Historical Womens Mystery

It is the last night before Watson’s second wedding. Holmes tells Watson of his utter vanquishment by an adversary he never met in a tale set in 1880s Germany and featuring Goethe, Beethoven, Karl Benz, and Bertha Benz. By the end of this story, the listener would have found out about Holmes’ role in the invention of the motor car, powered flight, and the mobile phone, as well as his involvement in the discovery of a 10th symphony of Beethoven.

Alma Täuber ermittelt zwischen rauschenden Festen und Ägyptenfieber - der zweite Fall für das Fräulein vom Amt. Baden-Baden 1924. Die ganze Stadt befindet sich im Ägyptenfieber, seit bekannt ist, dass im Kurhaus Verdis Aida aufgeführt wird. Die anschließende Premierenfeier unter dem Motto Legenden des Nil wird zum rauschenden Höhepunkt, der jedoch ein abruptes Ende findet, als der Tenor ermordet vor dem Eingang des Palais Hamilton aufgefunden wird.

Berlin, 1926. Hulda Gold ist in einer schwierigen Lage: ledig, schwanger und ohne Auskommen. Zum Glück bietet ihr die junge Ärztin Grete Fischer an, als Helferin in ihrer kleinen Praxis auf der Roten Insel einzuspringen. Dort behandeln sie vornehmlich Arbeiterfrauen und sehen in die Abgründe von Armut und Not. Bald bemerkt Hulda, dass es die Kollegin dabei mit dem Gesetz nicht so genau nimmt. Und dass Grete Kontakte zu einer kommunistischen Gruppe mit radikalen Ansichten pflegt.

Meet Nancy Youngblood, a blithe and vivid heroine of an investigating disposition. When Nancy inherits a minor interest in a factory soon to become vital to the winning of World War II, she sees it as a chance to get closer to Robert Dalhart, who has taken over the factory on his father's death. Nancy has always loved him but because they grew up together on the same block Robert thinks of her as a kid sister. But soon sabotage, murder, and strikes threaten the plant and Robert - who evidence suggests may be the culprit, perhaps as an agent of the German government.

1886 Bannin Bay, Westaustralien: Strände voller glänzender Perlen und Muscheln so groß wie Teller—hier wollen die Brightwells mit Tochter Eliza ihr Glück finden. Zehn Jahre später ist Charles Brightwell der erfolgreichste Perlenfischer der Küste. Eines Tages jedoch kehrt sein Boot ohne ihn zurück, Charles ist spurlos verschwunden. Eliza weigert sich zu glauben, dass ihr Vater tot ist und forscht entschieden nach. Doch in einer Stadt voller Korruption, Vorverurteilung und Erpressung lernt sie schnell: Die Wahrheit wird mehr kosten als Perlen.

Daring law firm investigator Alice White enters the glamorous world of high society in 1950s New York City to take on a gang of confidence artists whose vicious leader has recruited an innocent young man and framed him for a brutal murder to insure his loyalty. Can she beat the boss at his own game, con him out of a fortune, free the youth, and hang the leader in his own frame, without getting herself, the young man, or his girlfriend killed?

Alma Täuber ermittelt zwischen illustren Kurgästen und illegalem Glücksspiel – der erste Fall für das Fräulein vom Amt. Baden-Baden 1922. Das Fräulein vom Amt Alma Täuber liebt ihre Arbeit als Telefonistin und meistert sie mit Geschick und Energie. Gemeinsam mit ihrer besten Freundin Emmi genießt sie es, frei und unbeschwert zu sein und ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu führen. Als Alma bei einer Telefonschalte zufällig den Bruchteil eines Gesprächs mithört, lässt sie die knarzige Stimme des Anrufers, die von einem erledigten Auftrag "bei den Kolonnaden" spricht, nicht mehr los.

Apesar de ser a 34ª na linha de sucessão ao trono inglês, lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie de Glen Garry e Rannoch—Georgie para os íntimos—está totalmente falida. Para continuar se mantendo, ela tem duas opções: se casar com um príncipe com cara de peixe ou se tornar acompanhante de uma tia idosa e reclusa. Georgie se recusa a aceitar qualquer um desses destinos deprimentes e decide ir sozinha para Londres em busca de emprego e liberdade. Mas antes que consiga qualquer um desses caminhos, é convocada para um chá com a própria rainha.

Helen Carter has just landed her first case as a detective: a murder in an abandoned cinema. A mysterious clock-like symbol is drawn on the wall...in blood. Stranger still is what the killer left behind: the business card of an ex-cop. Since being promoted from WPC, Helen is having trouble making her mark in the male-dominated Edinburgh CID, working under Inspector Jack Craven. He’s not happy about having a woman on his team. Witnesses won’t talk to her; her colleagues don’t take her seriously.

Lady Merryweather has had a shocking year. Apprehended for the murder of her husband the year before, and only recently released, she hopes a trip away from London will allow her to grieve. The isolated, but much loved, Cragside Estate in North Northumberland, home of her friends, Lord and Lady Bradbury, holds special memories for her. But, no sooner has she arrived than the body of one of the guests is found on the estate, and suspicion immediately turns on her. Perhaps, there are no friendships to be found here, after all.

New Orleans, 1944. Sabotage—that's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside the secretive Carbon Division be deliberately undermining the factory's war efforts? Raised by her late parents to think logically, she also can't help wondering just what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she assembles day after day have to do with the boats the factory builds....

Clues, quips, and cocktails...that's how Mr. and Mrs. Key always solved crimes. But what happens when their "perfect marriage" falls apart...in the middle of postwar Washington, DC's, most baffling murder?

When newlyweds Sir James and Lady Cecilia Branstoke come to console a widow on the death of her husband, they discover some things don't add up about the death of the young Lord. Worse, a man who won't state his purpose, but is obviously military, wants a carte blanche to search the dead man's library! The sheer effrontery!

Torino, 1935. Mancano poche settimane all'uscita del nuovo numero della rivista di gialli Saturnalia. Anita è intenta a dattilografare con grande attenzione: ormai ama il suo lavoro, e non solo perché Sebastiano Satta Ascona, che le detta la traduzione di racconti americani pieni di sparatorie e frasi a effetto, è vicino a lei. Molto vicino a lei.

On the eve of her father’s wedding, Lady Evangeline, heir to the Ravenhill family name, comes across a secret book that changes everything. Catapulted into the world of the occult, she must unravel the many threads of mystery behind her unstable mother’s suspicious death.

Orphaned as a child, Hortense has had to fight her way to becoming the ton’s favorite private investigator. But for a woman who lives on the edge, the past is never dead. When her former spymaster asks her to find his wastrel brother Jamie, the Marquess of Clare, she thinks it’s just one more job uncovering the ton’s dirty secrets. She has no idea that she’s about to find her future…

War der Tod des Lords wirklich ein skandalöser Unfall? Lady und Zofe ermitteln... England, Frühling 1912. Geplant ist ein erholsames Wochenende auf dem Land, das die junge Lady Christabel von ihrem Kummer ablenken soll. Stattdessen stolpert sie über die Leiche des jüngsten Sohns ihrer Gastgeber. Unterstützt von ihrer weltklugen Zofe Maud begibt sich die begeisterte Leserin von Detektivgeschichten auf die Suche nach Motiv, Mittel und Gelegenheit. Doch wie findet man einen Täter, wenn alle Anwesenden gute Gründe haben, das Opfer zu hassen?

Lady Grace’s bargain with the devil guaranteed the life of the man she will always love, but the price was giving him up forever. Now Matthew has returned to England, and she finds it impossible to let him go. Freed from a hellish prison on the Continent, Matthew Stanford, Marquess of Harrington, retreats to his country manor. His days obsessed with thoughts of exacting revenge upon the man responsible for his captivity.

Eine misslungene Geisterbeschwörung und ein saftiger Skandal - Patricia Peacock und Dogge Sir Tiny stolpern in ihr zweites Abenteuer! Auf dem Silvesterball im Mena Hotel machen Patricia und John mit dem schrulligen Ehepaar Gräfin Walburga und General Huddelston Bekanntschaft. Wenig später bittet die Gräfin sie um Hilfe, denn ihr Gatte wurde entführt. Und das zwei Wochen vor der Goldenen Hochzeit der beiden! Als wäre das nicht schlimm genug, steht auch noch ein saftiger Skandal ins Haus, denn der General verschwand aus dem berühmt-berüchtigten Freudenhaus "Lotusgarten".

Paris, 1399. Scribe Christine de Pizan is sent to the Priory of Poissy by the palace to copy a manuscript for the prioress. But the prioress already has many copyists at the priory, and Christine senses that something is amiss. Her suspicions are confirmed when the prioress reveals that one of the sisters has been found murdered in the cloister.