Showing results for "wild" in Traditional Detectives

When DCI Freya Bloom and DI Ben Savage are called to an abandoned farmhouse in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, they expect the worst. The caller to emergency services had reported finding a man’s body. Yet, except for an old tent and a few personal possessions, the old house is empty. The investigation comes to a grinding halt before it’s even begun. With no body, there is no crime, and Freya’s efforts to quietly pursue the incident stall when another call comes in.

When DCI Freya Bloom is called to a crime scene early one Sunday morning, little does she know that the friendships she has counted on so many times will be called into question and her time in the Lincolnshire fens could be coming to an untimely end…along with her career. The victim, a retired woman named Linda Wilson, lies at the edge of a small forest atop the Lincoln edge, a steep escarpment that runs throughout Lincolnshire.

When the body of an elderly woman is discovered propped against her bedroom door clutching her heart, locals are saddened but not surprised. But when the body of a man is discovered in the house, it falls to Freya Bloom and her team to investigate the suspicious deaths. However, piecing together the life of a woman who neighbours refer to as Mad Alice will not be an easy job, and if Freya is to solve the mystery she must question her own sense of reality.

When a young girl vanishes one dark night in Lincolnshire, her father refuses to worry. Even the mother thinks she'll be home in a few days. But the few days become weeks, the weeks become months, the months become a year, and the year becomes five. And then Deborah Jarvis shows up in the last place anybody expected her - beneath the floor of an old house in nearby Haverholme Park.

When the Zakro Corporation attempts to build a mammoth supermarket outside Cherringham, the whole village is up in arms. But the accidental death of lead environmentalist Sam Lewis seems to hand victory to the developers. Could Sam's opposition to the project be the real reason he died? When Jack and Sarah take on the case, they will learn that what looked like an accident was - in fact - one very wild murder.

"I see murder in this unhappy hand...." When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of "Murder" in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen "victims" begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag....

The members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the case again when a dog walker is found dead. The method of the death is odd...the killer had no way in - or out - and the dog is nowhere to be seen. But the 'hows' and 'whys' of the murder are not the only mysteries, and it seems very likely that the killer is preparing to strike again.

Here are ten more traditional tales spanning Sherlock Holmes's illustrious career. Beginning with “The Matter of the Missing Mortician,” which London’s greatest detective solves without ever leaving his Baker Street sitting room to “The Conundrum of the Disputed Canvas,” which brings Holmes to Richmond Hill to resolve the authenticity of a painting of questionable origins. In between, an audacious new rival rises up to challenge Sherlock Holmes over two vexing cases. Then, an old enemy cleverly strikes at the hated detective from afar in “The Difficulty of the Distant Antagonist.

Ten traditional tales of Victorian London's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates some of his most baffling mysteries.

Nicolas Picard is riding home from Exeter when he's attacked by a snarling wildcat. Yet, when the body is found, there are lacerations on his neck put there by a human hand. He is involved in a land dispute and his wife claims to be the benefactor on his behalf. Picard's mistress emerges to stake her claim then a third woman—wife of the deceased original owner of the land—comes forward. Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret have three human wildcats trying to tear out each other's throats.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal detective returns for ten puzzling cases ranging from his earliest career to his final bows.

A steeplechase at Bangor races...after a mile, a horse suddenly goes wild and smashes through a fence leaving his jockey, Eddie Malloy, comatose. This is no freak accident. In the following weeks, more horses go wild during races. Fortunes are won and lost on them, and the only consistent clue is that Eddie Malloy rides in every race where the horses hit blind panic. The racing authorities want Eddie grounded. The police want to use Eddie to nail an 'uncatchable' crime lord.

Kaum zurück in London, begeben sich Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes daran, den Bombenanschlag auf den Übungsplatz aufzuklären. Währenddessen erfährt Irene Adler von einer Einbruchserie, der sie zunächst keine Bedeutung beimisst. Als in nur einer Nacht drei wichtige Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Militär Opfer der Diebesbande werden, stellt sich die Frage, ob nicht doch etwas Größeres hinter der Einbruchserie steckt. Moriarty gibt Tesla den Auftrag, eine Anlage zu bauen, mit deren Hilfe Personen geortet werden können.

In Irland gelingt es Irene Adler und Mr. Wu in letzter Sekunde, dem wütenden Mob zu entkommen. Ihre Flucht treibt sie jedoch direkt in die Arme von Theodora Sachs. - In Edinburgh folgen Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes einer Spur, die sie zu einer geheimnisvollen Sekte mit dem Namen "Kinder des Feuers", führt. Die beiden sind sich sicher, dass Rasputin der Anführer dieser Gemeinschaft ist. Doch um ihm das Handwerk zu legen, müssen sie sich auf ein gefährliches Spiel einlassen, dessen Regeln Rasputin allein bestimmt.

Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies.

Im Auftrag von Präsident Theodore Roosevelt begeben sich Professor van Dusen und Mr. Hatch nach Santa Fe in New Mexico, um den berühmten Erfinder Edison und seine neueste Erfindung, das Panzer-Automobil, zu suchen und zu finden. Die Denkmaschine erweist sich als großer Spurenleser, trifft Indianer und mexikanische Banditen und wäre wohl in die Luft geflogen, wenn ein einsames Cowgirl namens Billy-Ann the Kid nicht eingegriffen hätte.

Once again Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents Carrie Border and Randy Jeffries are working hard to find who's drowning young girls drawn into prostitution and human trafficking. With personal issues new and old still unresolved, will they be able to take down the killer or will the killer take them down first?

Obwohl die Sonderermittler nach wie vor noch unter dem Eindruck von Mycroft Holmes_ Tod stehen, müssen sie sich direkt zwei neuen Fällen widmen. Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes gehen einer mysteriösen Brandserie in Edinburgh nach. Währenddessen stellen Irene Adler und Mr. Wu in einem kleinen Dorf in Irland Ermittlungen an. Eine alte Legende, die von einem Hexendiadem, dem Diadem der Macht, handelt, scheint tödliche Realität zu werden. Und plötzlich befinden sich nicht nur die Dorfbewohner, sondern auch Irene Adler und Mr. Wu in Lebensgefahr.

Luke Barber went missing from his village, leaving no clue to his whereabouts or why he left. Now, three years later, Luke’s father hopes ex-cop Michael McLaren can find a trace of Luke, alive or dead. As McLaren pokes through the case details, he wonders if the pressure of succeeding in tennis or music, or his upcoming marriage, was too much for the lad and he simply ran away. And McLaren’s suspicion may be correct, for he soon is assaulted and left for dead - a hint that he’s upset someone connected with this case.

One year ago, Marta Hughes won a purse-choking sum of money at a local casino. She never returned home. Her body was discovered in a ditch 12 miles from her home; her car was back in her driveway. Linnet Isherwood cannot let her friend's unsolved murder rest. She convinces ex-cop Michael McLaren to return to the work he loves. He sifts through a confusing web of lies, misconceptions, and veiled motives.