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Años cincuenta, Irlanda rural. Un tipo solitario se encuentra con un coche misteriosamente vacío en medio de un campo. Sabe que no debe acercarse, pero es incapaz de evitarlo y pronto se ve envuelto en un inquietante caso de desaparición: un hombre asegura que su esposa podría haberse arrojado al mar.

Quatre scènes de crime. Sept victimes. Une seule arme : la foudre. Après une nuit d'orage, alors que la saison touristique commence à peine, des corps sont découverts sur l'île d'Oléron et ses alentours, attachés à des pieux métalliques plantés dans le sable face à l'océan, foudroyés. Sept dépouilles au total. Et des modes opératoires très proches. Le capitaine Max Fontaine, en poste à la PJ de La Rochelle, va aussitôt être chargé de l'affaire. Sa priorité : trouver le lien qui unit les victimes pour espérer remonter jusqu'à leur assassin.

This is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep. When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi? Or, as they are known in the West...vampires.

A dark shadow looms over the Rhineland, where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schädel, in which a small group of suspects are still assembled. As thunder rolls in the distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the maze-like passages and towers of the keep.

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But now he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. Suddenly, he's got a lot of enemies, and when a dead call girl turns up in his apartment, his troubles get even bigger. Broadfield screams "setup," but nobody believes him - except ex-policeman, now unlicensed PI Matthew Scudder. Because Broadfield turned traitor no cop is going to give Scudder any help with this investigation, so Scudder's on his own.

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse....

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. Inspired by the unsolved Peasenhall murder case of 1902, 'Blind Man’s Hood' shows Carter Dickson’s penchant for true crime. When Rodney Hunter and his wife, Muriel, arrive late to a Christmas party in rural Kent, they are unsettled to find the isolated stately home open and empty of guests. While they await the party’s return, they are welcomed in by a mysterious hostess who regales them with the dark legend of Jane Waycross.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early twentieth century detective fiction.

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

London, 1924. Westminster is in an uproar when a promising young clerk is found dead at his desk, killed by a powerful poison sent by post. Worse yet, the letter was addressed to his boss—the Leader of the House of Lords. Dora and Rex, with the help of Clark and Prudence, must determine who sent the killer's letter and why. Between political parties jostling for power and enemies plotting overseas, there is no shortage of suspects. Can the bright young foursome find the killer before he strikes again?

When DI JJ Jenson took on the case of the abduction of Daniel Boyd, he knew it would be tough, but little did he know everything would go wrong, and Daniel's murderer, Bryn Jenkins, would walk out of court a free man. A devastated JJ knew nothing would ever be the same again. Over ten years later, JJ receives some interesting photographs from an anonymous correspondent. Could they hold the clue to putting Jenkins behind bars where he belongs?

Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. Will Sherlock reveal Hosmer's true identity?

8 femmes isolées, un meurtre : un huis clos à la Agatha Christie par l'auteur plébiscité par 1 million de lecteurs au Royaume-Uni. Addictif. Un groupe de jeunes femmes va enterrer la vie de jeune fille de l'une d'elles sur une île isolée de tout. Elles se sont connues à différentes périodes de leurs vies. Leur séjour s'annonce luxueux et agréable jusqu'au moment où l'une d'elles trébuche sur le cadavre du cuisinier. Les communications avec l'extérieur sont coupées. Et nous découvrons des relations ambigües et plus complexes qu'il n'y paraissait.

After Professor Moriarty survives Reichenbach Falls and Sherlock Holmes dies, Moriarty finds himself caught up in a locked-room mystery Holmes couldn’t solve. This time, it’s up to Moriarty to crack the mystery, perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes ingenious retellings like the ones by Anthony Horowitz and Laurie R. King.

London is abuzz as the beautiful Ray Marcable’s final shows at the West End approach. Before she jets off to perform in America everyone in the city is clamoring to see her once more. The lines wrap around the street and crowds are tightly knit together. One fateful night, just as he is nearing the box office, a man drops to the ground—dead. Although a knife protrudes from his back and there were countless potential witnesses, no one knows the poor man and no one saw who did the deadly deed. It is up to Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard to solve this case.

La vida de Antonio Carpintero, más conocido como Toni Romano, exboxeador, expolicía, va discurriendo a salto de mata en el Madrid que va transformándose después de Franco. Un día, inesperadamente, recibe la visita de Luis Robles, un antiguo amigo y compañero del servicio militar, entonces pobre, ahora empresario de éxito: un buen recuerdo. La visita es breve y con perspectiva de reencuentro, pero éste no llegará a producirse, pues a los pocos días Robles se suicida.

Der Großindustrielle Spencer Walters, der neben diversen Firmen ein kleines Theater im West End besitzt, lädt Pater Brown zur Premiere eines neuen Stückes ein. Doch der Abend verläuft völlig anders als erwartet. Grace Darby, die junge Hauptdarstellerin des Stückes, verpasst ihren Einsatz. Sie wird tot in ihrer Garderobe aufgefunden, jemand hat ihr das Genick gebrochen. Pater Brown nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und stellt fest, dass so einige Kollegen der Schauspielerin ein Motiv gehabt hätten, die junge Frau zu töten ...

רב-פקד מיכאל אוחיון נדרש לפענח "מקרה" חדש. משורר דגול ופרופסור בכיר לספרות עברית נמצא מת בחדרו, בקמפוס של הר הצופים בירושלים. מרצה זוטר מאותו חוג עצמו נחנק למוות בשעה שערך אימון צלילה בים סוף.

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