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Selling rare books has its moments, but few are anything close to thrilling - except when Dido Hoare's scoundrel of an ex-husband suddenly reappears and puts a pulse of excitement in the air. But events go from interesting to intense when someone ends up murdered and the culprit seems to think Dido has something worth killing for, too. With the help of her father, Barnabas, a retired academic with a penchant for mysteries, Dido may be able to divert the killer long enough to figure out who wants her dead and why.

In this second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, the veteran detective is lured out of retirement once more. With a familiar cast of characters reacquainting themselves with readers of the series, the novel follows Peter as he embarks on his seemingly simple assignment: Travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered Scotland Yard colleague. But Peter can’t resist delving into the oddities of the crime. His colleague was brutally attacked, run over by a car, and then dumped into a canal - all seemingly for the theft of three letters from the American Civil War era, one of which is signed by John Wilkes Booth.

After Mina Murray asks Sherlock Holmes to locate her fiancé, Holmes and Watson travel to a land far eerier than the moors they had known when pursuing the Hound of the Baskervilles. The confrontation with Count Dracula threatens Holmes' health, his sanity, and his life. Will he survive his battle with Count Dracula?

Julio de 1947. Miquel Mascarell, que lleva ocho años y medio en el Valle de los Caídos, es sorprendentemente indultado y sale en libertad. De vuelta a casa, a una Barcelona casi irreconocible bajo el peso de la dictadura, está solo, no tiene a nadie. Hospedado en una pensión, recibe una misterios nota con dinero, una fotografía y una propuesta que su instinto de policía no puede obviar. Así es como, sin quererlo, vuelve a poner en marcha sus mejores dotes de inspector. Alguien quiere que investigue la muerte de una joven prostituta.

Klassische Kriminalromane um den Meisterdieb Arséne Lupin, den der französische Autor Maurice Leblanc als Gegenstück zu Doyle's Sherlock Holmes schuf.

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos, armado únicamente con su paraguas, su inocencia y su sabiduría, intrincados casos gracias a un conocimiento sencillo a la par que es profundo de la naturaleza humana. Chesterton crea este singular personaje para mostrar que sólo una mirada sincera y que reconozca el misterio que la realidad encierra es capaz de salvaguardar la razón.

What if two had perished at Reichenbach Falls? One simple, disastrous error throws Sherlock Holmes from his intended hiatus into a tortuous journey of sorrow and remorse. Far from home, broken in body and spirit, the haunted detective fights to survive the single most tragic failure of his career - a fight he cannot win alone.

Mabs Millett is the reluctant heiress to Cheadle Abbey, one of Vanbrugh's monstrous piles. At a deb dance in the early fifties, she meets a financier who offers her a job as an assistant to the editor of the social diary on a magazine he has just bought.

Lottery winner and ex-journalist Donal Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, DNR conservation officer Mercy Virdon, to solve the mysterious death of a beloved angler, Charlie, who was murdered in his tent in a state campground and who was known by all - and who may have known too much. Set in the engaging small town of Ossning on the Borchard River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula - an angler’s dream, filled with eccentric, believable, sympathetic, and unforgettable characters - Riverwatcher is a classic whodunit.

Inspector Darch of Scotland Yard finds himself dealing with a baffling mystery which will test his powers of deduction to the very limit.

Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva decide to visit The Terrible Old Man and steal his vast fortune - but his nickname proves truer than the thieves could ever have imagined.

Dr. Prye, I have arranged a little surprise for you. Knowing how interested you are in murders I have decided to give you one on your own doorstep, as it were. Don't be too flattered. I intended to do it anyway. But the setting is too good to miss. I have always been intrigued by the funeral aspect of weddings and the hymeneal aspect of funerals. I am leaving this note in a friend's pocket in place of the ring, not because you can stop the murder, but merely to assure you that I am perfectly serious.

Imaginez... Vous êtes une ado de quatorze ans. Vous avez fait le mur pour la première fois. Vous rentrez en cachette la nuit. Au matin, la maison est vide. Toute votre famille a disparu sans laisser de traces. Apparitions suspectes, coups de fils anonymes, messages accusateurs : vingt-cinq ans plus tard, le passé ressurgit.

In The Bughouse Affair, the first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations. The two cases eventually connect in surprising fashion, but not before two murders and assorted other felonies complicate matters even further. And not before the two sleuths are hindered, assisted, and exasperated by the bughouse Sherlock Holmes.

Klassische Kriminalromane um den Meisterdieb Arséne Lupin, den der französische Autor Maurice Leblanc als Gegenstück zu Doyle's Sherlock Holmes schuf.

A mysterious advert in a newspaper promising to restore hope to the hopeless brings together four strangers. None realising they will end up investigating a twisted and troubling crime that threatens their very futures. Mitch, a former Crime Scene Investigator, Olivia, a brilliant PhD student, and Florence, a middle-aged solicitor, find themselves working with an enigmatic newspaper Editor who refers to himself only as Ed.

Agosto de 1950. Patro y Miquel se disponen a pasar un día de playa. Todo se tuerce cuando ella desaparece y él recibe una nota muy explícita: Patro morirá si en tres días no resuelve un caso inconcluso de 1938. Este caso se remonta a los crueles bombardeos de marzo de ese año en Barcelona, los más sanguinarios después del de Guernica. La bomba que cayó en la esquina de la Granvía con la calle Balmes dejó un cadáver inesperado, un asesinato, el de un soldado de la República.

Malaje. (De mal ángel.) 1. adj. Dicho de una persona: Desagradable, que tiene mala sombra (Fuente: RAE). Los inspectores Jiménez y Villanueva se huelen que la cosa no está para bromas. Todo el mundo parece estar loco detrás de "la sagrada lanza" con la que Longinos hirió a Cristo -solamente falta Indiana Jones-. Pero los dos detectives saben que tras el robo de este objeto hay algo más... un plan diabólico que los llevará a un infierno muy particular.

This extraordinary story unfolds in the dim streets of Victorian London's notorious East End. Poverty, squalor and crime fester and proliferate, blighting the lives of all who are unfortunate enough to dwell there. Yet from within the gloom, shines a beacon of light: the light of human dignity. And, sometimes, righteousness, decency and justice win out. In this dramatic play - out of the everlasting human conflict of good versus evil, various giants of their time, immortal beings, come into conflict.

Set at the height of the Roman Empire, in the last half of the first century AD - about the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, when Christianity was still an unimportant Jewish sect - these stories chronicle the cases of one of the few actual crimesolvers that we know of in ancient Rome. The stories are fictional, but the character of Quintilian is based on a real Roman barrister whose writings on rhetoric and on the education of the young are still read today.