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Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won’t handle. Everything in his life is going just as he’s planned…until one day, he’s paired up with the agency’s newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated—and it looks like the detective agency’s sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!

This collection contains 12 of the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Tom Conway and Nigel Bruceas Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar, and Les Tremayne as Nick Charles, a.k.a. "The Thin Man" - plus many more gumshoes, including Boston Blackie, Philip Marlowe, The Fat Man, and others.

Mystery writer, magician, Sherlockian, and sleuth-at-large: that's Sebastian "Mac" McCabe. This collection introduces the series of light-hearted but mysterious adventures of Mac and his brother-in-law as they uncover small-town secrets to solve murders that would stump the great Holmes himself.

In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the first four volumes of the series.

Lyon, portrayed by Wilms Herbert, ran the International Detective Bureau, a small private investigations firm in downtown Los Angeles, with often oversized ambitions. Regan handled rough assignments from Lyon, with whom he was not always on good terms. Actor Jack Webb played Regan as tough and tenacious, with a dry sense of humor. The series ended when Webb left the show in December 1948, but was resurrected in October 1949 with a new cast.

Una serie di macabri omicidi sconvolge Londra. In ogni scena del crimine rimane solo un mucchio di ossa della vittima insieme a una bizzarra sfera coperta da strani simboli. Il figlio dell'ultima vittima chiede aiuto a Sherlock Holmes e al suo precedente partner, il Dott. John Watson. Dopo una prima indagine, la coppia di Baker Street scopre un filo conduttore che collega gli omicidi: geometrie bizzarre basate su antichi schemi permettono a creature ultraterrene di entrare nella nostra dimensione, cercando di creare caos e distruzione.

In the stack of envelopes on top of Gideon's desk, one was curiously unlabeled, the same as any random piece of junk. He slid it open nonetheless. All the envelope contained was a simple leaf...dark green with serrated edges, finely divided and lacy. It was almost triangular, broad at the base with the tip tapering to an almost point. No sooner did he lay the envelope down on his desk, his phone rang. It was the Chief of Police requesting his service on another case.

Der erste Band der humorvollen Krimireihe aus der bayerischen Provinz: Eigentlich hatte sich der frisch pensionierte Polizist Karl Ramsauer vorgenommen den Ruhestand in vollen Zügen zu genießen. Doch dann wird die Metzgerei seines Freundes Xaver Leitner geschlossen, weil angeblich der Leberkäse für Erkrankungen und sogar einen Todesfall verantwortlich sein soll. Ausgerechnet jetzt befindet sich auch noch Ramsauers Ehefrau auf einem Gesundheitstrip und setzt ihm nur noch Grünzeug vor.