Traditional Detectives

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways....

On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead - with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found....

“I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind....

Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret....

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action....

This collection of 25 Hercule Poirot adventures is compiled from short stories written by Agatha Christie for The Sketch magazine in 1923 from March to December....

At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot....

Two bestselling Agatha Christie novels in one great audiobook: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Hollow.

This inventive mystery stars a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues....

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz....

The launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears, then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from....

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder....

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction.

The famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times....

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth audiobook in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple....

In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course....

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups....

Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death—and all the mystery that remains—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny....

When Ellie and Ash move into a beautiful old house in rural Norfolk, England, they believe they’ve found their perfect home. Intrigued by the people next door, Ellie befriends shy but sweet Benjamin and, as time goes by, becomes ever more curious about his elusive sister, Virginia....

Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat. It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees. But not everything is meant to return to life....

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home....

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro - including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor....

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her....

Claire måste få veta sanningen för att kunna rädda sin son. Hon anar inte vilka starka krafter hon kämpar mot … Claire, som är läkare och ensamstående mamma till Noah, flyttar från storstaden till den lugna lilla badorten Tranquility. Plötslig spricker idyllen. En av skolans elever öppnar eld i klassrummet och skjuter sin lärarinna till döds. Händelsen följs snabbt av fler fruktansvärda våldsbrott och staden invånare drabbas av panik. Claire misstänker att det finns en gemensam nämnare hos förövarna.

Den unga, ambitiösa läkaren Abby DiMatteo har med en kombination av skicklighet och järnhård vilja lyckats få fast anställning som kirurg på det ansedda Bayside Hospital i Boston. Och hon är nära att nå sina drömmars mål – att få ingå i sjukhusets berömda transplantationsteam. Men så inträffar något som äventyrar hennes utnämning, hela hennes karriär. Ett trafikoffer, en hjärndöd kvinna, kommer en kväll in till sjukhuset, där en sjuttonårig pojke väntar på hjärttransplantation.

Jagad av en mördare ... En tid efter dotterns födelse inser Theresa att mannen hon har gift sig med är en kallblodig seriemördare. Theresa tar fram bevisen som hjälper polisen att sätta maken, Jim Beckett, bakom galler. I fängelset svär Jim att han ska hämnas och trots hård bevakning lyckas han fly. Theresa vet att han kommer att söka upp henne, var hon än befinner sig. Jim Beckett är en ond man – utan samvete.

Jillian, Carol och Meg har alla överlevt en våldtäktsmans vidriga övergrepp. När mannen som förstört deras liv hittas mördad precis före rättegången vänds polisens intresse mot de tre kvinnorna, som tillsammans kallar sig ”De överlevandes klubb”. Snart är de polisens huvudmisstänkta. De har haft både möjlighet, motiv och styrka att döda Eddie Como, alias College Hill-skändaren. Men när polisen går vidare med sin utredning händer något oväntat.

Step into the world of classic mystery with The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, now available as an enthralling audiobook. Join the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot as he faces one of his most perplexing cases yet. Summoned to France by a wealthy businessman, Poirot arrives only to find his client brutally murdered on a golf course. What follows is a masterful tale of intrigue, deception, and red herrings, where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems.

Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in welchem die Figuren Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auftauchen. Die Geschichte wurde erstmals zwischen September 1914 und Mai 1915 im englischen Strand Magazine veröffentlicht und erschien als Buchausgabe in London und New York 1915. Inhalt: Das Werk ist aus zwei Teilen aufgebaut: Teil 1: Der Mord in Birstone ; Teil 2: Die Rächer.

This is the 25th story from The Art of Sherlock Holmes project and first appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part VI.

The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Maori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin - the moko - is worn only by Maori women. So her ethnicity is a given. Finding who murdered her and dumped her body in the pool at the base of Mason's Rock waterfall is DI Nyree Bradshaw's latest case.

Сборник рассказов Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона, написанных знаменитым английским писателем Артуром Конан Дойлем, включает: Внезапное исчезновение "Сильвер-Блэза" ; Мёсгрэвский обряд ; Рейгэтские помещики ; Грек-переводчик ; Морской договор ; Последнее дело ; Арстократ-холостяк ; Берилловая корона ; Усадьба "Под буками" ; Собака Баскервилей ; Приключение шести Наполеонов ; Убийство в Окзотте.

Der Hund von Baskerville (Originaltitel: The Hound of the Baskervilles, in neueren Übersetzungen auch Der Hund der Baskervilles) ist der dritte Roman mit Sherlock Holmes und eine der bekanntesten Detektivgeschichten Arthur Conan Doyles. Der Roman spielt im England des späten 19. Jahrhunderts in der Region Dartmoor. Auf der Familie Baskerville lastet ein dämonischer Fluch, wie aus einem Familiendokument aus dem Jahre 1742 hervorgeht.

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Dieses Buch enthält sechs seiner schönsten Fälle, wie z. B. Der geflügelte Dolch, Ein Pfeil vom Himmel und Das goldene Kreuz.

Ese detective que vivía en Baker Street y al que los lectores ingleses convirtieron prácticamente en un icono de toda la flema y la inteligencia británica, nunca sospechó que en el siglo XXI, en una de las ciudades más pintorescas y heterogéneas de ese Nuevo Mundo conquistado por ellos y los españoles a la par, le nacería un rival de peso... ¡PABLO SANPEDRO, el primer detective del Exilio Cubano en Miami, que tal vez no viva en Baker Street, pero sí campea por su respeto en los bares de West Flagler, los parques de Hialeah, y la no menos insigne Calle 8!

Meet Francine Witt: successful blogger, influencer, and wine expert. Not quite the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism she envisioned, but successful nonetheless. When an auction for a long-lost bottle of 1943 Margaux—a rumoured key to Queen Nefertiti’s hidden treasure—takes place, Francine covers the event. But things take a thrilling turn when she witnesses two men steal the precious bottle from renowned Egyptologist Hermione Radcliffe, the auction winner. As prominent Egyptologists are murdered one by one, Francine finds herself thrust into the story of a lifetime.

История голубого алмаза — увлекательный рассказ английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла из серии "Приключения Шерлока Холмса". Впервые опубликовано Strand Magazine в январе 1892 года. Голубой алмаз из шкатулки графини волею судьбы попадает в обитель Шерлока Холмса вместе с рождественским гусем.

Норвудский архитектор один из 56 рассказов английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе. Первая публикация в "Collier's Weekly" в декабре 1903 года. Шерлок Холмс соглашается помочь адвокату Джону Макфарлейну, несправедливо обвиненному в преступлении, которого он не совершал.

DCI Suzanna McLeod is a fighting fit and highly intelligent detective with brilliant analytical talents, who’s been favourably compared to Sherlock Holmes. Her Edinburgh-based team is legendary for being the UK’s best, so she has a reputation to live up to and a team to lead. Suzanna’s under pressure to catch the armed robbers before their success tempts them to more ambitious and dangerous missions. But she has to juggle two investigations when her magnifying glass is stolen. The Glass is a cherished heirloom entrusted to her care by her late great-great-uncle.

This blend of fact and fiction sheds light on a virtually unexplored dimension of the Great Detective’s exploits. It is a perspective Sherlock Holmes — who elevated “true, cold reason … above all things” — would probably not appreciate. But for all its warmth and irrationality, there is just as much truth in the heart.

Sambuco e Dell’Oro, a capo dell’omonima agenzia investigativa sita in Borgo Ticino, vivono una serie di avventure che li portano nei meandri più oscuri di Pavia… Anziani professori in preda a pulsioni inconfessabili, bariste misteriose e seducenti, vecchi relitti degli Anni di Piombo ritiratisi in montagna in cerca di pace spirituale… Scorrono le stagioni, a Pavia, ma gli omicidi e i delitti sembrano non mancare mai.

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics. In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output.

Последнее дело — один из 56 рассказов английского писателя Артура Конана Дойля о сыщике Шерлоке Холмсе, включённый писателем в сборник рассказов "Воспоминания Шерлока Холмса". Впервые опубликован в 1893 году. Легендарный Шерлок Холмс берется за разоблачение самого опасного преступника из всех, с которыми ему доводилось иметь дело —профессора Мориарти. Он готов заплатить любую цену, чтобы избавить общество от этого злодея. Но Холмс еще не знает, что это дело будет стоить ему жизни.

Una giovane giornalista di un piccolo canale televisivo, Rebecca Laurelli, scompare e, dopo molti giorni di vane ricerche, il suo cadavere viene rinvenuto semi sepolto in un bosco appena fuori Roma. È stata strangolata, ma prima, molto probabilmente, anche stuprata.Le indagini sono affidate alla sezione omicidi e il vice questore Cataldis le prende particolarmente a cuore perché aveva casualmente incontrato quella ragazza, pochi giorni prima della sua morte, nella libreria della Garbatella che abitualmente frequentava. La vittima infatti abitava nel suo stesso quartiere.

Una giovane donna, Serena Ceccarelli, viene trovata morta sul letto nel suo appartamento alla Garbatella, dove viveva sola. Sul comodino una bottiglia di whisky e un flaconcino vuoto di un ansiolitico. Era divorziata, impiegata in un'agenzia di polizia privata, ma in passato era stata un'ispettrice della polizia, lavoro che aveva volontariamente abbandonato sei anni prima Ha tutta l'aria di un suicidio, l'autopsia conferma che il decesso è dovuto al micidiale cocktail formato da alcol e ansiolitico, anche se nessuno fra amici e vicini di casa sa spiegare il motivo di quel gesto estremo.

Una giovane donna parte per una crociera nel Mediterraneo. È una vacanza che le serve per ricominciare, viene fuori da un periodo difficile e vuole riprendersi in mano la sua vita. Ma quando la nave arriva nel porto di Civitavecchia non si presenta al check out. Malenotti che si trova lì per caso viene precettato per condurre le ricerche della donna scomparsa. Presto un intervento di cortesia si trasforma in un fascicolo per sequestro di persona e poi in una indagine per omicidio. Il caso gli viene assegnato. Che ci faceva dentro un baule a immersione un carico di Ozempic?

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. By 1904 he had completed his first thriller, The Four Just Men. Since nobody would publish it he resorted to setting up his own publishing company which he called Tallis Press.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.