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Til en ungdomsfest praler den unge Joyce Reynolds af at have været vidne til en forbrydelse: ”Jeg så et mord,” siger hun … Hercule Poirot tror dog ikke på hendes historie. Og heller ingen andre tror tilsyneladende på hende, men det koster hende livet, og da festen er slut, finder man hendes lig. Poirot bliver overtalt til at påtage sig opklaringen, og han opdager snart, at livet i denne lille forstad til London ikke er nær så fredeligt som først antaget.

Scones, a tea shop in England, a kitty, and a murder...yes, please! Enjoy the first three books in the Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, in one handy collection! Join tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose, her mischievous feline Muesli, and the nosy Old Biddies as they tackle murder and mystery in the beautiful city of Oxford - not to forget the delights of delicious baking and afternoon tea in a quaint English village!

When a famous theatre actor is found dead in his changing room, it is initially labelled a suicide. But Inspector Alleyn believes there is more to it, and soon the cast of the production find themselves under suspicion.

When NYPD Detective John Frankel's ex-wife is discovered murdered on the floor of his Manhattan studio apartment, he instantly becomes the prime suspect. Frankel's gun is linked to the fatal bullet, he had a motive, and he flees the city, all of which convinces his colleagues of his guilt. In spite of the mounting evidence, Frankel's bride-to-be, Rachel Grant, and her father, Austin Grant, formerly a detective at Scotland Yard in London, are certain of Frankel's innocence. But with the police under orders to use whatever force necessary to stop him, the duo will have to act fast to save him.

Beyond the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a special three-volume collection of sequels to the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each original tale is paired with an all-new adventure, spinning our hero off into plots and directions that Sir Arthur may never have considered. In many cases, years have passed by since the events of the canon.

Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn't come back. She's a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage - no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must have been snatched. DCI Bill Slider and his team know that when a woman goes missing, you have to move fast if there's to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul play - nothing to go on at all - where do you even start looking?

This summer, Queen Elizabeth I is in no mood for games. She and her court were expecting to spend the warmer months lounging in great manor houses, feasting in the fields, tempting forbidden romance, and perhaps engaging in sport. But someone in the Queen's entourage isn't playing by the rules…and soon Elizabeth is dodging crossbows, longbows, and - worst of all - the threats of her greatest rival, Mary Queen of Scots. As bodies and clues pile up, the mystery and dangers deepen like the surrounding forests.

There is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spry, cranky, and impatient eccentric, and Watson a white-haired and portly Boobus Brittanicus, a la Nigel Bruce. Students of the true and Canonical Sherlock Holmes know this to be a falsehood.

Richard Hannay, Buchan's hero in this 1915 thriller, stumbles across a dark plot to attack England by the German Reich (of World War I vintage) but has to flee when his discovery becomes known. He then engages in several hot pursuits and narrow, if theatrical, escapes, but all's well that ends well.

When Sherlock Holmes met his demise in "The Adventure of the Final Problem," published in 1893, the distress of the unsuspecting reading public was profound. For years fans showed no signs of letting Sherlock Holmes lie down and die. Eventually, Doyle saw fit to continue his Holmes' canon and wrote a series of 13 short stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1905.

I Surray e i loro cinque figli sono famosi scrittori. Dopo una serata con editori e artisti nella loro casa di campagna dell'Oxfordshire, Ruth, la figlia di mezzo, viene trovata morta nella sua camera, apparentemente suicida. Ma una lettera postuma della stessa defunta recapitata al fratello Richard scombina le carte...

During their colorful careers battling crime and villainy, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson encountered the most bizarre mysteries. In this latest volume, they set out to solve three of the most unique puzzles ever put before them. Two bodies are unearthed during the excavations beneath an old church and Holmes soon determines both are the victims of foul play, one recently and the other well over 100 years prior.

Fredagen den 22 juli 2011 lamslås den norska huvudstaden av ett terrordåd. Samtidigt genomlever Jon och Ellen Mohr en privat katastrof: deras åttaårige son dör i en tragisk olycka i familjens vardagsrum. Bara den unge polisen Henrik Holme fattar misstankar om att allt inte står rätt till i det välmående hemmet i ett av Oslo bästa bostadsområden. Utan erfarenhet men med stor viljestyrka och engagemang lyckas han dra in kriminalpsykologen Inger Johanne Vik i utredningen om Sanders död.

Celebrity TV anchor Georgia Glass wants out of Denver and far away from her obsessed fan. Set to host her own investigative crime show in LA, she’s surprised to inherit a Victorian house in Aspen from a mysterious uncle she never knew. But while exploring the gothic property, she discovers the frozen corpse of a missing heiress.

A thick fog envelopes the streets of London and nefarious agents set about their evil plots and schemes. Murder most foul rears its ugly head and baffling mysteries confound the good men of Scotland Yard until they've no recourse by to call upon the greatest consulting detective of them all, Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes, arguably the greatest fictional character ever created, returns along with his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, in five new stories pitting his deductive skills against all manner of gaslight villainy.

Five new puzzles to challenge the Great Detective and his ever loyal companion, Dr. Watson. Within these minutes they will encounter mythological fairies seeming to plague a beautiful country estate, man-eating tigers on the loose in the streets of London, and a stolen museum mummy.

"Attraverso le dita, il suo sguardo intercettò la cartina del Québec aperta sul tavolo. Era inutile farsi il sangue cattivo. Di lì a otto giorni sarebbe morto, e Adamsberg con lui". Una donna uccisa con tre ferite di arma da taglio, una catena di omicidi tutti uguali che affiora dal passato. Sul cammino di Adamsberg, il misterioso Tridente. Il commissario sa chi è l'assassino, ma anche il Tridente conosce Adamsberg. E torna, come il suo peggiore fantasma, per metterlo davanti all'unico nemico di cui avere paura: se stesso.

This volume, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Early Adventures, is an amazing collection of some of Holmes and Watson’s fascinating cases that occurred during those first three years in Baker Street, when Holmes was creating his unique profession of consulting detective and Watson was still recovering from the war wounds that he’d received in Afghanistan and slowly returning to the business of being a civilian doctor. Included are 31 new stories in three companion volumes by some of today’s best Sherlockian pasticheurs.

Sestri Ponente, maggio 1960. Zefira e Richetta Magnone, dette le Zefire, sono due anziane sorelle nubili che conducono una vita parca e ritirata, con un’unica, grande passione: i gatti. Quelli con cui abitano, e tutti i randagi di cui si prendono cura ogni notte, col favore delle tenebre, per non esser viste. In realtà, ogni movimento delle Zefire è osservato. Da occhi che poi ne riferiscono, in lettere anonime, alla loro unica parente: la giovane Clelia, che insieme al rampante marito Ugo non sa più come gestire le vecchie zie.