Traditional Police

When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party at that popular nightclub, the Naxos, he was startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed was a corpse. There was nothing to show the identity of the dead man or the cause of his death. At the inquest, the jury found a verdict of ‘death from natural causes’ - perhaps they were right, but yet?

A Deadly Hunt. DS ‘Heck’ Heckenburg has been tasked with retrieving one of the UK’s most wanted men. But the trail runs cold when Heck discovers a videotape showing the fugitive in a fight for his life. A fight he has no chance of winning. A Dangerous Game. Heck realises that there’s another player in this game of cat and mouse, and this time they’ve not just caught the prize: they’ve made sure no one else ever does.

Этюд в багровых тонах — детективная повесть знаменитого английского писателя Артура Конана Дойла, опубликованная в 1887 году. Именно в этом произведении впервые появляется Шерлок Холмс. В пустом доме убит американец по имени Енох Дреббер. На стене рядом с его телом полиция обнаруживает странное послание...

In Kopenhagen ermitteln Jeppe Kørner und Anette Werner. In der dänischen Hauptstadt werden sie immer wieder mit schockierenden Fällen konfrontiert: Eine junge Studentin wird erstochen und gebrandmarkt in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden, die Leiche eines jungen Mannes wird in einer Müllverbrennungsanlage entdeckt und der Modezar Alpha Bartholdy liegt, verätzt von einer unbekannten Substanz, tot auf der Straße. Besonders brisant ist ein Mordfall, der ganz Kopenhagen beschäftigt: Im ältesten Brunnen der Stadt, inmitten der Fußgängerzone, wird eine Leiche gefunden.

Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty’s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt’s orders are to protect—at all costs—the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. The distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha’s lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself

In una fredda e nebbiosa notte milanese, il commissario De Vincenzi riceve la visita del suo vecchio amico di collegio, Giannetto Aurigi, visibilmente agitato dopo una serata alla Scala. Poco dopo, De Vincenzi viene chiamato sulla scena di un omicidio: il banchiere Mario Garlini è stato trovato morto per un colpo di pistola nell’appartamento di Aurigi. Quest’ultimo, che doveva una grossa somma di denaro al banchiere, diventa il principale sospettato. Tuttavia, De Vincenzi sa che le apparenze possono ingannare e che la verità potrebbe essere più complessa di quanto sembri.

„Wer zur Hölle bringt denn eine alte Nonne um?“ Inspector MacGregor versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Im Highland-Kloster Brookside Abbey hat man die halbblinde und beinahe taube Benediktinerin Hulda ermordet. Die Ermittlungen sind in vollem Gange, als ein weiteres Opfer, diesmal ein Priester jenseits der siebzig, tot in seinem Bett im Pfarrhaus aufgefunden wird. Hat es der Mörder etwa auf schottische Katholiken abgesehen? Oder handelt es sich um einen Zufall? Dann taucht ein altes Tagebuch auf und wirft plötzlich ein ganz anderes Licht auf die Morde.

If Alison Girling, former principal of England's Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe scour the ivory tower for answers, they discover that the shady faculty and creepy student body have more to bury than just one corpse. Try two-and counting.

The discovery of a dead body is nothing new for Detective Simon Grave, but when the body and the murderer are both invisible, well, that's another matter entirely, even in the futuristic town of Crab Cove. The question is whether he and his human and android team are up for the challenge, which also remains to be seen. Making his job even more difficult is the sudden retirement of Captain Henry Morgan, who taps Grave as acting chief.

Dies ist der fünfte Band von den neuen Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes: Über Jahre hinweg begleitete Dr. John H. Watson seinen Freund und Kompagnon Sherlock Holmes bei der Aufklärung einer Vielzahl von Verbrechen und Geheimnissen. Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. Davon zeugen die schriftlichen Notizen Watsons, die dieser gewissenhaft angelegt hat, und in denen von den Abenteuern von Sherlock Holmes erzählt wird.

When Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow is called to Kirkdale Castle to investigate the death of a handsome racehorse trainer during a shooting party, he’s immersed in painful childhood memories. His father had been shot in the line of duty at Kirkdale, but his killer was never apprehended. Shadow suspects the two deaths may be linked and is determined to discover the truth, but dealing with the aristocracy is more complicated than he bargained for and the inhabitants of Kirkdale Castle are as unhelpful as ever.

When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families - makers of some of the world's most coveted supercars - and discovers that beneath the glitz and glamour of the Formula One circuit lurk sinister interests that may be prepared to kill to keep their secrets. Time and tide wait for no man - or woman - and while biology obliges one of Faidate Investigations' team to finally undergo a long-delayed operation, history catches up with another.

Somewhere between the fact and fiction Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest creation stole the soul of Jeremy Brett, the actor who would become the embodiment of the Baker Street sleuth. The Curse of Sherlock Holmes follows Jeremy as he fights for his sanity and his life. This is the full script of the play by Dhanil Ali.

Peter Maxwell didn't want to attend the GNVQ course. He didn't want to get mixed up in murder either - but perhaps it was all part of death's rich tapestry. And while a disparate gathering of teachers was breaking ice upstairs at the Carnforth Centre, someone else was in the basement - breaking skulls. But what the killer couldn't have foreseen was that one of the victims was an old flame of Maxwell's. So now it was personal. And when 'Mad Max' takes something personally, he doesn't get madder - he gets results.

Bazza Mackenzie, Pompey’s top criminal, is now beyond reach of DI Joe Faraday. Hungry for power and profile, Bazza decides to stand for Portsmouth North in the general election. And his campaign is taking the city by storm. But politics is an expensive business and so Bazza turns to ex-cop Paul Winter to call in a multi-million pound drug debt. Winter, though, is facing a nightmare of his own and knows his time with Bazza has to end.

No one liked Jake Kinsey. A rich man, he turned up out of nowhere, acquired Exmouth’s trophy penthouse flat, and then bought his way into the local rowing club. And now he’s dead. D/S Jimmy Suttle, a newcomer to the Devon and Cornwall force from his old job on Major Crimes in Portsmouth, is the one detective who suspects that Kinsey has been killed. His boss, beset by budget cuts and the pressure of other cases, needs to move on. The enquiry is dead in the water.

St Benjamin's Medical School is the greatest of its kind, any death occurring within its walls would have created ripples within the academic world, but the death of Nikki Exner is far from being ordinary. Raped, and then grotesquely executed, her theatrical murder horrifies everyone. John Eisenmenger, a former forensic pathologist, finds himself dragged unwillingly into the case. Teaming up with solicitor Helena Flemming, Eisenmenger sets out to discover what really did happen to Nikki Exner.

Past midnight, a horribly mutilated body is found on a road in Portsmouth. The victim has been killed in a hit-and-run. On the evidence, DI Faraday’s latest case seems cut and dried; the dead man had been responsible for the bullying and murder of a boy from his estate. Bazza Mackenzie, the city’s drug lord, has a job for ex-cop Paul Winter. His daughter is having an affair with a high-ranking policeman and he wants Winter to investigate.

John Sagan is a forgettable man. You could pass him in the street and not realise he's there. But then, that's why he's so dangerous. A torturer for hire, Sagan has terrorised - and mutilated - countless victims. And now he's on the move. DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg must chase the trail, even when it leads him to his hometown of Bradburn - a place he never thought he'd set foot in again. But Sagan isn't the only problem. Bradburn is being terrorised by a lone killer who burns his victims to death.

When a body is discovered on a nudist beach, the struggling seaside resort of Milhaven is thrust into the media spotlight. Fortunately, Inspector Hope has just arrived at the sleepy coastal town, much to the annoyance of brassy Detective Sergeant Elaine Carver. Forced to work together, the temperamental Carver and rather prudish Hope delve into the dead man's past and uncover a darker side to the goings on at the seemingly innocent nudist resort.