Showing results for "Alibi" in Traditional Detectives

Hercule Poirot will eigentlich Kürbisse in einem kleinen, ruhigen Ort züchten und plötzlich sieht er sich mit zwei Leichen konfrontiert. Dass fast alle Einwohner bald unter Mordverdacht stehen, hält den belgischen Meisterdetektiv nicht davon ab, den Fall zu lösen.

When Gemma’s romantic holiday with her boyfriend is cancelled, the tearoom sleuth finds herself heading to Vienna instead with her cat Muesli and the nosy Old Biddies for company. And it’s not long before they stumble across a murder right in the heart of Austria’s historic capital. A handsome art critic dies suspiciously at their hotel, and the Old Biddies are determined to sniff out the killer. Is it the bitter hotel owner nursing a grudge? The critic’s jealous mistress wanting revenge? Or even the American horse trainer who seems inexplicably nervous around the police?

The peace of the English countryside is shattered one August morning by the discovery of a skeleton in the boot of a dumped car. A murder has been uncovered, and when detectives Pollard and Toye arrive on the scene they discover that this hamlet buried deep in the country is not so calm a place as it first appears. The inhabitants of the secluded village of Twiggadon are reluctant to air their individual secrets and offer the investigators little help.

Glaswegian author Bill Knox brings us a chilling story of kidnap and revenge in The Alibi Man. Manny Davis is being held prisoner in a cellar with no recollection of how he got there, whilst parcel bombs and other strange things have been happening around the city linked to a man matching Manny’s description.

December 1940: While London burns and bombs fall every night, Toby Whitby must save a man from hanging. Ralph Pemberton, a mild-mannered man with a weak heart, has been accused of looting. His fingerprints place him at the scene, and he refuses to offer an alibi. While Ralph waits in jail for the judge to pass sentence, Toby Whitby must try to find what Ralph was doing while the bombs were falling and the city was burning.

It's been years since Harrison Raines set foot in Richmond. Although a proud Virginian, he fled the South before the Civil War, unable to bear the evil of slavery. In 1862, battles rage on all sides of the Confederate capital, but Raines is not here as a soldier - he comes as a spy. Union intelligence, led by the formidable Allen Pinkerton, has sent him to steal the plans for a rumored Confederate superweapon: a seagoing ship clad entirely in iron that could break the Union blockade and turn the war around.

With his newly minted detective badge, “Mac” McAllister reports for his first assignment with the Oregon State Police: a particularly gruesome homicide. It’s a headline case, as the victim - Megan Tyson - was brutally murdered mere weeks before her wedding. The investigation turns up far too many suspects and too little hard evidence. Why would the beautiful Megan, engaged to a wealthy businessman, be involved with the likes of long line-up of questionable characters that seem connected to her in more ways than one?

Handlungsort Theater: Das Drama steht im Programm! Pater Brown wird vom Theaterdirektor Mundon Mandeville ins Theater gebeten. Dort wird er von einem Schauspieler durch die Räumlichkeiten geführt und erfährt dabei ungefragt allerhand Klatsch & Tratsch: Über die Unfähigkeit des Direktors und das große Talent seiner allseits beliebten Frau. Außerdem kursiert das Gerücht, dass Mandeville einer unbekannten Geliebten heimlich den Hof mache.

Ein "Muss" für alle Fans des deutschen FernsehkrimisNach Unterlagen der Kriminalpolizei schrieb Wolfgang Menge einem deutschen Millionenpublikum die Kommissare auf den Leib: wackere, bodenständige Typen, die in geschickt geführten Verhören und pointierten Dialogen auf windige Verbrecher treffen.

Der Theaterdirektor Mundon Mandeville ist verzweifelt. Seine Hauptdarstellerin hat sich in der Garderobe eingeschlossen und die Premiere der "Lästerschule" droht zu platzen. Doch das ist nur das Vorspiel zu einem ganz realen Mord.

John Green is murdered while on the telephone to the district attorney. The obvious killer has a good alibi; the DA is then shot. As Philo Vance and District Attorney Markam were looking through the apartment of John Green, who had been murdered the day before, Markham was shot. Both of their suspects, Mrs Green and a man named Edward Lee, have alibis for around eleven o’clock, the time they believe the murder of John Green was committed.