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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.

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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...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Notting Hill Mystery, first published in 1862 by Charles Felix, is widely recognized as the very first full-length detective novel in English literature. When a wealthy English gentleman dies under suspicious circumstances, his insurance...

Sherlock’s elder - and still more brilliant - brother, Mycroft (read by Rory Kinnear), is too busy to grieve this apparent loss. Working as an agent for the British government, Mycroft is tasked with the politics of maintaining an empire on the verge of collapse. But on the streets of London, a killer is on the loose. A sequence of bloody bodies litter the East End, murders which echo those of Jack the Ripper four years before. Against his better judgement, Mycroft is forced to step out from the shadow of his brother, and join the hunt for the truth.

Eine geheimnisvolle Kette, ein rätselhafter Mord – und eine Köchin, die nicht ruht, bis die Wahrheit ans Licht kommt Wien, 1911: Mila, böhmische Köchin im Stadtpalais, macht im winterlich verschneiten Wien eine merkwürdige Beobachtung: Eine auffällige Kette wird zuerst von Emilia, einer Fischhändlerin, getragen, dann von dem Dienstmädchen Anna. Kurz darauf ist Anna tot. Gemeinsam mit Kommissar Felix Zack deckt sie Schritt für Schritt eine Familientragödie auf – und steht vor einer Entscheidung, die Recht und Menschlichkeit gegeneinanderstellt.

When British spy Olivia Redmond is summoned again by her elusive spymaster, she's expecting danger—not an invitation to teach drawing to captured German generals at Trent Park House. But beneath the genteel cover of sketches and civility lies a deadly ruse: the lavish POW mansion is wired for sound, every whispered secret a weapon in Britain's intelligence war.

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.

Ende der Langeweile einer idyllischen Landpartie. Als Beatrice Hyde-Clare kurz nach Mitternacht in der Bibliothek von Lakeview Hall über die Leiche eines Gastes stolpert, ist es mit ihren hehren Vorsätzen weiblicher Zurückhaltung vorbei. Offiziell wird als Todesursache Freitod angegeben, Beatrice aber weiß es besser. Schließlich hat sie den eingeschlagenen Schädel des unglückseligen Mr. Otley gesehen.

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. July 1939. A pleasant afternoon by the river turns tragic when the body of young party girl Effie Watkins is discovered in the reed beds. For an overstretched Inspector Bodkin, it's the worst...

A forgotten correspondence. An obscure pirate. A race no one saw coming. Some discoveries rewrite history. Some discoveries rewrite lives. Some do both. Paul Anderson is a restless history PhD student facing the prospect of a bland, but safe, academic career.

OXFORD, 1960. Un asesino anda suelto y dos héroes insólitos están dispuestos a resolver el caso. Trudy Loveday, agente de policía en prácticas, es inteligente y entusiasta, aunque siempre la subestiman. Con la esperanza de quitársela de en medio, su oficial superior la asigna para ayudar...

There’s a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth. Urged to investigate by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter quickly ascertains that the sudden disappearance of a well-known financier...

When Chubb University biochemist Millie Hunter notices that a deadly neurotoxin is missing from her laboratory refrigerator, she immediately goes to her father, who is also CT's Chief Medical Examiner. They both know that the situation is grave; the poison shuts down the nervous system and is...

It's a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut. The year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. But Holloman has other things to worry about—on April 3, 1967, twelve murders have taken place on one day...

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.