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Im Hafen des britischen Stützpunktes Gibraltar legt die HMS Minotaurus zu einem Zwischenaufenthalt an. Holmes und Watson nützen die Gelegenheit, um an Land zu gehen und den berühmten Felsen zu besteigen. Dabei kommt es zu einem unangenehmen Zwischenfall.

The medical profession’s faith in electric shock therapies for treating female nervous conditions is shaken after a patient dies while connected to one such device. Harry Armitage is hired by the doctor arrested for her murder, and he invites Cleo to help him uncover the truth. After all, the doctor is the same one who tried—and failed—to treat Cleo’s aunt. As they dig deeper, it becomes apparent the doctor has failed other patients too, and those patients’ loved ones want revenge.

Holmes und Watson fahren an Bord eines niederländischen Schiffs über die Nordsee nach Rotterdam. Das stürmische Dezemberwetter wird dabei zu einer Herausforderung und bringt erhebliche Gefahren mit sich.

Prudence Davies is one of Ellison Jones's least favorite people on earth. She's vindictive. She's mean. And the two share a twisted history. Or, they did. When Prudence is murdered after a very public spat, Ellison finds herself a murder suspect. Worse, the investigating officer has it in for Ellison's homicide detective husband.

Fully fledged Pinkerton agent Rose Gallagher has just caught her first solo case. Stolen jewels and suspicious deaths in a building on Pearl Street with supernatural markings in the wall are right up her alley. But without her partner, Thomas—whose abrupt departure still hurts her bruised heart—Rose fears she might not be up to the challenge. Especially when the investigation takes a deadly turn . . .

Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place where she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful year. Soon after arriving, Anne is asked to serve as sickroom nurse to Lady Celia, who forbade her nephew to marry Anne's sister years before. Pushing aside resentments, Anne moves into Painswick Court, a shadowy old house rumored to be haunted.

The author of the “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country’s most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are...

After an accidental bump to the head, Lily finds herself in Hollywood, 1949. Like a dream come true, she is rubbing shoulders with the great and good of Tinseltown. Including Honey Black. Horrified, Lily realises that the actress has only two weeks left to live before she will be murdered. Could this be why she has found herself in 1949? To find the killer and stop them in their tracks?

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John Watson nehmen einen Auftrag der österreichischen Regierung an. Der Speer des Schicksals, eine bedeutende Reliquie, wurde aus der kaiserlichen Schatzkammer gestohlen und muss rasch wiederbeschafft werden.

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute. In 1864, at seventeen, she emigrates to Australia, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services, Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies, and Tatty inherits the business, becoming Sydney's only female undertaker.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John Watson erhalten von der britischen Regierung einen wichtigen Auftrag. Im süditalienischen Bari sollen die Reliquien des Heiligen Nikolaus geborgen werden, Holmes und Watson fungieren als Sicherheitsexperten.

Als Kinder waren Lili, ihr Bruder Wilhelm und der Nachbarssohn Paul unzertrennlich. Bei einem Essen lernt sie Staatssekretär Carl von Schubert kennen, und bald darauf bittet die deutsche Reichsregierung Lili um ihre Unterstützung: Von Schubert sucht nach einem erstklassigen Diamantenschleifer. Lili empfiehlt ihren Jugendfreund Paul. Als neben einer Leiche ein Rohdiamant gefunden wird, nimmt die Polizei die Ermittlungen auf – und alle Fäden laufen beim Diamantenmädchen Lili zusammen.

Wealthy heiress Saoirse Towers vanished during her eighteenth birthday gala four decades ago. Now her remains have finally been found under Cliffhaven, the aristocratic family’s mansion high atop the windswept Central Coast of California. But the mystery only deepens…for her skeleton is not alone.

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.

Bei der Eröffnung des Bray-Museums kommt es zu einem gescheiterten Diebstahl, in dessen Folge die Besucher des Museums, unter ihnen auch Oscar Wilde, Sherlock Holmes und Irene Adler, von den Tätern als Geiseln genommen werden. Während die Sonderermittler der Krone um ihr Leben kämpfen, wird erneut ein Brandanschlag verübt. Diesmal sind es die Gewächshäuser einer Gärtnerei, die den Flammen zum Opfer fallen. Stecken auch diesmal wieder Mitglieder des Zirkels der Sieben hinter dem Anschlag?

Im Paris der Blütezeit der Régence kommt es zu abscheulichen Morden. Die Leiterin von PARABIOS plant eine geheime Versuchsreihe, doch bleibt sie dabei nicht so unbeobachtet, wie sie gehofft hatte. Der berühmte Schriftsteller und Abenteurer Jules Verne erreicht mit seinen Mitreisenden Augusto Berns und Nathaniel de Salis endlich das erste Etappenziel ihrer langen Reise.

Als in einer Ruine nahe dem Bahnhof Altona die Leichen dreier junger Frauen gefunden werden, ist die Bevölkerung erschüttert. Doch schon bald verdrängen Not und Alltag die grausamen Verbrechen – einzig die Kommissare Thiesen und Pfeiffer geben nicht auf. In einer Stadt voller Korruption, Habgier und Gleichgültigkeit verfolgen die Ermittler jede Spur.

Up and coming novelist Jane Austen joins forces with London's most esteemed investigative duo – actress Dora Fitz-Pennington and Dr. Jacob Sandys – to solve the brutal murder of a Russian count and his opera singer wife. The killer took his own life immediately after the crime – but who sent him and why?

Now that Wolf has embraced his inheritance of the Pembroke title, he finds himself curious about its history. Tabitha surprises him by arranging a private tour of the Pembroke Castle ruins for what was supposed to be a lovely family day out. As they wander the castle grounds, listening to the stories told by the knowledgeable caretaker, Tabitha and Wolf make the shocking discovery of a dead body.

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.