Private Detective

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.

Someone is murdering the homeless in Detroit’s Cass Corridor―by immolation. These horrific crimes wouldn’t require an investigation by Charlie Mack and her crack team investigators, except that one of the burned bodies is her mother’s friend. There’s a lot wrong with this case: the police won’t admit a serial killer is on the loose, drug trafficking intersects with the deaths, and a rogue cop is involved. The timing also couldn’t be worse―Charlie and Mandy are finally moving in together.

A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan, has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and Black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies. The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His children—suspicious of law enforcement’s treatment of Muslims and afraid of reprisal—hire Charlie Mack and her team of investigators to find their father’s murderers.

Charity Deacon, private investigator, agrees to follow a client’s husband. Prove if he’s cheating or not, that’s the gig. It’s the "or not" that puts her on a collision course with the dangerous world of gangsters and human trafficking. To protect her client and the woman’s child safe, Charity must face down the biggest mob in Vancouver.

Inspector Hardy has retreated to Dorset on the south coast where he plans to spend long overdue quality time with his young daughters and pregnant partner. The sabbatical is short-lived when he is thrust back into the dark world of murder after a family with twin boys is found dead at their home in the countryside. Hardy pulls together a small team to investigate the devastating crime, which is the latest in a series of similar crimes. With no apparent motive and the only similarity between the families being twin boys, the team struggle to hunt a killer who seems unstoppable.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1897. Dr. Watson liest mit Begeisterung den gerade erschienenen Roman "Dracula" von Bram Stoker. Als wenig später in London eine blutleere Leiche gefunden wird, glaubt Watson an Vampire. Und dann begegnet ihm im Londoner Nebel ein Werwolf. Gemeinsam mit Sherlock Holmes, dem messerscharf deduzierenden Meisterdetektiv aus der Baker Street, begibt sich Watson auf eine phantastische Irrfahrt.

Maggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life. That is, until Maggie starts looking into her family tree. In doing so, she uncovers a dark mystery that endangers her children. She has to solve the mystery in the past, if she is to save her family in the present. Together with a fellow genealogist, Zelah, Maggie unearths more and more details about the drowning of a small girl and the unsolved disappearance of Maggie's ancestor.

Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he’s meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away—with his little girl inside. When he finally gets home after the worst day of his life, the house is empty. His wife is gone too. The place is ransacked and the kitchen is streaked with blood.

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.

When Charlie and her team of investigators are asked to take on a seemingly impossible case―to identify and thwart an attack on the upcoming Detroit Auto Show―it takes a $100K incentive and the help of a dozen freelancers for Charlie and her crew to unravel a twisted plot that runs through several countries and many more bank accounts. But finding out who’s behind the intricate plot only solves half the problem. Charlie and her crew are drawn into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as they try to locate dozens of hidden bombs before they can be detonated.

Under a starless winter night in rural Cornwall, four killers dressed in bizarre folkloric garb brutally invade the home of the wealthy West family. They destroy the posh house and kill the terrified family. All but one: Traumatized 17-year-old Simon manages to escape, fleeing through snowy woods. Later, fears that he’s an active target of madmen or criminals lead the police to once more come knocking on Tom Killgannon’s door: Will he watch over Simon until a more secure place is found for the boy?

Nachdem es in Palästina zu einer Reihe von Anschlägen auf Einrichtungen der osmanischen Verwaltung kommt, erhält Sherlock Holmes einen Auftrag der britischen Regierung: Er soll mit Dr. Watson nach Jerusalem reisen, um die Täter aufzuspüren und eine weitere Destabilisierung der Region zu unterbinden.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.

Vier spannende und geheimnisvolle neue Abenteuer mit Sherlock Holmes und seinem Freund Doktor Watson.

There are around 40 murders per day in the United States. It's not often that they are related. On a cold night in the suburbs of Philadelphia, an attorney returns home from a long day at work only to be gunned down getting out of his car. Two hours later and 20 miles away in southern New Jersey, a truck driver is shot while making a late night delivery. When the sun rises the next morning, many more unexplained homicides plague the Tri-State area.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is the second published collection of short stories featuring the famous consulting detective and his friend and colleague Dr. Watson.

Серед численних злочинів і таємничих історій, майстерно розплутаних Шерлоком Голмзом, особливо виділяється історія про Пса Баскервілів, в якій переплелися реальність і вигадка, і для розгадки якої було потрібне не лише логічне мислення знаменитого детектива. Цього разу він розв'язує загадкову та містичну справу: за жахливих обставин вмирає власник Баскервіль-холу сер Чарлз. Усе сходиться на тому, що його смерть спричинила поява якогось адського створіння, яке переслідує Баскервілів уже не одне століття.

Arthur Nakai, now armed with his newly minted private investigator license, has visitors at his doorstep on White Mesa. Melanie Manygoats and her young son arrive on a cold winter’s day asking him to locate her missing daughter, whom she fears has become one of the stolen. Arthur accepts and soon finds himself wading through the world of teenage prostitution where he discovers April has already been sold into the darker, more horrifying world of human trafficking and sexual slavery.

Some mysteries don't solve themselves.... The trail seems never ending. Sadie Turnberry had played her cards close to her chest, but she's not the main target anymore. Another name whispers in the wind. A name with no background but a whole lotta legacy. Dick has caught a whiff of the endgame and now he can't let go, no matter who gets in his way. Accompanied by a fabled mercenary slash assassin-for-hire, Valentina Winters, Dick is about to bring the whole system crumbling down on itself.