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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.

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

"The Adventure of the Three Students", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an interesting problem. Soames had been reviewing the galley proofs of an exam he was going to give when he left his office for an hour.

Mr. Thipps wakes up to the worst day ever. A dead body in his bathtub wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. So many questions. Luckily, Lord Peter Wimsey catches wind of this – for he has a keen mind for solving crimes, although he is the pampered aristocratic amateur. With the connections that privilege offers, he has returned somewhat battered from the war with a penchant for crime solving. This case of near-sighted nudity, taking place during the plague of 1918, takes on twists and turns both unforeseen and unwelcome.

"Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability." —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1...

Découvrez Arsène Lupin, malfaiteur un peu cabotin, mais malfaiteur quand même, dans ses premières aventures. Tour à tour charmeur, implacable dans la résolution des énigmes, joueur farceur ou bravache, il excelle dans la capacité à faire tourner en bourrique les policiers de la Sureté, à se venger ou à simplement déposséder son prochain (de préférence riche à millions) de ses richesses. Neuf aventures vous attendent.

The Arsène Lupin & Sherlock Holmes Collection offers the extraordinary – and often perilous – stories of two of the most intriguing and iconic fictional characters in crime fiction, brilliantly narrated by Jonathan Keeble and Rupert Degas.

Brilliant detective Sam Spade is the quintessential private eye, with his own code of ethics. When a standard stakeout goes wrong and Spade’s partner is killed, he finds himself drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure of dubious origin—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. But he’s not the only one on the trail of the falcon. Hot on his heels are Joel Cairo, a perfumed grifter; an oversized adventurer named Gutman; and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a hat.

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For the first time in her life, DCI Emma Gardner finds herself unable to concentrate on the job she loves. Her thoughts are now always with her old colleague Paul Riddick, who lies desperately ill in hospital - a tortured man in life, now facing death. When a young woman dies from seemingly natural causes, Emma can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right with the case, but she needs her team to pick up the slack whilst she focuses on Paul. The case proves more complex than anyone imagined and will test the team like never before.

La famiglia Sancasciano è stata sterminata a Collegno, in provincia di Torino, senza un apparente movente. L'Ispettore Milani viene chiamato a indagare sul delitto in quanto la scena del crimine, raccapricciante e complessa, è la copia esatta dell'assassinio che sterminò la sua famiglia venti anni prima. Si tratta del medesimo killer o di un segreto ancora più terribile? Per scoprirlo dovrà confrontarsi con il suo passato trovandosi di fronte a inaccettabili segreti, morti improvvise e ritrovamenti inspiegabili.

Aufgrund seiner nötigen Zeugenaussage vor dem Unions-Gericht, kann Sherlock Holmes wieder in seiner Heimatstadt als Detektiv tätig sein. Auch die Menschen der Zukunft haben dieselben Probleme wie jene in der Vergangenheit. Mit Hilfe von Dr. Watson gelingt es Holmes in Erfahrung zu bringen, wo ein erfolgreicher Autor steckt.

With her Curiosity Shop open for business, Alice Carroll is finally settling into life in the picturesque Cotswold village of Little Pride. But then her old life comes knocking… Alice’s ex boyfriend, Steven, who dumped her to travel the world, has run out of money and asks Alice to sell off his collection of chess sets. Alice decides to host a tournament to showcase the boards, and her plan seems to be working. That is, until chess pieces begin to mysteriously disappear. And when a body is discovered outside the tournament, Alice realises that the victim was a pawn in another game.

First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction: Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest who has an uncanny insight into human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in, for example, Sherlock Holmes stories, the mysteries Father Brown solved were more local murders by small-town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down to those in the area of the crime.

Una de las mejores novelas protagonizadas por la dulce, intuitiva y perspicaz Miss Marple. Los habitantes del apacible pueblecito de Chipping Cleghorn ven alterada su vida cotidiana ante un anuncio en el periódico local que dice: "Se anuncia un asesinato que tendrá lugar el viernes, 29 de octubre, en Little Paddocks, a las seis y media de la tarde". ¿Una broma infantil? ¿O un engaño destinado a asustar a la pobre Letitia Blacklock?

¡Arsène Lupin en la cárcel! Ridiculizado por la prensa, aislado por la policía, ¿cómo hará para demostrar su inocencia en los crímenes de los que se le acusa? Arsène Lupin hace pública su voluntad de fugarse de la cárcel, pero su archienemigo LM logra cortarle todas las comunicaciones con el exterior. Un día, recibe una misteriosa visita en la celda. El Kaiser de Alemania sabe que Lupin anda detrás de unos papeles que podrían comprometer la paz de Europa y accede a lograr su libertad si los encuentra antes que nadie.

Isidore Beautrelet, estudiante y detective aficionado, no atrapará a Arsène Lupin. Pero su intervención en los asuntos del ladrón acabará trágicamente para Lupin. En medio de la noche, unos desconocidos desvalijan el castillo del conde de Gesvres. Su secretario resulta muerto y uno de los ladrones, herido. Cuando llega la policía no falta ningún objeto ni pueden encontrar al ladrón baldado que se esconde en la propiedad. Isidore Beautrelet, enigmático estudiante de retórica, se propone desentrañar el misterio. Todo parece llevar la firma de Arsène Lupin.

Tras una majestuosa boda, la novia desaparece durante la recepción. El adinerado Lord Simon, su nuevo esposo, no tiene la más mínima idea si su nueva esposa se encuentra viva, secuestrada o si a escapado con otro hombre a sus espaldas. La ansiedad y los nervios de perderla influirán para que Simon, desesperadamente y con el corazón en la mano, solicite la ayuda de Sherlock Holmes y su fiel compañero Watson. Se supone que una boda es un momento sumamente importante de la vida. ¿Qué habrá salido mal? ¿Qué afectó en la ceremonia para que la novia desapareciera?

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

A late spring in 1142 has the Abbey monks dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22nd. For three years, the wealthy young widow Judith Perle has rented her house to the monks for the price of a single rose each year. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and found murdered beside the hacked rose-bush.