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The Historical Lady Detectives introduces us to two lady detectives. The first long story, "The Disappearing Mr Fox," is about Victorian novelist, Mrs Hogarth. The second long story, "Bicycles, Bloomers and Blackmail," is about Edwardian, Dulcie Starkadder who sets up a detective agency.

Lady Tiffany Bolton, sister of the Duke of Bolton, is painfully plain and dull. At least, that’s how her brother describes her as he bemoans the necessity of finding her a husband. So the rakish Duke of Clarence can hardly be blamed when the pretty girl he kisses in the library turns out to be none other than Lady Tiffany herself.

Dos mujeres. Una misión: evitar que los nazis roben y destruyan invaluables obras de arte. Los hermanos Sophie y Dietrich abandonaron su hogar en Alemania para escapar del régimen nazi. Cuando París, el lugar donde huyeron, cae bajo el yugo alemán, Dietrich es asesinado por pertenecer a la resistencia.

Catania, 1965. La giovane Norma Speranza viene trasportata all’ospedale dal marito e dal portinaio di casa in gravi condizioni e muore poco dopo. Si è sparata in salotto con una carabina, o almeno questo è ciò che concludono le indagini, sebbene siano molti i dubbi sulle modalità del gesto e sul movente. A confermare l’ipotesi del suicidio c’è un biglietto trovato accanto al corpo: “Tutto è distrutto e io mi ammazzo”. Ma la famiglia è invece convinta che si tratti di un omicidio, e che il biglietto sia stato creato ad arte per offrire un alibi all’assassino.

Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves. When a woman comes into Georgia's bookshop asking for the Archivist Society's help in finding her neighbor, she sends Georgia and her friends onto a perilous path where aristocrats lie to them, thugs attack, and the dashing, enigmatic Duke of Blackford appears to be involved in thwarting them at every step.

Manhattan, 1928. When Alan Priest, reporter for the New York World, discovers a body at the demolition site for the new Chrysler Building, both his and his wife Lorraine's lives are thrown into turmoil. Can they navigate the worlds of vicious mobsters, corrupt police, and Broadway stars to find the killer?

Chicago, 1920s: Movie starlet Silver Dollar Tabor's glittering life shatters after a brutal attack awakens a hidden self. Plunging into the city's dangerous underworld of burlesque speakeasies, she blurs the lines between ambition and destruction, testing her love for screenwriter Carl. This Jazz Age, Prohibition-era tale explores the dark side of fame and the fragility of identity.

When Ginger’s former sister-in-law Felicia, now Lady Davenport-Witt, first received a mysterious note in the post, she dismissed it as coming from a nuisance writer. These things were known to happen to those who enjoyed social popularity. But with a third one, she began to feel ill at ease. Ginger, however, had been worried since the first short missive had arrived. Someone knew of a family secret that would upset Felicia’s apple cart in a very big way.

Die legendäre Grüne Serie der 1970er Jahre - restauriert und zum ersten Mal chronologisch auf CD! Mit dem Look der alten MARITIM-Langspielplatten. Hörspiel von Kurt Stephan nach dem berühmten Roman von Karl May . In dieser Folge hört Ihr " Unter Geiern ".

Эдуард Марч, новый герцог Йоркский, объявляет себя королем Англии — королем по праву крови. И вот уже возникают и распадаются союзы аристократов, вершатся предательства и ломаются судьбы. Гражданская война словно живет собственной жизнью — и нет оснований надеяться, что когда-нибудь ей придет конец.

Corre la primera mitad del siglo XIII cuando el abad del monasterio de San Millán encarga a uno de sus servidores, Gonzalo de Berceo, la misión de viajar al monasterio de Silos para copiar un manuscrito latino y hacer con él un poema castellano. La secreta intención de la visita es que los dos monasterios aúnen fuerzas contra el papa y sus obispos, que pretenden quedarse con los beneficios de la producción de vino, y contra la pujanza de los nobles castellanos, ávidos también de entrar en el negocio.

New York, 2002. Una serie di attentati sanguinosi sta seminando il terrore in ogni parte del mondo, ma i vertici delle agenzie di intelligence brancolano nel buio. Unici indizi i folli comunicati di un serial bomber, che preannuncia i massacri a mezzo di messaggi tortuosi fra le righe del Corano, agghiaccianti promesse di morte siglate dall'arcano simbolo di un anello leggendario. Un anello che incatena avvenimenti lontanissimi nel tempo, drammaticamente legati al suo infausto luccichio.

Winter 1883: Die frisch gebackene private Ermittlerin Cedar Neill soll den Selbstmord eines Jägers im Auftrag seiner Tochter genauer untersuchen und gerät im Zuge dessen mit einem Unbekannten aneinander, der vor nichts zurückschreckt, um seine dunklen Geheimnisse zu bewahren. Zur selben Zeit treibt in Levior ein offenbar geisteskranker Mörder sein Unwesen, der seine Taten vor der Ausführung bei der Polizei ankündigt und als letzten Gruß auf den Spiegeln seiner Opfer die Umrisse eines Totenschädels hinterlässt.

Kate Quinn regresa con una inolvidable y poderosa historia de amistad y secretos en una casa de huéspedes de Washington D. C. durante la era McCarthy. Washington D. C., 1950. Todo el mundo guarda las distancias en la Casa Briarwood, una deslucida casa de huéspedes para mujeres donde los secretos se ocultan tras cercas blancas de madera.

When Sir Harry is asked to go to Paris for a Secret Intelligence Service meeting, he - of course - asks Kat to come along. But the getaway à deux quickly turns dangerous when Harry goes missing. Suddenly, with both their lives in danger, it's up to Kat to find out what's really going on. As the trail takes her from grand hotels to the late-night bars of Place Pigalle, it soon becomes clear that treachery has a murderous price in the City of Light.

Ich stieß auf die Weltkarte in einem Reiseführer aus den 1970er-Jahren, und mir war auf Anhieb bewusst, dass sie dort nicht hineingehörte. Vermutlich hätte ich sie nicht weiter beachtet, wäre da nicht diese Notiz am Rand gewesen. Sechs unheimliche Geschichten entführen den Leser an verschiedene Orte kosmischen Grauens.

Lady Darriby-Jones is bursting with joy as her only daughter prepares to wed a cherished member of her household staff—someone who's become like family. But the celebrations take a dark turn when one of the wedding planners is found dead, an arrow piercing their heart.

Wenn Liebe tödlich ist – und Wahrheit gefährlich Ein Krimi, der unter die Haut geht: Lavender House entführt in das San Francisco der 1950er-Jahre – eine Welt der Geheimnisse, in der Liebe ein Verbrechen sein kann. Evander Mills, Ex-Cop mit ruiniertem Ruf, erhält eine zweite Chance: Er soll auf einem abgelegenen Anwesen den Tod von Irene Lamontaine aufklären – Matriarchin einer Seifen-Dynastie und Teil einer queeren Wahlfamilie, die hinter dicken Mauern lebt. Doch wer die Wahrheit sucht, muss lernen, sich selbst zu erkennen.

Tabitha and Wolf have just arrived back in London after their relaxing stay in Corfu. They haven’t thought about murder investigations for almost two months. However, any hopes they have that this respite might last a little longer are shattered when the groom’s father, Clarence Williams, the Earl of Warwick, is accused of murder just before Tobias’ wedding day to Lady Lily. Can Tabitha and Wolf clear the earl’s name in time for the wedding to proceed as planned? And what on earth is the dowager doing teaming up with Uncle Duncan, of all people?

In 1885, Abigail Wilson participated in an archaeological excavation at Rome's Colosseum. Fifteen years later, now a distinguished archaeologist and one half of the Museum Detectives with her husband, Daniel, she returns to Rome as a speaker at the Conference on Ancient Roman Civilization. Their visit takes a perilous turn when a fellow archaeologist and his wife are discovered murdered within the Colosseum, propelling the Wilsons into a complex investigation amidst the Eternal City's historic backdrop.