検索キーワード： 古典的探偵

When a priceless ruby known as the Malabar Rose vanishes while being guarded by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, the formidable Mrs. Hudson sets out to give a lesson in criminal deduction for her most famous and logical of tenants, the master sleuth himself.

An evil stalks London, blown in from the tropics. A group of merchants are dying one by one. The elementary choice to investigate these mysterious deaths is, of course, the team of Holmes and Dr. Watson. But the unique gifts of their housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, and her orphaned assistant Flotsam, will also be needed to solve the case.

Министерству финансов США необходимо отправить своим английским коллегам золотые слитки на огромную сумму. Операция держится в строгом секрете, но, как часто бывает, происходит утечка информации. Двое дерзких гангстеров придумывают способ перехватить драгоценный груз, а Лемми Коушену в этот раз придется выдать себя за провинциального бизнесмена, впервые приехавшего в Нью-Йорк поразвлечься.

Boredom sets in on the rather less exciting than expected trip across the desert to Baghdad. Captain Smethurst is dead, but there is no visible wound. At a loss the company turn to Mr. Pyne to piece together scraps of overheard conversation from back at Damascus. Marooned and nervous the company decide that the truth must out.

Fresh from successfully reinvestigating his childhood friend's mysterious death, Q is hired as a civilian contractor by the police in his sleepy hometown to look into the unsolved murder of tech millionaire turned online antique dealer, Laurence Noble. As Q investigates, he finds himself dragged into a chilling conspiracy where past and present meet in a way he could not possibly have imagined.

Получая облигации от мужа, Генриетта была уверена в их подлинности. Тот же вопрос задает себе и Лемми Коушен, которому ФБР поручило расследовать это дело. Более того, эта история вообще бы не всплыла, не приди Генриетта в банк калифорнийского городка, чтобы обналичить именную облигацию, неожиданно оказавшуюся фальшивой.

In the late 19th century, Dr. John Watson and the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes are thrust into one of their most sinister investigations yet. When Mrs. Mary West approaches them with a desperate plea to find her missing husband, William, the case leads them across the Atlantic to the bustling streets of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. Amid the dazzling splendor of the "White City" lies a dark underbelly of deceit, danger, and death.

सुहास शिरवळकरांच्या भन्नाट शैलीतून उतरलेली आणखीण एक रहस्यकथा " ....... स्टार हंटर्स " ज्यात रहस्य आहे, झालेल्या खुनाची गुंतागुंत आहे, कोर्ट सीन्स आहेत आणि अमर विश्वास सारखा एक चाणाक्ष वकील आहे . स्टार हंटिंगच्या निमित्ताने सौंदर्य स्पर्धांना सुरुवात झाली खरी ,पण त्या निमित्ताने एका वासनाकांडाची सुरुवात होते ! आणि त्यामधून एका खुनाच्या सत्राची सुरुवात होते !

मेजर पंजवानीचा खून कोण करते ? या खुनामागे खून्याचे काही कटकारस्थान तर नाही ना ? मिसेस लोलिताला टार्गेट करण्यात आले आहे का ? चाणाक्ष अमर विश्वास खुन्याचा शोध कसा घेतो ? या असंख्य प्रश्नांची उत्तरे घऊन आहे .......सुहास शिरवळकर लिखित कादंबरी - "नॉट गिल्टी " कृणाल आळवे , यांच्या आवाजात........

रझा फरिहादच्या टोळीला फाशीच्या तख्त पर्यंत नेऊन सोडण्याचा भक्कम पुरावा इन्स्पेक्टर प्रमोदच्या हाताशी येतो , तो मिळवण्याच्या नादात इन्स्पेक्टर प्रमोदचा खून होतो आणि सुरु होते निरनिराळ्या घटनांची मालिका...... मंदार , डॅनी आणि इन्स्पेक्टर दिनेश सायगल, रझा फरिहाद आणि त्याच्या टोळीचा खात्मा कसे करतात ? याचे थरारक चित्रण ......

An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to change. Once again, Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learns that there is more to human beings than meets the eye and more to solving a murder than the obvious clues.

Während einer erholsamen Zeit an der englischen Ostküste kommt es zu einem seltsamen Vorfall: Paul und seine Frau Steve werden in ihrem Boot von einem Kliff herab beschossen.

Out of funds and longing for a sea voyage, young doctor Ralph Leslie jumps at the chance to sign aboard a luxurious millionaire's yacht as steward of the After House. His job is easy sailing until one summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly becomes a nightmare of blood and terror. One of the ship's officers is thrown overboard; another one is killed with an axe. As panic sets in on the boat, only the young doctor remains calm enough to try to solve the murders.

Officer Luke Fitzwilliam is on a train to London when he meets a strange woman. She claims there is a serial killer in the quiet village of Wychwood. He has already taken the lives of three people and is about claim his fourth victim. Fitzwilliam dismisses this as the ramblings of an old woman. But within hours she is found dead. Crushed by a passing car. And then the fourth victim is found.

The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years.

Dans la nuit, sur les côtes du midi de la France, cent navires à bout de souffle se sont échoués, chargés d'un million d'immigrants. Ils sont l'avant-garde du tiers-monde qui se réfugie en Occident pour y trouver l'espérance. À tous les niveaux, conscience universelle, gouvernements, équilibre des civilisations, et surtout chacun en soi-même, on se pose la question trop tard : que faire ?

Fourteen-year-old Jesse is shipped halfway round the world after the death of his father. He struggles to adapt to life on the Welsh Atlantic coast but eventually befriends John, a popular, charismatic, and outwardly charming boy. But as their friendship grows, a darker side to John emerges. Will Jesse notice before it's too late?

The masterful stories in this collection relate Holmes and Watson's involvement with the case of an eminent physiologist inexplicably savaged by his faithful wolfhound, of the priceless stolen Crown diamond found in the pocket of a peer, and of the mysterious figure who means to buy Mrs Maberley's house and all of its contents, whatever the cost, while Holmes himself tells the story of a Boer war hero set to inherit a fortune who mysteriously disappears from the family seat.

So far, it had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr. Satterthwaite, a keen observer of human nature, sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr. Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor Portal, the woman with the dyed-black hair?

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.” Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems.