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二人の「きたさん」が事件に翻弄されつつ成長していく物語で、著者が「生涯、書き続けたい」と願う捕物帖。 舞台は江戸深川。一人目の「きたさん」こと北一は、亡くなった岡っ引き・千吉親分の本業だった文庫(本や小間物を入れる箱)売りで生計を立てている。

「持つ者は子宝に恵まれる」と江戸で評判の宝船の絵。しかし赤子を失ったある家の宝船の絵から、弁財天が消えたという。 深川の富勘長屋に住み、岡っ引き修業に励む北一は、噂の真相を確かめようと奔走する。

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

Many others in the village have said that they would like to see the colonel dead, but a number of people have a more specific interest in his death: the colonel’s young wife, Anne; her lover, the artist Lawrence Redding; Archer, a local man given a harsh sentence by the colonel for poaching. Even the colonel’s daughter, Lettice, desperate for money, says, “If only father would be decent and die, I’d be all right.” These complexities lead to any number of dead ends for investigators. The only one able to see through the blinds and obscurities is Miss Marple, an elderly but sharp-eyed spinster.

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

The Desert Keeps Its Secrets. In the silent of Nevada desert, where the wind moves like a whisper across endless sand and dry lake beds, there exists a place that officially did not exist for decades. A place erased from maps. A place denied, dismissed, and quietly protected. That place is Area 51.

Young Jacob Fletcher, whilst unsure of his parentage, did know that as an apprentice he couldn't legally be seized by the press gang. But this particular gang couldn't actually read the rules. And didn't care anyway. Which was how he found himself risking life, limb and sea sickness on board His Majesty's frigate Phiandra, about to do battle with what looked like half the French fleet.

1889 was a full year indeed... Against a vibrant backdrop of world events, local scandals and the lingering aftermath of the Ripper murders, we find our heroes, SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR. WATSON racing through the gaslit streets of London, bringing malefactors to justice–and saving the innocent from iniquity!

Set in 1915 against the atmospheric backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, "Land of Salt and Ash: Rosaura the Heiress of Silence" is a gripping historical mystery thriller. When Rosaura Valenzuela returns to the remote, sun-bleached village of San Jacinto del Desierto to settle a family inheritance, she expects a simple administrative task. Instead, she is confronted by a haunting environment filled with buried secrets, eerie voices, and locked rooms. As she navigates the deep shadows of her family's past, Rosaura uncovers a dangerous truth that permanently alters her destiny.

In Tillery, North Carolina, the past doesn't stay buried—it takes root. When Lila Harper returns home, she isn't looking for trouble. But in a town built on silence, questions have a way of uncovering what was never meant to be found. What begins as a search for answers soon reveals something deeper—whispers of secrets tied to the church, the land, and the people who have spent years protecting both. The more Lila uncovers, the clearer it becomes: someone doesn't want the truth to surface. Because in Tillery, history isn't just remembered. It's guarded.

Hartwell, New Jersey, was never meant to give up its secrets. When archaeologist Nora Hale returns to her hometown to oversee the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Blackwater Bootworks, she expects routine work: soil surveys, structural remnants, and fragments of the past neatly cataloged and explained. What she finds instead is something buried. Beneath the collapsed factory floor lies evidence that was never recorded—and was never meant to be found.

Traveling to the ancestral Matlock estate with her husband, Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, is finally able to confront her greatest foe: the pinery. Forced to endure an endless parade of pineapple-inflected dishes early in her marriage, she has devised a scheme to sabotage the despised fruit, which she can now carry out at long last. Good gracious, no. Bea does not really mean the plants any harm, and approaching the building on a summer morning, she is struck by how lovely it is, with its elegant portico and high arching windows.

More than a million dollars in government bonds have vanished from a locked bank vault—and the only visible clue is a tiny disk of steel. New York lawyer Lawrence Duncan is drawn into the mystery after receiving an urgent telephone call from wealthy real estate dealer Martin Anderson. George...

1 September 1939 As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without trace, it seems that danger can lurk in the quietest village. In the chaos of war, crime novelist Josephine Tey struggles with the...

It's 1965 and Rosie Churchill has arrives at run-down Castaway House. But when she uncovers a scandal locked away in the old house, she soon realises that secrets never stay buried for long. In 1924 fresh-faced Robert Carver comes to Castaway House to spend the summer with his cousin, Alec Bray...

1588. In Lisbon the Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Behind it is a dark and secretive game, one of murder, treachery and deceit. This is the realm of the spy, and home to legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. Gradually his intelligence sources vanish, until finally he...

1564: Catholic herald William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, is the custodian of a highly dangerous document. When it is stolen, Clarenceux immediately suspects a group of Catholic sympathisers, the self-styled Knights of the Round Table. Soon Clarenceux enters a nightmare of suspicion...

'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' For Flavia de Luce, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how...

The legendary Knights of St John, the last of the great surviving Christian chivalric orders, have retreated to the small island of Malta. But Emperor Suleiman wants the Knights wiped off the map, and dispatches the greatest armada that ever set sail to annihilate them. The Order seems doomed...

A taut and gripping thriller: King Edward VIII is on the throne and keen to broker peace at any cost - WWII could turn out very differently... As the storm clouds gather over Europe and German troops are amassing, a clandestine 'King's Party' of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily...