検索キーワード： 古典的探偵

Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves. When a woman comes into Georgia's bookshop asking for the Archivist Society's help in finding her neighbor, she sends Georgia and her friends onto a perilous path where aristocrats lie to them, thugs attack, and the dashing, enigmatic Duke of Blackford appears to be involved in thwarting them at every step.

After a botched high-profile murder investigation, Corporal Elderick Cole is exiled to the remote, rugged landscape of Nunavut, a vast territory in the Arctic Circle known for its untamed beauty, frigid temperatures, and endless winter nights. His bleak existence takes a sinister turn when he discovers the hanging body of Pitseolala, a troubled Inuit girl whom he had sworn to protect. As Cole's life unravels - and with it, the fragile thread of his investigation - he turns to Pitseolala's younger brother, Maliktu, a fellow outsider.

Este livro reúne contos de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Émile Zola, H. G. Wells, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Bram Stoker e Henry James, autores consagrados na arte do terror e do mistério. Nele você encontrará a presença sempre marcante do relato fantástico, que por vezes se enraíza em...

Una muerte extraña. Un reloj fuera de lugar. Un secreto demasiado peligroso para salir a la luz. Todo comenzó como una simple broma: ocho despertadores colocados para despertar a un joven remolón. Pero al amanecer, uno de ellos ha muerto… y sólo quedan siete esferas. Lo que parecía una travesura inocente desata una pesadilla. Detrás de la fachada de una mansión de lujo, opera una organización secreta tan meticulosa como mortal. Cada esfera representa a uno de sus miembros. Cada uno guarda un fragmento de la verdad.

প্রচেত গুপ্ত বাংলা সাহিত্যের একজন স্বনামধন্য লেখক। তাঁর বহু লেখা বিভিন্ন পত্রপত্রিকায় ছাপা হয়েছে ও তাঁর লেখা...

Der Winter rückt näher. Und nachdem zwei Bergwanderer in der berüchtigten Höllerklamm eine grausige Entdeckung machen, nimmt das Unheil Fahrt auf. Eine Serie bizarrer Morde versetzt die Menschen der kleinen Dorfgemeinschaft in Angst. Bald kommt es zu gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen. Und das schreckliche Ungeheuer aus einer uralten Tiroler Legende, das in früheren Jahrhunderten regelmäßig Menschenopfer forderte, scheint zum Leben erwacht zu sein.

Dr. Dörte Paulsen, Betreiberin des Edelbordells "Palais d'Amour" beauftragt ihn mit der Ermittlung eines Doppelmords in ihrem Etablissement. Eines der Mädchen und ein Freier wurden mitten im Akt ermordet. Die Identität des Freiers ist unbekannt, Dr. Paulsen weiß nur, dass er Mitglied der besseren Gesellschaft Hamburgs war. Mehr als willig macht sich Jeremias Voss an die Ermittlungen im "Palais" und stößt dabei schnell auf ungewohnte Hindernisse: Die Polizei, die sonst Hand in Hand mit ihm arbeitet, ist in diesem Fall auffällig schweigsam.

Confinato in un letto d'ospedale, Morse si lascia travolgere dal piacere della lettura. Tra le pagine di un volumetto scopre un enigma degno delle sue capacità investigative, un mistero venuto dal passato. Tra flebo e flirt inconcludenti con le affascinanti infermiere, Morse insegue la verità su un caso chiuso da più di un secolo.

Lord Bellington è morto, però ben pochi, a Carsely, se ne dispiacciono. Aveva infatti deciso di rivestire con una colata di cemento un'area che i pensionati dei Cotswolds usavano come orto e la cosa aveva suscitato più di un malumore. Pare inoltre che Damian, suo figlio ed erede, non abbia il minimo interesse nel portare a compimento i piani di sviluppo del padre. Ma la polizia è interessata a lui, perché – a quanto sembra – Lord Bellington non è morto di morte naturale e bisogna trovare l'assassino.

Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consists of novelettes and short stories from Queen's many escapades.

Grieving after the death of his younger brother, Hugh Castle, the Earl of Monnow, finds evidence to suggest it was not an accident, but a failed attempt to kill him. He vows revenge, planning to take advantage of the rumor that he is also dead to uncover the murderer. But Hugh doesn't count on meeting another desperate adventurer, Helen Archer. She has lost the fabled Peckham Necklace at Hugh's home, Ormsby, and risks censure if she doesn't find it. So together, Helen and Hugh hatch the perfect plan.

The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859. At around 10:15 a.m. on a Saturday morning in 1989, the body of Chief Inspector Morse - though very much alive - was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse....

Holmes and Watson discover that the missing woman—Hannah Woolfson—was herself on the trail of a missing person, her close friend Sophia. Sophia was recruited to a group known as the Elysians, a quasi-religious sect obsessed with Ancient Greek myths and rituals, run by the charismatic Sir Philip Buchanan. Hannah has joined the Elysians under an assumed name, convinced that her friend has been murdered. Holmes agrees that she should continue as his agent within the secretive yet seemingly harmless cult, yet Watson is convinced Hannah is in terrible danger.

It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes is settling back into life as a consulting detective at 221B Baker Street, when he and Watson learn of strange goings-on amidst the dreaming spires of Oxford. A Professor Quantock has built a wondrous computational device, which he claims is capable of analytical thought to rival the cleverest men alive. Naturally Sherlock Holmes cannot ignore this challenge.

It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe, eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty, is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.

When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancée decide to travel south from home in Llanfair, Wales, to visit his mother in Swansea, they're not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: the young thug convicted of murdering Evan's father several years earlier is suspected of murder once again.

The charming village of Llanfair, the setting for Rhys Bowen's beloved Constable Evans mysteries, sits amid lush, rolling Welsh meadows populated with quaint cottages and is considered by many of its colorful locals to be a kind of paradise. Unfortunately, there aren't many opportunities for young people in Llanfair, so when an exciting and glamorous American woman breezes into town talking of dormant psychic powers and important social research, barmaid Betsy Edwards is quick to take her up on an offer of employment at the recently opened Sacred Grove New Age center not far away.

"La Provence", superbe bateau de croisière, traverse paisiblement l'Atlantique pour rallier Paris à New-York. Soudain, un télégramme incomplet parvient à l'équipage : "Arsène Lupin à votre bord, première classe,...".

An artist is found dead in a gallery with locked doors and windows. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors. Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve, and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, an unsolved mystery from the past has returned to haunt them...