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Poznań, wiosna 1924 roku. Całe miasto żyje rozpoczynającym się właśnie Czwartym Targiem Poznańskim, z którym władze wiążą spore nadzieje. Atrakcją imprezy ma być maszyna zdolna wykrywać jednostki pływające z dużej odległości. Problem w tym, że zarówno urządzenie, jak i sam jego twórca, inżynier Kazimierz Puchała, znikają w tajemniczych okolicznościach. Sprawa szybko nabiera znamion afery szpiegowskiej. Do akcji wkracza porucznik Karol Sianecki z kontrwywiadu wojskowego, wspierany przez rubasznego komisarza poznańskiej policji, Leona Ratajczaka.

Suffolk, England, 1936. The Reverend Alwyn Jones has made several enemies since becoming Rector of Addenham Magna. But nobody expected he would be so unpopular as to be bludgeoned to death in his own vestry during a church fete. And nobody noticed the disappearance of an old painting from the church on the same day as the murder.

The manor's rumored one-hundredth door may conceal secrets hidden as deep as the estate's bookshelves extend high … but the haunted past has a way of ensnaring curious souls. In 1888, Minnie Tipton finds herself beset by the dark superstitions that envelop the Pennsylvania mansion her father...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

London. 1925. Now settled into their new married lives, Kitty Worthington and her husband Robert are thrilled to host their first formal dinner. Among their guests is an antiquities dealer who hints at a groundbreaking discovery, a document so important it’s bound to ruin lives. Days later, the dealer is bludgeoned to death on London Bridge.

My name is Dana Olsen. In my early twenties, I arrived in Hollywood with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. Instead, I found myself attached to a leading movie producer, running errands. Then, when a famous movie director was murdered, events embroiled me in the murder enquiry, and thrust me into the arms of a handsome detective who was investigating the case.

Le printemps arrive, et avec lui, la saison des mondanités. Louise Galtier compte bien trouver un fiancé cette année. Pour ce faire, elle entraîne sa sœur Joséphine à la recherche de nouvelles tenues. Las ! Le tailleur est découvert assassiné dans son atelier, une paire de ciseaux plantée dans le dos… Ravie de cette distraction, Joséphine entreprend d'identifier le coupable. Et quel illustre gentilhomme retrouve-t-on parmi les nombreux clients du défunt ? Nul autre qu'un certain comte, qui voit d'un très mauvais œil que la jeune fille se mêle encore d'une affaire qui ne la concerne pas.

When Trisha receives a mysterious letter to her Liverpool home, it opens a decades’ old mystery, drawing her back into her family’s forgotten past, the horrors of war, and a small island off the coast of Greece… Eighty years earlier, on the island of Milos, Dora is dreaming of a better life, free from the oppression of the occupying army and, closer to home, the brutal rule of her father, an infamous horse breeder. Then a German cargo ship is bombed in the harbour, killing dozens of the men on board.

The year is 1939 just after a Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. A serial killer is loose, leaving strange occult symbols on the foreheads of murdered young women. Adam Paradise works as a private investigator with an office over MORT’S drugstore on Fifth Avenue, but Adam also has a secret; he is almost two hundred years old, assembled from the parts of dead bodies by VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN! The reality of his existence became a legend and then a fictionalized book by Mary Shelley.

When the skeletal remains of a young woman and her baby are discovered entombed behind the kitchen wall of a historic Tudor house, Cassandra is overcome with grief. She feels certain she knows who the woman was, yet she can’t explain how—or how the two came to be sealed away. Drawn irresistibly to the house and the mystery of the “Bones of Blackfriars,” Cassandra begins searching for answers.

New England, 1964. Police Chief Henry Donald is on his way to speak with Albert Braley. As a young child, Albert’s claim that he saw a dead body couldn’t be verified, but now years later, it seems maybe he was telling the truth…

Un perturbador viaje que comienza en un mar de sangre y termina en el abismo del cielo nocturno En el Panteón de los Marinos Ilustres de San Fernando ha aparecido el cuerpo de un joven soldado salvajemente mutilado. Una esvástica realizada con cortes aparece en el cadáver y el homicidio no...

Descubre los misterios ocultos trás las obras de Miguel Ángel, uno delos más grandes artistas de la historia. Adéntrate en la vida del divino Miguel Ángel a través de las claves arcanas y los insondables misterios que surcan los pliegues de La Pietà , en la turbadora mirada de Moisés...

Descubre los secretos sobre el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico de todos los tiempos La tumba de Tutankhamón fue sin duda el mayor descubrimiento arqueológico de todos los tiempos. Lo que no es tan conocido es que entre los maravillosos tesoros se rumoreaba que había papiros que contenían...

Newly crowned Margaret knows exile, estrangement and terror all too well. When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, Margaret and her family fled to Scotland, where she was hurriedly wed to Malcolm, King of the Scots. She’d craved the quiet life of a nun but now finds herself thrust into the public sphere with a duty to save souls—and lives—in the bloody aftermath of the Norman conquest.

Wien, 1880: Die Stadt verändert sich in rasendem Tempo, Mietenwucher und Arbeiterelend greifen um sich. Der Mord an der Nobelprostituierten Fanni Matzner zwingt den Wiener Polizeipräsidenten Marx zum Einsatz eines geheimen Sonderermittlers.

When Flavia Albia stumbles upon the murdered corpse of a young man near Rome's famous Circus Maximus, she is about to embark on one of her most dangerous and complicated cases. Rome and the Romans are obsessed with chariot racing. Lepo was the rising star of the Purples, a new team created by...

Venice, 1927: As romantic as it is mysterious, the Floating City is a dream destination for the newlyweds, but they’ll soon discover the twisting canals hide more mystery than they expected. It begins when they are invited to an elaborate party at Clara Morton’s stunning palazzo on the Grand Canal. The affair is as eccentric as the hostess, who is dressed as Medusa, and features everything from snakes to her pet cheetah to tarot card readings.

Devon, 1929. Members of the Pedhurst and de Reve families gather to hear unpopular matriarch Julia Pedhurst (nee de Reve) read from her late husband's will. One of the house guests is fighter pilot Fred Willets, now an inspector in the Kalgoorlie Gold Squad, who has come to the UK as a beneficiary of the will. When Julia dies before the reading, and another death follows soon after, everybody in the manor house is a possible suspect.

Ian Rankin introduces a gripping collection of his radio writing, featuring Alexander Morton as the roguish detective Mr Cullender in two original radio dramas, and as Inspector Rebus in Let it Bleed Best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, Sir Ian Rankin is one of Britain’s most successful...