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When Charlotte Haze’s nurse, Rebecca Grainger, is found murdered at a disused burial ground and her young charge is nowhere to be found, Daniel and Jason must race against the clock to solve the crime in order to save the little girl.

The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer. Dave Robicheaux is trying to put a life of violence and crime behind him, leaving homicide to run a boat-rental business in Louisiana's bayou country. But one day while fishing in the Gulf with his wife Annie, he witnesses an...

Pictorița Bella Sinclair dă o petrecere cu ocazia deschiderii expoziției sale, unde prezintă și tablourile lui Fran Hunter. Herring House, galeria în care are loc vernisajul, se află pe plaja de la Biddista, în nord-vestul îndepărtat al insulei. Când un englez misterios izbucnește în lacrimi și pretinde că nu știe cine e și de unde vine, serata se încheie dezastruos. A doua zi, englezul e găsit spânzurat de o grindă, cu o mască de clovn pe față.

30 y 31 de mayo de 1949. Francisco Franco visita Barcelona en un clima callejero de euforia y rendición a la dictadura. Pero no todos piensan lo mismo y en esos dos días, silenciado por la prensa, en la ciudad estallan hasta diez bombas. Miquel Mascarell, ya casado con Patro, recibe la visita de la hija de un antiguo compañero de comisaría. Según la joven, su padre ha sido asesinado, aunque su muerte quiere hacerse pasar por un accidente. Decidido a buscar la verdad y sin saberlo, Miquel va a meterse en el ojo del huracán, descubriendo sin pretenderlo un complot para asesinar a Franco.

The third highly acclaimed novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, and winner of the Edgar award. Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home...

Julio de 1947. Miquel Mascarell, que lleva ocho años y medio en el Valle de los Caídos, es sorprendentemente indultado y sale en libertad. De vuelta a casa, a una Barcelona casi irreconocible bajo el peso de la dictadura, está solo, no tiene a nadie. Hospedado en una pensión, recibe una misterios nota con dinero, una fotografía y una propuesta que su instinto de policía no puede obviar. Así es como, sin quererlo, vuelve a poner en marcha sus mejores dotes de inspector. Alguien quiere que investigue la muerte de una joven prostituta.

Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets. 

El 22 de enero de 1939 el Gobierno de la República abandona Barcelona dejándola a su suerte y a merced de Franco y sus tropas. Durante cuatro días, en medio de una huida hacia el exilio por parte de los vencidos, la ciudad se convierte en un caos fantasmal bajo el peso de la derrota, el hambre, el miedo y el frío. Miquel Mascarell, inspector de policía, no puede huir a causa de su esposa, enferma de cáncer.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot, who is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows.

La vacanza di Poirot è destinata a durare poco. Se "il male si annida dovunque sotto il sole", al Jolly Roger Hotel assume le forme della splendida Arlena Marshall, che scatena negli uomini gli istinti peggiori e semina la discordia fra le famiglie dell'albergo. E quando viene ritrovata strangolata su una spiaggia deserta, i sospettati sono anche troppi: un marito tradito, una vecchia fiamma gelosa, una figliastra trascurata e una moglie scialba che si è vista mettere da parte. La polizia tentenna, gli indizi sono contraddittori, ma Poirot ha un fiuto infallibile.

August in Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, always means one thing: the annual baking contest. Picture The Great British Baking Show, writ Midwestern. It's a huge draw for the upper crust of Wisconsin pastry aficionados. And, of course, bon vivant baker-turned-mystery writer Teddie St. John has a pie in the ring. The white vinyl baking tent boasts an array of folding tables housing each entrant's daily baked good. And at one of those tables sits the corpse of the head judge, his face half-buried in a delectable coconut cream pie.  

Senator Fawcett, a man with many enemies, is found stabbed to death in his study. Patience and her father, Inspector Thumm, try to unravel the web of circumstantial evidence that has enmeshed an innocent man. Patience refuses to be beaten by a lack of evidence and, with the help of Drury Lane, finally stops an execution and brings the true criminal to justice.

If you look at any listing of the ten most important books of detective stories published in the United States, chances are you will find Uncle Abner on most of them. It is generally recognized as one of the most important contributions to American dectective fiction between Poe and Hammett. In fact, there are some critics who call it the single finest collecton of American detective stories ever written.

Read by Emilia Fox TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! From the Queen of Mystery, The Man in the Brown Suit, in which a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station, and in 4:50 From Paddington, a woman...

Read by Hugh Fraser Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her...

Read by Richard E. Grant In Agatha Christie’s classic, A Pocket Full of Rye, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an...

Read by Hugh Fraser 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...

Horne Fisher – a brilliant yet disillusioned amateur detective – has intimate ties to Britain’s political elite: his father is friends with the Prime Minister, his sister is married to the Foreign Minister and the Chancellor of Exchequer happens to be his first cousin. Although unprecedented access to the inner workings of the government has its benefits, Horne finds it more of a curse than a blessing… With his sharp intellect and profound understanding of human nature, politics and power, Horne unravels a series of mysterious events...

El apuesto Conde de Droxford, acostumbrado a los privilegios de su soltería, se ve obligado por decreto real a casarse en un mes. Desea una esposa "complaciente y conforme" que no interfiera en sus asuntos. Es entonces cuando la bella y hechizante Karina, con la esperanza de escapar de una vida de pobreza y dificultades, se ofrece como la mujer ideal para ese papel.

A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary Gate of Baghdad, also known as the Gate of Death. When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr Parker Pyne...