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Detective Stephen Lavender's wife and children are spending a glorious summer in the picturesque village of Ealing. When the vicar's wife is poisoned, Lavender is asked to review the case. He soon realizes something rotten is festering at the heart of this rural idyll. Convinced the wrong man has been arrested and the killer is still at large, Lavender is also disturbed to discover someone is sending the local gentry vile letters containing outrageous accusations. Could the same hand that drips such poison from their quill also have administered that fatal dose of arsenic?

When historian Ethan Caldwell uncovers a cryptic message in the journals of Edward Hamilton, he and Mia Hamilton—Edward’s last living relative—are thrust into a conspiracy stretching back to the birth of the nation. Alongside Adler, a gifted cryptographer, they unravel coded journals, hidden chambers, and the lost writings of Dr. Benjamin Church, revealing that America’s true revolution was fought not just on battlefields, but in the shadows

In 1962, opportunities are typically few for nice Jewish girls clacking away at ninety words per minute in a newspaper typing pool. Except Judy Greenberg isn’t typical. An aspiring reporter in DC, she’s aiming for journalistic greatness—not finding a husband. Just don’t tell her mother. Then one day she answers her boss’s private line. The message is curiously cryptic. It’s also delivered in a Russian accent. Judy is certain she has stumbled upon a scoop.

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect the church’s newly constructed pipe organ, (based on an actual event in his life) Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his cousin and personal secretary Elias Bach (who serves as Dr. Watson to Bach’s Sherlock) discover that the pastor of the church may have murdered his young wife.

Queen Victoria may sit on the throne and Robert Peel's bobbies walk the street, but London is still haunted by the spectre of Spring-heeled Jack. The demons of vice and poverty rule the capital: ruffian gangs, pickpockets, prostitutes and vagrants clog the streets with their iniquity. But in one particular Gower Street residence – home to the famous personal investigator Sidney Grice – order presides. Until, that is, the arrival of his ward March Middleton and the vicious Whitechapel murder that follows hard on her heels...

A dark lady rides back into the life of Dame Frevisse, bearing with her two small boys haunted by the touch of death and scandal. Nine men lie dead on the road behind them, victims of the grim fate which relentlessly pursues them. Some seek to turn them away, but when they request sanctuary Frevisse is bound by her holy oaths to grant it. But in welcoming them within the walls of St. Frideswide, has Dame Frevisse allowed death to stalk the nunnery's halls?

Захватывающий криминальный роман эпохи джаза об Артуре Барри, "величайшем воре драгоценностей, который когда-либо жил". Он очаровал всех, от Рокфеллеров до членов королевской семьи, планируя и осуществляя самые дерзкие и прибыльные ограбления 1920-х годов. За семь лет Принц воров украл бриллиантов, жемчуга и драгоценных камней на общую сумму почти 60 миллионов долларов. А еще это история любви. Единственной любви на всю жизнь.

Newly widowed at twenty-two, Tabitha, Lady Pembroke, is determined never again to be anyone’s pawn. Her late husband’s cousin and heir, Jeremy “Wolf” Chesterton, is a former thief-taker whose rough edges and razor intellect make him both an unlikely earl and an even less likely ally. Yet when murder intrudes upon London’s drawing rooms and country estates, it is Tabitha’s keen mind and Wolf’s streetwise instincts that form an irresistible, if occasionally frustrating, team.

Jack Brogan earned his nickname 'Blood' on the icy shores of the Falkland Islands, a name forged in a conflict he'd rather forget. Now, in the quiet cathedral city of Norwich, 1987, he's just a Detective Constable hoping for a peaceful life. But peace is a luxury a serial killer won't allow. A shadow is stalking the streets, leaving a trail of bodies and a chilling calling card: a perfectly sharpened piece of flint. Each victim is a mystery. Each shard of stone, a silent accusation.

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts auf Amrum. Jeden Mittwochabend treffen sich drei nicht mehr ganz jugendliche Damen in der Bibliothek des Wittdüner Kurhauses, um ihren liebsten Hobbys zu frönen: dem Lesen von Kriminalromanen, ausgiebigem Klönen und dem Lösen von Mordfällen. So auch in diesem Sommer, als im Kurhaus auf Amrum der Teufel los ist. Als die alte Frau tot in den Dünen aufgefunden wird, gerät natürlich sofort Friederike in Verdacht. Doch ist der Fall wirklich so eindeutig? Das wollen die drei Damen vom Krimi-Club nicht glauben und beginnen auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.

Ein blutiges Ritual erschüttert das vornehme Wien des Jahres 1896: Bei einer vermeintlich satanistischen Messe wurde eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet – ihre Kehle durchgeschnitten, Zunge und Herz fehlen. Als Inspektor Leopold von Herzfeldt mit den Ermittlungen beauftragt wird, stößt er auf eine Freimaurerloge. Der Totengräber Augustin Rothmayer, empört über eine Grabschändung auf dem Zentralfriedhof, bietet ihm seine Hilfe an. Gemeinsam mit Herzfeldts Verlobter, der scharfsinnigen Reporterin Julia Wolf, und dem aufstrebenden Nervenarzt Dr.

Alexander Morton stars as the roguish detective Mr Cullender in two original radio dramas by Ian Rankin, and as Inspector Rebus in Let it Bleed – plus a selection of original stories Best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, Sir Ian Rankin is one of Britain’s most successful and acclaimed...

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This is a compilation of five more cases from the decades-long career of Sherlock Holmes as compiled by his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson.

In the dimly lit archives of the Fellowship of Mankind society, where the whispers of ancient civilizations seem to echo through the corridors, one figure stands out among the esteemed scholars and passionate archaeologists: Gabriel Archer Moore. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Moore has become synonymous with the relentless pursuit of knowledge, dedicating his life to uncovering the elusive remnants that bridge the vast chasm between the modern world and the primordial origins of humanity.

It’s 1939 and the specter of Nazi Germany has the world on the edge of war. Filomena Devlin, the women’s editor at The Morning Sun, is determined to graduate from writing about the length of women’s hemlines to the challenge of investigative reporting. While not assigned to cover the German-American Bund Rally at Madison Square Garden, she decides to take matters into her own hands and attends. As the rally unfolds, her instincts lead her to an astonishing revelation when she spots the movie star and lothario Montgomery Chase, who happens to be her father’s godson, in disguise at the rally.

October 3, 1959: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s latest musical, “The Sound of Music,” starring Mary Martin, has just had its world premiere in New Haven, the first stop on its road to Broadway. But for one member of the company it will prove to be the final performance. The following morning, the lifeless body of beautiful newcomer Eva Rossi–Mary Martin’s understudy–is discovered in a bizarrely-appointed hotel room, beneath a wall defaced with a bloody inscription: How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Ein Schriftsteller wird mit seiner Vergangenheit auf mystische Art konfrontiert: Eine Wiedergängerin und ihre Tochter tauchen in seinen Träumen auf und geben ihm Hinweise auf verschiedene Morde in seiner Heimatstadt. Er reist zu seinen Wurzeln und beginnt zu ermitteln. Dabei stößt er auf Todesfälle, die anscheinend mit der Stasi und getarnter Fluchthilfe zu tun haben. Doch dann geschehen weitere Morde und alles deutet auf Rache!

Dimenticate tutto quello che sapete sul nazismo. Preparatevi alla verità. Settembre 2015. Germania, Foresta Nera. Karl Jerzyck, professore di criminologia di Monaco, scopre casualmente delle ossa in un borgo vicino a Karlsruhe. I resti appartengono a persone scomparse venticinque anni prima in circostanze mai chiarite. Jerzyck e Arno Schultze, ex ispettore della Kripo che al tempo aveva seguito il caso, riprendono a investigare. Si trovano coinvolti nelle trame di alcuni gruppi neonazisti legati a sette esoteriche e occulte.

A few days before Christmas Inspector Lestrade is asking Holmes for assistance in a strange murder case. The extremely challenging and downright dangerous investigation leads them to a catholic abbey in Middlesex, where evil strikes terror into people's hearts.