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Hollywood, 1924. Grace Michelle's career is flourishing. As a lead costume designer in the heart of Tinseltown, she finally has the success she's worked so hard for. But when a father she believed dead resurfaces—and his glamorous new wife is kidnapped—Grace is thrown into a high-stakes mystery with deadly consequences.

Пол Бикот, единственный наследник провинциального аристократа, не в силах терпеть самодурство отца и, желая снискать славу на литературном поприще, отправляется в Лондон. Разгневанный отец отказывает ему в материальной поддержке, и Пол ведет скромную жизнь начинающего литератора, что, впрочем, не мешает ему безумно влюбиться в дочку владельца букинистической лавки. События принимают неожиданный и опасный оборот, когда мать Пола втайне от отца посылает ему золотую индийскую брошь в виде инкрустированной опалами и бриллиантами змеи.

Головокружительное расследование убийства, жертва которого обнаружена в тумане недалеко от знаменитой лондонской улицы. В числе подозреваемых оказываются представители родовитой британской аристократии, и детектив Даукер едва не отправляет на виселицу невиновного.

Карр вовлекает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. Захватывающее путешествие во времени, сделка с дьяволом и романтическая любовная история сочетаются с расследованием загадочного преступления, которое произошло несколько веков назад, в эпоху поздней Реставрации.

Eine Reihe von Störungen im Telegrafen- und Telefonsystem der Stadt London ruft bei den Sonderermittlern der Krone Erinnerungen an einen alten Fall wach. Aber aus welchem Grund könnte dem Zirkel der Sieben daran gelegen sein, dass die Kommunikation innerhalb und außerhalb der Stadt zum Erliegen kommt? Als zudem ein weiterer Anschlag auf eine Einrichtung des Militärs verübt wird, wird der Fall für Oscar Wilde, Sherlock Holmes und Irene Adler immer unübersichtlicher ...

Zum Glück geraten die Abenteurer an den kundigen Führer Ayrton, der ihnen eine sichere Reise durch die raue südamerikanische Landschaft verspricht. Zwischen verfeindeten Landbesitzern und den unbeugsamen Gewalten der Natur müssen Fogg, Aouda und Passepartout einen kühlen Kopf bewahren.

Gerade erst auf Mallory Manor eingetroffen, gerät Holmes in ein Labyrinth verwirrender Fakten und raffinierter Intrigen: Wenn Sir Joseph tatsächlich ganz plötzlich und unerwartet in seinem Sessel starb - weshalb hielt er dann mit einer Hand ein Gewehr umklammert und in der anderen seine Zigarre? Warum beharrt der Gehilfe des Lords darauf, ein uralter Fluch könnte Sir Joseph ereilt haben? Und was haben die anderen Bewohner von Mallory Manor zu verbergen?

The Postmaster’s Daughter is a 1930s murder mystery set in Appalachia. When a marriage proposal brings together two families in East Tennessee, the wealthy and powerful Cantrells and the hardworking and respected Putnams, everyone is shocked by a sudden murder that halts the union.

Moving between the present and 1715 the stories of four women are woven together by circumstance. Set in the sweeping landscape of central Scotland against the backdrop of the ‘15 Jacobite uprising. Jeannie Kellie and Mairead Erskine are caught in a desperate battle to survive.

Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences.

In the burning ruins of Constantinople, a dying monk presses a sacred burden into the hands of knight Geoffroi de Charny, a bloodstained linen bearing the impossible image of a crucified man. His final warning: "Guard the Veil of Light... or the world will burn."

Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .

Cassie Woods has been assigned her first big article after the success of her first two investigations. She dives in, eager to prove herself as a journalist in the male-dominated world of 1880s New York City. Her relationship with the handsome but infuriating Detective O'Neill seems promising, but when she discovers that O'Neill is investigating her father for corruption, she must choose whom to side with and whom to protect. Will she be able to solve both cases and save her family's reputation?

When master sleuth Lord Edgington is called to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s wife at a beauty spot in the countryside, things go badly from the outset. A bloody and abandoned car hints at a dark fate for the missing woman, and when her husband forbids the detectives from entering his property, there is only one conclusion to draw.

In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost completely preserved. The body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: archaeologists desperate to study the bog, those who want to profit from the land's resources, a group of neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place.

Inspired by the real-life, unsuccessful attempt by Scottish landowners to annex Iceland for the British Empire, The Repentants is a chilling tale of two women forever bonded in their exile to the world’s most desolate prison. From the Women’s Prize long-listed author of The Maiden, Kate...

It is the summer of 1880, and DI Sam McQueen has been called away from the gray, damp streets of Edinburgh to investigate a case on the oppressively hot Mediterranean island of Malta. The local police chief is distinctly unwelcoming toward the interloper—but has no choice in the matter, since Admiral Collingwood's wealthy widow insists that her husband's fatal fall from the roof of their villa was no accident.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings, Styrkar, loyal housecarl to the fallen King Harold, journeys to Ireland in search of the dead king's exiled sons. When a plot to murder Harold's widow and infant son is uncovered, duty pulls him in a different direction. Fleeing back to England with the dowager and child, Styrkar's loyalties are tested as he's forced into an uneasy alliance with his old comrade Eadnoth, now sworn to William the Conqueror. When the sons of Harold return to reclaim their birthright, Styrkar must choose: stand with his blood brother or his brothers-in-arms?

Malgré un temps exécrable, une belle cérémonie pour l'investiture du nouveau gouverneur de la Tour de Londres. Dans un labyrinthe de mensonges, comment identifier l'assassin ? Et les corbeaux de la Tour de Londres ne sont-ils pas les seuls à connaître la vérité ?

December, 1923. Ruby Vaughn is looking forward to a quiet, relaxing trip to Oxford in the week before Christmas with her octogenarian housemate and colleague Mr Owen. Far away from the arcane, unusual—and occasionally illegal—books that seem to always get her into trouble. The most she expects to do is attend a handful of his antiquarian society meetings. But when the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is amongst his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities looted by Napoleon, panic spreads throughout the cobbled streets of Oxford.