Ergebnis für "Angela" in Historische Krimis

On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knox's fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.

Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured—presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London’s most fashionable—and disreputable—nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking, jazz music and lost souls.

Eine Schar Festtagsgäste hat sich für drei Tage in Mallowan Hall eingefunden. Das versteckt in den Hügeln von Devonshire liegende Anwesen gehört der berühmten Schriftstellerin Agatha Christie. Doch den Haushalt führt die energische Phyllida Bright, und sie ist es auch, die am ersten Morgen der Festlichkeiten in der Bibliothek einen fremden Toten findet. Sie weiß, dass Aufsehen unbedingt zu vermeiden ist und die örtliche Polizei zur Umständlichkeit neigt.

Die Reise in ein neues Leben beginnt mit einem Mord... Der Auftakt zur spannenden Cosy Crime-Reihe für Fans von Rhys Bowen. Cornwall, 1921: Die junge Witwe Elizabeth Teague hat eine schwere Zeit hinter sich, doch das Blatt scheint sich zu wenden, als ihre ehemalige und sehr vermögende Schulfreundin Flossie sie nach Nizza einlädt, um ihr in einer Ehekrise beizustehen. Vor Ort stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass Flossie von Lizzie mehr als nur Trost erhofft: Sie soll ihren Ehemann Albert der Untreue überführen.

Ein Mörder auf Geisterjagd - Nell Drury ermittelt in den Goldenen Zwanzigern. Der historische Cosy Crime für Fans von Rhys Bowen. Kent, 1925: Nell Drury steht vor ihrer ersten großen Herausforderung als Chefköchin auf dem Herrenhaus Wychbourne Court. Lord und Lady Ansley planen einen extravaganten Kostümball mit Geisterjagd um Mitternacht. Als dabei jedoch eine Leiche entdeckt wird, wird Nell ungewollt in die darauf folgende polizeiliche Untersuchung verwickelt.

Ein ungesühnter Mord unter Schauspielern - Nell Drury ermittelt wieder. Der 20er Jahre Cosy Crime für Fans von Rhys Bowen. Kent, 1926: Auf Wychbourne Court herrscht Trubel als Lady Ansleys alte Theatergruppe für eine kleine Aufführung im Herrenhaus zusammenkommt. Chefköchin Nell Drury wird schnell klar, dass Lady Ansley nicht nur wegen der Reaktion der Gäste nervös ist, denn nicht alle sind erfreut darüber, sich wieder zu sehen.

Dicembre 1946, l’inverno più freddo del secolo. A Berlino comincia faticosamente la ricostruzione. Riaprono teatri e cinema, ma viveri e combustibile scarseggiano, e la battaglia per la sopravvivenza è quotidiana. Tra cumuli di macerie e muri pericolanti, l’unico a prosperare è il mercato nero. Per tenersi alla larga dal fuoco incrociato degli Alleati, l’ex commissario Oppenheimer non è rientrato in servizio e, seduto a una scrivania dell’Ufficio Ricerche, smista le schede delle persone scomparse.

Not-quite-newlywed Angela Marchmont is having a belated honeymoon on the idyllic Greek island of Rhodes, but has barely even unpacked her bathing-suit before an unwelcome encounter with the dead body of a young archaeologist draws her into a tangled web of murder and blackmail.

Kirsty Campbell, former suffragette and a policewoman in Britain’s newly formed Women’s Police Service, returns to her hometown of Dundee to become the city’s first policewoman. Her struggle for acceptance in the all-male police force is difficult, and she fights for recognition. But Kirsty is not easily intimidated and, despite police attempts to curtail her activities, she defies her superior officer to pursue an investigation into a murder which is linked to missing orphan girls.

La desaparición de una adolescente sacude la pequeña localidad de Illa de Cruces. Allí la jueza Elena Casáis se hará cargo de la instrucción del caso pese a ignorar que ese suceso está conectado con la desaparición de la hermana de su madre, su tía Melisa. Un misterio de hace treinta años del que una mujer ingresada en un psiquiátrico y el viejo curandero de la isla guardarán las claves para resolverlo.

La neve è macchiata di sangue, attorno alla torre del castello di Kransberg. A pochi metri di distanza, il Führer è asserragliato in un bunker, preda di deliri e paure dopo l’attentato del luglio 1944. Ma Johann Maria Adami non ha tempo di pensare al poco spazio che lo separa dal dittatore, ultimo responsabile del suo internamento a Dachau. Il professor Adami ha un incarico: scoprire la verità che si cela dietro la morte sospetta di un soldato nazista. Suicidio? O un complotto alle spalle di Hitler?

For young mother Fosca Sentino, accepting refuge from ex-British soldier Richard - in Tuscany to escape his tragic past - is the only way to keep her little family safe. She once risked everything to spy on Nazi commanders and pass secret information to the resistenza. But after a heartbreaking betrayal, Fosca’s best friend, Simonetta, disappeared without trace. The whole community was torn apart, and now Fosca and her son are outcasts.

FOUR UNSOLVED MURDERS In 1959, The Walker family murders shook Florida. At one time, 587 people were considered suspects - but 60 years later the investigation remains unsolved. AN FBI AGENT'S FINAL JOB Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn is trying to enjoy life after work. But when the intriguingly...

Detective Helen Carter is called to a crime scene: a barmaid, Tina French, has been strangled. Murdered on her way home from work to look after her sick son. Meanwhile, Moira McKenzie leaves her lover's townhouse and gets home to find her abusive husband, Reggie, washing blood from his hands. Later, in their garden shed, she finds incriminating photos, keepsakes and newspaper cuttings about old murder cases. When the police are called to their home, they find a pool of blood and a shattered glass table, but no sign of Moira.

Helen Carter has just landed her first case as a detective: a murder in an abandoned cinema. A mysterious clock-like symbol is drawn on the wall...in blood. Stranger still is what the killer left behind: the business card of an ex-cop. Since being promoted from WPC, Helen is having trouble making her mark in the male-dominated Edinburgh CID, working under Inspector Jack Craven. He’s not happy about having a woman on his team. Witnesses won’t talk to her; her colleagues don’t take her seriously.

James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 1960s, a midcentury heartland gothic with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion. Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With...

Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain. Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking out a pitiful existence on the Rock of Gibraltar. The offer of a job in the Americas provides a potential life line, but there are strings attached. First she must prove her mettle to her masters in London, and that means stepping on board the Richthofen before the airship leaves Seville.

Miss Calamity Calloway is the epitome of efficiency as long as she’s typing travel reports, but when she’s out in the world, the troubles start. Tripping over laces, bumping into people on the street, and tumbling into awkward situations is the order of her days, and unfortunately, her handsome neighbor is usually a witness. All she longs for is a bit of trouble-free adventure.

Sherlock Holmes has been missing and is presumed dead for some time, and his grief-stricken landlady, Mrs. Hudson, is anxious for a distraction. However, she is in for a culture shock when she travels to Ireland with her friend, Kitty Melrose, to try and stop a forced marriage. What she finds is a countryside steeped in superstition and beliefs in the old ways, a place of fairy forts and holy wells, and of changelings and banshees. A place, moreover, where an impoverished peasantry remains under the heel of oppressive English landlords, but not for much longer.

Regrettably, Johanna Watson was born a woman, and to add to her father’s dismay, she was horrendously bad at it. She had a fire in her and a passion for research, science, and learning that her father didn’t understand. But after striking a deal with her brother, she took his place studying medicine incognito behind their father’s back. After returning to London, she found rooms at 221B Baker Street with the enigmatic individual Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock has her own secrets, and a life so full of mystery and intrigue that Watson cannot help but get wrapped up in it.