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It’s December in Cornwall, and Mousehole harbour is illuminated with its famous Christmas lights. Ally Bright is among the crowd listening to the carol singers—and then to the piercing screams that rip through the darkness. A body has been found, brutally murdered and dumped in a fisherman’s boat.

Nella primavera del 1940, mentre nel continente le armate alleate stanno subendo duri colpi da parte dell'esercito nazista, l'Inghilterra si prepara alla resistenza. Tra i volontari richiamati in servizio c'è anche Tommy Beresford, l'ex "giovane avventuriero". Anche se sono passati più di vent'anni dalla sua ultima missione, gli viene affidato un incarico di straordinaria importanza: scoprire chi si cela sotto le misteriose sigle N e M, nomi in codice dei capi della quinta colonna tedesca.

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count and rip apart language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable. When Frank is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is suddenly turned upside down.

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring...

"Ceci dit, mon cher Waton, Mr Jabez Wilson ici présent a été assez bon pour passer chez moi : il a commencé un récit qui promet d'être l'un des plus sensationnels que j'ai entendus ces derniers temps... Ne m'avez-vous pas entendu dire que les choses les plus étranges et pour ainsi dire uniques étaient très souvent mêlées non à de grands crimes, mais à de petits crimes ? Et, quelquefois, là où le doute était possible si aucun crime n'avait été positivement commis ?"

Nous sommes à Dartmoor, en Angleterre, une lande mystérieuse nimbée de brouillard, parsemée de dangereuses fondrières... Là réside la famille Baskerville. On raconte qu'un chien fantastique aurait surgi de la lande pour assassiner un ancêtre de la famille en 1742... Le jeune héritier sir Henry Baskerville débarque du Canada pour prendre possession du domaine, après la mort inexpliquée de son oncle sir Charles Baskerville.

First appearing in print in 1890, the character of Sherlock Holmes has now become synonymous worldwide with the concept of a super sleuth. His creator, Conan Doyle, imbued his detective hero with intellectual power, acute observational abilities, a penchant for deductive reasoning and a highly educated use of forensic skills. Indeed, Doyle created the first fictional private detective who used what we now recognize as modern scientific investigative techniques.

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit...

Sarah-Belle vient de terminer des études en techniques policières. Alors qu'elle profite de ses dernières semaines de vacances avant de débuter sa carrière, elle fait la connaissance d'une femme dont le fils de 17 ans est porté disparu. Il a été vu, pour la dernière fois, près d'un endroit où vivent des femmes enfermées dans un cloitre. Dans les jours qui suivent, la jeune policière trouvera un moyen de se joindre à ces femmes vivant en retrait de la société afin d'y faire discrètement enquête. Ce qu'elle va découvrir au sein du groupe va modifier le cours de son existence.

"Fred Berman returns to narrate the second in Rosenfelt's K Team series. Berman's regular-guy voice makes former detective, now private investigator, Corey Douglas a sympathetic character...Listeners will hang on every word as Douglas and the K team unravel the case through their instincts...

Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world's most brilliant and successful detective. The New Adventures brings to the public for the very first time some of Watson's accounts of Sherlock Holmes cases previously kept under lock and key.

The Continental Detective Agency's Operative is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town "Poisonville," and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, floozies, bootleggers, and hit men are all in Dashiell Hammett's first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective.

Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world's most brilliant and successful detective. The New Adventures brings to the public for the very first time some of Watson's accounts of Sherlock Holmes cases previously kept under lock and key.

Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world's most brilliant and successful detective. The New Adventures brings to the public for the very first time some of Watson's accounts of Sherlock Holmes cases previously kept under lock and key.

In one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most brilliant detective tales, C. Auguste Dupin faces a crime that is as much about intellect as it is about cunning. When a highly sensitive letter is stolen from the royal apartments by a shrewd and unscrupulous minister, the police search tirelessly—yet fail to find it. Called upon for help, Dupin applies his unparalleled powers of observation and deduction, proving that the best hiding place may be in plain sight.

弁護士芝山の死の真相が今あきらかに!大物政治家が推し進めるダム建設。その反対派住民から芝山に弁護依頼が入った。瀬良と共に調査を進める芝山は、ダムに沈められるはずの森でアルツハイマー病の特効薬となり得る薬草が発見されていた事実を掴む。そして事態は急速にその利権争いにまで発展していく…。 今回の物語は第5話と6話の裏で起きていたもう一つの事件。瀬良は政府が絡む巨大な陰謀から人類の希望の森を、そして芝山を救う事ができるのか! ※この物語はフィクションです。(C)2013株式会社ウェルツアニメーションスタジオ/ウェルツレコーズ

大物政治家が推進するダム建設反対派の弁護に芝山が就いたことから始まった一件は、建設予定地からアルツハイマー病の特効薬となり得る薬草が発見された事により、反対派住民たちの大切な森は救われようとしていた。 しかし、遂に芝山が殺され事態は最悪の展開を迎えていく。瀬良は芝山の仇を取るべく最後の賭けに打って出るが…。 「盗聴探偵物語」史上最高のサスペンスと人間ドラマがここに決着する! ※この物語はフィクションです。(C) 2013株式会社ウェルツアニメーションスタジオ/ウェルツレコーズ

Richard Hannay is bored—until his neighbor shows up with a wild story of espionage, an impending war, and a mysterious organization called the 39 Steps. Hours later, the man is dead, and Hannay is the prime suspect. Framed for murder and hunted by both the police and a deadly network of spies, Hannay races across the Scottish countryside, decoding clues, dodging capture, and trying to stop a conspiracy that threatens the fate of Britain itself. Fast-paced, sharp, and endlessly gripping, The 39 Steps is the original man-on-the-run thriller—a template for everything from Hitchcock to Bond.

Oxford, 1883. Young men are being found bound, gagged, and hooded at the gates of their colleges in the small hours. Basil Rice, Jesus College fellow, is asked by the senior proctor to investigate. But investigating matters of sexual purity is dangerous, as it lays Basil open to unwelcome scrutiny of his own private life. Meanwhile, the University Vice Chancellor's Court has wrongly imprisoned a young shopgirl from the town, and she seeks the services of Non Vaughan, a young academic and budding journalist, to clear her name.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905.Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Dancing Men third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is "The Five Orange Pips", part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.