Historical Traditional Detectives

For Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler was always the woman, but at the end of A Scandal in Bohemia, Dr. Watson had pronounced her dead and gone. However, reports of her death were greatly exaggerated. Holmes and Miss Adler had fallen in love at first sight, and she promptly moved in with Holmes and Watson at 221B Baker Street. In an effort to protect the delicate sensibilities of the British reading public, Watson explained her presence by referring to her as Mrs. Hudson, the housekeeper, even as Holmes and Adler combined forces to become a formidable detecting duo.

Bei einem misslungenen Einbruch Arsène Lupins in die Villa des Abgeordneten Daubrecq geschieht ein Mord und zwei seiner Gehilfen werden als Verdächtige verhaftet. Der berühmte Gentleman-Einbrecher muss nun herausfinden, was eigentlich passiert ist und welche mysteriösen Kräfte es sind, die ihm immer einen Schritt voraus sind und ständig seine Pläne durchkreuzen. Der Gegenstand, um den mehrere Parteien im Geheimen ringen, ist ein einfacher Flaschenstöpsel aus Kristallglas.

The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the murder of one of the monks. The Abbey becomes paralysed with fear and the Abbot is ill-equipped to deal with such a heinous crime, especially as suspicion inevitably falls on the brothers themselves. Ralph Delchard, a former soldier in the era-defining Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, an accomplished lawyer, are investigating a local land dispute when news of the vicious murder reaches them.

Nachdem das Opfer eines Gentleman-Verbrechens von Arsène Lupin ermordet aufgefunden wird, hält man ihn für den Täter. Um den wahren Mörder dingfest zu machen und so seinen Namen wieder reinzuwaschen, setzt sich Lupin an die Spitze der Polizeikräfte, die die mysteriöse Tat aufklären sollen. Nun gilt es, ein Päckchen politisch brisanter Briefe ausfindig zu machen und eine Uhr, auf der die Nummer 813 eine Bedeutung hat, immer hart auf den Fersen eines gefährlichen Gegenspielers.

England, 1865: Celine verlässt das aufregende London, um in dem beschaulichen Dorf Roscave mit ihrem Vater eine Schneiderei zu eröffnen. Sie rechnet mit geschwätzigen Nachbarn, langweiligen Nähaufträgen und matschigem Wetter.

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

When a bomb goes off at 221B Baker Street, Evelina Cooper is thrown into her uncle Sherlock's world of mystery and murder. But just when she thought it was safe to return to the ballroom, old, new, and even dead enemies are clamoring for a place on her dance card. Before Evelina's even unpacked her gowns for a country house party, an indiscretion puts her in the power of the ruthless Gold King, who recruits her as his spy. He knows her disreputable past and exiles her to the rank alleyways of Whitechapel with orders to unmask his foe.

Некоторые критики считают Ахшарумова основоположником русского уголовного романа, а его роман Концы в воду—родоначальником "русского триллера". Внезапная смерть молодой женщины, которая так и не дала развод своему мужу, невольно заставляет подозревать в преступлении ее супруга. Но все ли так очевидно?

Als der britische Millionär Mornington in Marokko an einer Blutvergiftung stirbt, wird sein Freund Don Luis Perenna dazu bestimmt, den Nachlass zu verwalten. Es geht darum, innerhalb von drei Monaten den Erben eines Vermögens von 100 Millionen Francs zu finden. Leider gibt es offenbar jemanden, der es darauf abgesehen hat, alle möglichen Erben aus dem Weg zu räumen, bevor Perenna sie kontaktieren kann. Und so muss Don Luis, unterstützt von der französischen Polizei, sich diesem finsteren Gegenspieler stellen. Besonders eine attraktive junge Frau schwebt in höchster Gefahr.

Germaine de Gournay-Martin, verwöhnte Tochter aus der Oberschicht, hat gerade das Schloss Charmerace gekauft und wird den mittellosen ehemaligen Besitzer, Jacques, Herzog von Charmerace, heiraten. Arsène Lupin hat die gesamte Gemäldesammlung ihres Vaters gestohlen. Diesmal hat es Lupin mit Oberinspektor Guerchard zu tun, der die Diebstähle aufklären und den Raub des Diadems der Prinzessin von Lamballe verhindern soll.

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten. Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is called to the shores of Whale Fjord where the skeletons of a man and a woman have been discovered, both shot with British wartime bullets. Magnus uncovers a web of anger and revenge that stretches back 80 years and forward to a shocking murder in Reykjavík.

The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a global recession, Bletchley Park plays host to a rather special event. MI5 is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and a select band of former and current employees are gathering for a weekend of music, dance and heavy drinking. Among them is Sir Hilary Manningham-Butler, a middle aged woman whose entire adult life has been spent masquerading as a man. She doesn't know why she has been invited but it is clear she is not the only one with things to hide.

London, 1922: Two years after helping Sherlock Holmes solve the Hangman Murders, American journalist Enoch Hale becomes even more intimately involved in another puzzling mystery. Langdale Pike, veteran purveyor of gossip to the trash newspapers, is poisoned while sipping tea with Hale - and apparently just as he is about to spill a secret more important than social gossip. With the unrequested aid of advertising copywriter Dorothy Sayers, Hale pursues a number of leads based on notes in Pike's pocket diary - including an interview with the formidable G.K. Chesterton.

With the death toll climbing daily, Chantecoq faces the greatest challenge of his long career. If he is to catch the Ladykiller, not only must he join forces with Paris's greatest medical expert, Professor Courtil, but he will also have to reach out to the regular police, his old colleagues from whom he has been estranged for so long.

With Sherlock out of the city on a case, it is up to Dr. John Watson and his new patient to help Victoria with the investigation—which may build to a fatal confrontation on a foggy Halloween night.

Mark Ablett is hosting all his friends at his English country house when he receives a letter from his estranged brother, Robert, announcing Robert's intention to arrive from Australia. Not long after his arrival, Robert turns up dead, his body found with a bullet wound to the head, and Mark is nowhere to be seen. Antony Gillingham and his friend Bill Beverly play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve this whodunnit mystery. This is Milne's only mystery novel.

London: November 1905. England and the world are changing. Into the rooms of Sherlock Holmes come Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison - with new inventions that will alter the course of human history - only both inventions have gone missing. Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler somehow unravel the latest diabolical scheme of Marie Chartier - evil daughter of the late Professor Moriarty? Can world peace be achieved by the most powerful weapon ever created? Can death itself be overcome by a scientific genius? And can Sherlock Holmes survive the greatest personal loss of his career?

El apuesto Conde de Droxford, acostumbrado a los privilegios de su soltería, se ve obligado por decreto real a casarse en un mes. Desea una esposa "complaciente y conforme" que no interfiera en sus asuntos. Es entonces cuando la bella y hechizante Karina, con la esperanza de escapar de una vida de pobreza y dificultades, se ofrece como la mujer ideal para ese papel.

November 1940. Darkness descends, and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the industrial heartland of London from enemy attack. As a policeman patrols the Royal Albert Dock, something catches his eye - a man is sprawled awkwardly across a nearby barge, a dagger lodged in his back. Detective Inspector John Jago of West Ham CID discovers the victim was a dock worker by day and a Home Guard volunteer by night - and there are things even his wife doesn't know about his past.

While the whine of the air raid sirens might no longer be rousing him from bed every night, a two-decade-old unsolved murder case will ensure that Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is about to suffer more sleepless nights. Young Robert McFarlane’s body was found outside the local church hall on 30th September 1923. But, his cause of death was drowning, and he’d been missing for three days before his body was found. No one was ever arrested for the crime. No answers could ever be given to the grieving family. The unsolved case has haunted Mason ever since.