検索キーワード： 古典的探偵

Aufgrund seiner nötigen Zeugenaussage vor dem Unions-Gericht, kann Sherlock Holmes wieder in seiner Heimatstadt als Detektiv tätig sein. Auch die Menschen der Zukunft haben dieselben Probleme wie jene in der Vergangenheit. Mit Hilfe von Dr. Watson gelingt es Holmes in Erfahrung zu bringen, wo ein erfolgreicher Autor steckt.

It is 1986. Assigned to a new Cold Case Unit, retired Detective Inspector Mungo ‘Bob’ Willis has reopened the investigation into the 1962 disappearance of a nine-year-old boy. Paul Bromfield was snatched from one of the last steam trains from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and later found dead in an abandoned bunker. A day at the seaside turned to tragedy. And a child’s name everyone remembers.

“I want to know what goes on in people’s minds. I suppose that’s why I love Georges Simenon so much. He was such a master of the small domestic situation.” —Ruth Rendell Tomorrow, at five in the afternoon, I will kill the clairvoyant. Signed,Picpus. This chilling message is seen...

“The most extraordinary fictive shaper in our time.” —George Steiner Exiled to a sleepy town in western France, Maigret is relieved when he has to handle a challenging case. There’s been a murder in a mussel farming village and its most respected resident, the former judge Monsieur...

“Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam Kirsch When the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the...

The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical PI, “able,” as his creator explained, “to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client.” And what a client!—the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O’Shaughnessy.

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. Newlyweds Jim and Sarah are welcomed home from their honeymoon to the Scottish island of Kinness with a...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote Burial of Ghosts, a thrilling standalone crime novel—now available for the first time in the US. For Lizzie Bartholomew, a holiday in Morocco will change her life forever. But not in the way she had hoped . . . Lizzie had planned her trip to...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote The Sleeping and the Dead, a vivid standalone psychological suspense novel—now available for the first time in the US. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. The picturesque privately owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to be the perfect...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. Old college friends Rob, Oliver, and Mick reunite on an American bird watching tour. It is the first time...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. Landlord and politician Marcus Grenville wants to convert Ursula Ottway’s beautiful cottage into a...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. The youth theater cast are in their places but Gus Lynch’s female lead, Gabriella, is missing—that is, until she’s found in the...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James committed suicide. James was in high spirits after...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. Marilyn Howe and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . . Fifteen-year-old Marilyn...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. In England’s birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted—a murderer . . . Young Tom French is...

In this book, sixteen-year-old Nancy, the daughter of prominent attorney Carson Drew, is drawn into the case of a disputed will by the late Josiah Crowley, a well-to-do but eccentric old man. The will grants all of Crowley’s wealth to the grasping and arrogant Topham family, but there are other claimants. Nancy is drawn into the case when she rescues a small girl, Judy, from a near-miss by a suspicious moving van.