Showing results for "Wild" in Traditional Detectives

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 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 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.

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.

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.

"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....

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.

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.

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.

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

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

London, July 1889. Eight months have passed since the horrific murder of Mary Jane Kelly. The residents of Whitechapel have begun breathing easy again - daring to leave windows open and walk about at twilight. But when old Alice McKenzie is found dead, throat slashed from ear to ear, the whispers begin once more: Jack the Ripper is back. Constance Piper, a flower seller with a psychic gift, was a friend to both women. With the supernatural help of her late mentor and her more grounded ally, police detective Thaddeus Hawkins, she uncovers links between the murders and a Fenian gang.

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.

Irene Adler, Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes stehen nach dem Mord an Mycroft Holmes unter Schock. Nur mit Mühe gelingt es ihnen, sich auf die Ermittlungen zu konzentrieren. Während Irene Adler einer neuen Spur im Fall der Grabschändungen folgt, setzen Sherlock Holmes und Oscar Wilde alles daran, den Mord an Mycroft Holmes lückenlos aufzuklären. Erste Hinweise führen die beiden in die unmittelbare Nähe des Königshauses und plötzlich müssen sich die Sonderermittler die Frage stellen, wem sie überhaupt noch vertrauen können.

Auf drei der sieben großen Londoner Friedhöfe, dem Highgate Cemetery, dem Brompton Cemetery und dem West Norwood Cemetery, kommt es zu schweren Grabschändungen. Mycroft Holmes setzt Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes auf den Fall an. Da die sterblichen Überreste der Verstorbenen unversehrt geblieben sind, liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass in den Gräbern nach etwas gesucht wurde. Schon bald gibt es eine erste Spur. Doch dann geschieht etwas, was die Sicherheit des Königreichs in große Gefahr bringt und die Arbeit der Sonderermittler für immer verändern wird.

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.

Eine rätselhafte Mordserie führt Oscar Wilde und Violet Ishiguro nach Rom. Mehrere junge Männer wurden am Tag ihrer Hochzeit stranguliert aufgefunden. In den Gassen der Stadt geht der Schwarze Priester um. Doch wie hängen diese Fälle mit den geraubten Artefakten zusammen, die Aleister Crowley im Auftrag des Zirkels der Sieben gesammelt hat? Oscar Wilde weiß, dass sie alle zu einer sagenumwobenen Maschine gehören, die die Worte der Macht produziert. Wilde und seine Gefährten müssen alles daransetzen, damit diese Apparatur nicht in Gang gesetzt wird.

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?

Die Suche nach den Worten der Macht ist für die Sonderermittler bisher eine einzige Enttäuschung, immer wieder scheint der Zirkel der Sieben ihnen ein Schritt voraus zu sein. Endlich bietet sich eine Gelegenheit, die Bemühungen des Geheimbundes zu durchkreuzen. Die Hinweise mehren sich, dass ein weiteres Artefakt im Himalaya verborgen liegt. Oscar Wilde bricht zu einer Expedition auf, die ihn auf das "Dach der Welt" führen soll. Noch ahnt niemand, welche Gefahren im Hochgebirge lauern. Denn für viele, die den Pfad der Toten betreten, wird es eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr.