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لم يحتج هيركيول بوارو لكل مهاراته البوليسية لادراك أن هناك شيئا ما يزعج سكرتيرته الآنسة ليمون، فقد اقترفت ثلاثة أخطاء بخطاب بسيط للغاية، يبدو أن انتشار هوس السرقة ببيت الطالبات الذي تعمل به شقيقتها يشتت انتباه مساعدته هذه المعروفة بكفاءتها، ونظراً لأن الفترات اليائسة تستدعي اجراءات يائسة من وجهة نظره يوافق المحقق العظيم على اجراء التحقيق، يبدو أن بوارو لم يكن على دراية بأن اليأس هو الدافع المشترك بينه وبين القاتل .

تحتوي على الكثير من الحب والطاقة... لقد عرضت بوارو مثلما ابتكرته كريستي تماماً، وبالروح نفسها التي تذكرك بأفضل رواياتها""

ذاكرة العامة قصيرة للغاية؛ فقد أصبحت حادثة مقتل جورج ألفريد سانت فنسنت مارش, الملقب بالبارون إدجوير الرابع, شيئًا من الماضي وأصبحت في طي النسيان، على الرغم من الاهتمام الشديد الذي أحاط بها والإثارة البالغة التي سببتها، وحلت محلها أحداث جديدة مثيرة.

ظن الجميع أن حادث سقوط اميلي أرونديل على كرة من المطاط تركت على السلالم قد تسبب فيه كلبها ولكنها كلما فكرت في سقوطها أكثر زاد اقتناعها بأن أحد أقاربها كان يحاول أن يقتلها، في السابع عشر من شهر ابريل كتبت شكوكها في خطاب وأرسلته الى المحقق هيركيول بوارو، الغريب في الأمر أنه لم يتلق الخطاب حتى الثامن والعشرين من شهر يونيو.. بعد وفاة اميلي بالفعل.

Alexander Morton stars as the roguish detective Mr Cullender in two original radio dramas by Ian Rankin, and as Inspector Rebus in Let it Bleed – plus a selection of original stories Best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, Sir Ian Rankin is one of Britain’s most successful and acclaimed...

The thirty-seventh mystery in Peter Tremayne's long-standing and much-loved series, featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. AD 673. Sister Fidelma and her husband Eadulf are journeying back from the Kingdom of the East Angles to Cashel when a violent storm wrecks their ship on...

Die grandiose Fortsetzung von »Das Reich der Rose« Frankreich 1297. Während der Papst und der französische König einen erbitterten Machtkampf austragen, werden der Ritter Constantin Fleury, die Goliardin Mélisande und der Templer Gérard d’Acre von den Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt. Feinde Constantins entführen Mélisande und seine schwangere Frau Agnès. Für die beiden Frauen beginnt ein Kampf ums Überleben. Um sie zu retten, muss Constantin sich hoch verschulden.

After the rigors of the Great War and Spanish Flu pandemic, Miss Rose Ivy is eager to leave tragedy behind and enjoy a new career as Circus Salmagundi’s tattooed lady. But their engagement in the quiet town of Esquimalt is cut short when a housekeeper is bludgeoned to death, a nightmarish devil mask is stolen from a private art collection, and Rose is accused of both murder and theft. To clear her name, Rose must root out the real killer. Her investigation unravels a seedy history of stolen artifacts, forgotten folklore, and hidden identities.

Basada en la historia real de una mujer asombrosamente valiente que salvó a cientos de madres y a sus hijos durante la Guerra Civil Española y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.La Maternidad situada en el Château d'en Bardou, desempeñó un gran labor solidaria durante la II Guerra Mundial gracias al...

Dinasti Joseon. Serangkaian mayat ditemukan di pinggiran ibukota dekat Gunung Inwangsan. Semuanya ditemukan dengan mata terbuka lebar dan lima luka panjang di dada mereka. Siapakah pelakunya? Kyoung-ho, pengurus mayat dari kantor koroner, memiliki petunjuk sama sekali... hingga saat dia didekati...

When Sherlock Holmes defeats Professor James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, he believes the “Napoleon of Crime” is finished. Then, in the pocket of a discarded coat, he finds the Professor’s private journal—and everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. Holmes opens not a memoir but a manifesto. In its pages lies the answer to the question: why would a calculating mind like Moriarty’s, knowing Holmes is a formidable fighter, choose close-quarters combat above a chasm?

Als der junge Stephen Pike im abgelegenen Landhaus Tithe Hall ankommt, um seine Dienerstelle anzutreten, wird das Haus gerade auf eine besondere Nacht vorbereitet: Ein Komet wird über England fliegen. Der Viscount hat seine engsten Vertrauten eingeladen, denn er ist überzeugt, dass dies das Ende der Menschheit ist. Jede Tür, jedes Fenster muss versiegelt sein. Doch am nächsten Morgen wird der Viscount tot aufgefunden, erschossen in einem von innen verschlossenen Raum! Der Verdacht fällt sofort auf Stephen.

Giugno 1970. Tutta l'Italia è seduta davanti al televisore per seguire le partite della Nazionale di calcio ai Mondiali in Messico, mentre i ragazzi, e soprattutto le ragazze, scendono in piazza per rivendicare i propri diritti, nel clima di protesta di quegli anni. Il mondo sta cambiando in fretta, pensa l'ex commissario Franco Bordelli, e ogni cambiamento si tira dietro un bel po' di confusione. Adesso che è in pensione il tempo per pensare al passato – a sua madre, alla guerra, ai vecchi casi non risolti – non gli manca, ma fa anche tanti progetti per il futuro con la fidanzata Eleonora.

Fate happens when you’re making other plans… It’s been a long, long time since Beryl Blue left her gruff and sexy Army sergeant Tom “Sully” Sullivan behind in 1943. Two years to be exact. Though her heart still hurts, she knows Sully’s life is at stake if they ever see each other again. She’s moved on with her new life as a time cop in the year 2132 and is even contemplating a new romance, as she vows to put Sully, and the past, behind her. But fate has other ideas.

Time has met its match in Beryl Blue! Six months after feisty librarian-turned-time-cop Beryl Blue’s last adventure with the gruff and sexy Tom ‘Sully’ Sullivan, she’s back in 2133, chasing time-traveling thieves and other temporal miscreants for the time tourism company, Time Scope, Inc. She misses Sully terribly, but fate has cast a deadly shadow over his future, and until she can find a way to fix that fate, she knows they can never be together. Beryl’s also on a desperate hunt for the man who murdered her parents.

In the dimly lit archives of the Fellowship of Mankind society, where the whispers of ancient civilizations seem to echo through the corridors, one figure stands out among the esteemed scholars and passionate archaeologists: Gabriel Archer Moore. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Moore has become synonymous with the relentless pursuit of knowledge, dedicating his life to uncovering the elusive remnants that bridge the vast chasm between the modern world and the primordial origins of humanity.

This is a compilation of five more cases from the decades-long career of Sherlock Holmes as compiled by his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson.

Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

Camilleri inventa poco delle vicende che trasforma sulla pagina in vorticosi caroselli di persone e fatti - qui il fatto vero, conosciuto dalla celebre Inchiesta sulle condizioni della Sicilia del 1875-76, è il susseguirsi di intrighi, delitti e tumulti seguiti alla incomprensibile determinazione del prefetto di Caltanissetta, il toscano Bortuzzi, di inaugurare il teatro di Caltanissetta con una sconosciuta opera lirica, Il birraio di Preston. E anche in questo attenersi al fondo di verità storica c'è probabilmente un senso preciso: in Sicilia non serve attendere che la storia si ripeta per avere la farsa.

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