Ergebnis für "Amsterdam" in Krimis

Der erste Fall für die "Hausboot-Detektei". Fünf notorische Pechvögel ermitteln in Amsterdam. Arie, Maddie, Jack, Jan und Elin suchen noch nach ihrem Platz im Leben. Und finden ihn auf einem alten Hausboot, wo sie eine Detektei gründen, um sich den Fällen zu widmen, auf die die Polizei keine Lust hat. Auf dem Deck bauen sie Tomatenpflanzen an, genießen die Amsterdamer Grachtenidylle im Liegestuhl, trinken an trüben Tagen Irish Coffee mit viel Whiskey und ordentlich Sahne und schauen zusammen alte Miss Marple-Filme.

Despite their best efforts, Melody and Rat found themselves powerless to prevent the crisis in Morocco from spiraling out of control, threatening to ignite the powder keg of tensions between Germany, France, and Britain. With the specter of war looming, Britain is determined to expand its influence across Europe. After the Agadir Crisis, the preservation of Dutch neutrality, crucial for Britain’s access to Dutch ports, becomes an even more pressing concern.

In this Gaslight Mystery from the national best-selling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of 19th-century New York City....

Amsterdam, 1659: On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost...

Reclutado por un legendario agente de la CIA, Callejas, hombre mundano y ya maduro, es lanzado al teatro europeo en medio de La guerra fría. Son tiempos en que La crisis de octubre y La invasión de Bahía Cochinos tienen alborotado al avispero humano que es la Miami de la década del ’60. Los líderes del exilio anticastrista se piden la cabeza unos a otros y todos se unen para hacer lo mismo con el presidente Kennedy por haber dejado a la Brigada de Asalto 2506 sin apoyo aéreo en los manglares de Playa Girón.

For Nina O’Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Traveling in a group led by the attractive James Kiley and his friend Tony Shawfield, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame on a sunny Amsterdam street. But Robert Renwick, ex-army major attached to NATO, is not there by chance. He is on the hunt for two terrorists who have left a trail of bombings and murder in their wake, and now he must keep Nina safe while trying to discover their next target. Soon Nina is caught up in a grim game of life or death.

Hungover after spending a boozy Saturday night watching a brilliant Dutch football team win its first game in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, Private Setective Lex Spijker is loafing on the couch. A voluptuous goddess with long, dark hair and full, red lips rings his doorbell and then lures him into some nasty business that threatens to wreak havoc on his mental and physical well-being.

Henry Lindon's flight across the north Atlantic was turbulent and sleepless. His plane has just touched down in Amsterdam, where he’s come to work as a visiting professor. Lindon is torn about leaving his troubled wife, Marylou, behind in Dallas, but relieved and excited to start a new chapter in a lively city. But troubles from the past soon cross the Atlantic. Lindon discovers that notorious Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren, born in 1899, is about to play a part in Lindon’s own personal drama.

The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of the year. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659—a mysterious...