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Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen ist an einem Experiment beteiligt, welches die Weltöffentlichkeit in Atem hält. Dafür wurde extra eine Unze Radium im Laboratorium der Universität Harvard gelagert. Fast der gesamte Weltvorrat dieses immens seltenen Materials. Doch plötzlich ist der wertvolle Stoff verschwunden, was eigentlich ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit ist. Doch nichts ist unmöglich für Professor Van Dusen, weshalb er auch bald die Lösung für das Rätsel weiß. Ein herrlicher Krimispaß aus der Feder von Jacques Futrelle.

A gripping Regency tale of greed, temptation, and the deadly dance between truth and lies. London, 1817: For Arianna and Saybrook, a rare interlude of peace at their country estate with their young son has been a much-needed respite from their undercover missions for the British government. But...

In this atmospheric, richly detailed historical mystery set in Victorian England, the disappearance of a diplomat's wife leads trailblazing female medical examiner Dr. Julia Lewis to uncover a murderous scheme. London, May 1868: As a medical doctor, Julia Lewis has attained a level of...

When a child's body is discovered in tumultuous eighteenth-century London, a struggling writer dares to defy her time and become an unlikely force for social justice in a new historical mystery by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Julia Keller. Brilliant—but broke. Ahead of her time—but behind...

Im Januar 1845 lädt die Marquise de Réthel Auguste Dupin zu einer Soirée im Faubourg Saint-Germain, auf der sie erstmals seit Langem ihr Smaragd-Collier zeigen will. Noch am selben Abend ist das Schmuckstück spurlos verschwunden, bei unversehrtem Schloss und unter den Augen eines Wächters. Der Verdacht der Polizei fällt auf die junge Nichte der Marquise, doch Dupin rechnet anders.

A British spy is on holiday in the summer of 2017 when he sees something that makes him fearful. Only the shortest of messages makes it through: Elizabeth R. In a febrile political atmosphere, politicians and bureaucrats are being targeted around Europe. Is it possible that the Queen could be a...

Eine Wikinger-Kriegerin und ein versklavter Medicus im Kampf auf Leben und Tod. Dänemark im Jahr 862. Für die junge Wikingerin Gunhild nimmt das große Opferfest am Königshof eine dramatische Wendung: Nach dem abendlichen Festmahl wird der Sohn eines mächtigen Jarls mit durchschnittener Kehle aufgefunden. Daneben liegt Gunhilds Bruder, schlafend, blutverschmiert, die Tatwaffe neben sich. War er der Mörder?

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Singing Bone* collects five classic forensic detective stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, the pioneer of scientific detection in early 20th century crime fiction. Written by R. Austin Freeman, the inventor of the inverted detective story, these tales...

THE NECRONOMICON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES finds the Great Detective pitting his legendary skills against sinister cults, shambling shadows and malevolent madmen in these twenty-two tantalizing tales spanning two terrifying tomes. Mystery and madness await!THE ADVENTURE FROM BEYOND Stephen HerczegTHE...

Ein schöner kleiner Mord wäre die perfekte Ablenkung … Über ihre ersten beiden Mordfälle stolperte Miss Beatrice Hyde-Clare sozusagen zufällig, doch nun ist die junge Frau auf den Geschmack gekommen, und das hat einen tieferen Grund. Nicht nur hat die mittellose Waise ihr kombinatorisches Talent entdeckt – durch eine absurde Laune des Schicksals hat sie sich in den für sie völlig unerreichbaren Duke of Kesgrave verliebt.

Transportive. Evocative. Unforgettable. Be swept away by Australia's dazzling new storyteller. Shifting between the 1940s, and 1995,?The Storyteller of Wyld Hall?is a sweeping story of love and loss, friendship and fear, mystery and murder, and one woman's account of surviving it all. Every...

A basement prison. A city ruled by ancient shadows. And a family hunted by Jimmy Hoffa’s mafia. Detroit, 1962. When ER nurse Georgia Owens vanishes on her way to work, it’s just another disappearance in a city that knows how to forget. But Georgia wasn’t supposed to disappear. The...

Easy Rawlins mysteries--original short stories from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning mystery author. As Carolyn See said in The Washington Post Book World: "God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins!" This handsome collection contains six interconnected stories...

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

London, 1945. The capital is the backdrop for many struggling with demons unleashed by the recent World War. Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the story of a group of squatters, including an ill demobbed soldier, who have set up camp in the Belgravia mansion of her former in-laws Lord and Lady Julian...

After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian’s house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian’s studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to Holmes’ grand-uncle, the artist Horace Vernet.

Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.

When young Tyballis discovers her husband has been arrested for murder, she is delighted. As a young orphan coerced to marry her abusive neighbor, she was horribly used. Now is her chance to be rid of him for good and find the confidence she never had. When Tyballis joins forces with the motley network of Andrew’s informers and thieves, they are lured into the dark and dangerous world of medieval London’s political intrigue and back alley slums.

1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage. The local police are satisfied that it’s a suicide. The victim, a young man, recently suffered a disappointment in love, and Beachy Head is notorious as a place where the desperate and depressed leap to their deaths. Holmes, however, suspects murder. As he and Watson investigate, they uncover a conspiracy with shocking ramifications.

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and...