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The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head[1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings...

Arriving for work at the Design Studio in the Coach House of Haslop Hall in the Cotswolds, Tracy Yorke finds her boss murdered. The police investigation shows that many people might have had cause to kill Oliver Medway — including Tim Baxter whom Tracy has started to love. She can trust nobody, and...

"What has turned an independent woman into a Stepford Wife?" An old college girlfriend of Sally-Anne's has disturbingly changed since her marriage. Is her friend's controlling husband responsible? Trench and Old Tom have plenty to think about. To help, they must uncover a frightening secret from the past...

"All good things must come to an end." Old Tom begins to realise his time with Trench is nearly over, his work almost complete. But first, there is their most bizarre mystery yet to solve. As new owners prepare to take over the Stokeham Herald, a strange black box sends Trench...

A British car detective steers a ’36 Packard straight into a deadly world of elite family secrets in a series “very much in the tradition of Dick Francis” (Kirkus Reviews). Philip Moxton, a wealthy banker in the west of Kent, is anything but a routine client for Jack Colby, freelance...

In The Scottish Ploy, British sleuth Mycroft Holmes and his associates contend once more with the sinister agents of the secret organization known as the Brotherhood.Seemingly unconnected events pull Mycroft in several directions at once. To prevent the leaders of an anarchist group from reaching...

Inspector George Grimchard of Scotland Yard is the only man to have solved a premeditated murder in the last fifty years without resorting to the testimony of the deceased. Moreover is he the grandson of Edgar Grimchard, disgraced founder of the Department of Irregular Souls, a police department that...

It is 1896. Mrs. Hudson and her colleagues are traveling to Athens to attend the first Olympiad in more than 2000 years. Indeed, Holmes is to participate in the foils competition as a member of Great Britain's Olympic team. But the trip is more than just fun and games. The three members of London's...

GAME OVER:A Detective Investigation on Spiritualism and Life After Death.Through a fictional and entertaining detective investigation, the reader is introduced to the Spiritualist environment: its procedures and its convictions. Science and Spirituality are confronted through a fierce...

A beautiful woman found in the woods, strangled and raped, horrifies Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. But she also feels a shameful twist of relief that the glamorous Corinne Saxon is no longer her rival. While investigating the murder, Kate is forced to suspect her boyfriend, newspaperman...

When an army of freedom fighters takes the entire Beaumont hostage, Chambrun contemplates a commando attack Pierre Chambrun, the elegant manager of the Beaumont Hotel, gets the call just after breakfast: The fifteenth floor has been seized. Armed with guns, grenades, and plastic explosives,...

Still wondering what Sherlock Holmes was doing between his reported death in 1891 and his reappearance in 1894? All the world knew that Sherlock Holmes died at the Reichenbach Falls, tumbling over the jagged cliff in a deadly embrace with his nemesis Moriarty. But for history's greatest detective,...

Very British - drei England-Krimis in einem Band. Diese E-Book-Sonderausgabe beinhaltet dieFälle 4 - 6 der Cosy Crime Serie ′Cherringham - Landluft kann tödlich sein′ - ein Muss für Fans von Miss Marple und Sherlock Holmes! Die Nacht der Langfinger. Zwei Dorfbewohner finden einen Schatz...

Der Schriftsteller Clark Kernick wird brutal erschlagen in seinem Cottage aufgefunden. Für die Polizei ist der Täter schnell gefunden - Harrison Hickery. Dessen Ehefrau hatte eine Affäre mit dem Autor und deswegen ihren Mann verlassen. Als sich Harrison in der Untersuchungshaft das Leben nimmt...