Amateur Detectives Mystery

London, 1556. Hal Westmecott, one of the city's most feared executioners, reckons Jack Blackjack owes him a favour - and now he's come to collect his dues. Hal has ordered Jack to track down his long-lost son. But when Jack's search draws him to the attention of a ruthless nobleman, a dead priest's vengeful brother and finally to a bloodstained body in a filthy lodging house, he comes to realise he is an unwitting pawn in a mesh of schemes dreamed up by the most powerful people in England. Just who is a friend, who is a foe - and will Jack escape with his life intact?

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for Christmas. Adrian Carthallow, enfant terrible of the art world, is no stranger to controversy. But this time it's not his paintings that have provoked a blaze of publicity - it's the fact that his career has been suddenly terminated by a bullet to the head. Not only that, but his wife has confessed to firing the fatal shot.

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first original novel to feature Ben the Cockney tramp, the unorthodox detective character created by J. Jefferson Farjeon, author of Mystery in White. Strange things are happening in the untenanted houses of Jowle Street. There are unaccountable creakings and weird knockings on the door of no.29, where a homeless ex-sailor has taken up residence.

Questo volume raccoglie i dodici racconti preferiti da Agatha Christie all'interno della sua vasta produzione. Dodici miniature di altrettanti drammi umani ai quali assistono due insoliti spettatori: l'anziano signor Satterthwaite, pigro ma osservatore attento e curioso della vita che gli si svolge attorno, e il suo misterioso amico Harley Quin.

When newlyweds Agnes and Andrew Kinghof are present for the discovery of an over-ripe corpse in the air-raid shelter of their apartment building, the two set out to put their amateur detective skills to work. The dead man's sister is nearly frightened to death by the appearance of a grinning pig's head outside her window, and she claims to be threatened by someone calling himself 'The Pig'. The newlyweds deduce that it must be someone who lives in the same apartment building.

Crime writer and reluctant sleuth Ethelred Tressider is handed his strangest case yet. Crime reviewer Henry Holiday is an unlikely murderer who’s convinced he’s killed somebody but doesn’t know who or when. Worryingly, Crispin Vynall, another crime writer who Henry had been drinking with, has vanished. After agreeing to help, Ethelred received a death threat. His impervious agent Elsie Thirkettle encourages Ethelred to continue since it is well worth risking death in exchange for a few good reviews.

December 1940. With the Blitz devastating Britain’s cities, Lizzie Hayes and the women pilots of the Air Transport Authority are more crucial to the war effort than ever before. But when the relative peace of the village of Scotney is shattered by the disappearance of the Chief Inspector’s niece, it’s Lizzie’s training as a psychologist that draws her into another disturbing police case alongside DI Jonathan Kember.

It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists.

So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei fro….

In the charming Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, the stage is set for murder. When a troupe of actors arrive in Scarborough to perform a murder mystery play and book into the Seaview Hotel, it's only a matter of time before amateur sleuth Helen Dexter and her trusty greyhound, Suki, are playing the roles of detectives once again.

Liz McLuckie has retired to Whitby—a picturesque fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast—to recover after the death of her husband. But Whitby isn’t the peaceful retreat she imagined. When one of her friends is accused of poisoning the town mayor, Liz is determined to clear her name. She suspects someone has deliberately triggered the mayor’s fatal allergy, but who? The mystery deepens further when the mayor’s body is stolen the night before his funeral. Who would do such a thing? And why? Liz is determined to get to the bottom of it all.

Mark Ablett is hosting all his friends at his English country house when he receives a letter from his estranged brother, Robert, announcing Robert's intention to arrive from Australia. Not long after his arrival, Robert turns up dead, his body found with a bullet wound to the head, and Mark is nowhere to be seen. Antony Gillingham and his friend Bill Beverly play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve this whodunnit mystery. This is Milne's only mystery novel.

As an ex-star of a hit teen detective show, Maizie Albright gets the youth demographic, or so she thought. Now that she’s adulting, today’s kids make Maizie feel out of date. But at least the teen YouTube stars of Bigfoot Trackers want to hire her to look into the disappearance and possible murder of their producer, a murder the police find as likely as Bigfoot.

"Im Grunde bin ich ein Naturwissenschaftler, den es reizt, Abstecher in die trügerische Literaturwissenschaft zu unternehmen. Das erkennen Sie auch an meinem klaren und präzisen Verstand." England Ende der 40er Jahre. Oxford-Professor und Exzentriker Gervase Fen, wie er selbst betont, der einzige Literaturwissenschaftler der Kriminalliteratur, der je Detektiv wurde, hat es sich in den Kopf gesetzt, Lokalpolitiker zu werden. Das Dörfchen Sanford, in das es ihn für seinen Wahlkampf verschlägt, erscheint zunächst ruhig und friedlich. Doch der Schein trügt.

England in den 40er Jahren. Beim Oxforder Opernensemble steht die erste Aufführung von Wagners Meistersingern nach dem 2. Weltkrieg auf dem Plan. Eine der Hauptrollen übernimmt der überaus begabte, aber ebenso unbeliebte Sänger Edwin Shorthouse. Jedenfalls, bis man ihn nach einer Probe erhängt in seiner Garderobe findet. Selbstmord? Wohl kaum. Schon bald danach kommt es zu einem zweiten Mord. Der Tote war ein junger Chorsänger und aufstrebender Opernkomponist. Oxford Professor und Amateurdetektiv Gervase Fen ist ratlos und steht vor einem Rätsel.

Miss Marple auf Mörderjagd. Anonyme Briefe sorgen für böses Blut in dem Provinzstädtchen Lymstock. Hinzu kommen zwei mysteriöse Todesfälle und die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Nur Miss Marple, die zufällig gerade in Lymstock zu Besuch ist, gelingt es mit ihren unkonventionellen Methoden schließlich, hinter die Fassade der Wohlanständigkeit zu blicken und den Täter zu entlarven.

Miss Marple er Agatha Christies amatørdetektiv, hvis evner altid undervurderes, fordi hun udadtil bare ligner en sød og lettere påtrængende gammel dame. Miss Marple optræder i 12 af Agatha Christies romaner og adskillige noveller, og det er hendes nysgerrighed og menneskekundskaber, der som regel resulterer i opklaringen af selv de mest indviklede sager – altid til politiets store forbavselse.

When Time in a Bottle, St. Louis's premiere craft store, is slated for demolition, Kiki is forced to confront her deep-rooted aversion to change. But before she can move, the new building must be made ADA compliant. When a long-sealed wall is breached during renovations, a grim secret is revealed. Determined to uncover the truth and provide closure for the innocent life lost, Kiki becomes entangled in a whirlwind investigation that spans decades. With her unyielding spirit and tenacious curiosity, she unravels a web of secrets, deceit, and heartbreak that has haunted this house for years.

Nikki Dymtryk is Hollywood's hottest reality TV star, known for her wild party lifestyle and prolific sexual conquests. But when the ratings for her show Being Nikki begin to drop, the Dymtryk family engineers a new plan to keep Nikki in the limelight: reinventing the young star as a bestselling author. Nikki's team hires Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag to ghostwrite a steamy romance novel showcasing the glitz and glamor of the Hollywood elite.

Simply wonderful: Mit dem "Marlow Murder Club" ist der gute alte englische Krimi zurück! Die siebenundsiebzigjährige Judith Potts lebt allein in einem Herrenhaus im idyllischen Marlow und arbeitet als Kreuzworträtsel-Autorin. Sie genießt ihren beschaulichen Alltag mit gelegentlichem Nacktschwimmen in der Themse. Ihr Leben wird jedoch auf den Kopf gestellt, als sie Zeugin eines Mordes auf dem Nachbargrundstück wird. Weil es weit und breit von der Leiche keine Spur gibt und die Polizei den Fall nicht ernst nimmt, beginnt Judith, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln.

17 juillet 2011. Désiré Bugeard, un notaire parisien unanimement apprécié, disparaît après avoir trucidé son épouse et trois de leurs quatre enfants. Juin 2012. Alors que le notaire et son fils aîné semblent avoir disparu à jamais, un SDF toxicomane est retrouvé mort dans une rue de Paris. Avec, au poignet, la Rolex du notaire. Octobre 2013 : Dimitri Boizot se lance dans une enquête sur l'affaire Bugeard à la demande d'un éditeur qui veut publier un livre sur le sujet.