Traditional Detectives

Steve thought he had left his troubled past behind. Living a quiet life with his wife and children, everything changes the night he rescues a baby from a burning house, becoming an unexpected national hero. But as the spotlight shines brighter, so does the scrutiny, and a shocking accusation is made – that Steve is the man responsible for an unsolved murder in Beachbrook years prior. As DS Willmott investigates the truth, Steve pleads his innocence.

Anthony Cade acepta entregar unas memorias en Londres, sin saber que se verá envuelto en una red de intrigas, persecuciones y asesinatos. Todo lo conduce a Chimneys, una antigua mansión donde secretos del pasado resurgen con fuerza. Entre documentos comprometidos, identidades ocultas y peligros inesperados, Anthony deberá resolver el misterio que esconde la casa... antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

England, 1914. Die Welt ist von Konflikten gezeichnet. Der verletzte Captain Hastings wird ins Anwesen Styles Court eingeladen, um sich von seinen körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu erholen. Styles ist ein prachtvolles Landhaus und Heimat seines Kindheitsfreundes. Für Hastings ein Ort der Ruhe … glaubt er. Doch an den heißen Sommertagen braut sich etwas Finsteres zusammen.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von einer jungen Dame aufgesucht, die um ihren verstorbenen Vater trauert. Obwohl der Obduktionsbericht von einer natürlichen Todesursache ausgeht, vermutet sie einen Mord. Tatsächlich findet Watson medizinische Unregelmäßigkeiten.

Maigrets pikantester Fall: Der Kommissar ermittelt in einem Nachtlokal in Lüttich. Dafosse und Chabot, zwei mittellose junge Männer, brechen in das Nachtlokal Gai-Moulin ein. Aber statt einer vollen Kasse finden sie eine Leiche. Tags darauf liegt der Tote im Zoologischen Garten. Die Einbrecher gelten schnell als Hauptverdächtige – ebenso ein Mann aus Paris, der am Vorabend auch vor Ort gewesen sein soll und sich widerstandslos festnehmen lässt. Es ist Kommissar Maigret, der den Mann beschattet hat und ihm nach Lüttich gefolgt ist. Maigrets 10. Fall spielt in der belgischen Stadt Lüttich.

When a body is found in the village pond, Convent Mother Helen and DI Cromwell are brought together to solve the crime and figure out what actually happened to Father Jack. The duo embark on an unlikely friendship as they bring their heads together to solve the murder. It’s not long before the two super sleuths are at it again when a precious icon goes missing from the church.

Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station. Before he has a chance to settle into his new life, tragedy strikes. Two twelve-year-old boys pretending to be detectives in a mysterious game disappear. Tom is thrown into the most important case of his career. Families are torn apart by the disappearance of the boys, and the only clues are frustratingly indecipherable.

The Uncollected Cases of Sherlock Holmes presents eight new stories about Holmes which set the great detective against the background of Victorian England, an era of enormous progress, in science, transport, and medicine but which also witnessed a surge in urban poverty, prostitution and imperial adventurism. Each of the stories in this collection engages with an aspect of this background.

A second collection of twelve cases for M. McDonnell Bodkin’s insightful but self-deprecating detective Paul Beck, a man who claims no more genius than “a little common sense,” and says of himself that “I just go by the rule of thumb, and muddle and puzzle out my cases as best I can.” Including the disappearance of a millionaire; murders on a golf links and on a train; a fabulous diamond necklace lost in the sea, and the theft of an actress’ rubies; a lucky discovery in a Hansom cab; and a doctor found standing over the dead body of his fiancée’s brother.

Auch nach einigen Monaten in den Cotswolds hat sich Ex-PR-Agentin Agatha Raisin noch immer nicht recht an das beschauliche Landleben gewöhnt. Doch es geht voran, Agatha konnte sogar eine Essenseinladung vom neuen Dorftierarzt ergattern, einem äußerst attraktiven Mann. Pech nur, dass dieser wenig später bei der Behandlung eines Rennpferdes stirbt. Ein Unfall, sagt die Polizei, doch Agatha zweifelt, dafür sind die Todesumstände zu verdächtig. Schließlich ermittelt sie auf eigene Faust - und gerät damit ins Visier eines hundsgemeinen Gegners ...

धीरज शांतीदास २५ लाखांसाठी शेठ जमनादासला ट्रॅप करायचा प्रयत्न करतो पण तसे करताना तोच शेठच्या खुनाबद्दल पकडला जातो. सर्व पुरावे धीरज च्या विरोधात असतात पण त्याच्या निर्दोषपणा बद्दल एक वकिलाला खात्री असते. तो वकील म्हणजे ‘बॅरिस्टर अमर विश्वास!’ हि गुंतागुंत अमर कसा सोडवतो ? खरा खुनी धीरज कि अजून कोण ? आणि सर्वात महत्त्वाचे म्हणजे - हा खून का केला ?

सुहास शिरवळकरांच्या कादंबरीतील एक लाडका मानसपुत्र म्हणजे "फिरोज इराणी".जो अतरंगी आहे , हुशार आहे . गुन्हेगारांचा पण बाप आहे . "उस्ताद" या कथेतील निरनिराळी पात्रं फिरोजच्या अवतीभवती पिंगा घालतात . या कथेच्या प्रारंभीच फिरोजला त्याने न केलेल्या बँक दरोड्यात त्याला फसवण्यात येतं. या दरोड्याचा शोध घेताना होते एक खुनांची मालिका ज्यामध्ये फिरोझ अजून अडकत जातो. या असंख्य खुणांच्या मागे मास्टरमाईंड कोणाचं आहे ? नक्की मेजर सूर्यकांत अस्तित्वात होता कि तो आभास होता ?

Ex-police officer, JJ Jenson, is a good man who has led a colourful but turbulent life. He’s seen death and destruction in its many forms. When personal tragedy strikes, JJ turns his back on his former life, and returns to his childhood home in search of peace, preferring to view life through the lens of his camera.

Many of the adventures of my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes the consulting detective, in which I was privileged to assist him, I have recorded elsewhere. There were however, a number of instances when, sometimes for reasons of his own which I could not fathom, he expressly forbade me to forward others for publication.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902, which was set before Holmes' "death", Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.

Imagine Sherlock Holmes solving cases where the clues include a mysterious cask of Amontillado – the haunting cries of a raven – an unnerving asylum – a man’s uncanny doppelganger!

The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (1927), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated. This woman, formerly very quiet, has recently taken to cursing in the night, shouting "Murder, murder!" and "You cruel beast! You monster!" Also, her health has taken a turn for the worse, and she is wasting away.

The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It is notable for being narrated by Holmes himself, instead of by Dr. Watson (who does not appear in the story). Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables.

The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (1926) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published Strand Magazine October 1921 - April 1927. This story is one of only two narrated by Holmes rather than Doctor Watson - the other one being The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. Not surprisingly, Dr. Watson does not appear in either story.

Prepárate para adentrarte en un mundo donde el ingenio es la única arma contra el crimen. En este fascinante audiolibro de Baroness Orczy, te encontrarás con "El Abogado Milagro", un detective sin igual cuya mente aguda desentraña los misterios más complejos. A lo largo de trece apasionantes relatos, cada historia teje una red de suspense que te atrapará desde la primera palabra. Con cada nuevo enigma, El Abogado Milagro te invita a seguir sus pasos mientras desentraña verdades ocultas y se enfrenta a las mentes más astutas.

The Adventure of the Three Gables is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, collected as one of 12 in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1926 as a serial. The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow. Although Dixie has come to intimidate Holmes, Holmes secures Dixie's future cooperation by threatening to tell what he knows about the suspicious Perkins death involving Dixie.

The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place is the last of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is part of the series The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published in the Strand Magazine from October 1921–April 1927. The original title The Adventure of the Black Spaniel was changed before publication. Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes about his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason thinks he has gone mad.

Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance.

A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

The tenth story in The Innocence of Father Brown is entitled The Eye of Apollo. At the beginning of this short story, Flambeau has just opened his detective agency in a new building located near Westminster Abbey. The other tenants in the building are a religious charlatan named Kalon, who claims to be "the New Priest of Apollo," and two sisters, who are typists. Flambeau and Father Brown instinctively distrust Kalon, who has installed a huge eye of Apollo outside his office.