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As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living-room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike 3.00. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strange: only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house.

Read by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective...

Sherlock Holmes ist wieder nach London zurückgekehrt. Von Irene Adler erfährt er, was sich in seiner Abwesenheit zugetragen hat. Sherlock Holmes drängt Irene Adler dazu, noch einmal das Gespräch mit Oscar Wilde zu suchen. Zu ihrem Erstaunen treffen ihn die beiden jedoch nirgendwo in London an.

MORD UTAN VARE SIG LIK ELLER VITTNEN Inför julen reser mrs McGillicuddy för att hälsa på väninnan miss Marple. Men det som börjar som en avkopplande tågresa får en otrevlig vändning när mrs McGillicuddy bevittnar hur en kvinna stryps ihjäl i ett förbipasserande tåg. Det finns inga...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of the most iconic collections of detective stories in English literature. Through a series of brilliant cases narrated by Dr. John Watson, the book follows Sherlock Holmes as he applies his extraordinary powers of observation, logic, and deduction to mysteries involving theft, blackmail, hidden identities, secret societies, strange clues, and dangerous criminals. Set in Victorian London and beyond, these stories helped define the modern detective genre.

Introducing an iconic investigative duo—a hapless detective and his capable cat—in this must-read by one of Japan's most beloved novelists of crime fiction. Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and ... women. When a young female student is found...

Summoned to a historic Tudor manor, Jason and Daniel are charged with investigating the heart-wrenching murder of two small boys. To discover who would have a motive to commit such a heinous crime, they must delve into the unexpectedly complicated relationships between the manor’s inhabitants.

A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, introduces Dr. John Watson, a wounded army doctor who returns to London and takes lodgings with the eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street. When a man is found murdered in an empty house with the German word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall, Scotland Yard is baffled and turns to Holmes.

When famed psychic Alicia Lysander is brutally attacked after leaving a seance at the home of an earl, Jason Redmond and Daniel Haze must retrace her movements to determine who might have had a motive to want Alicia dead. As they delve into the private life of the woman who had not only become a friend but had also helped Daniel to rescue his abducted daughter, they uncover buried secrets, bitter rivalries, and unexpected betrayals.

Game Warden Mike Bowditch investigates a brutal murder and a family's devastating secrets in the latest twisty thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron. When family friend Miriam Peters asks Bowditch to help find her missing husband, he expects to locate a wayward forager in the...

Im Januar des Jahres 1887 besucht eine Patientin, Mrs. Callaghan, Dr. Watson, um ihn wegen ihres Mannes zu konsultieren, da sie von Veränderungen in seinem Verhalten irritiert ist. Er scheint plötzlich auch viel mehr Geld zu besitzen als zuvor. Ist er in kriminelle Machenschaften verstrickt? Sherlock Holmes stößt auf Ungereimtheiten und stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen.

French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper's nest of fear, jealousy, suspicion, and hatred, where love is cheap and the price of honor marked down. But worst of all is the mysterious mocking mastermind who is out to turn the glittering store into a bargain basement of murder.

Über manche Fälle wollte ich den Mantel des Schweigens fallen lassen, da man nicht mit genauer Gewissheit die Geschehnisse rational nachvollziehen konnte. Durch meinen verehrten Kollegen H. P. Lovecraft sah ich mich aber gezwungen, doch zumindest im kleinen Kreise Rechenschaft abzugeben und einen Bericht zu verfassen, der eine nüchternere Einschätzung der Ereignisse wiedergibt und sich nicht zu weit ins abenteuerlich Phantastische begibt.

Discover the twist that changed mystery fiction forever! Step into the quiet village of King's Abbot, where secrets lurk behind every door and everyone's a suspect. Hercule Poirot's little grey cells are hard at work, and just when you think you know the killer--everything changes.

A New York Times Bestseller "Delightful. . . . All of Horowitz’s conceits are present here: a murder mystery within the murder mystery, winking nods at the author’s real-life career as a novelist and screenwriter, and playful experimentation with the detective-story form." —Wall Street...

Über manche Fälle wollte ich den Mantel des Schweigens fallen lassen, da man nicht mit genauer Gewissheit die Geschehnisse rational nachvollziehen konnte. Durch meinen verehrten Kollegen H. P. Lovecraft sah ich mich aber gezwungen doch zumindest im kleinen Kreise Rechenschaft abzugeben und einen Bericht zu verfassen, der eine nüchternere Einschätzung der Ereignisse wiedergibt und sich nicht zu weit ins abenteuerlich Phantastische begibt.

The Gloria Scott, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime.

The Prospect Mountain Lodge has been closed for nearly two years, but former ski patrol director Owen Hartwell never left. While the rest of the world moved on, Owen remained on the mountain, maintaining equipment, documenting inconsistencies, and quietly investigating the circumstances surrounding the resort's sudden closure. What began as suspicion eventually became a twenty-two-month search for answers. When feasibility analyst Nora Callahan arrives to evaluate the property for a potential acquisition, she expects a routine assignment.

Winter, 1987. Detective Jamie Day arrives in London determined to prove himself. After years policing a quiet seaside town, his promotion to the Metropolitan Police feels like the opportunity he has been waiting for. But the capital is a very different world. On his first day in plain clothes, Jamie makes a grim discovery: the dismembered body of a young man, left in a dark corner of the city. What should have been a routine first shift quickly becomes the beginning of a major murder investigation. Then another victim is found.