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Eigentlich besuchen Holmes und Watson anlässlich eines Golf-Turniers bloß einen Freund in Croxton Hall, als der allseits unbeliebte Daniel Benton ermordet wird. Der Schuldige ist schnell gefasst, und sein Motiv lässt keinen Zweifel an der Tat zu. Der Meisterdetektiv entschließt sich dennoch, den Tatort in Augenschein zu nehmen, und macht eine Entdeckung, die den Verdächtigen entlasten könnte.

Следствие ведет старший оперуполномоченный уголовного розыска – подполковник Игорь Дмитриевич Корнеев. 1982 год. Москва. В столице происходит серия дерзких ограблений. Преступники явно работают по наводке, нападающих всегда двое, они одеты в синие халаты и маски, грабят исключительно людей, многократно выезжавших за границу. Во время последнего ограбления у одного из преступников упала маска и жертве удалось рассмотреть его лицо. Возможно это поможет следствию сдвинуться с мертвой точки.

Der Zirkel der Sieben hat, wie von Oscar Wilde vermutet, einen engen Vertrauten des Könighauses in seine Gewalt gebracht. Mithilfe einer von Aleister Crowley entwickelten Substanz wollen sie Lord Duncans Gehirn unter ihre Kontrolle stellen und auf diese Weise das englische Königshaus unterwandern. Als Oscar Wilde hinter den gefährlichen Plan des Zirkels kommt, sitzt er selbst in der Falle. Und während der Sonderermittler der Krone nach einem Weg sucht, sich aus dem finsteren Verlies zu befreien, nähern sich die Mitglieder des Zirkels zusammen mit Lord Duncan dem königlichen Palast.

Отставной военный врач Джон Уотсон, вернувшись из Афганистана в Лондон, ищет недорогое жилье и вскоре находит его по адресу: Бейкер-стрит, 221-б. Только вот к квартире прилагается сосед, "сыщик-консультант" по имени мистер Шерлок Холмс. А значит, забудьте о спокойной и безмятежной жизни, дорогой доктор! Ведь полиция очень скоро обнаружит в необитаемом доме труп джентльмена средних лет, судя по визитным карточкам, американца. На теле покойного нет ни единой царапины, однако повсюду в комнате - следы крови...

As long-buried memories from his hidden past begin to resurface, Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny feel compelled to return to the small country town where Ishmael crash-landed in 1963; the place where his memories began. Norton Hedley is no ordinary town. Apparitions, sudden disappearances, sightings of unusual beasts: For centuries, the place has been plagued by a series of inexplicable events. Ishmael’s first task is to track down local author Vincent Smith, the one man he believes may have some answers. Ishmael and Penny aren’t the only ones seeking the mysterious Mr. Smith. 

Mr. Dunford ist hätte allen Grund gehabt, sich des Lebens zu erfreuen. Er hatte eine gute Stellung in einem bekannten Industrieunternehmen und eine junge, hübsche Frau, die ihn über alles liebte. Doch Mr. Dunford war wettsüchtig und setzte regelmäßig hohe Summen auf Pferde. Als man ihn schließlich tot in seinem Stuhl fand, lag vor ihm auf dem Schreibtisch ein blauer Umschlag mit einem ebensolchen Brief. Es war das Forderungsschreiben eines ortsbekannten Geldverleihers.

Crime just seems to follow lottery-winning couple Willy and Alvirah Meehan wherever they go. But now Alvirah can sleuth to her heart's content! In this collection of stories, the couple is targeted and pursued by ex-cons after winning the lottery in "Plumbing for Willy," they discover the body of actress Fiona Winter in their New York apartment in "The Body in the Closet," and they help Cynthia Lathem solve the murder of her stepfather in "Death at the Cape." The aura of suspense remains sky-high in two additional stories, "Stowaway" and "Milk Run."

Мистер Перси Фелпс, сотрудник министерства иностранных дел, оказался в крайне неприятной ситуации. Секретный договор, который дали ему на хранение, таинственным образом исчез, когда он работал с ним поздней ночью у себя в кабинете.

В основе сюжета лежит расследование внезапной смерти сэра Чарльза Баскервиля. Он умер от сердечного приступа, но из поколения в поколения в роду Баскервилей передаётся легенда о гигантской собаке дьявольского происхождения, которая преследует всех Баскервилей на болоте.

Месгрэвы были одной из старейших семей в Англии. Реджинальд Месгрев когда-то учился вместе с Шерлоком Холмсом. После смерти отца бывшие одноклассники встречаются, и Реджинальд обращается за помощью к Холмсу. Дело в том, что в поместье, где он живёт, происходят странные вещи.

Невеста лорда Сен-Симона исчезает сразу после венчания во время завтрака. Убитый горем аристократ обращается за помощью к Холмсу, чтобы тот помог найти ту, которая была его женой всего несколько часов. Шерлок Холмс берётся за расследование и опрашивает всех присутствовавших на бракосочетании.

Однажды доктор Ватсон узнаёт, что у Шерлока Холмса есть старший брат, который намного превосходит его в способности дедукции и наблюдении. В многих случаях Шерлок с ним советовался, когда не мог найти решения проблемы. Но на этот раз помощь понадобилась Майкрофту.

К Шерлоку Холмсу обращается некая мисс Гёнтер с необычным советом, стоит ли ей соглашаться на работу гувернантки в усадьбу «Под буками». Ватсон злится, что их беспокоят по таким пустякам.

После одного серьёзного расследования Шерлок Холмс нуждается в отдыхе, и его друг доктор Ватсон увозит его в имение полковника Хэйтера. Но и здесь нет ему покоя.

Представитель одной из известнейших и благороднейших фамилий Англии остро нуждается в деньгах и берёт их в долг у одного очень известного банкира. В качестве залога он оставляет корону из изумрудов и бериллия, которая имеет огромную ценность для королевского дома, и просит хранить её в сейфе.

Холмс появляется в доме доктора Ватсона очень нервным, что необычно для него. Его левая рука в крови, и он говорит, что профессор Мориарти трижды пытался его убить. Расследование Холмса в отношении Мориарти и его сообщников привело в ярость самого разыскиваемого преступника в Лондоне.

В этом рассказе Артура Конан Дойля Шерлок Холмс расследует дело о таинственном исчезновении скаковой лошади и убийстве её тренера. «Сильвер-Блэз» обладала блестящими качествами и брала на скачках все возможные призы. Она считалась фаворитом предстоящих скачек, и на неё ставились большие суммы.

Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire the best detective she can find: Elvis Cole.

The unlikely pair Tallus Domingo and Diem Krause find themselves together on a case, uncovering secrets they never expected. But doesn't everyone have skeletons in their closet?

Falsche Fährten und wahre Täter: "Tut mir leid, Hawthorne. Aber die Antwort ist nein." Entschieden erklärt Anthony Horowitz die Zusammenarbeit mit Privatdetektiv Daniel Hawthorne für beendet. Er ist mit anderen Dingen beschäftigt, denn sein Theaterstück Mindgame soll in den nächsten Tagen uraufgeführt werden. Noch während der Premierenfeier macht die vernichtende Besprechung in der Sunday Times die Runde. Vor allem das Skript wird verrissen.

In the swirling sewers beneath Arkham, excavators uncover a crystalline formation that hints at dark events from the city's past. As the discovery makes headlines, so too does a series of bizarre murders. With no leads, the Arkham police are always one step behind. Acting on a hunch, down-on-his-luck former journalist Andy Van Nortwick reunites with adventurer Jake Williams and struggling filmmaker Maude Brion to unearth the truth. The trio know of the supernatural horrors that lurk beyond this world, and the reality haunts them.

The eighth dramatized audiobook of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

Rain Christiansen, cold-case detective and reluctant medium, is very aware of that fact. But when infamous serial killer Thomas Kane wants to meet, there's no way Rain can say no. He also can't refuse Kane's offer - find his missing wife, Delilah, and he'll reveal the location of his victim's bodies. Rain has never turned down a good quid pro quo, and he doesn't intend to start. The hunt for Kane's wife leads to yet another cold case, three copycat murders, and an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Soon, Rain is dealing with a ghost unlike any he's ever dealt with before.

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah. “He was murdered, wasn’t he?” When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she...

With no other options, Hannah’s estranged mother pleads for her help in finding her missing stepdaughter, Emily. Last seen at the secluded Seven Day Saints compound in the desolate Utah border town of Echo Canyon. Reluctant at first, Hannah agrees to take the case and soon discovers that Seven Day Saints are ruled by one man, Kenneth Pratt—a maniacal leader with absolute power over his followers and influence that makes him nearly untouchable by the law. Under his control, the community is plagued by violence, polygamy, forced marriage, and accounts of sexual abuse.

The year is 1939 just after a Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. A serial killer is loose, leaving strange occult symbols on the foreheads of murdered young women. Adam Paradise works as a private investigator with an office over MORT’S drugstore on Fifth Avenue, but Adam also has a secret; he is almost two hundred years old, assembled from the parts of dead bodies by VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN! The reality of his existence became a legend and then a fictionalized book by Mary Shelley.

A sixteen-year-old girl has abandoned her Mormon family for a pimp. Her father is devastated and asks his church’s elders to help hire a private investigator. It seems like an easy case for Dan Reno, except for one thing—the church bishop insists the pimp be put out of business permanently. As Reno searches for the pimp, he knows every day is critical, for the naïve teenager has thrown herself into the mouth of a monster. But the pimp lives off the grid, and without a digital footprint, he’s difficult to find.

New Orleans P.I. Lee 'Red' Gammon set up a modest business in Louisiana after his release from the military. The town and the people appealed to him, and he looked forward to a low-key future with time to relax between clients. This chiefly amounted to playing clarinet in the city's more intimate, out-of-the-way jazz clubs.

Dan Reno claimed self-defense, but the prosecuting attorney had other ideas. The missing person case seemed wrong from the start. The client paid in cash, used a phony name, and his claim to be searching for his missing nephew didn’t add up. It doesn’t take Reno long to do the math, and he decides to return the money to the client. That’s when things go awry.

Humiliated by a serial rapist in court, South Lake Tahoe’s sheriff and district attorney turn to Dan Reno for justice. Dealing with his fiancée’s mental breakdown, Reno welcomes the distraction, but he knows the case makes no sense. Short of killing the criminal, what can he do? Regardless, Reno begins investigating. As he peels back the layers, he learns the rapist has a genius IQ and is the brother of a Silicon Valley billionaire. Traveling to San Jose, Reno hooks up with his partner, Cody Gibbons, who has little patience or mercy for sexual predators.

Melanie Jordan’s life seemed perfect. Until masked intruders arrive at her house, demanding gold she doesn’t have. A savage blow to the head puts her in a coma for four weeks. When Melanie regains consciousness, she learns her husband has been murdered and her ten-year-old daughter is missing. Private Eye Dan Reno begins investigating, but nothing about the case makes sense. Was there gold at the house or wasn’t there? Was Melanie’s husband hiding something? And what happened to Melanie’s daughter?

It’s a two-for-one deal when a pair of accused rapists from a New Jersey-based gang surfaces in South Lake Tahoe. The first is easy to catch, but the second, a Satanist suspected of a string of murders, is an adversary unlike any Reno has faced. After escaping Reno’s clutches in the desert outside of Carson City, the target vanishes. That is, until he makes it clear he intends to settle the score.

Cyrus Darian used to be a doctor. Now he lives out of a backpack in the Oregon backcountry, avoiding towns, avoiding people, avoiding questions. When he saves a stranger’s life deep in the Oregon wilderness using little more than improvisation and nerve, the act pulls him into a remote off-grid commune that seems, at first, like a quiet place to disappear.

January 1954. Mists cover the hills around Selchester. Someone at the research facility known as the Atomic is leaking secrets to Soviet Russia, and when nuclear scientist Bruno Rothesay goes missing, the British Intelligence Services are convinced he's the mole. Hugo Hawksworth isn't so sure. Then a body turns up, and Hugo's instincts are proven correct. But if Rothesay wasn't selling secrets to the Soviets, who is?

Ein Serienmörder richtet nach den Zehn Geboten – und die Zeit läuft gegen die Ermittler. Als ein gefeierter Schlagersänger ermordet und mit einer aufgeschlagenen Bibel auf seinem Körper aufgefunden wird, ahnen die Kommissare Zufall, Weber und Hansen noch nicht, dass dies erst der Anfang ist. Bald erschüttert eine Reihe grausam inszenierter Morde die Stadt – jedes Opfer steht für eines der Zehn Gebote, jede Tat folgt einer fanatischen religiösen Logik.

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.