Ergebnis für "Adam" in Für Hartgesottene

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America's most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the social elite, politicians, police, and the mob. He has everything he could possibly want: money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity. But in a town that runs on corruption, vengeance, and greed, success can't protect Joe from the dark truth of his past - and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full....

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Adam Dalgliesh inddrages i en sag fuld af lidenskab og kærlighed. Og selvfølgelig en god del mystik. The Dupayne i London - et mindre privatejet museum med speciale i mellemkrigsårene - er i oprør. Bestyrelsen kan ikke blive enig om, hvorvidt museet skal lukke eller ej, og pludselig findes et af bestyrelsesmedlemmerne brutalt myrdet.

Policewoman Peggy Ellen has secret - by night, she's a caped vigilante, known as The Queen of Spades. Her city is crippled with crime, thanks to the notorious gang, The House of Games. When police Lieutenant Jack Malone, who's also Peggy's lover, gets too close to uncovering the truth behind this band of criminals, it's up to The Queen of Spades to rescue him. Can she save him in time, or will her rescue plans fold like a house of cards?

Tony Prosdocimi lives in the bustling Metropolis of San Ventura – a city gripped in fear, a city under siege by the hooded supervillain, The Cowl. When Tony develops super-powers and acts to take down The Cowl, however, he finds that the local superhero team Seven Wonders aren’t as grateful as he assumed they’d be….

Rhoda Gradwyn, en frygtet, opsøgende journalist, bestiller tid på dr. Chandler-Powells privatklinik i Dorset for at få fjernet et skæmmende ar i ansigtet. Hun ser frem til en vellykket operation under en velrenommeret kirurgs kniv og en uges fredfyldt rekreation på et af Dorset mest pragtfulde godser. Hun ser også frem til et nyt liv. At hun ikke kommer til at forlade Cheverell Manor i live, er næppe en tanke, der strejfer hende.

I nærheden af et afsides liggende præsteseminarium ved Suffolkkysten finder man liget af en af de mandlige studerende, delvis begravet under sandet fra en klint. Hans velhavende far er ikke tilfreds med ligsynskendelsen “død ved et ulykkestilfælde” og kræver, at Scotland Yard efterforsker sagen.

Lægerne har fortalt Adam Dalgliesh, at han er alvorligt syg, og han tror på dem. Efter en operation viser det sig, at sygdommen alligevel ikke er så farlig som antaget. Dalgliesh står for at skulle udskrives og rekreere sig. Han kommer derfor til at tænke på sin præsteven, fader Baddeley, som han har fået brev fra, hvori han har bedt om Dalglieshs hjælp.

Det er en gammel tradtion, at landsbyens årlige kirkefest finder sted på godset Martingale. Som om alle arrangementerne denne dejlige julieftermiddag: frokosten, biskopen og teteltet, ikke er nok for mrs. Maxie, må hun også forholde sig til nyheden om, at hendes søn pludselig har forlovet sig med den nye stuepige, Sally Jupp, der er enlig mor. Næste morgen breder chokket sig over landsbyen: Sally er blevet myrdet. Og det bliver selvfølgelig kriminalkomisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard, der skal rede trådene ud.

I dette andet bind i serien om Scotland Yards dygtige detektiv, kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh stilles han i et dilemma, han ikke har stået i før – han er oppe imod en begavet morder, som hele tiden er et skridt foran, og som sandsynligvis vil slå til igen.

Det tredje bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard udspilles ved Suffolks kyst, hvor Dalglish er på besøg hos sin tante for at holde ferie i nogle dage.

Until he disappeared, Peter Black was Azrael. Master assassin. Now he spends his days hiding on a remote farm in northern Alaska. The same farm he was sent to at age 11 to be trained by the CIA. Peter only ever wanted a normal life and to be left alone. But the world refuses to leave men like Peter Black alone. An enemy like no other is coming. An enemy that has no mercy. No compassion. Only sheer ruthlessness of will.

In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities. Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood.

Future London 2531 AD: Detective Lynx Wu may have rare restoration magic, but even he can't restore what was lost—his brother, snatched during a freak attack. Caught fleeing the scene is Lynx's arch-nemesis, the Magic Thief. Who is she? How is she involved? Lynx only has one clue: her signature masquerade mask.

It should have been a simple drive, from San Francisco International Airport, to Boulder, Wyoming, despite the snow. Was it because Lacklan was tired? Was it because he was thinking about the woman he loved, or the international crisis he had recently caused? Or was it the crazy blizzard that came out of nowhere and blinded him? Whatever it was, it made him turn the wrong way, it made him turn onto Bloody Creek Road, to the ghost town of Independence, population twenty-five.

He thought it'd be a simple case that would pay the bills. That's why ex-cop turned private investigator Jerry Newton agreed to protect a teacher who'd received some threatening letters. He couldn't know that someone would bomb the teacher's car. He didn't expect to meet a mysterious woman who'd reveal the future to him. He didn't plan on coming to grips with his past. And he never expected to debate the merits of putting a bullet through a man's skull to prevent a series of heinous crimes.

From the introduction by David L. Ulin: "For me, Cape Cod is a repository of memory: forty summers in the same house will do that to you. But it is also a landscape of hidden tensions, which rise up when we least anticipate. In part, this has to do with social aspiration, which is one of the things that brought my family, like many others, to the Cape. In part, it has to do with social division, which has been a factor since at least the end of the nineteenth century, when then summer trade began."

Detective John Stone had a marriage made in heaven. His wife was young, beautiful and smart, and she was his partner in the Cold Cases unit at the 43rd. They were tight, close, and practically telepathic. At least, that was what he’d always thought - until she got an interest outside their marriage, and that interest became a passion.

Titus drove to Florida to murder a man. Fresh from prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Out for blood. But when a distraught mother begs him to track down her missing daughter, the former detective can't help himself. He dives head-first into a sleazy South Beach underworld of lowlife thugs, celebrity wannabes, and drug-fueled sex parties. Titus soon finds himself up against an organized crime boss, a crooked politician, and a hard-nosed detective.

Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham’s first and best-known work. The novel - most admired by noir fiction fans - was published in 1946, adapted into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power and subsequently printed as a graphic novel by Spain Rodriquez. During the 1940s Gresham worked as an editor for a genuine crime pulp magazine in New York, during which period he wrote this book; characters range from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business.