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Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared.

Que s'est-il réellement passé en mars 1976 dans la petite ville de Saint Sauveur, en Arizona ? C'est la question à laquelle tente de répondre le journaliste Neil Sheehan, confronté à une énigme qui divise la population : la disparition, sans mobile apparent, de plusieurs adolescents. Tandis que le shérif Liam Golden met tout en œuvre pour résoudre l'affaire, les mères des disparus accusent une communauté de marginaux qui s'est installée un an plus tôt dans les parages.

When Thomas Cardwell, an upstanding man-of-business, is murdered, Roscoe enlists the aid of the best investigators in London—namely Barnaby and Penelope Adair and Inspector Stokes of Scotland Yard—to solve the puzzle of why anyone would want to kill a man as honest as Cardwell. Dispatched by Roscoe, London’s gambling king, to learn what “nefarious activity” an upstanding man-of-business has stumbled upon, Jordan Draper—Roscoe’s own man-of-business—arrives at Thomas Cardwell’s office to discover Cardwell very recently murdered.

In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder? Despite being out of favour with the Imperial Police Force, Detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of Indian cinema.

Köln, 50er Jahre: Cosima ist Erbin der einflussreichen Industriellenfamilie Liefenstein. Doch mit der Gründung einer Stiftung für bedürftige Frauen und Mütter geht sie ihren eigenen Weg. Da tritt der Journalist Leo Marktgraf in ihr Leben, der Nachforschungen über den Tod eines Freundes anstellt. Die Leiche des Anwalts wurde am Ufer des Rheins gefunden, nur kurz nachdem er öffentlich schwere Anschuldigungen gegen die Liefensteins erhoben hatte. Cosima will Licht in die dunkle Vergangenheit ihrer Familie bringen und muss schon bald erkennen, dass nichts so ist, wie es scheint.

En el Madrid de 1576, flamante capital del Imperio de Felipe II, abundan las muertes y los duelos, pero cuando el alguacil Diego de Paz, veterano de los Tercios, se hace cargo del hallazgo de un cuerpo cruelmente torturado, sabe que se encuentra ante un crimen poco habitual. Se trata de un boticario con fama de alquimista, y conforme avance en sus investigaciones se encontrará con una peligrosa trama que apunta a altas instancias del poder.

Det är slutet av 1700-talet och Göteborg är bullrigt och stimmigt. Mitt under en föreställning på teatern hittas en man död på scenen. I publiken sitter den ofrivillige polisbetjänten Christian Kanterlind som där och då dras in i sin första mordutredning inom ett polisväsende under omorganisation. Det visar sig inte helt lätt att upprätthålla lagen. Dessutom ställer Christians svaghet för vackra kvinnor till det, men ger honom lika oberäkneliga som oväntade bundsförvanter. Hör hovar klappra och mantlar svepa i ett dimmigt Göteborg.

रहस्यकथा प्रेमींना वेड लावणा-या शेरलॉक होम्स आणि वॅटसन या जगप्रसिध्द जोडगोळीच्या भा.रा.भागवतांनी सांगितलेल्या या कथा आवर्जून ऐका.

Intrepid American newlywed Jane Wunderly learns that tigers aren't the only dangers lurking in 1920s India, when a murder in a popular resort town threatens to destabilize the local government and undermine the resistance movement for Indian self-rule....

'बाजिंद' ही एक ऐतिहासिक रहस्यकथा आहे. रहस्यमयतेने शेवटपर्यंत वाचकांची उत्कंठा ताणून

Moscow, 1934. Moscow's glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia's leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones. Anton Belkin is an Investigator at the Procuracy, a sensitive job at a dangerous moment on the road to the Show Trials. He is also someone who needs to keep his head down.

A murder is committed on Baker Street in broad daylight, and the culprit is captured, but one man still has his doubts. Six new cases featuring Victorian England's greatest detective, these mysteries are sure to delight Holmes fans old and new.

Eighteen-year-old Jean is stuck. She works in a dead-end job, her life dictated by the whims of her uncaring father, and no boy has ever even noticed her. So, when the glamorous racing driver Vivienne and her rakish husband Robert invite her to travel to Greece with them as a navigator for the summer, she jumps at the chance. Riding around with the fastest woman in Europe, sampling endless local ouzo, and dancing late into the night at the hottest parties has given Jean a taste of a life she could only have dreamed of . . .

Born with a perfect memory, Lady Elizabeth Beckett has become one of the world's most notorious spies, despite being the daughter of a duke. She is shielded only by her code name: Shadow. When young ladies of High Society begin disappearing from London, Eliza has no doubt who is orchestrating these crimes; a heinous man she has been investigating for years. Vowing to save them before they are sold to the highest bidder, she must risk everything to stop him.

Cuando está a punto de acometer el proyecto, recibe la visita de un hombre que asegura que bajo el terreno hay un yacimiento del Siglo V a. C. La historia se remonta cien años antes, cuando el abuelo de ese hombre estuvo en el interior del yacimiento y se llevó una pieza de tres que había, por la que, según le comenta, un misterioso coleccionista norteamericano está dispuesto a pagar una fortuna.

1964, Apartheid South Africa. Danie du Plessis, the son of a conservative Afrikaner family, is poised to start a glittering legal academic career at one of South Africa's leading universities, when he falls in love with a student, Amy Coetzee. But there's a problem: he's white, she's not. Facing arrest, imprisonment and ruin, the couple flee South Africa, and settle in Cambridge, where friends find them positions at the University. They marry and have two children, and have seemingly put the past, and South Africa, behind them.

It is hardly surprising Verity Lark can’t sleep at night with all the thoughts darting through her mind: her recent stay in Newgate, her debt to Colson Hardwicke, the horrible abuse suffered by the children at Fortescue’s that her reporting on the orphan asylum several years earlier had failed to uncover. And then of course there are the shooting lessons she has promised to give to the Duchess of Kesgrave. Verity has spent three months cruelly mocking the former spinster for her investigative pretensions, and now she is obligated to teach the woman how to fire a deadly weapon.

Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.

Dublin - 6 Jahre zuvor. Weder war Wayne damals ein Meisterdieb, noch hieß er McLair. Er war Wayne Bailey, der Schüler von Orlando Barrueco, und suchte seinen eigenen Weg zum Glück. In der Spelunke "Broken Window" versuchen die zwei Ganoven, das wertvolle Opalfeuer zu stehlen. Erste Bekanntschaften mit späteren Freunden werden gemacht und Schüler und Meister geraten in einem ungewöhnlichen Duell aneinander ...

Simon Perlingers dritter Fall: Blutiger Ritualmord am Königssee. So hatten sich die Gäste aus dem Berchtesgadener Land ihren Ausflug aufs Wasser wohl nicht vorgestellt: Statt das herrliche Bergpanorama vom Königssee aus zu genießen, setzen sechs tote Priester in Ruderbooten liegend der Überfahrt ein jähes Ende. Im Instrumentenkoffer des Schiffsbegleiters findet sich zudem eine abgetrennte Hand mit einem wertvollen Ring – der jedoch kurz darauf verschwindet. Mysteriöse Fälle wie dieser sind für Simon Perlinger, Polizeibergführer und Leiter der Kripo Berchtesgaden, nichts Neues mehr.