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"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. The unnamed narrator is with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin when they are joined by G—, prefect of the Paris police.

The rock band came back to play, but itwasn't the game they expected. It is hard to reform the group whensomeone is killing off the members. After a death threat, private investigator PeterMcAdam is brought in to keep Jerry Reason, the lead singer, and his daughter,Annie, alive. The new album and reunion world tour are in jeopardy, but fateplays a hand, and they relocate by private jet to an idyllic tropical island inthe Caribbean.

Im Tannental wird wieder munter gemeuchelt! Feinste Cosy-Krimi-Kost aus Süddeutschland! Jäger leben neuerdings sehr gefährlich in Bad Killingen. Zwei ereilt der Tod und ein Dritter ringt mit seinem Leben. Emma Kirsch, die clevere Cafébesitzerin, glaubt nicht an Unfälle und nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Doch dieser Fall ist größer, als sie denkt und bald stecken sie und Lucy, die resolute Dame aus dem Chalet Holms, knietief in Schwierigkeiten. Auch der sechste Fall der ungewöhnlichen Ermittlerinnen fesselt mit viel Spannung, Humor und überraschenden Wendungen.

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government work is interrupted by an urgent call to Devon. A woman has been found dead in a lake in a place where she shouldn’t have been. Jane needs to gather the clues and find the killer before someone else from the agency gets hurt… Shy and handsome code-breaker Arthur Cilento is bewildered by the arrival of the efficient Miss Treen and her cat Marmaduke.

Red Harvest is a hardboiled classic that set the standard for gritty, no-nonsense crime fiction. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this explosive novel follows an unnamed detective—referred to only as “The Continental Op”—as he arrives in a corrupt industrial town known as “Poisonville.” Hired to clean up the city, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a brutal gang war. Betrayals, double-crosses, and brutal power plays spiral into chaos as the Op’s relentless quest for justice leads to a blood-soaked reckoning.

Ana Bacon, a beautiful young wife and mother, tumbled off a cruise ship into dark and deadly waters. Ana is gone—leaving behind her wealthy husband and adorable daughter—but not everything about her disappearance adds up. What secrets did she leave behind? Investigator Ryan Monahan is a numbers man. So when his company sends him the Bacon case, which could net a ten-million-dollar payout, Monahan doubts that her death is just a tragic accident. But the husband has a substantial alibi and a number of witnesses claim to have seen Ana fall, and the official ruling seems to hold up.

When Daryl Brackstone approaches private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda "Birdie" Bird about her mother's decades-old murder, she's hoping to finally uncover the truth. Her father died in prison for the crime, but Daryl has never believed in his guilt. As Seb and Birdie dig deeper, they discover Helen Brackstone wasn't just a suburban housewife—she was part of a secretive activist group investigating high-level corruption.

In this New York Times bestselling installment of the Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.​ "Outrageously entertaining." —Financial Times Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will...

大物政治家が推進するダム建設反対派の弁護に芝山が就いたことから始まった一件は、建設予定地からアルツハイマー病の特効薬となり得る薬草が発見された事により、反対派住民たちの大切な森は救われようとしていた。 しかし、遂に芝山が殺され事態は最悪の展開を迎えていく。瀬良は芝山の仇を取るべく最後の賭けに打って出るが…。 「盗聴探偵物語」史上最高のサスペンスと人間ドラマがここに決着する! ※この物語はフィクションです。(C) 2013株式会社ウェルツアニメーションスタジオ/ウェルツレコーズ

The Yellow Face, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes, suffering from boredom due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr. Watson early in spring to find he has missed a visitor but that the caller has left his pipe behind.

While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. And why. Against his better judgment, Charlie takes the case—and when bodies are discovered, he suspects this may not be an isolated crime. Is there a serial killer whose work has gone undetected for decades? Is baby Lily his latest victim?

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1594, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Within the walls and without, unease and uncertainty lurk beneath the noise and bustle of a smoky, teeming city. Matthew Cutler, newly widowed and caring for two spirited daughters, takes his position as constable for the parish of Spitalfields very seriously. So when Paulo Brisco, a quiet Venetian perfumer is found brutally murdered in his own shop, Cutler throws himself into his first major crime, and one which threatens to set all Bishopsgate alight.

Bloomsbury presents The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. STUART TURTON'S INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOW IS OUT NOW ‘If you read one book this year, make sure it’s this one’ Daily Mail CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE...

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.

Shortly after the death of renowned socialist theorist Karl Marx, the trustee of his estate, Friedrich Engels, approaches Sherlock Holmes for help. As the mourners arrive in London for Marx's funeral, a mystery unfolds that culminates in a showdown at Highgate Cemetery.

Hércules Poirot se enfrenta a un asesinato de altura. Desde el asiento número nueve, Poirot está idealmente ubicado para observar a los demás pasajeros del avión. A su derecha se sienta una mujer joven, claramente enamorada del hombre de enfrente. Más adelante, en la butaca número trece...

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.

Ein bekannter Chirurg wird im Zirkus Royal ermordet aufgefunden. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden vom Direktor Pablo Casilla persönlich um die Aufklärung gebeten. Schnell stellt Holmes bei den Befragungen fest, dass sich der Doktor einer großen Beliebtheit unter den Akteuren erfreute und ein gern gesehener Gast und Freund des Zirkus Royal war.