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The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes presents eight new stories about Holmes which set the great detective against the background of Victorian England, an era of enormous progress, in science, transport, and medicine but which also witnessed a surge in urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each of the stories in this collection engages with an aspect of this background.

الجو يزداد برودة والنهار يقل طولًا...إنه الوقت المثالي للاستلقاء أمام نار المدفأة المشتعلة والاستمتاع بقراءة هذه الجرائم الشتوية من المؤلفة الأسطورية أجاثا كريستي. تزخر هذه المجموعة بقصص القتل والضيوف الغامضين، كما ستلتقي فيها بالمحققين المشهورين في جميع كتابات أجاثا كريستي، مثل المحقق هيركيول بوارو والأنسة ماربل. إنها مجموعة قصصية شاملة وأساسية لعشاق كتابات أجاثا كريستي.

Step inside St. Ann’s Hospital—where secrets hide behind every door and death waits in the shadows. In this gripping 1929 mystery by acclaimed author Mignon G. Eberhart, nurse Sarah Keate is no stranger to troubled patients—but Room 18 is different. After a tense dinner party on a stormy night, the hospital is plunged into darkness. A patient is found dead. A vital radium treatment is missing. And whispers of murder swirl through the ward.

Stella Spada è tornata. Ora alla guida dell'agenzia investigativa SS, si dedica anima e corpo al suo lavoro, alternando il ruolo di madre a quello di investigatrice spietata. In Terra alla terra, secondo noir della serie, Stella viene incaricata di far luce su una vicenda rimasta irrisolta: la misteriosa scomparsa di una ragazza adolescente, svanita nel nulla quindici anni prima e presto dimenticata da tutti, polizia compresa.

Ex-police officer, JJ Jenson, is a good man who has led a colourful but turbulent life. He’s seen death and destruction in its many forms. When personal tragedy strikes, JJ turns his back on his former life, and returns to his childhood home in search of peace, preferring to view life through the lens of his camera.

Respected and successful barrister Bernadette Wiseman is dead, hanged in the hall of her home. With no sign of foul play and no note, the question raised is why? The police believe it was suicide, but Bernie’s partner, Annie, won’t accept that and instructs JJ Jenson to investigate. As JJ and his sidekick, Davie, dig around in Bernie’s apparently perfect life, they discover professional jealousies, sinister threats and dangerous enemies, but can they establish what actually happened? And more importantly, to honour Bernie’s own dedication to justice, can they prove it?

Als Sherlock Holmes Doktor Watson tot in der gemeinsamen Wohnung findet, wird er von der Londoner Polizei festgenommen. Man verdächtigt ihn, den Mord an seinem besten Freund begangen zu haben. Eine lückelose Indizienkette spricht dafür, und sogar Mrs Hudson ist von der Schuld des Meisterdetektivs überzeugt.

A second collection of twelve cases for M. McDonnell Bodkin’s insightful but self-deprecating detective Paul Beck, a man who claims no more genius than “a little common sense,” and says of himself that “I just go by the rule of thumb, and muddle and puzzle out my cases as best I can.” Including the disappearance of a millionaire; murders on a golf links and on a train; a fabulous diamond necklace lost in the sea, and the theft of an actress’ rubies; a lucky discovery in a Hansom cab; and a doctor found standing over the dead body of his fiancée’s brother.

Ein unmögliches Verbrechen - Ein neuer Fall für Anne Kirsch Kommissarin Anne Kirsch ist sauer: Anstatt befördert zu werden, wird sie ihrem verhassten Kollegen Janitzki unterstellt. Gemeinsam sollen sie den Tod einer jungen Studentin untersuchen, die von ihrem Balkon gestürzt ist. War es Mord? Anne findet schnell heraus, dass die Studentin kurz vor ihrem Tod ihre Beziehung mit Rainer Dorn, einem Insassen der forensischen Psychiatrie, beendet hatte. Alles deutet auf Dorn als Täter hin. Doch wie kann das sein, sitzt er doch in der geschlossenen Abteilung ein?

January 1313. As London is gripped by a freezing winter, Sir Hugh Corbett becomes embroiled in a ghoulish game of kings played out between the English and French courts. Years earlier, Corbett prevented a gang of rifflers from breaking into the Royal Treasury, but the leading chieftain, Sarasin, escaped. Now Sarasin is caught killing a squire of Queen Isabella's and Corbett swiftly has the riffler tried and hanged from the signpost of The Twilight tavern.

A brutal attack at Fakenham Racecourse plunges DI Ashley Knight into the competitive world of horse racing, where fortunes are won and lost in the blink of an eye. As the investigation unfolds, a chilling discovery reveals a darker side to this glamorous sport. In these high-stakes arenas, where winning is everything and everyone has something to hide, a few are willing to cross the ultimate line.

Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station. Before he has a chance to settle into his new life, tragedy strikes. Two twelve-year-old boys pretending to be detectives in a mysterious game disappear. Tom is thrown into the most important case of his career. Families are torn apart by the disappearance of the boys, and the only clues are frustratingly indecipherable.

Steve thought he had left his troubled past behind. Living a quiet life with his wife and children, everything changes the night he rescues a baby from a burning house, becoming an unexpected national hero. But as the spotlight shines brighter, so does the scrutiny, and a shocking accusation is made – that Steve is the man responsible for an unsolved murder in Beachbrook years prior. As DS Willmott investigates the truth, Steve pleads his innocence.

The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, designed to consume the unwary traveller. He will soon find himself looking down the barrel of a thirty-year-old mystery, which, if he’s not careful, will be aimed squarely at him.

There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn – with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect…

Die weltberühmten Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes 3: London, Ende der 1890 Jahre. Sherlock Holmes, dem weit über London hinaus der Ruf eines wahren Meisterdetektivs vorauseilt, löst zusammen mit seinem Freund und Partner, dem jungen Dr. Watson, einen kniffligen Fall nach dem anderen. Zusammen bewohnen sie die Baker Street 221 B. Für das leibliche Wohl der beiden Junggesellen sorgt ihre Haushälterin, die gute alte Mrs. Hudson. Holmes agiert hauptsächlich in London.