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London, 1888: Angesichts der Zustände in den Armenvierteln werden die Mittel der Metropolitan Police aufgestockt. Ein neues Hauptquartier wird errichtet, das mächtige Kellergewölbe steht bereits. Doch der Bau gerät ins Stocken, als einer der Arbeiter eine grausame Entdeckung macht. Im frisch fertiggestellten Tresorraum findet er ein seltsames Paket. Darin eingeschlagen: der entsetzlich zugerichtete Rumpf einer Frau. Von ihrem Kopf fehlt jede Spur. Eine höhnische Botschaft an die Polizei?

Quanto può essere misterioso un invito a cena? Se arriva dalla contessa Mazzucco, che detesta profondamente il genere umano, parecchio. Soprattutto quando il destinatario è uno scrittore di poca fama che nulla ha a che fare con la nobiltà. Perché sì, a metà degli anni Sessanta, per...

Ghost Station is a tense thriller about espionage, cryptography, and paranoia, set in the earliest days of the Berlin Wall. Can Reed trust Longshore? His boss? His lover? Can he find the truth behind the lies - or will Berlin become ground zero for a world-ending war?

Tokyo, July 1949. The president of the National Railways of Japan vanishes. As American and Japanese investigators scrambled for answers, the case went cold - and it remains unsolved to this day. In Tokyo Redux, celebrated crime writer David Peace channels drama, research, and intrigue into this strikingly intelligent fictionalization of one of Japan’s most legendary murder mysteries.

Der neue Fall des beliebtesten japanischen Krimiautors. Privatdetektiv Kosuke Kindaichi wird von einem der Anwälte eines kürzlich verstorbenen schwerreichen Seidenfabrikanten in einen abgelegenen Teil Japans gerufen. Der Anwalt fürchtet, dass das Testament einen erbitterten Kampf zwischen den untereinander verfeindeten Erben auslösen wird. Und kaum ist der Letzte Wille verlesen, nimmt eine Mordserie ihren blutigen Anfang.

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

An Earphones Award Winner! Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times...

Nine BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas by Mike Walker, chronicling Rome’s greatest rulers. Drawing on historical sources including Suetonius’ ‘Lives of the Caesars’, Mike Walker’s compelling drama cycle follows the story of the leaders of Rome, from Julius Caesar’s ascension to power to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West in AD 475. 

The Roaring Twenties: America is dancing to jazz, gangsters are selling bootleg liquor, and the New York Yankees are building a baseball dynasty. In 1923, Yankee Stadium opens and Babe Ruth is about to lead the team to its first world's championship. But the promising season gets off to an ominous start when the body of a murdered bootlegger is found buried in the new ballpark.

Morgan Fairfield has been given two things: a locked briefcase and a ticket for the maiden voyage of the Titanic. In the briefcase is information vital to the American War Department. To deliver the message, Morgan will have to restore his wavering faith and survive the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar…

Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool’s errands. First: investigate strange reports of Germans, thousands of miles from the front of World War I. Second: chaperone two strong-willed European ladies, Mary and Katherine, on a sight-seeing tour. And third: supervise the only police officer currently on Ovalau, an eighteen-year-old constable with a penchant for hysterics.

Countess by day, secret advice columnist by night, Amelia Amesbury has life happily balanced on a quill's edge . . . until her sister Margaret shows up in London under a blanket of scandal and Amelia is catapulted out of mourning and into the ton's unforgiving Season. However Madge's Season debut is marred by a rather inconvenient death at the dining table as the infamous Mr Radcliffe takes ill and is later confirmed dead by poisoning. With Madge being the last person to have cross words with the soon-to-be baron, the ton's gossip mill—and the police—are looking to pin the murder on her.

الآنسة سوزان كوشينغ من كوريدون(بلدة في جنوب لندن) تستقبل طردا عن طريق البريد يحتوي على اذنين بشريتين محفوظتان بواسطة ملح خشن. المفتشة ليستراد من سكوتلاند يارد تشك...

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanation...

Январь-март 1902 года. Соединенные Штаты Америки — Россия. Молодой американский инженер Эндрю Тимоти изобретает сверхскоростной электрический двигатель для подводной лодки. Военная комиссия не принимает изобретение, поскольку, на ее взгляд, оно требует доработки. Однако об уникальном двигателе узнает неизвестный, который начинает шантажировать Тимоти. Преследования пугают инженера. Кроме того, он остро нуждается в деньгах. К счастью, в Сан-Франциско, где живет Тимоти, приезжает русский художник Василий Верещагин.

Июль 1885 года. Загорский с Ганцзалином сопровождают тайного советника С, едущего на Дальний Восток с дипломатической миссией. По дороге они ненадолго останавливаются в Нижнем Новгороде, где как раз проходит большая ежегодная ярмарка. Загорский встречается здесь с жандармским офицером Николаем Назаровым, с которым они вместе учились в кадетском корпусе. Назаров следит за революционером Забелиным, надеясь разоблачить террористическую ячейку. Однако в день встречи Назарова с Загорским революционера убивают.

Brought to you by Penguin. Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici...

Torino, 1911. A tre giorni dall’inizio dell’Esposizione Universale che sta attirando sulla città le attenzioni del mondo intero, Carolina Invernizio, la scrittrice italiana più amata dal pubblico e disprezzata dai critici, lavora al suo nuovo romanzo e non smette di cercare ispirazione nelle più efferate notizie di cronaca nera. Una su tutte cattura la sua attenzione: Emilio Salgari – quel Salgari, il creatore di Sandokan e del Corsaro Nero – è stato trovato morto in un bosco, sulla cima di una collina. Si è ucciso a colpi di rasoio, dicono i giornali, e lo dice anche la polizia.

Una Mallorca llena de secretos, amores perdidos y un legado manchado por la sombra del pasado. A finales de 1918, el Imperio Austrohúngaro se desintegra lentamente como consecuencia de su derrota en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Tras cuatro años de conflicto ininterrumpido, Felipe Neudorf, hijo...