Ergebnis für "Bürgerkrieg" in Historische Krimis

Kiew, 1919: In den Wirren nach der Russischen Revolution stößt der junge Samson, gerade zur Vollwaise geworden, beinahe durch Zufall zur neuen sowjetischen Polizei. Sein erster Fall ist gleich äußerst mysteriös: Ein abgeschnittenes Ohr, ein Knochen aus reinem Silber und ein Anzug aus feinem englischem Tuch geben ihm Rätsel auf. Doch die Zeiten sind gefährlich und halten jeden Tag neue Überraschungen bereit. Zum Glück lernt Samson die patente Nadjeschda kennen, die ihm bei den Ermittlungen hilft und an die er schon bald sein Herz verliert.

Washington, D.C., 1861: As the United States teeters on the brink of civil war, Colonel Charles P. Rook organizes security in the nation’s capital and monitors the death threats pouring into the White House. He surrounds Abraham Lincoln with bodyguards, covers rooftops with sharpshooters, and investigates rumors of conspiracy fomented by secessionists. Yet amid the chaos and confusion, a mysterious killer slips into the teeming city.

A fast paced, gritty murder mystery through the wilds of territorial New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley with the feel of a Tony Hillerman novel and the complexity of a Ngaio Marsh mystery. Pueblos, Apache, former Mexican citizens and the US Army collide in a tale of greed and murder. A new civil war mystery series by best-selling author Phillip and Jennifer Bryant. Peter Thomas Smith's days on the post of Fort Craig, New Mexico territory, are spent fighting boredom, keeping cool, and giving the spiritual state of the fifth California Mounted Infantry volunteers a ready ear.

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past - from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate the Fourth of July. Spirits are high - until a prominent local politician is assassinated in the midst of fireworks.