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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton is one of the most memorable and morally complex tales in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Charles Augustus Milverton is London's most notorious and repulsive blackmailer, who ruins lives by extorting money from the wealthy using stolen compromising letters. A desperate client hires Holmes to retrieve her letters before Milverton can ruin her upcoming marriage. Holmes and Watson go undercover and eventually burgle Milverton's heavily guarded villa at night in one of the few times Holmes deliberately breaks the law.

In The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Inspector Lestrade consults Sherlock Holmes about a peculiar series of incidents—someone is smashing plaster busts of Napoleon across London. The first bust is destroyed in Morse Hudson's shop, and two more, previously sold to Dr. Barnicot, are also smashed after burglaries at his home and office. Holmes observes the pattern of the smashed busts and deduces that the destruction is not random but connected to a hidden object inside the busts.

The Adventure of the Three Students is a clever, university-set story from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While staying in Cambridge, Holmes is consulted by Hilton Soames, a tutor whose rooms were broken into the night before a major Greek scholarship examination. The proof sheets of the exam paper had been partially copied, and three students living in the same building are the prime suspects: the athletic Gilchrist, the Indian student Daulat Ras, and the idle McLaren.

Der Commissario auf sich allein gestellt – Luca Brassonis achter Fall "Sein Plan war aufgegangen. Er war mitten in der Dunkelheit durch die engen Gassen der Stadt geschlichen, einzig seine Taschenlampe warf ein schwaches Licht auf den Weg. Finsternis, dunkle Finsternis umgab die Häuser in Venedig." Ein merkwürdiger Stromausfall verdunkelt ganz Venedig. Mehr als eine halbe Stunde lang liegt die gesamte Lagunenstadt in völliger Finsternis. Am nächsten Morgen wird Commissario Luca Brassoni – wie immer begleitet von seinem Hund Picco – zu einem grausamen Mord gerufen.

Als Oscar Wilde wieder einmal dabei ist, sich mit den Akten der ungelösten Fälle zu beschäftigen, fällt ihm eine Karte entgegen. Auf dieser ist vermerkt, dass sie den Weg zum "Buch des Grauens" weist. Zwar hat Wilde nicht die geringste Ahnung, was es mit dem "Buch des Grauens" auf sich hat. Doch seine Neugier ist geweckt.

Don Paico, viejo vagabundo, ha engañado por años a campesinos de la zona con su historia de la mano pegada. Sin embargo, el nuevo juez de la región, don Simón Antonio, consigue desenmascararlo.

A munitions factory. A managing director who can't stop talking. And a guest who appears to understand absolutely nothing about steel. Appearances, as ever with Roger Sheringham, are not to be trusted. Wartime England keeps its secrets close — except, perhaps, from the one visitor everyone assumes isn't paying attention. Anthony Berkeley at his wittiest: deduction with a wink.

In einer Stadt, in der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart aufeinanderprallen, könnte die Lösung des Geheimnisses des Talismans weitreichende Folgen für die Lebenden und die Toten haben. Im Teesalon SereniTea bereiten sich April May und ihre Assistentin auf ihren wohlverdienten Urlaub vor. George und Pearl, zwei schelmische Geister aus den 1920er Jahren, scheinen entschlossen zu sein, Aprils sorgfältig geplante Welt auf den Kopf zu stellen. Als ob das noch nicht genug wäre, nehmen die Dinge eine düstere Wendung, als April und Jennifer in New Orleans ankommen.

Autumn arrives in the Cotswolds, and amateur writer and bookseller Sophie Sayers is looking forward to a cozy Halloween at the village bookshop. But the season takes a sour turn when the new vicar bans the festivities altogether. Instead, he demands a sinister Guy Fawkes bonfire, sparking local outrage. When a body is found at the bonfire site just before the fire is lit, the celebration turns dangerously hot.

A meticulously crafted Golden Age detective story from the legendary Dorothy L. Sayers. When a prominent figure is found dead inside a hermetically sealed study—with doors locked from the inside and no weapon in sight—the local police quickly rule it a tragic suicide. However, the brilliant and aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey notes minute anomalies that others miss. Guided by sharp wit, deductive reasoning, and psychological insight, Wimsey must unravel an ingenious method of murder and expose a killer hidden within a highly deceptive circle of suspects.

Sherlock Holmes und sein Freund Dr. Watson ermitteln in der ersten Wohngemeinschaft für reiche Demenzkranke. Einer der Bewohner behauptet, in der Einrichtung gefangen zu sein. Holmes und Watson geben sich ebenfalls als dement aus und sind schnell umgeben von Verdächtigen.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle war ein Ausbund an Diskretion. Über prominente Zeitgenossen, die die Wege von Sherlock Holmes kreuzten, verlor er nie ein Wort. Nun konnte endlich wieder eine Handvoll verlorener Fälle aufgefunden und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht werden. Überfall auf einen Diamantenhändler. Der Täter: Father Christmas, der Weihnachtsmann persönlich. Die einzige Spur: ein auffälliger Sportwagen, in dem der Täter mit seiner Beute davonrast. Ein Fall wie geschaffen für den viktorianischen Meisterdetektiv und seinen treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson.

The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes 18 vintage mystery stories which showcase the city's most compelling classic cases.

Sister Fidelma follows a trail that is as suspenseful as it is tortuous in the riveting third novel in Peter Tremayne's unputdownable series. In the mid-7th Century AD, the Venerable Dacán, a much respected and beloved scholar of the Celtic Church, has been found murdered while on a visit to a...

The vicious murder of a young socialite leads Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley into a web of false identities, hidden motives, and buried secrets that some might kill to protect—a thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series. Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox...

Date with Justice, the ninth novel in Julia's Chapman's witty and engaging Dales Detective series, sees Delilah's brother under suspicion of murder. Can Delilah and Samson prove he's innocent? The Dales Detective Agency is on the brink of closure. Samson O’Brien has returned to his position as...

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean. Tom Mangan was a sharply successful entrepreneur who lured the super-rich to his luxury hotels in the sun-soaked Bahamas. Then violent tragedy struck: his own family disappeared, and a series of misfortunes...

It's the time of year when the immortal army of the ancient king rides Watling Street and the dead become uneasy in their graves. Indeed, in the far north of Warwickshire, the villagers insist that one dead man returned to kill his only son. Now it's up to Sir Faucon de Ramis, the shire's new Crowner, to run the walking corpse to ground and put him back where he belongs. 

In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple.

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while... A few weeks later, George Marshalson lives every father's worst nightmare: he discovers the murdered body of his eighteen-year-old daughter on the side of the road. Wexford steps into the case but soon a second teenage girl is murdered - a victim unquestionably linked to the first - and another family is shattered...