Showing results for "John" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Hörbuchempfehlung für Mark Dawson Fans: "Der Uhrmacher" von Bestsellerautor Pierre Schreiber - unbedingt anhören! Ein Attentäter, gejagt von den Dämonen seiner Vergangenheit. Zwei junge Flüchtlinge in Schwierigkeiten, die seine besonderen Fähigkeiten brauchen. John Milton ist nicht zum...

This collection includes What Vengeance Comes, Cold Sanctuary, and Crimson Deep.

The Confidential Files of John H. Watson collection contains the following titles: Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Sumatran Rat, Sherlock Holmes and the Father of Lies, Sherlock Holmes and the Nefarious Seafarers, Sherlock Holmes and the Time Machine.

Hörbuchempfehlung für Mark Dawson Fans: "Der Uhrmacher" von Bestsellerautor Pierre Schreiber - unbedingt anhören! Ein Angebot, dem er nicht widerstehen konnte. Ein Mord, an den er sich nicht erinnern kann … John Miltons Leben wird nie wieder dasselbe sein. Der ehemalige Auftragsmörder...

This "rediscovered" Sherlock Holmes adventure recounts the unique collaboration of Holmes and Sigmund Freud in the solution of a mystery on which the lives of millions may depend. Illustration by David K. Stone...

Robert Armitage tells how his friend John Barrington Cowles died in strange circumstances. In the spring of 1879, the two students visited an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. This is where Cowles met a beautiful lady named Kate Northcott, and they instantly fell in love with each other.

Tauchen Sie ein in eine der erfolgreichsten Kriminal-Serien der Welt! Der britische Geheimdienst hat ihn erschaffen - Jetzt wollen sie ihn vernichten. John Milton war ein Attentäter für den britischen Geheimdienst. Er gehörte zur absoluten Elite: kaltblütig, gnadenlos, spurlos. Doch...

Martin Slade wants to bury his past as a saboteur in wartime Denmark and smuggler in postwar Europe. Returning to Denmark as a respectable journalist, he's approached by Birgitte Holtesen, an old flame now married to an elderly trader. Birgitte wants Martin to smuggle something back to English for her - but he refuses. She enlists instead a young musician, Sean Clifford. When Martin returns to England, he's attacked in his flat, and the place is ransacked. And then he learns that Sean has been murdered - and his body horribly mutilated. It's up to him to find the killer.

In the weeks before hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Montreal police are tightening security to prevent another catastrophe like the '72 games in Munich. But it isn't tight enough to stop nearly $3 million from being stolen in a bold daytime Brink's truck robbery. As the high-profile heist continues to baffle the police, Constable Eddie Dougherty gets a chance to prove his worth as a detective when he's assigned to assist the suburban Longueuil force in investigating the deaths of two teenagers returning from a rock concert across the Jacques Cartier Bridge.

The Strange Crime of John Boulnois is a short story by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Mr. Calhoun Kidd was a very young gentleman with a very old face, a face dried up with its own eagerness, framed in blue-black hair and a black butterfly tie. He was the emissary in England of the colossal American daily called The Western Sun—also humorously described as the "Rising Sunset.

When newly-qualified nurse Susan Parry is found dead in her bed in the nurses' home, her colleagues call the police to investigate and Detective Constable Peter Johns finds himself involved in a murder enquiry for the first time in his career. It is not just his career, however, which is dramatically affected by the events that follow.

Learn more about The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes in The West End Horror. Illustration by David K. Stone...

Imagine a Holmes without his Boswell or, as is the case with the audiobook you will soon have to your ears, imagine a Holmes without the voice of Watson. Is there a difference? After all, we have learned about the great detective through that of his loyal companion, his dear friend and his Boswell. What might we be missing? Who else could tell of the great detective’s feats? Find out as today's best Sherlock Holmes authors tell stories from the various perspectives of the other cast of colorful characters and experience Holmes like never before as you go beyond Watson.

Hauptkommissar John Benthien ermittelt wieder in einem Küsten-Kurzkrimi - und diesmal gilt es, den Mord an einer Meerjungfrau aufzuklären! Karfreitag an der Flensburger Förde: Statt Muscheln findet eine junge Familie eine tote Meerjungfrau. Schnell ist die Identität der Nixe geklärt: Julia Rixen aus Sylt. Kommissar John Benthien und sein Freund und Kollege Tommy Fitzen fahren auf die Insel, um mehr über die Hintergründe von Julias Tod zu erfahren.

Als Lilly Velasco von ihrer Jugendfreundin Sonja eingeladen wird, die Weihnachtstage auf deren Hof im Elisenkoog zu verbringen, freut sich die junge Kommissarin zunächst. Aber die Stimmung unter den anderen Freunden und Familienmitgliedern ist von Beginn an äußerst angespannt - und am nächsten Morgen liegen drei der Gäste tot in der Sauna. Lilly ruft John Benthien und Tommy Fitzen zu Hilfe, um den Tod der drei Männer zu untersuchen, und stößt direkt auf das nächste Opfer.

A fictional priest and amateur detective named Father Brown had a face once described “as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling.” This made him appear somewhat clumsy and naïve, but that didn’t take into account his keen understanding of human nature and exceptional intuition. English...

Zwei Füße in alten Hauspantoffeln, Bratkartoffeln und jede Menge Blut - die alte Gertrud Bense liegt erschlagen in der Küche ihres alten Friesenhauses auf Föhr. Und für ihren Sohn Hardy ist auch schon klar, wer die Mörderin ist: Gabi Tammen. Die alleinerziehende Mutter lag im Dauerstreit mit ihrer alten Nachbarin - die gleichzeitig auch ihre Vermieterin war. Doch Kommissar John Benthien und sein Team glauben nicht so ganz an Gabi Tammens Schuld.

An einem heißen Sommertag findet John Benthien am Strand von Westerland die Leiche von Kirsten Behr, die offenbar ihren Urlaub auf Sylt verbracht hat. In ihrer Wohnung stößt der Kommissar auf einen Hinweis, dass sie mit den berühmten Ashbury-Zwillingen bekannt war, die seit einiger Zeit auf Sylt leben. Doch Agnes und Alina Ashbury sind seit einigen Tagen verschwunden und haben etliche Termine zum Erscheinen ihres neuen Buches versäumt!

In this 10-story collection of murder most offbeat, a wedding anniversary party turns deadly for an unlucky housewife, a client’s supposed innocence hangs by a thread after a suicide attempt, a forlorn ballad may contain the key to a mystery, a relatively harmless lady wrestler gets pinned for cracking her husband’s skull, an old flame’s diary reveals a poisonous past, and a surprising obituary forces Malone to investigate his own suspicious death. 

Detective Frank "Giddy" Geddy usually gets his man, and sometimes the girl, too. This isn't one of those times. Ybor City is where the cool people of Tampa go to cut loose and have fun. Getting in to the party is never the problem. Getting out of it sometimes is. In Ybor, you never know what or who you will run into. Between the seedy clubs and bars, in shady back alleys, and at the cigar and tattoo shops - something is for sale on every corner, and there is always trouble within stumbling distance.