Ergebnis für "Drei Geschichten" in Krimis

Die große Miss-Marple-Kurzgeschichtensammlung Teil 3. Miss Marples Spürsinn ist gefragt: Warum wurde eine Leiche in einer Kirche abgelegt? Wer hat die Brosche gestohlen und das Dienstmädchen beschuldigt? Für Miss Marple alles sonnenklar und sie kann die Fälle rasch lösen. Enthält: "Die seltsame Angelegenheit mit dem Bungalow", "Die Perle", "Greenshaws Monstrum", "Miss Marple erzählt eine Geschichte", "Ein seltsamer Scherz", '"Die Hausmeisterin" und "Asyl".

Ein Auftrag, der den Auftraggeber eigentlich nicht interessieren kann. Der auch Selb im Grunde nicht interessiert und in den er sich doch immer tiefer verstrickt. Merkwürdige Dinge ereignen sich in einer alteingesessenen Schwetzinger Privatbank. Die Spur des Geldes führt Selb in den Osten, nach Cottbus, in die Niederlagen der Nachwendezeit. Ein Kriminalroman über ein Kapitel aus der jüngsten deutsch-deutschen Vergangenheit.

It is 1889 and The Scottish Play is coming home. But before the darling couple of London theatre, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, take their acclaimed Macbeth to the Edinburgh stage terror treads the boards. A grisly message found smeared across the cobbles in blood, foretelling someone's demise. As the bloody prophecies continue to appear Edinburgh's own beloved pair - Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Inspector Ian Frey - enter the scene.

The Royal Sorceress, Lady Gwendolyn Crichton, will be responsible for the Empire's magical resources when the time comes. Still struggling to overcome prejudice within the Royal College of Sorcerers, she has at least earned the gratitude of much of the aristocracy, if not their respect. Just when Gwen needs to be firmly focussed on training new sorcerers, her adopted daughter Olivia, the only known living necromancer, is kidnapped.

Ropa Moyo is no stranger to magic or mysteries. But she’s still stuck in an irksomely unpaid internship. So she’s thrilled to attend a magical convention at Dunvegan Castle, on the Isle of Skye, where she’ll rub elbows with eminent magicians. For Ropa, it’s the perfect opportunity to finally prove her worth. Then a librarian is murdered and a precious scroll stolen. Suddenly, every magician is a suspect, and Ropa and her allies investigate. Trapped in a castle, with suspicions mounting, Ropa must contend with corruption, skulduggery and power plays.

Fünf Jahre nach einer tragischen Katastrophe, bei der Christians großer Bruder und seine gesamte Klasse bei einer Schulübernachtung ums Leben kamen, soll die Tradition wieder aufleben. Die Schüler sind begeistert, doch Christian ist alles andere als erfreut. Für ihn ist die Veranstaltung ein respektloser Akt gegenüber den Verstorbenen, und er setzt alles daran, sie zu verhindern. Trotz seiner Warnungen findet die Übernachtung statt, doch die anfängliche Freude schlägt schnell in Angst um. Ein Zettel mit der Botschaft „Ihr werdet sterben“ wird gefunden, und plötzlich beginnt ein Albtraum.

In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried undesirables across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east. Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly British secret police. Its his job to warn the Prime Minister of treason, to arrest plotters, and to discover Jews.

Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavored to separate himself from his past by going straight. Now working as a private investigator, his attempts to build himself a quiet life have so far been promising. However, while Manhattan's Lower City is in the midst of a reignited mob war, Elias is faced with finding a man who doesn't want to be found, absolving a machine of a murder charge, and discovering a network of secrets that keeps the world turning, almost literally.

St Mary est de retour et rien ne va plus pour le docteur Maxwell. Une fois encore, l'institut très spécial de recherche historique St Mary, qui détient le secret du voyage dans le temps, passe d'une catastrophe à une autre. De la rencontre avec Isaac Newton au champ de bataille sanglant d'Azincourt, rien ne se déroule comme prévu. Mais c'est surtout à Troie, alors qu'Achille et Hector s'apprêtent à s'affronter sous ses yeux, que le destin de Max va se jouer.

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past - from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate the Fourth of July. Spirits are high - until a prominent local politician is assassinated in the midst of fireworks.

It is 1803, and closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India is Sir Arthur Wellesley's army and with it Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly commissioned but wishing he had stayed a sergeant. Spurned by his new regiment, he is sent to the army's baggage train and there finds corruption, romance, treason, and enemies old and new, including the murderous Sergeant Hakeswill who has powerful friends, while Sharpe's only ally is an orphaned Arab boy.