Historical Private Investigators

It's the early 1950s. Ju McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

In post-revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes history. Two hundred years later, Hugo Marston is safeguarding an unpredictable but popular senator who is in Paris negotiating a France/US dispute. The talks, held at a country chateau, collapse when the senator accuses someone of breaking into his room.

When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest-disgraced knight turned detective - begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope.

Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women and desired by men. But she’s also famously insecure and temperamental and is being pilloried in the press for delaying the production of Something’s Got to Give. When the head of Twentieth Century Fox threatens to cancel her contract, Monroe hires “PI to the stars” Nathan Heller to tap her phones and record calls that might affect legal action. Less than three months later, Monroe is dead from an overdose....

Alessandria d'Egitto, I secolo d. C. Per il senatore Publio Aurelio Stazio la metropoli più importante dopo Roma, strategica terra di confine tra Oriente e Occidente, non è solo la città più bella del mondo ma lo scenario della missione segreta che deve compiere per conto dell'imperatore Claudio. Per assicurare un lungo periodo di pace all'Impero, Publio Aurelio deve giocare d'azzardo sul tavolo della diplomazia e negoziare con i Parti, imbattibili guerrieri da sempre nemici dei romani.

The Witch of Maple Park is compelling fiction inspired by a true story. The True Story: On Christmas Eve, 1843, on Staten Island, N.Y., Emeline Houseman and her baby are gruesomely axe murdered and dismembered. Her sister-in-law, Polly Bodine is accused of the crime and branded "The Witch of Staten Island." The New Story: On Christmas Eve, 1993, in a Detroit suburb, Kathy Black Marlowe, a blind jazz singer and her dog, are similarly axe murdered and dismembered. Her sister-in-law, Polly Marlowe, is accused of the killing and branded "The Witch of Maple Park."

February 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three-day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a thirty-three-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice - whatever it costs.

Cave canem , "Attenti al cane". Nelle ville patrizie dell'antica Roma era uso scriverlo all'ingresso dell'abitazione, e non sfugge all'abitudine anche la ricca dimora di Gneo Plauzio, mercante di origini plebee che, dopo aver fatto fortuna con il commercio del pesce, si è trasferito sulle rive del lago Averno. Ma in questo caso, forse, c'è davvero qualcosa a cui stare attenti. Lo scopre il senatore Publio Aurelio Stazio che, di ritorno a Roma dopo avere trascorso un periodo di vacanza a Baia, si ferma ospite di Plauzio.

Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance have weakened the close bond between them, forged in the jungles of India. Then a shocking series of murders in the world of London's gutter press forces them back together. The police seem mysteriously unwilling to investigate.

Nathan Heller is Chicago’s most celebrated private detective, hobnobbing with Hugh Hefner, getting written up in Life magazine, enjoying the fruits of a long career that began in a one-room office and now is a coast-to-coast agency. When he does a small favor for a friend - who handles PR for the Teamsters - Heller runs into an old West Side mob crony, a small-time hustler named Jack Ruby. And when that friend is found dead, warning signals start to flash. Suddenly Jimmy Hoffa wants to talk to Nate...and so does Hoffa’s arch enemy, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Polio disabled Cotton Lee's leg, but not her sexuality, not her mind, and not her ability to connect the murder of her friend Little Mary in 1972 to that of Bead Baker in 1932. Gone on Sunday follows the lives of the Baker family, their black servants, and the townspeople they knew in Homeville, Virginia. Alternating between 1972 and 1932, Cotton Lee's investigation into the murder of Bead Baker brings out secrets kept for decades. Cotton Lee needs to find the solution to the first murder in order to know the history of the second.

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.

It’s the end of 1949, and Denver Private Investigator Dewey Webb is asked to do what seems like a simple thing: Find Jasper Caffrey’s daughter, Nora, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in days. Nora is wild, and trouble seems to find her. Was she the victim of foul play, or has she run away from home? As Dewey hunts for Nora, from the richest sections of the city to the jazz clubs in the Five Points neighborhood, he uncovers secrets about the Caffreys that may explain Nora’s disappearance, and he encounters a cast of characters who all want him dead.

It’s 1949, and Denver private investigator Dewey Webb isn’t thinking about murder. He’s pondering the stack of bills he can’t pay. Then, he runs into an old army acquaintance Roy Jefferson, who is well-dressed, flashing cash, and wanting Dewey’s help. Dewey has his suspicions, however, Roy pays him substantially just to meet him later and hear his problem. Dewey agrees, but before they can talk, Roy dies, an apparent suicide. But is that really the case?

The past has a way of coming back with a vengeance. On an October day in 1949, private eye Dewey Webb’s life is turned upside-down when his long-lost father shows up and asks for Dewey’s help. It seems simple: Find Gus’s friend Len. But is there more to this request than Gus is saying? Dewey puts aside his bitter feelings for the father who abandoned him as a child and begins a hunt for Len, but discovers that Gus and Len have been involved in dangerous illegal activities, and that one of their targets may be after the two men.

It's 1949. World War II is over, but it has a way of haunting people for years to come. Gordon Sandalwood suspects his wife Edith is hiding something from him, and he asks Denver private investigator Dewey Webb to find out what. Dewey, toughened by his own war experiences, reluctantly takes the case, certain it will lead to nothing. But when he sees Edith rendezvous with a mysterious man, Dewey realizes his assumptions might be wrong.

Im vornehmen Londoner Stadtteil Belgravia residiert der Gentlemen's Club Tankerville, zu dessen Mitgliedern auch der Hobby-Astronom und leidenschaftliche Spieler Major Pendergast zählt. Doch im Tankerville Club kommt es zu einem handfesten Skandal, als während eines Kartenspiel-Turniers auffällt, dass Major Pendergast zu unlauteren Mitteln greift. Denn in seinem Ärmel hält er ein paar zusätzliche Karten bereit, um seinem Spielglück etwas auf die Sprünge zu helfen.

Jeremiah Hayling, der eben erst 26-jährige Ingenieur, verschwindet unter mysteriösen Umständen, nachdem er einen überaus vielversprechenden Auftrag angenommen hat. Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes brütet Tag und Nacht über diesem Fall, denn außer einem Zeitungsartikel und einer knappen, handschriftlichen Notiz Haylings scheint es keinerlei weiteren Anhaltspunkte zu geben. Alles, was Holmes zu diesem Zeitpunkt weiß, ist: Im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens scheint eine besondere "Maschine" zu stehen ... und die ist mörderisch...

Es ist schon ein äußerst lukratives Angebot, das Miss Violet Hunter erhält. Die Anstellung als Gouvernante im Haus der Familie Rucastle würde ihr mehr als 100 Pfund jährlich einbringen. Doch ist das Angebot an ganz bestimmte Bedingungen geknüpft, die Violet Hunter sonderbar vorkommen... Sie müsste dafür gewisse Dinge tun, die über ihre normale Tätigkeit als Gouvernante hinausgehen: Man verlangt von ihr, ein blaues Kleid zu tragen, sich die Haare kurz zu schneiden und sich regelmäßig vor einem der großen Panoramafenster des Hauses zu zeigen.

Jedes englische Gemäuer, das etwas auf sich hält, wird angeblich von übersinnlichen Geistererscheinungen heimgesucht. Auch "Learson Castle" scheint sich nun in die illustre Riege jener traditionsbewussten Spukhäuser einzureihen. Zumindest ist Colonel Arthur Warburton plötzlich fest davon überzeugt, eine unheimliche Geisterstimme zu hören, die nach ihm ruft. Auch schwört er Stein und Bein, in schaurigen Gewitternächten eine blasse, körperlose Gestalt gesehen zu haben, die im Schloss umhergeht... Lady Miriam weiß sich bald keinen Rat mehr - verliert Warburton etwa den Verstand?