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Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe reluctantly agrees to accompany her cousin-in-law, Edna Parkinton, on an organized tour beginning in Romania. Marjorie is seeking rest and relaxation after their last trip ended in a murder investigation, but things don't quite go to plan. Their would-be peace is shattered when they encounter an argumentative and annoying sextet that includes a petulant diva. This is made worse when they and the rest of the tour party are detained in Cluj-Napoca after a one of their own is discovered dead at the end of a night at the opera.

Join Frank and Joe Hardy—the crackerjack sleuths of Bayport—in their most melodramatic case yet! A night at the theater explodes into a full-fledged mystery when the Hardy Boys cross paths with the sinister Phantom of the Opera! This masked villain is blackmailing the opera house owners, dropping deadly chandeliers, and worst of all, making toad noises during performances! Who can stop him, if not a fifteen-year-old boy and his slightly older brother?

Daisy Linden and her sister, Frederica, arrive by airship in Santa Fe, capital of the Texican Territories, determined to search for their missing father. But two surprises await them - the authorities' baffling refusal to help and a not-so-chance meeting with snake-oil salesman William Barnicott. To their joy, the Lindens find that their father has indeed been seen in Santa Fe. To their horror, it was an assignation with a cancan dancer in the dead of night.

El edificio de la ópera de París, es un edificio de gran lujo, un verdadero monumento, que tiene la particularidad de haber sido construido sobre un lago subterráneo. Todos los empleados que trabajan en la ópera dicen que el edificio está encantado por un misterioso fantasma que provoca accidentes y que se supone que de vez en cuando aparece en un palco privado que tiene para los conciertos.

Clémence ist voller Vorfreude, als sie zur Pariser Modewoche aufbricht, um ihren Freund Marcus, einen aufstrebenden Modedesigner, zu unterstützen. Doch als die Leiche von Marcus' Assistentin hinter den Kulissen entdeckt wird, verwandelt sich das glamouröse Event in einen Schauplatz des Verbrechens. Plötzlich ist jeder verdächtig: das atemberaubende Supermodel Gabrielle, eine berühmte Makeup-Artistin, der frustrierte Friseur und eine neugierige Modebloggerin, die immer auf der Suche nach dem nächsten großen Skandal ist.

Die rätselhafte Zerstörung zweier Hochhäuser ruft Sherlock Holmes auf den Plan. Er soll gemeinsam mit Dr. Watson und dem Ersten Offizier Tornot einer Zeugin, die der letzten Katastrophe knapp entkommen ist, nähere Informationen entlocken.

Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for 40 years. Until his past comes calling. Mike’s nephew Andrew needs to disappear, and he needs to do it yesterday. Hanging with the wrong kind of friends, he’s seen something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s running for his life with an assassin on his trail.

När Sara Molander får möjligheten att spela fiol i en sommaropera ser hon framför sig en sommar med musik, vin och en paus från småbarnslivet. Men allt vänds upp och ner när en ung kvinna hittas mördad utanför konsertlokalen och sommaren fylls istället med intriger, passion och död. Sara och Sten Nordin, en kommissarie som närmar sig pensionen, möts i jakten på mördaren. Elin Lindberg, född 1981, är en svensk författare, pedagog och violinist. Hon fick idén till sin debutroman, Dödens opera, efter att hon medverkat i en sommaropera som violinist.

Eric possessed many truly brilliant and extraordinary abilities including musical genuis. Being outcast from society for his ugliness, Eric was forced to wander from one country to another. When in France, he worked at fairs demonstrating tricks and ventriloquism. Later he became a bricklayer and was engaged in building the Paris Opera House. Upon completion of the construction, Eric decided to hide from the world in the cellars of the Opera and turned this great building into his own empire.

Clotilde Grossi, detta Clo, è una trentasettenne senza orpelli nel pensare e neanche nel vestire. Nella vita fa la fioraia, vive a Bergamo e il suo negozio si chiama "Ditelo con i fiori". Nessuna meglio di lei sa se è meglio un crisantemo o un gladiolo per ogni occasione. Ma sarebbe un errore immaginarla come un'inguaribile romantica, perché la sua vera passione è il crimine. Vorace consumatrice di romanzi gialli che le vengono spacciati da Nicla Verzetti, la sua amica libraia del negozio di fronte, non riesce a resistere di fronte a ogni notizia di cronaca nera.

Christmas season at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920 features Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in a varied schedule of mostly Italian operas. For members of the Metropolitan chorus, however, the season's main feature is danger. An urn falls on the head of a soprano chorister in Samson and Delilah; a tenor from the chorus is found hanged in a dressing room before the evening's performance of Mefistofele; in I Pagliacci, a trapdoor drops open and three singers fall through.

Die galaktischen Fälle des Sherlock Holmes (Band 2): Der großartige Sherlock Holmes braucht nicht auf die Wiederauferstehung des Fleisches zu warten! Über 200 Jahre nach seinem Ableben benötigt die Crew des Raumschiffes Ultimo-1 dringend einen cleveren Detektiv und reist in die Vergangenheit, um ihn abzuholen. Leicht irritiert vom technischen Fortschritt und teils lockeren Sitten, kann Holmes dennoch seine Logik zielgerichtet einsetzen und knifflige Fälle lösen, denn das Böse lauert immer und überall.

When French Baritone Phillippe Duchon hits a series of low, low, notes that turn the 1915 Metropolitan Opera season into a disaster, soprano Geraldine Farrar and the great Caruso turn their legendary talents to criminal detection.

El fantasma de la Ópera es la historia de un tenebroso personaje, quien, a pesar del tormento que le provoca su fealdad, lucha por vivir para satisfacer su pasión por la belleza.

Private Detective Jazz Singer is enjoying a peaceful card game when a series of deadly explosions rip through the heart of Xeno City. Jazz has friends among the dead and wounded and he vows to make those responsible pay. As the bodies and the questions begin to pile up, along with Jazz’s mounting dinner bill, he is forced to use whatever means necessary to get to the bottom of things. Even if that means putting those he cares about in the line of fire.

Shelby decides to clean out the second floor of the building which had been used by the previous owner as a storage area. While clearing out the large dusty space, she finds a stack of boxes with so much dust on them that she is certain that they'd been there for decades. Shelby opens to boxes and finds items left behind from the owner of the garment factory that had utilized the space half a century ago. During the course of sifting through the old treasures, Shelby finds a journal that appeared to have been left behind by a man who lived in the area in the 1960s and '70s.

Die Ultimo-1 muss einen mysteriösen Passagier in eine Station bringen. Gegenüber Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson behauptet der Mann, von Albträumen gequält zu werden, in denen ein gewisser Cthulhu auftaucht. Nahe der Station steht ein Denkmal dieses bösartigen Wesens und bald gibt es den ersten Toten.

Dank geschenkter Zirkuskarten kommt Dr. Watson in den Genuss einer tollen Vorstellung und Sherlock Holmes zum Lösen merkwürdig erscheinender Mordfälle. Er findet heraus, dass die Täter nicht belangt werden können.

Der Erste Offizier Tornot nimmt an einer Rätselrallye teil und erhofft sich reichlich Gewinn. Als Beifahrer wählt er Sherlock Holmes. Die Rallye entpuppt sich als Tour de Force und verlangt beiden das Letzte ab.

Graf Dracula IV. hat sich auf einem Planeten ein Touristenparadies eingerichtet, jedoch zu wenig Steuer an die Union bezahlt. Das ruft Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf den Plan. Außerdem sollen sie feststellen, wohin viele junge Unions-Bürger verschwunden sind.