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二人の「きたさん」が事件に翻弄されつつ成長していく物語で、著者が「生涯、書き続けたい」と願う捕物帖。 舞台は江戸深川。一人目の「きたさん」こと北一は、亡くなった岡っ引き・千吉親分の本業だった文庫(本や小間物を入れる箱)売りで生計を立てている。

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

Many others in the village have said that they would like to see the colonel dead, but a number of people have a more specific interest in his death: the colonel’s young wife, Anne; her lover, the artist Lawrence Redding; Archer, a local man given a harsh sentence by the colonel for poaching. Even the colonel’s daughter, Lettice, desperate for money, says, “If only father would be decent and die, I’d be all right.” These complexities lead to any number of dead ends for investigators. The only one able to see through the blinds and obscurities is Miss Marple, an elderly but sharp-eyed spinster.

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground are legendary throughout London. He solves cases with the able assistance of his close friend and confidant. And, one day, he will become the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Meet Professor James Moriarty - consulting criminal.

Cuando llega la Navidad de 1909, los integrantes de la revista Dreaming Spires se han dispersado. Cae la nieve en los tejados de Oxford, pero los ánimos distan mucho de ser alegres y los problemas no han hecho más que empezar. Chloë, la hija de Oliver,es secuestrada en Nochebuena y la señorita Stirling acude a Lionel huyendo de unos hombres que intentan asesinarla: ha llegado el momento de ponerse en marcha.

Göteborg 1798. Ett avhugget huvud hittas i kanalen nedanför Domkyrkan. Har en likplundrare varit i farten? Har studenterna vid gymnasiet stulit huvudet som ett osmakligt skämt? Eller går rent av en mördare lös i Göteborg? Den sorglösa och liderlige polisbetjänten Christian Kanterlind...

Året är 1838. Maximilien Lefèvre, en fransk arkeolog, anländer till Istanbul för att söka efter en försvunnen bysantisk skatt. Hans närvaro skapar oro i stadens grekiska grupperingar och snart hittas hans kropp stympad. Detektiven Yashim, som i ett svagt ögonblick försökt hjälpa...

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. August 1939. For decades, local children have feared Creepy Cottage, a derelict house rumoured to swallow intruders whole. But after a violent summer storm collapses an end wall, the ruins give up a...

1893. A deadly fire engulfs a Parisian bookbindery. Then, a celebrated artist is stabbed to death in the street. As panic spreads the police struggle to keep pace with a killer growing ever bolder. Soon amateur sleuth Victor Legris and his bookselling team are on the case. But the murderer seems...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION ROMANTIC THRILLER AWARD Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. October 1939. With an injury forcing her to take time off work from the Mill, amateur sleuth Amy Rowlings has the...

When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered.

A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions. Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold, a mystery crafted with an artist's eye is utterly worthy of the era it depicts, when the polite mask of high society’s mannered calm disguised the turbulence just beneath; a mirror for the terrible events swirling in Europe at the lead-up to the Second World War * oddly reminiscent of now.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *Great Porter Square: A Mystery* is a classic Victorian suspense novel by B. L. Farjeon, complete in two volumes. When naive orphan girl Lydia Holdfast arrives at a grand, gloomy London house on Great Porter Square to work as a companion, she stumbles...

The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray’s beloved Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery series finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney fleeing to Bath where their elopement plans are interrupted by a murder Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney have thrown...

“The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry…” The final full-length novel in the Sherlock Holmes canon, The Valley of Fear is a fascinating, two-part mystery that bridges classic Victorian detection with American secret-society lore. A cryptic, coded warning from an...

A country house. A dangerous secret. And a fiancé Etty Redgrave definitely cannot trust. England, 1868: Newly engaged, Etty Redgrave should be planning her wedding. Instead, she travels to the countryside for Lady Darby’s summer house party, determined to uncover why her fiancé lied to secure her hand. When Tristan Bankes-Fernsby, Duke of Rockingham, arrives asking questions of his own, Etty finds herself under scrutiny. He has no faith in the match and every intention of uncovering the truth behind it.

London, December 1906. The capital glitters with Christmas lights and festive crowds, yet on Piccadilly something far darker stirs. Beneath Frank Dicksee’s celebrated painting of Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Academy lies the body of a young woman — drowned elsewhere and carefully staged...

Eigentlich hat Miss Beatrice Hyde-Clare sich vorgenommen, die Finger von Dingen zu lassen, die sie nichts angehen. Als ihr daher vor dem Gebäude der London Daily Gazette ein Dandy tot vor die Füße fällt, fühlt sie sich kaum dazu berufen, eigene Ermittlungen anzustellen. Wirklich nicht. Nur dass der Dolch, der im Rücken des bedauernswerten Opfers steckt, ihr auf irritierende Weise bekannt vorkommt. So macht sie sich auf zum British Museum, um etwas zu überprüfen. Und dann – Überraschung!

In seinem letzten und bedeutendsten Roman »Die Brüder Karamasow« erschafft Fjodor Dostojewskij ein schonungsloses Porträt der russischen Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Geschichte der vier Brüder Karamasow – Dmitrij, Iwan, Alexej und Smerdjakow – ist eine zutiefst psychologische Charakterstudie, die die dunkelsten Abgründe der menschlichen Seele auslotet.

Lemuria: an annual event when householders in Ancient Rome drive the spirits of the dead from their homes by shouting 'Ghosts of our fathers and ancestors be gone!' and clanging metal pots with sticks and utensils. Flavia Albia and her husband Tiberius Manlius have lived in their house for less...