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To escape the predations of the Nazis, a rare two-hundred-year-old Torah is quietly smuggled out of a doomed North African Jewish community in the dead of night and put aboard a ship. Eventually, it makes its way to safety across the Atlantic. Generations after the war has ended, it resides in obscurity in a small, rundown Sephardic temple in Hollywood. The peace is shattered, however, when suddenly someone tries to break in and abscond with it. Amos Parisman, a local, agnostic, aging gumshoe, is recruited to thwart the would-be burglar.

Donald Morris, wealthy ‘man about town’, has fallen madly in love with mysterious stage actress Mary Blake. As the story begins, Donald has professed his love and asked Mary to be his wife. Despite her obvious feelings for him, Mary cannot accept and soon disappears from her apartment, where she lives with her twin sister, Anne, who has also vanished. Mary has sent Donald a cryptic note that leaves Donald frantic. He hires the highly recommended detective, Peter Clancy, to help him find Mary.

Summer 1918 and stylish lady detective Miss Isabel Hewitt is approached by a nervous young woman, Miss Rosalind Rafferty. She claims she is being terrorised by a ghost and is in fear of her life. She lives in a cottage on her late fiancé' Captain Reuben Gifford's family estate in Hickory Green Hertfordshire. Her maid, Margery died a couple of weeks before after being bitten by an unknown creature. The doctor attending said it was natural causes but Rosalind is not convinced. The maid's mother has asked for a second opinion.

Cottage on Gooseberry Bay is a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers, fostering hope, and building lasting friendships while embracing the magic of life by the sea and small-town celebrations. In Book 21, Ainsley is left reeling after the sudden death of one of her clients, Teyana Trenton, who came to Gooseberry Bay searching for answers about her biological parents. What initially appears to be a tragic rollover accident—one that also claims the life of the town’s beloved fire chief—soon proves to be something far more sinister.

Taking on a case that has been deemed un-chargeable, Special Victims Unit Detective Janssen pledges to find justice for a young female victim, never imagining what he would uncover in the path of his investigation.

A femme fatale with an axe to grind. Marla Dotson is used to getting what she wants, and what she wants is Dwayne Morrow—both on and off the case. Convincing an old acquaintance to grant him an apprenticeship had been hard enough, yet the initial assignments were proving to be anything but rewarding for Dwayne Morrow. Crawling through garbage to snap photos of awful people doing awful things was not the exciting career choice he had envisioned.

Quattro avventure investigative con al centro Saverio Lamanna e Peppe Piccionello, i due improbabili investigatori isolani immaginati da Gaetano Savatteri sempre dentro situazioni strane e incontri un po' paradossali. Storie che si leggono come un unico romanzo in cui si ride senza sosta, ci si commuove talvolta, e sempre sotto il velo comico va in scena mascherata la miseria umana.

Frachtstücke einer großen Firma in Kansas verschwinden, ebenso verliert sich die Spur von Old Shatterhands Kollegen Shamus O'Connell. Und so wird Old Shatterhand wieder für seine alte Detektei tätig. Doch bevor er die Ermittlungen aufnehmen kann, wird ein Zug überfallen.

Der Wind des Schicksals schlägt der anmutigen Marlene unvorbereitet hart ins Gesicht. Aus Wut vor den finanziellen Forderungen ihres Ehemannes wechselt sie ihren Job in eine nicht alltägliche Branche und wird Detektivin. Eines Tages wendet sich eine Millionärin an die Privatdetektei und bittet inständig um Hilfe. Dieser mysteriöse Auftrag wird für Freundin Eva und Marlene zu einer äußerst aufregenden Herausforderung. Wird die Liebe für Marlene wieder eine Rolle spielen?

Victoria es contratada por un hombre que se hace llamar John Thayer para localizar a la novia desaparecida de su hijo, pero en su lugar descubre el cadáver del joven. Poco después, Thayer también desaparece. Mientras intenta llegar a la verdad y desentrañar la auténtica identidad de quien la contrató, Victoria se encuentra atrapada en una red de fraude y violencia donde nada es lo que parece. Cuando por fin vislumbra las respuestas, la detective se ve obligada a emprender una carrera contrarreloj para encontrar a la joven desaparecida… antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

デパートの宝石展で真珠を並べて三重の塔にした「真珠の宝塔」が出品されるも、真珠職人に化けた怪人が盗んでしまう・・・。

The first new Henry Rios novel in 20 years from six-time Lambda Literary award winner Michael Nava is a brilliantly plotted mystery that weaves together the gripping story of two gay men against the backdrop of 1980s San Francisco as the tsunami of AIDS bears down upon the city.

A Study in Scarlet was the career-starting, first Sherlock Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 19th-century London, it follows Dr. John Watson, a war veteran, and the enigmatic young Sherlock Holmes, a uniquely gifted detective. Two murders in London have Scotland Yard confounded, and the solution Holmes illuminates transports the listener to America’s Wild West of the 1850s, and beyond.

The Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic that inspired both French and English film adaptations. Joanna Eris has a bad habit of marrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, known simply as The Eye is hired to investigate the death of her husband. The story charts the development of the detective s dangerous obsession with a femme fatale, as he pursues her across the United States.

When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no record of her and, what's more, she appears to be connected to the murder of an old man gunned down on the first day of the hunting season in the depths of the Swedish forests....

Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder - after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose’s unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways.

Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger crafts this riveting tale about a small Minnesota town’s ex-sheriff who is having trouble retiring his badge. Cork O’Connor loses his job after being blamed for a tragedy on the local Anishinaabe Indian reservation. But he must set aside his personal demons when a young boy goes missing on the same day a judge commits suicide—and no one but O’Connor suspects foul play.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

It is the 1980s, and Stamford Holmes is still living in the shadow of his famous grandfather. Languidly living on Sherlock's fortune, he reluctantly agrees to do some work as a consulting detective - if only to provide 'Doctor' Watson with material for the Sunday papers. Watson, on the other hand, brings all the bumbling enthusiasm he can muster to their new cases, forever aping and quoting both their grandfathers - and wielding a magnifying glass.

In the crosshairs of a killer… PI Charlie Dodge may be down, but he’s most definitely not out. He’s still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring an exclusive Q&A between Anthony Horowitz and Adam Hamdy. 'Witty, wry, clever, a fabulous detective story and perfect summer reading' KATE MOSSE 'Funny, intriguing, thrilling and thought-provoking: a marvellous mystery' ADAM HAMDY 'Horowitz ... playing Watson...

Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives - and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape...

Nero Wolfe's last recorded case! Wolfe never works without a well-heeled client and a sizable fee, but when a bomb racks his brownstone, killing his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, the world's greatest gourmet takes it as a personal affront. What kind of unsavory killer commits...

Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst and his American wife, heiress and equestrian Stella Kendrick—aka Lady Lyndhurst—dive in to investigate a body found in a pond on the estate of a man rumored to have killed his wife… When a hot air balloon lands near Morrington Hall, it draws the attention of...

Tess Tulley is the proud proprietor of Mill City Investigations—the premier (if you ask her) private investigation business in her small Massachusetts city. Business is slow, especially after she blew up her credibility among her fellow Spinners (do not call them witches) by turning in her own uncle for a crime spree three years ago. Loyalty among Spinners is top priority, and Tess’s decision to put the investigation over her coven has left her out in the cold.

Der Fotograf Domenico Spina wird in den frühen Morgenstunden auf einem Felsvorsprung des Rocca di Garda tot aufgefunden. Commissario Lanza wird gerufen und ist sich schnell sicher, dass Spina nicht freiwillig den kürzesten Weg nach unten genommen hat. Ungewollt erhält er Unterstützung von Barista und Ex-Kommissar Paul Zeitler, der es erneut nicht lassen kann, auf seine Weise in diesem Fall zu ermitteln. Erste Informationen führen nach Verona, wo Spina sich bereits in jungen Jahren als Fotograf der berühmten Opernsängerin Carmen Belotti etabliert hatte.

Don't miss the next instalment in the Fish and Chip Shop Detective Agency Series, available to pre-order now! It's been a busy summer for the Fish and Chip Shop Detectives as they get drawn into their next investigation, hook, line and sinker... The bustling streets of Mousehole are home to...

Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have gone down in literary history simply for his creation of the detective Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon") as well as Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man" series), but he is also the creator of another of the most popular detectives in the genre: the nameless private investigator known as the Continental Op, who appears in dozens of his stories.