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Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam’s convinced that since he’s been out he’s killed two women. He doesn’t remember the killings but he wants Smith, one of the few people he trusts, to investigate and prove him either innocent or guilty.

Chicago, 1928: In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place: a clique of city leaders is poisoned, a white gangster is found mutilated and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress, but it proves...

Marta Robles se consagra como autora de novela negra con esta nueva intriga, también protagonizada por el carismático detective Tony Roures. Regresa el carismático detective Roures, ex corresponsal de guerra y hombre marcado por un pasado que siempre vuelve, para enfrentarse en esta segunda...

The Most Southern Place on Earth: That's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, New York City, ever thought she'd have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn't know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi - and that Lydia has to rush down south and get him out - Lydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind the wheel.

It’s their daughter’s graduation and Rachel and Ed Hartley are expecting it to be one of their family’s happiest days. But when she stumbles and falls on stage during the ceremony, a beautiful moment turns to chaos: Gemma has been shot, and just like that, she’s fighting for her life. PI Matthew Hill is one of the first on the scene. A cryptic message Gemma received earlier in the day suggests someone close to her was about to be exposed. But who?

“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”—The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see...

Brought to you by Penguin. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is...

The past comes back in a big way for Chicago's only professional wizard in this action-packed novella—now a national bestseller—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling Dresden Files. In a city that's just beginning to recover from the devastation caused by the Battle of Chicago, Harry...

إني لا أؤمن بالأشباح ….. لعل السبب في عدم إيماني بالأشباح هو رفض عقلي احتمالية وجودها، ويبحث عن تفسير آخر، وعلى أية حال أنا لست طبيباً نفسياً بل محققاً خاصاً، وهناك من يختلف معي في الرأي وربما تكون أنت واحداً منهم. أريدك أن تقبض على شبح. شبح قتل شخصاً بالفعل، ويهدد بقتل اثنين آخرين.

Private investigator Riley Sullivan uncovers the smuggling of opium into the Port of San Francisco in this 1933 historical mystery/suspense thriller. He's hired by a lawyer for the San Francisco Port Authority to investigate the heist of a delivery to Madame Dalyu Wu, owner of an art galley in Chinatown. Riley becomes quickly involved in an international opium smuggling ring. His assistant in this endeavor is Gina Gallo an agent and sharpshooter with the Bureau of Narcotics.

„Un caz de identitate” este o povestire polițistă scrisă de Arthur Conan Doyle, în care Sherlock Holmes investighează dispariția misterioasă a unui bărbat chiar în ziua nunții sale. O tânără îi cere ajutorul detectivului pentru a-l găsi pe logodnicul ei, care a dispărut...

The Eternal Child is a thrilling mystery set in a 19th Century Britain plagued by an oppressive regime and the living dead. When a dangerously beautiful woman asks for her help, Alice McInnes, private investigator, must discover how it all connects to a child thought long dead. This steampunk...

Ich habe keinen Ärger gesucht–aber der Ärger hat mich trotzdem gefunden. Als die Stuntfrau Whitley »Whit« Leland in die Bergstadt Arrow Springs verbannt wird, um auf ihre temperamentvolle Großmutter Bobbie »ein Auge zu haben«, zählt sie die Tage, bis sie nach Los Angeles zurückkehren kann. Doch dann nimmt die Sache eine plötzliche Wendung, als Kit–der naseweise Rettungs-Chihuahua, den sie geerbt hat–sie zu einer Nachbarin führt, die ausgestreckt am Fuße ihrer Hintertreppe liegt.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a defining work of hardboiled detective fiction, centered on private investigator Sam Spade. When a mysterious woman hires Spade and his partner to follow a man, the case quickly spirals into murder, deception, and a ruthless hunt for a priceless jeweled falcon. As Spade navigates a web of lies involving a cast of cunning criminals, he relies on his sharp instincts and moral code to stay one step ahead. Set in a shadowy, morally ambiguous world, the novel is known for its crisp dialogue, atmospheric tension, and complex characters.

When Marlon Newberry is gunned down outside a the apartment house where he has attended a party, the case reeks of something more sinister than a street hit. Detectives Abe Gold and Barbara Cortez follow the trail, but it’s private investigator Sam Sharpe who’s hired to uncover the truth. What Sharpe finds is a shadow world of cons and corruption—fake antiques sold for fortunes, fortune-tellers bleeding the wealthy dry, and real estate scams designed to ruin lives.

Timothy Rolls never wanted to be a hero. He wanted a cup of tea, a quiet evening, and to get home safely. Instead, he got evidence. The kind that gets people killed. In a provincial town where a murderer walks free and reputation is everything, one small man stands between justice and a very convenient suicide. What saves him has nothing to do with courage, police, or luck — and everything to do with an orange he nearly didn't pick up.

Un uomo si risveglia nel ventre di una nave. Con lui il suo ex professore di inglese, vecchio marinaio con mille storie da raccontare. La Vedova Nera non dimentica i suoi figli; il mare non dimentica i suoi uomini. E l'avventura continua, tra vecchi amici e nuovi nemici, tra porti sicuri e inferni burrascosi: un conto alla rovescia, rosso di sangue e rubini, per salvare un tesoro nascosto.

Nat Pinkerton war einer der berühmtesten Detektivhelden der frühen Unterhaltungsliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts und wurde als „König der Detektive" weit über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus bekannt. Die erstmals ab 1907 erschienene Heftromanserie „Nat Pinkerton, der König der Detektive" umfasste mehrere hundert Abenteuer und machte den scharfsinnigen Ermittler zu einer Kultfigur seiner Zeit. Ein ehrgeiziger Emporkömmling verbirgt hinter seiner makellosen Fassade ein dunkles Geheimnis.

Als Harald Harst und Max Schraut auf der Reise nach Dänemark in Warnemünde stranden, stoßen sie auf den spektakulären Fall der spurlos verschwundenen jungen Gräfin Tessa Söderholm. Für ihre Freilassung fordern unbekannte Entführer eine Million Kronen – unterzeichnet mit dem rätselhaften Namen „Der Finger Gottes".

Mystery woman, Morrigan Doyle, is in prison. Finn Doyle, her son, has ties to the Irish mob in New York. He became acquainted with Harry Starke when Harry was investigating his mother’s billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. But Finn has an agenda of his own and wants to hire Harry to “find a friend,” Matteo Rossi. Rossi, a low-level thug, a soldier in the Irish mob, is missing and Finn is worried, thinking someone has “offed him,” and he wants to know who. Initially, Harry turns Finn down.