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"A Scandal in Bohemia" is the first short story featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. It marked the beginning of a long collaboration with illustrator Sidney Paget and is considered one of Doyle's most notable works. The story...

He takes homeless children and sells them to the highest bidder. She is hunting him and when she finds him — his reign of evil will end…The battle is over — her enemy slain. No longer hunted, PI Taylor Morrison is finally free to pursue the man who eluded her in New Orleans. The man responsible for the truck-load of kidnapped children she’d rescued there. Children he had intended to sell. Known only to the homeless children of the streets as the Sword of Justice, Taylor roams the dark alleys, secretly searching for clues.

This murder mystery novel depicts the adventures of private detective James Long as he becomes immersed in the world of high society while getting to the bottom of several unique cases in the Greater Los Angeles area. Follow along as James uses his intuition and investigative prowess to navigate the streets of Riverside and beyond while death, danger and despair lurk around every corner.

Die Vergangenheit hat die unangenehme Eigenschaft, einen immer wieder einzuholen: Als in den Wicklow Mountains lange verschüttete Leichen entdeckt werden, entkommt Bunny seiner eigenen Geschichte nicht mehr. Schon bald kann er niemandem mehr trauen, nicht einmal sich selbst. Gleichzeitig wird Paul mit einem Vorfall aus seiner Vergangenheit konfrontiert, bei dem eine rivalisierende Detektei eine entscheidende Rolle spielte. Seine Entdeckung entfacht eine Blutfehde, die MCM Investigations an den Rand des Ruins und Brigit an ihre persönlichen Grenzen treibt.

Chandler Hammond's wife says he and his hot Iraqi girlfriend skipped out of their Maine town of Finderne with his company's millions. But his sister thinks his wife murdered him and hires detective James Early and his teenage son Tikki to find the truth. A Scandal at Crystalline follows them through an intriguing maze of unexpected encounters: financial shenanigans, two beautiful women who were sleeping with each other (and with Chandler Hammond), a police psychic, and a runaway kid in a remote mountain cabin.

Die Vergangenheit hat die unangenehme Eigenschaft, einen immer wieder einzuholen: Als in den Wicklow Mountains lange verschüttete Leichen entdeckt werden, entkommt Bunny seiner eigenen Geschichte nicht mehr. Schon bald kann er niemandem mehr trauen, nicht einmal sich selbst. Gleichzeitig wird Paul mit einem Vorfall aus seiner Vergangenheit konfrontiert, bei dem eine rivalisierende Detektei eine entscheidende Rolle spielte.

A lovelorn Portland PI must prove a man's innocence when no one else will in this murder mystery from the author of Betting Blind. Lennox Cooper, flinty ex-cop and poker-playing private detective, stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a local crime family, accused of murdering...

Alex Shanahan has left the airline industry behind and is focused on her investigation business. When her partner's shady ex-wife, Rachel, shows up unannounced—and uninvited—she is dragged into a cold case with international implications . . . Soon after Rachel appears, Alex's partner...

In 1903 Philadelphia, new technologies and modes of transport are turning the city into an industrial powerhouse. Clara Shaw, a paid companion for wealthy ladies, is transforming too—and discovering a surprising aptitude for solving murder . . . Clara Shaw is uniquely equipped both by...

'A dead man was sitting in my waiting-room.' So begins another unsettling case for Bergen private detective, Varg Veum. The identity of the dead man soon becomes clear. He had come to see Veum about a case of his own, one rooted in a death on the Møre coast 15 years earlier. A woman walked into...

Some secrets don’t die. They just keep burning. When Lily travels to a quiet riverside village near Truro, she’s searching for answers about her parents’ deaths—and for a grandmother she believed was long dead. Lily remembers nothing of the night that changed her life, but her former neighbours do—and they all insist the fire was a tragic accident. Then an anonymous note arrives. Someone claims to know what really happened. When Lily follows the instructions to a late-night meeting, she nearly pays for her curiosity with her life. Now she knows someone is watching her.

Ein ermittelnder Hausmeister auf St. Pauli? Na klar! Es liegt in seiner Natur, Ordnung zu schaffen! Kaputte Glühbirnen, tropfende Wasserhähne … Alltag für Hausmeister Penzkofer in seiner Wohnanlage auf St. Pauli. Auch die Beschwerde einer Mieterin über Lärmbelästigung ist für ihn nichts...

In diesem atemberaubenden Debüt – dem ersten Fall von Victoria Warshawski – sieht sich die härteste Privatdetektivin der USA mit einem vermeintlich routinemäßigen Vermisstenfall konfrontiert, der sich bald zu einem tödlichen Labyrinth aus Täuschung und Intrigen entwickelt. Victoria wird von einem Mann engagiert, der sich John Thayer nennt, um die verschwundene Freundin seines Sohnes zu finden. Stattdessen entdeckt sie die Leiche des jungen Mannes.

War der Tod in Meiringen nur Zufall? Nein! Wie Holmes seinem Freund Watson hier nun erklärt, hat die tödliche Begegnung mit Moriarty dort stattfinden müssen. Alles wird also klar, und nun lebt Moriarty nicht mehr. Sein hinterlistiges Wirken ist jedoch nicht erloschen. Skrupellose Hintermänner sind noch am Werk. Andere, erschreckende Taten werden noch geplant.

Cosy-Crime mit echt schottischem Flair und geballter Frauenpower! Finola MacTavish und Anne Scott sind die Lady Detectives von Edinburgh! Gemeinsam mit dem Computergenie Lachie lösen sie die erstaunlichsten Kriminalfälle – und machen mit Herz, Mut und ungewöhnlichen Methoden den Verbrechern der Stadt das Leben schwer. Doch auch in ihrem eigenen Leben geht es mitunter turbulent zu: Finola hat eigentlich die Nase voll von der Liebe, läuft dann aber doch dem einen oder anderen attraktiven Mann über den Weg.

The term “sour grapes” is often used in reference to an instance in which someone adopts an attitude to something because they can’t equal it themselves. That was certainly the case when a 20th century critic wrote a derogatory article in the New York Magazine, stating: “Who cares Who...

From domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate. Neal Carey's three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a...

Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty...

Celebrated private eye Lew Archer is hired by a father intent on preventing the marriage of his daughter to a penniless and possibly murderous artist. The chase takes Archer from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and from the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles as more than one murder crowds the...

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle...