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In the late 1970s, a couple once involved in the radical group the Weather Underground pulled off a daring armored car heist in upstate New York. During the robbery, two guards and a local policeman were killed. The couple escaped with millions and vanished into hiding in San Francisco. Fifty years later, a small box containing seemingly unrelated items may hold the key to uncovering the long-lost fortune.

Epäiltyjen määrä tarkentuu kolmeen. Tutkinta saa odottamattoman käänteen, kun Gisela Forsell ja hänen kollegansa pääsevät lähemmäksi totuutta. Puukotusten osoitetaan liittyvän monta vuotta sitten tapahtuneeseen rikokseen. Mutta mikä sai tappajan ilmestymään juuri nyt? Pahaa pyhäinpäivää 3 on jännittävän kolmiosaisen juhlapyhäkalenterin päätösosa.

Die junge verzweifelte Mary Sutherland wendet sich an Sherlock Holmes. Am Tag ihrer Heirat verschwand ihr Verlobter Hosmer Angel spurlos, nachdem er ihr kurz zuvor das Versprechen abgenommen hatte, sie würde ihm treu sein, was auch immer geschehe. Mary befürchtet nun, dass Hosmer ein Unglück geschehen sei, doch Holmes erkennt schnell, dass man Mary ins Unglück stürzen will und dafür ihre Naivität und Kurzsichtigkeit schamlos ausnutzt. Doch am Ende kann Holmes nicht mehr tun, als zu hoffen, dass seine Klientin darüber hinweg kommen wird, denn die Wahrheit würde sie ihm niemals glauben.

Capitaine Roger Blanc ist von Gadet ins benachbarte Salon-de-Provence versetzt worden, wo er ab jetzt vor allem rätselhafte Cold Cases aufklären soll. Sein erster Fall ist ein Mord, der vor sechs Jahren stattgefunden hat: Damals wurde eine Familie in ihrem Auto auf einem entlegenen Parkplatz in den Alpilles nahezu vollständig ausgelöscht. Ebenso starb dort ein Radfahrer, der scheinbar nichts mit den anderen Opfern zu tun hatte. Blanc und seine Kollegen ermitteln in Eyguières und in Aureille, zwei malerischen Kleinstädten, deren Bewohner jedoch dunkle Geheimnisse mit sich herumtragen.

The Big Four In this official edition from the Queen of Mystery, Hercule Poirot gets caught up in an international scheme. Now with a beautiful new series look. Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot’s bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a...

The scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi returns to solve another fiendish murder mystery. An old friend of Kindaichi’s invites the detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe, the site of a 20-year-old unsolved murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi in the village than a new series of murders strikes – several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses, and it soon becomes clear that the victims are being killed using methods that eerily echo the lyrics of an old local children’s song …

Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime...but something doesn't quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan - how could a beloved son of this tight-knit burgh commit such a grisly deed?

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But now he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. Suddenly, he's got a lot of enemies, and when a dead call girl turns up in his apartment, his troubles get even bigger. Broadfield screams "setup," but nobody believes him - except ex-policeman, now unlicensed PI Matthew Scudder. Because Broadfield turned traitor no cop is going to give Scudder any help with this investigation, so Scudder's on his own.

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood. From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a somber note. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral, his attorney found that the will was missing and immediately called in the district attorney. When Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, are brought in to solve the mystery, Ellery mentions the one place they have not searched for the will: the coffin.

"Have you ever seen a ghost, Mr. Holmes?" asks Victoria Temple, and Sherlock Holmes, at the height of his powers in 1898, must face a new challenge, one that plunges the great detective into the realm of the supernatural. Miss Temple has been found guilty - but also insane - at her trial for murdering a child under her care. She is locked away in the Broadmoor lunatic asylum, and worse still, she believes fully in her own guilt....

A dark shadow looms over the Rhineland, where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schädel, in which a small group of suspects are still assembled. As thunder rolls in the distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the maze-like passages and towers of the keep.

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. Inspired by the unsolved Peasenhall murder case of 1902, 'Blind Man’s Hood' shows Carter Dickson’s penchant for true crime. When Rodney Hunter and his wife, Muriel, arrive late to a Christmas party in rural Kent, they are unsettled to find the isolated stately home open and empty of guests. While they await the party’s return, they are welcomed in by a mysterious hostess who regales them with the dark legend of Jane Waycross.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early twentieth century detective fiction.

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

The next BRAND NEW instalment in Wes Markin's gripping, gritty, Yorkshire Murders series.

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...

Für den elfjährigen Colin und seine Freunde Leo, Mia und Sam ist das „Brachland“ am Rande der Siedlung der beste Abenteuerspielplatz der Welt. Zwischen hohen Gräsern zum Verstecken und altem Gerümpel, das sie als Baumaterial für ihr Hauptquartier nutzen, fühlen sie sich frei und unbeobachtet. Doch die Idylle zerbricht, als sie auf eine Reihe unheimlicher Spuren stoßen: riesige, dreizehige Abdrücke, die tief im Boden stecken und zu keinem bekannten Tier passen.

The Great Game continues for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. In 'The Gravesend Gryphon and other Sherlock Holmes stories', the great detective encounters a wounded old soldier, Baroness Orczy's old man in the corner, H. G. Wells's Sea lady, and a household with a troublesome family member. He helps a failure to become a hero, assists in a search for hidden treasure, and counters human trafficking in North East England. He even helps a 'Saint George' to defeat a dragon. The game is definitely afoot.

Grace Harper, a detective with the Montgomery Sheriff's Department, is assigned to a chilling case involving a murderer with a disturbing obsession with brunette women. As she investigates, she works closely with victim's families, offering support while hunting for clues. The case takes a tense turn when the murderer is finally apprehended, but Grace faces the difficult challenge of gathering enough evidence to prove his guilt.