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RACCONTO LUNGO (39 pagine) - GIALLO - Un furto eclatante e inspiegabile in un villaggio dove resistono leggende e superstizioni. Ma a Sherlock Holmes basta un unico e debole indizio per risolvere il mistero L'astrolabio Sloane, uno dei pezzi pregiati della collezione del British Museum che...

  "Read any good books lately?"   What is so different about the Chapter One Book Club? Why don't they exactly welcome new members? Trench surprisingly discovers that a colleague is already an existing member - so why can't he remember joining? And why doesn't he even seem to know...

Richard Hugh, aka Triple-O Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a lady's man. But then the Americans get the notion that he's been marked for death by a notorious spy killer who...

The Hunters (A police detective Thriller) 'To follow… the brilliantly inspired tracking of Hill's two detectives is a joy, apart from the brainteasing pleasure of accepting the author's challenge to identify the murderer.' London Evening News 'Staunton walked out into the field....

First ever Armchair Detective two-parter: "Events cast shadows before them." Old Tom, most unlike himself, is suddenly fearful of the 'Old Days'. He eagerly looks into Trench's new mystery to take his mind off his worries. The investigation takes Trench and Debsy away from...

Sherlock Holmes was the creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, a British medical doctor, in a novel written in 1887. It became the prototype for a host of private detectives to appear on the literary scene in years to come. The novel where Holmes made his appearance was A Study in Scarlet, and over a period...

Lord William James Delmar was looking around his vast estate for a famous horse racing trophy when murder came knocking on the door. Or did it?  Canadians Monica Goodwood and Erin O'Malley are on an antique buying trip to Torquay in the English Riviera, a region with a well known past in pirates...

A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume is a British tale of espionage.  A murder in the quiet English village of Chippingholt is only the first in a series of trials that will shape the lives of Brenda Scarse and her lover Harold Burton. Who is the mysterious stranger, so closely resembling Brenda's...

In the 19th century, when the British Empire was approaching its zenith, the Victorians began to believe that, with their power and their fabulous wealth, they could do anything. Certain gentlemen became convinced that they could indeed do anything...and get away with it. A noted Harrogate philanthropist...

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to...

Mabel Clarence ist sich sicher: Noch vor ein paar Minuten lag in der Bibliothek des Herrenhauses eine kostümierte tote Frau - erdrosselt mit einem Strick. Doch nun ist sie verschwunden, ohne jede Spur. Und wo keine Leiche, da keine Ermittlungen. Glauben schenkt der älteren Besucherin aus London...

The light of an open doorway beckons through the mist of a London Particular, one of those smothering fogs for which turn-of-the-century London was famous. But in reality - as Sherlock Holmes soon discovers - though the doorway does indeed offer respite from the fog, it also leads to the gruesome...

They called her “Lady Stewart” when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her “Miss Cora “when she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called herself “Mrs. Crane” when she asked Sherlock Holmes to locate her common-law husband, writer Stephen Crane, who’d gone missing in...

When Sir Gilbert Chelford accidentally intercepts a telephone call between his fiancee and another man, he little imagines the consequences that will ensue. For, the next morning, the man in question is found murdered in his study at Willow Cottage. Soon, deep-seated resentments and hidden passions...