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Una notte unica. Quella del 19 marzo a Valencia è una notte che nessun altro al mondo festeggia seguendo questo rituale. Tra la musica delle bande e i fuochi artificiali, a rapire gli sguardi e l'immaginazione della gente sono le Fallas, le statue colorate che a centinaia si contendono il premio per il migliore allestimento e che secondo la tradizione vengono bruciate nelle strade, in un infernale tripudio di fiamme e fumo che ricorda una città in guerra. È come l'inizio di un nuovo anno, ma più profondo, più intimo.

Chicago Detective Jack Fallon in The Mystery of the Exotic Escort Murders is set in the bustling metropolis of Chicago, Illinois, where crime looms large, hiding within the shadows. One young detective emerges onto the scene, determined to prove himself and make a difference. Meet the charismatic young Chicago Detective Jack Fallon, who confronts his first murder case with his new partner, Elaina Rodriguez. The dynamic duo is part of an elite task force who are also dealing with dire threats from a southside Chicago street gang.

Author Bob Kelly returns with the second installment of the Chicago Detective Jack Fallon series. Packed with suspense, crime, mystery, and unforgettable moments, this legal thriller fiction delivers a high-octane adventure that fans of crime thrillers won't want to miss. An Artifact of Chaos, A Murder Most Uncanny. In Chinese tradition, the Yin Yang symbol, the Egg of Chaos, represents the universe's opposing forces: light and dark, male and female, harmony and discord.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson kehren in die Waltham Abbey zurück, um Pater Brown inmitten der Unruhen innerhalb der Bruderschaft beizustehen. Doch ihre Mission ist zweigeteilt: Neben der Unterstützung von Pater Brown müssen sie auch heimlich Pflanzenproben für Dr. Blackwood beschaffen, die für seine mysteriöse "Blume des ewigen Lebens" von entscheidender Bedeutung sind.

Sullen and withdrawn, homesick and angry, fourteen-year-old Eliot Gardener has been headed for trouble ever since his family moved from Nova Scotia to the quiet coastal Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. But not like this. He’s also, apparently, a double-murderer, having whacked both of his parents with a machete. Only, he can't remember why! Some say Eliot is a bad seed. Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg doesn't buy that. But the case weights heavily on him, for he knew the Gardeners and he should have seen something coming.

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

Stranger in the Mind is a supernatural thriller blending history, mystery, and the unexplainable. Mystery and murder swirl around a dangerous doctor. One detective vows to unravel the truth. 1920s Liverpool—a city shrouded in fog and secrets. Detective Amelia Dei uncovers a string of unexplained comas in Liverpool’s most notorious infirmary. As she digs deeper, she faces a sinister psychiatrist and a truth darker than anything she’s imagined..."‘Stranger in the Mind’ quickly draws you in and does not let you go till the last word." Reader Views • 5 stars • 5 stars

The fog, the mystery, the intrigue of 19th Century London, the incomparable team of Holmes and Watson, the brilliant deductions, the twisting plots, and the unimagined solutions—all these elements are accounted for in The Business of Baker Street, a collection of five new Sherlock Holmes stories. Each tribute tale respects the renowned style of Arthur Conan Doyle, and every story lures the listener into the entrancing world of Sherlock Holmes.

Gerade als sich Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf den Weg zu Pater Brown in die Waltham Abbey machen wollen, entdecken sie einen Brief auf ihrer Türschwelle. Dieser enthält nicht nur eine alte Drohung an John Smith, sondern auch eine Aufforderung, sich mit einem gewissen Dr. Blackwood im Epping Forest zu treffen. In der Hoffnung, einen Ausweg aus ihrer misslichen Lage zu finden, folgen sie dieser rätselhaften Einladung – und sind verblüfft über das, was Dr. Blackwood ihnen offenbart.

The Problem of Thor Bridge is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine. Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in order to clear his children's governess, Grace Dunbar, of the crime. It soon emerges that Mr. Gibson's marriage had been unhappy and he treated his wife very badly. He had fallen in love with her when he met her in Brazil, but soon realised they had nothing in common.

The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published in Strand Magazine October 1921 - April 1927. A man named Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is Professor Presbury's personal secretary, and Mr. Bennett is also engaged to the professor's only daughter, Edith. Professor Presbury is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, a colleague's daughter, although he himself is already 61 years of age.

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine October 1921. Watson arrives at 221B Baker Street where the page boy Billy shows him a wax effigy of Holmes placed near a curtained window in the sitting room. The effigy produces a shadow on the curtain that, when viewed from outside, is the unmistakable profile of Sherlock Holmes. Using this visual trick, Holmes aims to give a perfect target to a would-be murderer with a rifle.

FEAT DESCLord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.

Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout. The first story, The Arrest of Arsène Lupin, was published on 15 July 1905. Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Leblanc, with the novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books.

The Problem of Cell 13 is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine (1907), which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. Like Futrelle's other short stories, The Problem of Cell 13 features Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen as the main character, although most of the story is seen through the perspective of a prison warden.

Tatort Sylt: Nach einer gewaltigen Sturmflut werden an der abgelegenen Nordwestküste Sylts die Ruinen eines mittelalterlichen Dorfs freigelegt, das seit Jahrhunderten unter wandernden Dünen verborgen lag. Die Archäologin Dr. Lena Feldhusen und ihr Team entdecken mysteriöse Schriftzeichen, die auf alte Wikinger-Handelsrouten und ein verborgenes Artefakt hinweisen — aber auch vor einem tödlichen Fluch warnen.

Die Abenteuer des alten Sherlock Holmes 1: London 1930. Sherlock Holmes, inzwischen 76 Jahre alt, lebt vereinsamt in der Bakerstreet. Vieles in seinem Leben hat sich verändert. Die gute, alte Mrs. Hudson ist leider längst verstorben. Ihre Nachfolgerin wird ihre Nichte Alice Miller. Zusammen mit ihrem Mann Eddy versäumt sie es jedoch nicht, ein Auge auf Holmes zu haben und unterstützt ihn in jeglichem Belang. So liegt es fast auf der Hand, dass Alice Miller sogar in das eine oder andere Abenteuer mit hineingezogen wird, und mit ihrer kühnen aber herzlichen Art, ist sie am Ende am Erfolg des Geschehens nicht ganz unbeteiligt.

ഷെർലക് ഹോംസ് എന്ന ലോക പ്രശസ്ത കുറ്റാന്വേഷകന്റെ സാഹസികമായ ചില കഥകളുടെ സമാഹാരം മുറ്റത്തു വർക്കിയുടെ വിവർത്തനത്തിൽ.

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.

In the little hamlet of Wyvern’s Cross, where good manners, tennis and tea are pivotal to the functioning of society, little Dr Bickleigh has a rather large problem: he needs to erase his insufferable wife. His meetings with Ivy are becoming tiresome, and although his burning passion for Gwynyfryd Rattery does not play out as imagined in the toolshed, there is now the infinitely superior Madeleine Cranmere to be worshipped… Resourceful but impulsive, Dr Bickleigh is consumed with the image of his goal.