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Sono giorni di pioggia a Vigàta, quegli acquazzoni violenti e persistenti che non danno requie, fiumane d'acqua scatenata che travolgono case e terreni lasciando dietro di sé un mare di fango. È in una di queste giornate che un uomo, Giugiù Nicotra, viene trovato morto in un cantiere, mezzo nudo, colpito da un proiettile alle spalle. Aveva cercato scampo in una specie di galleria formata da grossi tubi per la costruzione di condotte d'acqua.

Walter Piefke ist es gelungen, ein Treffen mit dem Professor zu vereinbaren. Doch dieser taucht zur vereinbarten Zeit nicht am Treffpunkt auf. Zudem hat Piefke das Gefühl, beobachtet zu werden. Alarmiert macht er sich auf den Weg in die Uhlandstraße, in der der Professor eine Wohnung besitzt. Da der Professor nicht zuhause ist, bricht Piefke in dessen Wohnung ein und stößt auf eine Reihe interessanter Unterlagen, die in Piefke wieder einen alten Verdacht aufkeimen lassen.

Gerade als Sir Baskerville wieder anfängt, sich auf Baskerville Hall zu langweilen, erreicht ihn eine Einladung nach Bath. Ein Bekannter hat dort für sich und Sir Baskerville ein Zimmer in einem Hotel gemietet, in dem er Stammgast ist. Zudem wird ihn seine früh verwitwete Schwester Adele White begleiten. Diese freut sich schon sehr darauf, Sir Baskervilles Bekanntschaft zu machen. Tatsächlich verläuft das erste Treffen zwischen Mrs. White und Sir Baskerville äußerst vielversprechend.

A key witness in a high-profile federal case vanishes from a government safehouse just hours before testifying, leaving behind no sign of forced entry, no clear escape route, and only one cryptic word scrawled across a windowpane: Midnight. FBI Agent Claire Anderson is tasked with investigating the disappearance off the books. The press can’t find out. The Bureau can’t afford a scandal. And her team—S. W. O. R. D., the Special-Washington-Oregon-Regional-Detachment—has just days to uncover what really happened before the entire case unravels.

Ein ungelöstes Rätsel aus der Vergangenheit, Skrupellosigkeit und Gewalt: Margeaux Surfins persönlichster Kriminalfall in Südfrankreich Wie kam Frank Kaisers Mutter wirklich ums Leben? Die als Prostituierte abgestempelte Mutter des Polizisten und Ex-Kollegen von Mimikexpertin Margeaux Surfin wurde vor mehr als drei Jahrzehnten getötet. Aktuelle Spuren führen das deutsch-französische Team in die mafiös organisierte Geldwelt von Marseille. Was wusste die deutsche Bankangestellte, dass sie sterben musste? Und warum wurde nie richtig in diesem Fall ermittelt?

Hack Holland is a product of the South, both old and new. Hard-drinking ex-POW and wealthy, progressive Democrat, he stands in the long shadow cast by his ancestors. When Holland's candidacy for a congressional seat brings him increasingly into conflict with those around him, his almost...

Im Hyde Park wird die reiche Witwe Gladys Hammond erschlagen aufgefunden. Die Polizei geht von Raubmord aus, da ihr Schmuck und ihre Handtasche gestohlen wurden. Weil die polizeilichen Ermittlungen nur schleppend laufen, wendet sich Travis Hines, der Bruder des Opfers, an Sherlock Holmes, der den Fall annimmt. Schon nach kurzer Zeit gelingt es Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson, den Dieb zu stellen. Aber ist der Dieb tatsächlich auch der Mörder? Denn im Umfeld von Gladys Hammond gibt es genug Personen, die ein Motiv für einen Mord an der Witwe gehabt hätten.

Ein verschwundener Kriegsveteran und eine Paradeuniform, die auffällig nach Lavendel riecht: Während Holmes auf einen Informanten aus der Unterwelt wartet, wird ihm dieser vermeintlich triviale Fall angetragen.

Edgar Allan Poe und Auguste Dupin haben gerade mit der Suche nach dem Grimoire begonnen, als Georges Lorant sie darum bittet, die Suche für einen Augenblick zu unterbrechen und in einem Entführungsfall zu ermitteln. Gemeinsam mit Irene Adler und Sherlock Holmes folgen Dupin und Poe einer Spur, die sie in das kleine Dorf Saint Manon in der Nähe von Paris führt.

Warning a drug dealer about a police raid isn't a mistake. Not for a detective with sixteen years on the Drug Squad. It's a choice. And Tom Kessler knows exactly what it will cost him. He has spent his career in the shadows of serious crime: surveillance, undercover work, informant handling. The kind of policing that never reaches the press and leaves marks that don't show. He knows where every line is drawn. He built his life on them.

It is with some trepiditation that Meredith Mitchell returns to the Cotswolds: the Bamford district holds memories that, to put it generously, are bittersweet, and Christmas is a difficult time to find oneself a stranger in a new area. Yet she receives a kindly welcome, in particular from her...

It’s 1929 and an aging Dr. John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true events behind his published accounts of Sherlock Holmes’s exploits. In these pages, Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion encounter reanimated corpses in Highgate Cemetery; a very different, though ever elusive, Irene Adler; tales of madness and murder in the frozen wastes of the north; grotesque organic machines; and much more. 

Jonny Cardew is bored. He’s worked hard all his life at a financially rewarding but dull job when all he ever wanted to do was to solve murders. Now he has time on his hands, but is it too late to be a detective? A chance meeting over breakfast with three quirky characters and a dog in need of rehoming could change his life.

P. D. James is “the reigning mistress of murder.” –Time Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out...

George Eliot’s sweeping story of a manufacturing town and its inhabitants is widely acknowledged to be her masterpiece and is considered to be one of the greatest English novels. A compelling exploration of social change and human nature, Middlemarch is the most requested title on our website and our edition is an ambitious production that reflects its literary significance.

Brought to you by Penguin. The sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the Night They Come for You. The past is coming for Chief Inspector Taleb. He may not know it but he will soon enough. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentlessful, designed to consume...

"...read with suitable tension by Kenny Blyth...It’s perfect early winter listening, especially if the wind’s roaring outside." — Financial Times "Kenny Blyth's warm Scottish accent and facility with creating characters make him the ideal narrator for Ann Cleeves' new series featuring...

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IV collection. Four more stories from the master detective. The mystery of the missing suitor is solved and Sherlock Holmes raises his whip: an Indian pot stands in the shadows of a Colonel's death; serious affairs of state and international diplomacy are threatened by a theft; and surely evil intent lies behind threats in a hidden house. The cool observations and swift action of Mr. Sherlock Holmes resolves all.

Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens gathers Dickens’s most incisive explorations of crime and character, led by the haunting tale of Mr. Julius Slinkton—a man whose impeccable manners and professional respectability conceal a chilling capacity for manipulation.

P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage...