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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.

Beautiful Stacey Marsh made a mistake—she should never have come home for her wedding. She had forsaken her hometown of Dorsham, England, long ago because it was too quiet, not at all the kind of place for the likes of Stacey. Stacey met Jules Charbonnier in Paris and planned to marry. As soon as Stacey returns to Dorsham, the town was frantic with upcoming activity and Stacey’s grandfather’s ghost has come back to haunt them. As for the boy next door, Nigel is simply too handsome for his own good.

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #13 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."MURDER ON THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS? When the exclusive London-to-Edinburgh sleeper plunges into a snowdrift deep in the Cumbrian fells, DI Skelgill awakes to discover one fellow passenger dead and another missing. Through a blinding blizzard Skelgill leads a daring evacuation – but even before they reach the sanctuary of an isolated coaching inn, a third traveller suffers a life-threatening mishap. As suspicion pervades the elite group of apparent strangers, ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #15 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."VIRILE; HANDSOME; RUTHLESS. When gamekeeper Lawrence Melling takes over at traditional Lakeland sporting estate Shuteham Hall he soon ruffles the feathers of not only elderly Lord Edward Bullingdon and his younger model wife Miranda, but also their adult offspring and fellow estate workers. Meanwhile local conservationists perceive an existential threat to rare hen harriers nesting on nearby Over Moor. And when Miranda’s jewellery worth a six-figure sum goes ...

Inglaterra, 1914. O mundo está em guerra. O capitão Hastings, ferido e abalado, é convidado para ir à mansão Styles para se recuperar. Trata-se de uma grande e antiga casa de campo – propriedade da família de um velho amigo – e um refúgio perfeito. Pelo menos, à primeira vista. Mas, sob o calor escaldante do verão, os problemas vão aparecendo. Tensões latentes estão dividindo a família, e acabam chegando a um desfecho aterrador. Emily Inglethorp, a rica matriarca da família, é torpemente assassinada no meio da noite. E ninguém em Styles está acima de suspeita.

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #14 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."‘A KILLER IN OUR MIDST?’ cried a newspaper headline to commemorate the disappearance of Mary Wilson. It is two decades since Britain’s first mass DNA sweep failed to incriminate a single local male. Mary was listed merely as a missing person. Now archaeologists have unearthed human remains in Cummacatta Wood. The forensics match – age, sex, fragments of clothing... and dental records. But the murder hunt has only just begun when an outsider, a convicted...

Agatha Christie is recognized throughout the world as the writer of remarkable country house mysteries and ingenious murders set in faraway countries. Yet many of her books and stories were set in the city she new best and for many years called home: London. From Poirot's flat in Whitehaven Mansions to Scotland Yard, the Old Bailey to Harley Street, Lyons Tea Rooms to the Savoy, Paddington Station to the London Underground, Agatha Christie knew and loved London, and mined it for its rich seam of storytelling opportunities.

** Amazon Top Ten Best Seller ** A British couple disappear in Spain and fears grow for their safety. As a fluent Spanish speaker, Detective Inspector Michael Fernandez seems the ideal choice to help track them down. But Michael hates his father’s homeland. He has never been to Spain. Fatefully, the investigation leads him to the village where his father was born and the truth about the past is gradually revealed. Then a body is found and the hunt for the killer is on. REVIEW: "A cracking detective story, which romps along, keeping the pages turning. The plot kept me guessing right to the...

The book with colored illustrations tells the story of Bob – the youngest student of the secret Institute of Reality. He becomes a super detective because he can see, hear, and feel what is inaccessible to anyone else. He can move to the future and the past. He sees how all people and events are controlled... And he also gains access to a reality hidden from everyone else... Together with the special services agent Richards, he solves the most complicated cases.

Rylly hates Halloween with every fiber of her being. Her nephew volunteers her to help with the Halloween fundraiser. A recipe for disaster or something worse? Due to the many traumatic pranks Rylly’s older brothers played on her when she was a child, she has a near phobia about Halloween. But when her nephew and his friends decide to hold a Halloween fundraiser so that the scholarship students can stay in school, she swallows her fear and agrees to help. But Mr. MacPherson with his tests from hell has another idea. An idea that ratchets up the hate and discontent already rampant in the ...

Dr. Watson ist spurlos verschwunden. Wurde er das Opfer der "Spinne", jener heimtückischen Giftmörderin, die es auf die obersten Zehntausend Londons abgesehen hat und die Millionenstadt seit Tagen in Atem hält? Holmes und Inspektor Gregson müssen alle Register ihres Könnens ziehen, um den treuen Freund zu retten. Doch es ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Ihre Gegnerin ist dem Meisterdetektiv ebenbürtig und führt ihn eins ums andere Mal an der Nase herum. Im Geheimen webt sie ihr teuflisches Netz aus Intrigen, Lügen und Verrat. Schließlich sitzt Sherlock Holmes in der Falle.

A Dark Place Where Everything Goes “You will never see us, or anyone else ever again. You will die alone.” In Two days, Winton Hazlett, a former Lancaster bomber pilot and now an Inspector in a small English town, finds himself trying to solve a daring daylight bank robbery and the murder of a young woman he can't identify. The town, which had never seen anything like this before and already upset by the emerging drug culture of the 1960s, is demanding action now. It's just the start of a roller coaster ride as Hazlett, where his wife is diagnosed with cancer, and he confronts the real ...

Step once more into the heart of Victorian London with the legendary Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson. In this collection of three original mysteries—faithfully inspired by the world and style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—Holmes faces baffling puzzles, sinister conspiracies, and secrets long buried. As danger lurks in the fog and deception lies at every turn, only his unmatched intellect can bring the truth to light. The Chronofabulist A man claiming to have traveled from 1824 arrives in London with disturbing predictions and a strange invention. As Holmes investigates ...

A Modern British Detective Novel In the murky world where children are bought and sold, what happens to the ones left on the shelf. This is just one of the questions that Detective Inspector Mike Deverson has to answer when he is called on to investigate a grisly double murder. The further he delves into the murdered couple lives the more he finds that nothing is as it seems. It looks like someone is playing games. Can he get to the truth and stop the murderer before they can strike again?

»Humbleham soll schöner werden!« Der Ort im Herzen von Rutland will unbedingt den begehrten Preis »Rutland in Bloom« für das schönste Dorf im County gewinnen. Doch unmittelbar vor dem Besuch der Jury kommt der Wirt des örtlichen Pubs bei einem schrecklichen Unfall ums Leben. Während Dorfpolizistin Helen Franklin noch klärt, wie es dazu kommen konnte, wird ein Jurymitglied auf offener Straße erschossen. Das ruft Scotland Yard auf den Plan: Ausgerechnet Ben Baxter, mit dem Helen einmal liiert war, soll den Mord an dem Politiker aufklären.

Two more cases for Philip Bryce 1. In the City of London, a well-respected barrister is murdered in his chambers.The City Police ask for the help of Scotland Yard, and Detective Chief Superintendent Bryce investigates. 2. The Board of a large pharmaceutical company is meeting. One of the directors dies suddenly. The cause is clearly cyanide poisoning. But was it self-administered, or could it be murder? The local police inspector believes it was a case of suicide, but when he is taken seriously ill and admitted to hospital, and his sergeant almost simultaneously has a mental breakdown, ...

In August 1949, Detective Chief Inspector Bryce and his new bride Veronica are holidaying in the East Anglian resort of Felixstowe. During afternoon tea in the Palm Court of their hotel, a man dies at a nearby table. He has been poisoned. Reluctant to get directly involved, Bryce nevertheless agrees to help the inexperienced local police inspector get to grips with his first murder case, turning his honeymoon into a ‘busman’s holiday’.

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and was published in 1904. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers". He demands £7,000 (over £800,000 in 2015) for the letters, which if given to third parties would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement.

Murder Behind a Locked Door It was a puzzle right from the start for Winton Hazlett, Inspector at Gladstonbury. A newly-minted cabinet minister is found dead in his house, which he had bought only days earlier. The manor house dated back to Elizabethan times and had a ghost that haunted its bedrooms. Hazlett didn’t believe in ghosts but he was at a loss to explain how the victim was murdered behind a locked door. The only person who had a key was the Prime Minister’s daughter, and to complicate matters the dead man had a number of enemies who wished to see him dead. Join Winton as he ...

Die Ursprünge des Falls liegen weit in der Vergangenheit. In Vermissa Valley, einem ehrfurchtsvoll "Tal der Angst" genannten Landstrich in den USA. Dort versetzte eine abtrünnige Freimaurerloge die Bewohner in Angst und Schrecken. Und wie es scheint, reichen deren Verbindungen bis ins gegenwärtige London, wo Sherlock Holmes und sein amerikanischer Kollege Professor van Dusen versuchen, einen grausamen Mord aufzuklären. Doch ihr Gegner ist schlau. Vielleicht selbst zu schlau für die beiden größten Gehirne des Planeten ... Ein Fall mit Sherlock Holmes und Professor van Dusen.