Private Detective Fiction

It’s been three days and now everyone in Brighton is looking for her. There is an army of police searching, her picture is on every front page, and the public can’t get enough of it. Gangs of good citizens are going door to door, turning their neighbors’ houses upside down, but still no one can find her. For Brighton’s No.1 Private Detective, Joe Grabarz, it brings back too many memories of his first case, another missing girl, when he learnt too many lessons the hard way.

Shortly after private eye Howard Moon Deer decides to settle down with his latest lady love, he accepts a new case that takes him away from the home front and introduces him to the dangerous passions that drive San Geronimo's thriving art scene. Howard and ex-police commander Jack Wilder have been hired to investigate Sherman Stone, a man notorious for his torrid liaisons and low-life friends. Rumor has it that he's planning to have his wealthy wife killed. But before Howard can separate fact from fiction, a local hobo is murdered, and then Sherman himself meets an untimely end.

The shocking suicide of Beth Daniels' father - a prominent surgeon - has thrown the FBI agent into a tailspin. But when Beth heads to Saint Augustine, Florida, for the funeral, she'll need more than the emotional support of her boyfriend, retired detective Jon Lancaster. She'll need his gut instinct for solving a mystery. No sooner do they arrive than suspicions are aroused. There's the pair of Russians who seem to be watching every move the family makes

Victor Silvius has spent nine years as an inmate at The Grange, a private sanatorium, for the crime of attacking judge Sir Giles Drury. Now, the judge's wife, Lady Elspeth Drury, believes that Silvius is the one responsible for a series of threatening letters her husband has recently received. Eager to avoid the scandal that involving the local police would entail, Lady Elspeth seeks out retired stage magician Joseph Spector, whose discreet involvement in a case Sir Giles recently presided over greatly impressed her.

Charity Deacon, private investigator, agrees to follow a client’s husband. Prove if he’s cheating or not, that’s the gig. It’s the "or not" that puts her on a collision course with the dangerous world of gangsters and human trafficking. To protect her client and the woman’s child safe, Charity must face down the biggest mob in Vancouver.

Jack Franklin ist eine Koryphäe auf dem Gebiet der Detektivkunst. Durch sein kriminalistisches Genie hat er gemeinsam mit seinem Gehilfen Pat Murry auf allen Kontinenten erfolgreich gegen das Verbrechen gekämpft. In Nebraska stoßen sie auf ein mordendes Ungetüm und in der Grenzregion zu Kanada muss das Rätsel um einen mysteriösen Doppelmord gelöst werden. In diesem Band stecken fünf aufregende Fälle für den Weltdetektiv Jack Franklin.

Eine schreckliche Tragödie hat vor den Toren von New York stattgefunden. Ein junger Mann hat seinen Vater ermordet und scheint vollkommen durchgedreht zu sein. Sherlock Holmes wird von der Mutter des armen Kerls kontaktiert. Holmes und Dr. Watson machen sich also auf den Weg nach Amerika. Dort treffen sie den Ganoven Tammany Hall und - niemand wird das jemals mit voller Gewissheit sagen können - einem Geist, der an der Westküste vor allem unter dem Namen Sleepy Hollow bekannt geworden ist.

There are around 40 murders per day in the United States. It's not often that they are related. On a cold night in the suburbs of Philadelphia, an attorney returns home from a long day at work only to be gunned down getting out of his car. Two hours later and 20 miles away in southern New Jersey, a truck driver is shot while making a late night delivery. When the sun rises the next morning, many more unexplained homicides plague the Tri-State area.

The Reigate Squires was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Reigate Squire twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous case in France. Holmes finds that his services are needed here, but he also finds that his recent illness serves him well. His host is Colonel Hayter.

The Final Problem is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's archenemy, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked The Final Problem fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories. Holmes arrives at Dr. John Watson's residence one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with grazed and bleeding knuckles.

The Greek Interpreter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally serialised in Strand Magazine in 1893. This story introduces Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. Doyle ranked The Greek Interpreter seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

No longer a chief inspector, Chen Cao finds himself as director of the Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office. To outsiders, it’s a promotion, but Chen knows he’s being removed from the spotlight as he’s immediately placed on involuntary "convalescence leave" to stop him interfering with any cases. However, with various high-profile crimes making headlines and fears escalating over vigilante reprisals, Chen’s superiors know he must at least appear active.

Ein Fall, in dem Sherlock Holmes über die Welt der Pulp Fiction und das Geheimnis des Teufels von St. James schlussendlich das Ziel seiner Ermittlungen erreicht: das Feuer der Hölle.

Nicht einen Moment glaubt der berühmte Privatdetektiv Sherlock Holmes daran, dass es sich bei den irrlichternden Phantomen, die angeblich die Ostsee-Insel Hiddensee heimsuchen, um die Geister der Wikinger handelt, deren Goldschatz vierzig Jahre zuvor ebendort gefunden wurde. Dennoch nimmt er den Auftrag des Museums in Stralsund an, in dem der spektakuläre Goldfund verwahrt wird.

Invitato a recarsi in Francia per proteggere un uomo minacciato da un pericolo ignoto, all'arrivo Poirot scopre che il suo cliente è già stato assassinato. E scopre anche che il crimine è stato compiuto seguendo lo stesso metodo di un assassinio di molti anni prima e che l'uomo ucciso, pur amando teneramente la moglie, era legato a una donna affascinante ed enigmatica. L'arrogante e iperattivo ispettore Giraud ha i suoi sospetti ma, come al solito, sarà Poirot a dire l'ultima parola.

War der Tod in Meiringen nur Zufall? Nein! Wie Holmes seinem Freund Watson hier nun erklärt, hat die tödliche Begegnung mit Moriarty dort stattfinden müssen. Alles wird also klar, und nun lebt Moriarty nicht mehr. Sein hinterlistiges Wirken ist jedoch nicht erloschen. Skrupellose Hintermänner sind noch am Werk. Andere, erschreckende Taten werden noch geplant. Warum wirkt ein brutaler Mord in der riesigen Ausstellungshalle des Londoner Crystal Palace so verhängnisvoll? Was ist es, dass hier aufzuflammen droht? Und wer sind die Erben Moriartys? Werden Holmes and Watson dahinterkommen?

War der Tod in Meiringen nur Zufall? Nein! Wie Holmes seinem Freund Watson hier nun erklärt, hat die tödliche Begegnung mit Moriarty dort stattfinden müssen. Alles wird also klar, und nun lebt Moriarty nicht mehr. Sein hinterlistiges Wirken ist jedoch nicht erloschen. Skrupellose Hintermänner sind noch am Werk. Andere, erschreckende Taten werden noch geplant. Warum wirkt ein brutaler Mord in der riesigen Ausstellungshalle des Londoner Crystal Palace so verhängnisvoll? Was ist es, dass hier aufzuflammen droht? Und wer sind die Erben Moriartys?

Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in welchem die Figuren Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auftauchen. Die Geschichte wurde erstmals zwischen September 1914 und Mai 1915 im englischen Strand Magazine veröffentlicht und erschien als Buchausgabe in London und New York 1915. Der Haupthandlungsstrang, welcher im ersten Teil beschrieben wird, spielt im Jahre 1888 in der englischen Grafschaft Sussex, während der zweite Teil aus einer Rückblende in das Jahr 1875 besteht. Der zweite Teil ist geographisch im amerikanischen Pennsylvania angesiedelt.

After narrowly escaping with his life at the hands of a murderous Hollywood pimp, detective Happy Doll, bullet-ridden but healing, has landed on a remote Mexican beach. In a humble shack and with his dog for company, Doll settles into a peaceful idyll of Buddhist study. But then trouble, as it always does, comes to paradise. Doll is the witness to a murder for which he is framed, and now, with an expired passport and the Mexican authorities on his tail, he must sneak across the border back to L.A. by any means necessary, with the goal of bringing the true murderer to justice.

In his decades as an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has never shied away from violence, and he’s had more than his share of close calls. Time's catching up with him, his body's slowing down, and his wit isn't as sharp as it used to be. But he will forgo retirement once more for the sake of a puzzle no detective could resist. Walking on the beach, a friend finds a bedraggled child who claims he's witnessed a murder. The victim is a drug-addicted pop star, and the obvious suspect is the dead man’s ex-girlfriend - a junkie whom the child saw standing over the body.