Private Detective Fiction

Quick-witted detective Stone is capable of making decisions from a pair of muddy shoes and other seemingly unimportant clues. It’s almost like a performing magician pulling a rabbit from a hat. He once remarked that “One never knows what difference anything will make until the difference is made.” Publication time of books featuring Stone are unknown so just watch for them for ordering. Even very astute listeners will often be surprised at his amazing solutions.

A dog's love for her master provides the clues that the police need for solving the disappearance of a young woman who works for a multimillion dollar charitable foundation. Rob MacKay is asked by the owner of the foundation to find the woman. When police discover that twenty-eight million dollars are missing, the case becomes more complicated, exposing the sometimes sordid dealings of the Silicon Valley's tech community.

Undercover im Land der Fjorde. Nach dem Sturz in die Schweizer Reichenbachfälle gilt Sherlock Holmes offiziell als tot und reist unerkannt umher, begleitet von seinem Assistenten und Biografen David Tristram. Er nennt sich Sven Sigerson und gibt vor, Norweger zu sein. Und das obwohl er kein Wort norwegisch spricht. Kann das gutgehen? Die Feuerprobe wartet auf ihn, als ihn ein äußerst bizarrer Fall ausgerechnet nach Norwegen lockt: Dort ist die Stabkirche von Storavik spurlos verschwunden.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes ist der wohl berühmteste Detektiv der gesamten Kriminalliteratur. Er ist ein nahezu perfekter Analytiker und Taktiker, versiert in den Wissenschaften und unendlich kreativ im Lösen der schwierigsten Probleme. Er ist ein gefährlicher Gegner im Nahkampf und ein Meister der Verkleidung und Täuschung. Er ist Violinist, Komponist und Urheber bedeutender Sachbücher. Er ist ein kompromissloser Humanist und praktizierender Rechts- und Moralphilosoph.

Esta impactante novela, ganadora del premio a Novela Negra de Valencia en 2014, nos trae la aproximación de Juan Ramón Biedma al canon sherlockiano, pasado por su visión demoledora y su prosa aserrada. El secuestro de las hijas de una alto mandatario inglés involucrará tanto a Sherlock Holmes como a su némesis, James Moriarty, en una maraña negra en la que se cruzarán todo tipo de secretos.

Questa ultima, mirabolante avventura di Arsenio Lupin, proprio il fuoco d'artificio finale che mette fine alla sua carriera di ladro gentiluomo, all'inizio, e poi ricco benefattore che si diverte a sciogliere enigmi e aiutare persone in difficolta senza sdegnare di mettere in ridicolo la polizia, ma agendo sempre in qualita di agente segreto per favorire le fortune della Francia.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 detective The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892.

В марте 1886 года, выпускник Эдинбургского медицинского университета Артур Конан-Дойль начинает писать роман "A Tangled Skein", который в последствии принесет ему мировую известность и популярность.

Помимо знаменитых рассказов о Шерлоке Холмсе, перу Артура Конан Дойля принадлежат многие исторические романы, новеллы и сборники рассказов. "Вокруг красной лампы" - один из таких сборников. Он знакомит читателей с различными эпизодами из жизни английских врачей начала двадцатого века.

'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?' Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city.

Mr. John Bellingham, amateur Egyptologist, abruptly goes missing, leaving behind a strangely vexatious will that cannot be executed without proof or presumption of death. Mr Bellingham's family are left virtually penniless, and under suspicion of his murder. Two years later, young Dr. Paul Berkeley in the course of his duties befriends Mr. Bellingham's younger brother, and the latter's beautiful daughter, and takes their problem to his old friend and mentor the famous medical jurist Dr. John Thorndyke. Can Thorndyke determine what really became of John Bellingham?

Revive los orígenes del detective más famoso del mundo con "Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes". En esta selección de doce relatos cortos, Arthur Conan Doyle nos presenta a un Holmes en su máximo esplendor, resolviendo misterios intrigantes y cautivando a lectores de todas las edades. Desde "Escándalo en Bohemia" hasta "La banda de lunares", cada caso es una prueba del ingenio y la astucia de Sherlock Holmes. ¡Prepárate para sumergirte en un mundo de misterio y suspense!

Prepárate para sumergirte en los misterios más intrincados y sorprendentes del famoso detective. Algunos incluso narrados por el mismísimo Watson! En "El archivo de Sherlock Holmes", acompaña a Holmes y a Watson en doce nuevas aventuras llenas de ingenio, suspense y revelaciones inesperadas. Desde el robo de "La piedra de Mazarino" hasta el enigma de "El vampiro de Sussex", cada caso es un desafío para la mente brillante de Sherlock Holmes. ¿Estás listo para abrir este archivo secreto y desentrañar la verdad?

R. Austin Freeman presents eight cases for his ingenious Edwardian "scientific investigator", Dr. John Thorndyke, including: a classic locked-room murder mystery; a race to find a disappeared child; a dead woman discovered on a train; the story of the vengeful ghost of a murdered Chinese mandarin; and the enigmatic Moabite Cypher. As ever, Dr. Thorndyke meticulously collects the evidence of footprints, dust, hairs, and fibres, and even a single blue sequin, to unravel the mystery and see that justice is done.

Lodnýn 1930. Hercule Poirot se spokojeně vrací z oběda, když ho před domovními dvěřmi překvapí rozzlobená žena a domáhá se vysvětlení, proč jí detektiv poslal dopis, v němž ji obviňuje z vraždy Barnabase Pandyho, když nikoho toho jména ani nezná. Hercule Poirot netuší, o čem je řeč. Jde snad o nějaký omyl či nejapný vtip? Kolik stejných dopisů, odeslaných jeho jménem, ještě koluje po Londýně? A kdo je Barnabas Pandy? Žije, nebo byl skutečně zavražděn?

Christopher Sherlock Webster spent his schooldays desperately trying to live down his embarrassing middle name, gifted to him by his Holmes-obsessed father. But after his dad's death, Christopher finds he has inherited the same obsession...Teaming up with pal Mo Rennie, he starts an agency called Baskerville's, specialising in the application of rigorous Holmesian method.

Daisy Dunlop thinks "heir hunting" is a perfect career. Too bad she has to work with her husband's best mate, Irish PI Solomon Liffey. Solomon sets her the task of finding a missing lord. Bullets fly, bombs explode, and the body count rises. When Solomon goes missing, the tables are turned. Now it's his life that is in Daisy's hands, and she has two missing men to find before it's too late.

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a classic series of 12 short stories about the genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his ability to solve any case. With the help of his faithful assistant Dr. Watson, Holmes tackles 12 individual mysteries each with a new victim and a different criminal. The concept behind these stories is that of a man who is serving a more fair form of justice to the everyday victim, regardless of income or social standing.

It's the Second World War, and Sexton Blake is matching minds with the very best...and the very worst. When an innocent woman is condemned as a spy and her fiancé arrested while trying to escape to France, Sexton and Tinker have to travel into enemy territory in their hunt for the mastermind....and on the home front, a man is found murdered - but the suspect doesn't know if he did it! Who else to find the truth but Sexton Blake?

1950s Staffordshire. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson. Kelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for its impeccable sense of place and detail, and for the emotional weight of its central crime. The novel is part of a shift from the cosiness of crime novels before to mysteries characterised by their psychological interest and affecting realism. An influential classic.