniamo immersi in una storia al cardiopalma fatta di terrorismo e carceri di massima sicurezza sullo sfondo di una Toscana tanto bella quanto complessa.

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?

World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier’s background—and uncover his true loyalties—in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling “vivid period mystery series” (New York Times Book Review). At the foot of a...

El señor Cyril Overton, capitán de equipo de rugby de la Universidad de Cambridge, se acerca a Baker Street a pedir ayuda por la desaparición de Godfrey Staunton, un deportista esencial en su equipo. Overton informa que en la noche en que estaban en el hotel, Godfrey recibió una carta de un hombre barbudo, la carta lo dejó impresionado, y después de eso, Godfrey se fue del hotel con el desconocido.

As young men go to the trenches in their millions, they take with them A. E. Housman’s collection of poetry, A Shropshire Lad. “Easy to read in the most difficult circumstances and full of happy memories of home,” opines Mycroft Holmes. But has Housman succumbed to German influence? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are sent to investigate and come up with a finding unexpected to them. Mycroft lets their finding pass, but Watson is then witness to some Machiavellian political machinations from Mycroft as he deals with Irish rebel Roger Casement.

La aventura de los tres estudiantes trata simplemente de un caso de hacer trampa en los exámenes, un delito que difícilmente se compara con el asesinato, el chantaje o el robo de joyas de la corona, pero fue un problema entregado a Sherlock Holmes debido a la posibilidad de escándalo.

Sherlock Holmes is contacted by Samuel Clemens - otherwise known as Mark Twain, the famous writer - and asked to help find his missing friend. Holmes travels to America where he discovers a gang, led by Mister Bleak, that hangs anyone who gets in their way. Will Mark Twain be able to find his friend, or is he one of the many that Mister Bleak will hang from the Bleak Tree?