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London 1890. Das Britische Museum plant die Ausstellung einer ägyptischen Grabkammer. Doch das Ereignis wird überschattet von der Ermordung des Museumswächters. Der Täter ist schnell gefunden, wird er doch, mit der Tatwaffe in der Hand, beim Toten angetroffen. Aber hat er wirklich die Tat begangen? Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson stellen Ermittlungen an. Um die Wahrheit zu finden, müssen sie das Rätsel der ägyptischen Grabkammer lösen.

December in London, and Maximilian Cortado, the world famous violinist, has disappeared, the only clue being the unexpected delivery to his townhouse of a basket containing a live hen. When it emerges that a number of other notable members of society have been receiving similarly unexplained fowl, the deliveries begin to appear more sinister. Sherlock Holmes, however, seems more intrigued by a trivial incident in Sussex, where someone has been damaging Christmas trees intended for a local stately home.

A twisty New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping and attempted assassination on the eve of international peace talks. Holmes’s British parlour tricks meet hard-boiled American noir...

To celebrate the new Tommy & Tuppence TV series, a brand new anthology of Golden Age detective stories by the writers who helped to inspire Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime. Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime paid tribute to her crime-writing colleagues by including references to their...

Has Su Lin summoned a tree demon who is now killing on her behalf? The overpoweringly fragrant flowers, snakelike vines, and deadly fruit of the cannonball tree are enough to keep most people away. But when a piece of expensive photographic equipment is found nearby, on closer inspection Su Lin...

Budapest, 1944. One woman. One house. One final act of courage. As German troops enter Hungary and tighten their grip on the city, Catholic sister Sára Salkaházi continues to run a women's home on Bokréta Street. Soon she opens the doors to Jewish women and children, and her refuge quickly...

A Victorian historical mystery set in 1899 Oxford, A Studious Heiress follows Isabella Hartwell, a Gilded Age American heiress whose sharp mind and impertinent curiosity draw her into murder, academic ambition, and a dangerous university scandal. Isabella Hartwell has crossed paths with English...

She's determined to bring a murderer to justice. Can a whip-smart woman solve a crime nobody else believes happened? England, 1953. After her first success, Miss Riddell has caught the mystery bug. Excited to demonstrate that she's a talented up-and-coming detective, she eagerly agrees to help...

The second mystery following Ali Dawson, the brilliant time-traveling detective, on her newest foray into Victorian London Detective Ali Dawson leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel back in time to solve them. But ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in...

帝都・東亰、その誕生から二十九年。夜が人のものであった時代は終わった。人を突き落とし全身火だるまで姿を消す火炎魔人。夜道で辻斬りの所業をはたらく闇御前。さらには人魂売りやら首遣いだの魑魅魍魎が跋扈する街・東亰。

Eine Jahrhundertflut. Mehrere Vermisste. Ein Schweigen, das bis heute anhält. Ebensee. Als die junge Ebenseerin Sara Lewandowski spurlos verschwindet, erinnert sich im Ort kaum jemand noch an das, was Jahrzehnte zuvor geschah. Damals, während der verheerenden Flut 1959, verschwand ein Mann – und mit ihm die Wahrheit. LKA-Ermittler Ben Achleitner und seine Jugendliebe Marie stoßen bei ihrer Suche auf verdrängte Schuld, familiäre Verstrickungen und ein Geheimnis, das bis in Bens eigene Familie reicht.

Berlin, 1933: Hulda arbeitet als engagierte Hebamme in ihrem Schöneberger Kiez. Doch das Leben der Menschen wird zunehmend geprägt von der Radikalisierung der Gesellschaft und dem wachsenden Antisemitismus. Um sich abzulenken, besucht Hulda mit ihrer Tochter einen Rummelplatz an den Königskolonnaden. Zwischen Schießbuden und Karussell begegnet Hulda einer verängstigten Frau aus einer Schaustellerfamilie und ist schon bald einem düsteren Geheimnis auf der Spur, bei dem es um Leben und Tod geht.

Berlin, 1942. Clara Vine, the Anglo-German actress, is working undercover in Germany as an agent of British intelligence. During a hiatus in the filming of Goebbels’ latest propaganda film, the Sinking of the Titanic, she is covertly approached and asked to track down an errant British spy...

A powerful politician dies at an elegant dinner party. But was it murder? And if so, who wanted him dead? When a prominent Member of Parliament collapses during a private dinner attended by London’s elite, his personal physician swiftly attributes the death to a weak heart. But Detective...

A murdered prison guard, a dangerous fugitive, and missing evidence all point to one thing—the shadows of corruption are brewing within Scotland Yard . . . Inspector Henry Field is under pressure to track down an escaped prisoner—a man suspected of murder in a cold case that Henry is...

A missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kick-start a madcap dash through the world of seances, prizefighting, cutting-edge technology, Holmesian cameos, and many disguises. London, 1924. Judge Cheng Gao Shang has been sent by Sun Yat Sen’s government to...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison, all he wants is...

Printemps 1901. Sherlock Holmes s'ennuie. Aucune affaire ne semble capable de retenir son intérêt. C'est alors que l'inspecteur Lestrade, de Scotland Yard, réclame son aide. Un homme venu des Landes a été assassiné sur le sol anglais. Simple d'apparence, le crime pourrait se révéler plus complexe que prévu.

In den Londoner Docklands explodiert der Kessel eines Segeldampfers. Dabei kommen der Geschäftsführer der Schifffahrtslinie und ein amerikanischer Ingenieur ums Leben. Inspektor Orville Baker vermutet einen Konstruktionsfehler, aber dann wird Dynamit sichergestellt. Für den jungen Ermittler wird der Fall zur Odyssee: Es finden sich keine Beweise, dafür eine Vielzahl an Motiven.

It's May 1935, and while the rest of England is decked in red, white and blue for the King's silver jubilee, the detective agency in Birmingham's Needless Alley remains unpatriotically down at heel. With the bailiffs at their door, private enquiry agents William Garrett and Phyll Hall are...