Private Detective

Mystery writer, magician, Sherlockian, and sleuth-at-large: that's Sebastian "Mac" McCabe. This collection introduces the series of light-hearted but mysterious adventures of Mac and his brother-in-law as they uncover small-town secrets to solve murders that would stump the great Holmes himself.

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.

For the last nine months New Orleans Private Detective Moses Byone has worked the cases that have the entire Crescent City donning him the Voodoo Detective. Mose and Armond race against time to protect themselves from the terribly dark and malevolent forces threatening them and the beautiful, seductive women of La Petite Fleur Rose.

When private detective Cooper "Coop" Harrington meets record label mogul Grayson Taylor at a swank gathering of country music artists and politicians he never imagines he'll be investigating his brutal murder less than twenty-four hours later. The suspects are plentiful. More than a handful of people could have wanted him dead. Retained by Taylor's widow, Coop works alongside his best friend and Chief of Detectives, Ben Mason. The investigation leads Coop and Ben to scandalous indiscretions, secrets, and hints of corruption that swirl in the midst of their pursuit of the killer.

Buenos Aires, 1985. Inspector Emiliano Vazquez knows the cost of silence. Haunted by the atrocities of Argentina’s Dirty War, he has buried his own complicity deep. But when a grotesque and inexplicable suicide uncovers a mass grave linked to the junta’s war crimes, Vazquez is drawn into a deadly web of secrets, ritual, and manipulation. The victim’s bizarre death appears tied to a missing page from the Devil’s Bible—a medieval text rumoured to hold the key to immortality through unholy devotion.

Tre storie mozzafiato in cui Sherlock Holmes, insieme all'insperabile Dott. Watson, dovrà guardare la morte in faccia per sconfiggere tre astuti e diabolici nemici. Tre sfide giocate sul filo del rasoio tra inseguimenti rocamboleschi, veleni micidiali e travestimenti insospettabili: Sherlock Holmes riuscirà a vincere l'ennesima sfida mortale lanciatagli dai suoi nemici?

Le giornate sonnacchiose che Sherlock Holmes aveva destinato a un periodo di riposo lontano da Londra, sono interrotte all'improvviso da un telegramma che contiene una richiesta d'aiuto. Un onesto borghese del Surrey è stato coinvolto in un oscuro caso di omicidio e il celebre investigatore decide di assisterlo. Si appassiona immediatamente a quello che fin da subito sembra un enigma senza soluzione.

L'intuito del più celebre investigatore del mondo, quello che gli ha permesso di risolvere i più intricati misteri e di smascherare i criminali più spietati, raramente ha fallito. Molto raramente. Le indagini però, a volte possono rivelarsi più complesse di quello che appare, talmente insidiose da mettere in difficoltà anche Sherlock Holmes.

קטן בבניין ישן ליד כיכר דיזנגוף, עם שכנה עורכת דין מתמחה שקופצת לבקר מדי פעם, בת זוג שהוא אוהב וחיים לא רעים בכלל. אבל גֵנים קרביים שירש מאמו אלופת הקרטה ומדוד בעל היסטוריה עשירה בצה"ל מתעוררים בו כשמתקשרים אליו מהבנק, והוא מוצא עצמו משלים הכנסה כחוקר פרטי. הוא מתבקש להתחקות אחר עקבותיו של אדם שנעלם לפני יותר משלושים שנה, ונשאב לתוך תעלומה מפתיעה שמובילה אותו למקומות רחוקים ומסוכנים ומעלה מן האוב פרשה ביטחונית משונה.

Інспектор Скотланд-Ярду Лестрейд просить домомоги Шерлока Холмса у простій на перши погляд справі: знайти людину, яка розбиває гіпсові бюсти Наполеона. Лестрейд висуває припущення, що вони мають справу з божевільним Наполеононенависником, проте Холмс це відкидає. Нарешті Холмс відкриває таємницю. Вони прямують до власника останнього бюсту, де детектив купляє його за 10 фунтів стерлінгів. Після того, як вони покинули здивованого чоловіка, Шерлок Холмс розбиває бюст, і знаходить в уламках дорогоцінний камінь, чорну перлину Борджіа.

In den Räumlichkeiten des japanischen Konsulats in London kommt es zu einem perfiden Mordanschlag. Der zuständige Geheimdienstoffizier wendet sich an Sherlock Holmes, um diplomatische Affären zu vermeiden und den Fall einer raschen Klärung zuzuführen.

Aus Anlass des 50. Thronjubiläums von Queen Victoria gastiert William F. Cody alias Buffalo Bill erstmals mit seiner legendären Wildwest-Show London. So weit, so gut, wären da nicht seltsame Todesfälle, eine Attentatsdrohung und ein leibhaftiger Büffel, der einen undercover-Agenten von Pinkerton zu Tode trampelt. Weil Majestäten und Zelebritäten aus aller Welt zu dem Event erwartet werden, beauftragt Sir Mycroft Holmes vom britischen Geheimdienst seinen Bruder Sherlock, jeden politischen Skandal zu verhindern und einen reibungslosen Ablauf der Feierlichkeiten zu gewährleisten.

Was geschah mit dem jungen Ellis Morton? Sein Halbbruder Sir Peter Clapp-Rothe spricht bei Sherlock Holmes vor und bittet ihn, in dieser Sache tätig zu werden. Angeblich stürzte Ellis vom Dach, als er versuchte, einen Tennisball aus der Dachrinne zu fischen. Doch Ellis war komplett unsportlich, sogar aus gesundheitlichen Gründen gar nicht in der Lage Sport zu treiben. Schon gar kein Tennis. Was also ist in seinem Internat in Lewerbridge wirklich geschehen? Sherlock Holmes reist incognito dorthin - als Musiklehrer getarnt, lernt er das Schulleben von seiner schwärzesten Seite kennen.

Wohlbehalten in New York angekommen, möchte sich Holmes' Leibarzt Doktor Watson auf einige gemütliche Urlaubstage in der "Neuen Welt" einstellen. Doch dazu kommt es nicht. Zeitungsberichte bestätigen, dass ein fürchterlicher Brand aus der jüngeren Vergangenheit noch nicht ganz geklärt ist. Sherlock Holmes würde dies nicht besonders beunruhigen, wenn nicht mehr als hundertfünfzig Menschen damals zu Tode gekommen worden wären.

Noch einen "Ripper"-Mord erwartet Sherlock Holmes. Doch der wird alles andere in den Schatten stellen! Allerdings ist "Jack the Ripper", wie alle Welt den so brutal wirkenden Mörder von Whitechapel längst nennt, durch die große Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit zur Untätigkeit verdammt. Das ändert sich einen letzten grausamen Abend lang, als ganz London auf den unerwarteten Rücktritt des Polizeichefs Sir Charles Warren starrt. Die Chance für den "Ripper", sein Werk zu vollenden - weshalb er sich als sein achtes Opfer am Abend des 8. Novembers 1888 eine wahre "Mary Jane Kelly" sucht.

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream.

Nineteen-year-old college student Eliza Hennessey is trans—and she has a rocky relationship with her father, their new client. Brian's convinced his daughter's vanished, rather than run away, but Fran and Ken aren't so sure she wants to be found. The PI duo investigate, and soon Fran is butting heads with her irritating sort-of-ex-boyfriend Mank at the NYPD, who has what seems to be a similar case on his desk. But not even Fran could guess how tangled their investigations are going to get—or how deep they'll need to dive into murder and mayhem to solve the case!

London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society. As the Countess, she is a married woman, with a conveniently absent husband who doesn’t exist, which allows her far more freedom than being single. When Lord Grendel, from whom she has recovered blackmail letters, is murdered, Albertine is suspect number one—having been the last person to see him.

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The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's. Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.