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لم يحتج هيركيول بوارو لكل مهاراته البوليسية لادراك أن هناك شيئا ما يزعج سكرتيرته الآنسة ليمون، فقد اقترفت ثلاثة أخطاء بخطاب بسيط للغاية، يبدو أن انتشار هوس السرقة ببيت الطالبات الذي تعمل به شقيقتها يشتت انتباه مساعدته هذه المعروفة بكفاءتها، ونظراً لأن الفترات اليائسة تستدعي اجراءات يائسة من وجهة نظره يوافق المحقق العظيم على اجراء التحقيق، يبدو أن بوارو لم يكن على دراية بأن اليأس هو الدافع المشترك بينه وبين القاتل .

تحتوي على الكثير من الحب والطاقة... لقد عرضت بوارو مثلما ابتكرته كريستي تماماً، وبالروح نفسها التي تذكرك بأفضل رواياتها""

ذاكرة العامة قصيرة للغاية؛ فقد أصبحت حادثة مقتل جورج ألفريد سانت فنسنت مارش, الملقب بالبارون إدجوير الرابع, شيئًا من الماضي وأصبحت في طي النسيان، على الرغم من الاهتمام الشديد الذي أحاط بها والإثارة البالغة التي سببتها، وحلت محلها أحداث جديدة مثيرة.

When Sherlock Holmes defeats Professor James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, he believes the “Napoleon of Crime” is finished. Then, in the pocket of a discarded coat, he finds the Professor’s private journal—and everything he thought he knew begins to unravel. Holmes opens not a memoir but a manifesto. In its pages lies the answer to the question: why would a calculating mind like Moriarty’s, knowing Holmes is a formidable fighter, choose close-quarters combat above a chasm?

Kommissar Oppenheimer ist untergetaucht und muss sich mit Schwarzmarktgeschäften über Wasser halten. Als dabei ein brutaler Mord geschieht, wird seine Unterstützerin Hilde verhaftet, denn der Tote ist ihr Ehemann, SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Hauser. Zwar sind die beiden seit Jahren getrennt, doch Hilde als Regimegegnerin hätte ein Motiv: Der skrupellose Mediziner Hauser war KZ-Lagerarzt im Osten und hat dort Versuche an Menschen durchgeführt.

Basada en la historia real de una mujer asombrosamente valiente que salvó a cientos de madres y a sus hijos durante la Guerra Civil Española y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.La Maternidad situada en el Château d'en Bardou, desempeñó un gran labor solidaria durante la II Guerra Mundial gracias al...

Dinasti Joseon. Serangkaian mayat ditemukan di pinggiran ibukota dekat Gunung Inwangsan. Semuanya ditemukan dengan mata terbuka lebar dan lima luka panjang di dada mereka. Siapakah pelakunya? Kyoung-ho, pengurus mayat dari kantor koroner, memiliki petunjuk sama sekali... hingga saat dia didekati...

Giugno 1970. Tutta l'Italia è seduta davanti al televisore per seguire le partite della Nazionale di calcio ai Mondiali in Messico, mentre i ragazzi, e soprattutto le ragazze, scendono in piazza per rivendicare i propri diritti, nel clima di protesta di quegli anni. Il mondo sta cambiando in fretta, pensa l'ex commissario Franco Bordelli, e ogni cambiamento si tira dietro un bel po' di confusione. Adesso che è in pensione il tempo per pensare al passato – a sua madre, alla guerra, ai vecchi casi non risolti – non gli manca, ma fa anche tanti progetti per il futuro con la fidanzata Eleonora.

Private investigator Matilda Wren is posing as the wife of Inspector William Maxwell from the City of London Police to infiltrate a burial club scheme. Maxwell is a skilled detective, but he isn't Hadrian—her usual ally and the man she trusts most. When the club's administrator is murdered, Tilda needs Hadrian's expertise, notably his uncanny ability to glimpse others' memories.

A family holiday to the seaside takes a dramatic turn when Lady Ottilia Fanshawe's young son Luke accidentally stumbles on a body in a cave. Lady Fan and her husband Francis quickly rush to the scene and find the corpse bound and blindfolded with a bullet hole in his head. It appears the man was executed, and with smugglers well-known to operate in the area, the local sergeant suggests it was a quarrel amongst the reprobates.

Emma's spirits are elevated after she and husband George Knightley host a joyful holiday celebration at the Hartfield estate. But it's instantly a bitter January when her father makes an unexpected announcement—he and Miss Hetty Bates have decided to marry. Not only must Emma relinquish her role as mistress of the household, but also accept the reality that the excitable Miss Bates will become her stepmother . . .

Stifled by English society, Molly Bentley has always yearned for adventure. When her father offers to send her to the bustling port town of Albany in Western Australia, Molly readily agrees, even if it means assuming a secret identity. With only her chaperone Mrs Caldicott to answer to, her life of freedom can finally begin. Until Molly is knocked down in the streets, nearly trampled, and a threatening letter is slipped into her hands.

Led by his passion for paleontology, Lyndy’s father, Lord Atherly, has traveled all the way to Montana, to explore the fossil-rich horse ranch owned by Stella’s mother, Katherine, and her second husband, Ned Smith. Urged by Lady Atherly to look after her husband, Stella and Lyndy follow in his wake. Stella is excited to be reunited with her mother, and Lyndy is eager to experience the real “Wild West.” Both are equally thrilled to participate in a fossil dig.

Sir Augustus Wall, a horribly mutilated veteran of the Great War, has left Europe behind to open an antiquities shop in Cairo. But Europe's troubles follow him as a priceless inscription is stolen and those who know its secrets start turning up dead.

After travelling to the notoriously haunted Crowswood Castle to recover from illness, Cambridge student Vita Carew finds herself at the centre of a ghostly unsolved mystery. As renovations on the ancient castle near completion, old secrets emerge, and Vita must decipher the meaning of a hidden message in an old painting of the deceased previous mistress of the house. When workmen unearth human remains in the castle grounds, Vita finds herself piecing together the clues to a chilling decades-old mystery.

Fate happens when you’re making other plans… It’s been a long, long time since Beryl Blue left her gruff and sexy Army sergeant Tom “Sully” Sullivan behind in 1943. Two years to be exact. Though her heart still hurts, she knows Sully’s life is at stake if they ever see each other again. She’s moved on with her new life as a time cop in the year 2132 and is even contemplating a new romance, as she vows to put Sully, and the past, behind her. But fate has other ideas.

Time has met its match in Beryl Blue! Six months after feisty librarian-turned-time-cop Beryl Blue’s last adventure with the gruff and sexy Tom ‘Sully’ Sullivan, she’s back in 2133, chasing time-traveling thieves and other temporal miscreants for the time tourism company, Time Scope, Inc. She misses Sully terribly, but fate has cast a deadly shadow over his future, and until she can find a way to fix that fate, she knows they can never be together. Beryl’s also on a desperate hunt for the man who murdered her parents.

In the dimly lit archives of the Fellowship of Mankind society, where the whispers of ancient civilizations seem to echo through the corridors, one figure stands out among the esteemed scholars and passionate archaeologists: Gabriel Archer Moore. With a career spanning more than 20 years, Moore has become synonymous with the relentless pursuit of knowledge, dedicating his life to uncovering the elusive remnants that bridge the vast chasm between the modern world and the primordial origins of humanity.

This is a compilation of five more cases from the decades-long career of Sherlock Holmes as compiled by his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson.

Am berühmten Elite-Internat Eton kommt es zu einem mysteriösen Todesfall. Holmes, der dort gerade einen Lehrauftrag im Bereich Chemische Studien innehat, hegt sogleich einen Verdacht. Hat es die Schule mit einem genialen jungen Giftmörder zu tun…?