Ergebnis für "Benjamin" in Privatdetektive

Die grausam zugerichtete Leiche des "schwarzen Peter" gibt dem Meisterdetektiv Rätsel auf. Man findet ihn von einer Harpune durchbohrt in seiner Waldhütte. Wer hatte einen derartigen Groll auf den ehemaligen Kapitän, um ihm so etwas anzutun? Welchen Hinweis liefert das Tagebuch, das am Tatort gefunden wurde?

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde—also published as Marlowe as by John Banville—the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old...

Kendyl Jordan is a beautiful woman who drives an eye-catching classic car—until the car goes missing, possibly with something of great value hidden inside it. Can Roy Ballard help her find it? Despite Ballard’s budding reputation, Kendyl learns he’s not even a private investigator, he’s a legal videographer with very little experience. Still, he seems to have a knack for the job, and it doesn’t take him long to ID a couple of dangerous suspects. That’s when the case takes more twists and turns than a winding Texas Hill Country road.

Does Caleb Dimmick really work at his father’s motorcycle dealership, or does he simply ride the payroll, thereby giving his dad a nice tax break? Roy Ballard, a legal videographer specializing in insurance fraud, is hired to find out. After just a few days, Roy is convinced everything is legit - until a dealership employee is gunned down in his own backyard, possibly by an assassin on an orange sport bike.

Lennox Armbruster was struck by a speeding vehicle - but was it an accident or an insurance scam gone wrong? Roy Ballard is hired to find out, and he soon learns there’s a third possibility: attempted murder. Joe Jankowski, the man who hit Armbruster, is a tough-talking player in the construction industry, and a feud with one of his former employees has shown that he has a temper to match his brash personality. When Roy and his partner Mia Madison attempt to dig deeper, they learn just how far Jankowski will go to shut down their investigation.

Jeremy Sawyer was having a great time on a party barge on Lake Travis, and then he was suddenly nowhere to be found. Had he jumped? Fallen off? Been pushed? Roy Ballard - an expert in catching insurance cheats - intends to find out. After all, Jeremy Sawyer was the nephew of one of his biggest clients, and she can't shake the suspicion that it wasn't an accident. It isn't long before Roy and his partner Mia Madison begin to draw the same conclusion.

Despite Joy’s victory over Alethus’ servants, his plans haven’t been stopped. Even so, a glimmer of hope lies before her, and she and her friends are determined to grasp it. That doesn’t mean it will be easy, though. An army is invading Dorma, one with the same destination as Joy. Their goals are sinister, but they aren’t going to stop Joy and her friends.

Spannende Kriminalfälle, scheinbar unlösbare Rätsel, haarsträubende Erlebnisse. Für die drei Geschwister Josh, Hank und Jeff aus dem Londoner Stadtteil Brixton kann es nicht knifflig und mysteriös genug sein. Mit Eifer und Elan stürzen sich die Drei in jedes Abenteuer. So wie auch in diesem Fall...Ein alter Spiegel gibt Rätsel auf. Eines Nachts sieht sein Besitzer ein Gesicht im Spiegel. Einbildung? Eine Halluzination? Oder steckt ganz etwas anderes dahinter? Als neben dem Gesicht auch noch merkwürdige, kryptische Botschaften auf der Spiegelfäche erscheinen, sind die Jungen Feuer und Flamme.

Alex Dunn owned one of the most valuable collections of hobo nickels in the world, and it appears somebody killed him for it. Now Roy Ballard and Mia Madison are hired by the insurance company to track the collection down, which means they might reveal the identity of the killer in the course of their investigation. But the more they dig, the more suspects they uncover, including Dunn's children, his ex-wife, and a buxom masseuse who takes a hands-off approach to the services she offers.

Everyone thinks Boz Gentry died in a fiery traffic accident, but Roy Ballard and Mia Madison aren't convinced. As legal videographers, it's their job to provide evidence of insurance fraud - and the more they dig into the Gentry case, the more they realize this might be the most elaborate scheme they've ever encountered. Of course, when millions of dollars are at stake, con men will take drastic steps to protect their scam- including arson, assault, or even murder.

Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shorts - the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's report - and with his history, who can blame them? - it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.

“Freya and Aunt Carole, everyone’s favorite antique-hunting, mystery-solving duo, return in a sequel that somehow manages to be even more captivating than their first adventure” (Tom Ryan, USA TODAY bestselling author) as they are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal aboard a cruise ship...

Spannende Kriminalfälle, scheinbar unlösbare Rätsel, haarsträubende Erlebnisse. Für die drei Geschwister Josh, Hank und Jeff aus dem Londoner Stadtteil Brixton kann es nicht knifflig und mysteriös genug sein. Mit Eifer und Elan stürzen sich die Drei in jedes Abenteuer. So wie auch in diesem Fall... EIn Spukschloss. Eine gefährliche Erbschaft. Denn nur, wer es einen Tag in dem alten Gemäuer aushält, darf sein Erbe antreten. Kaum schließen sich die Türen hinter den Jungen, schlittern sie von einem gruseligen Vorfall zum Nächsten. Wer ist für den Spuk verantwortlich?

Spannende Kriminalfälle, scheinbar unlösbare Rätsel, haarsträubende Erlebnisse. Für die drei Geschwister Josh, Hank und Jeff aus dem Londoner Stadtteil Brixton kann es nicht knifflig und mysteriös genug sein. Mit Eifer und Elan stürzen sich die Drei in jedes Abenteuer. So wie auch in diesem Fall... Ein Archäologe verschwindet spurlos bei einem Tauchgang. Ist er tot? Für immer verloren? Und was hat es mit dem geheimnisvollen Wrack auf sich, nach dem er getaucht ist? Ist es wirklich das sagenumwobene Schiff des legendären Entdeckers Vasco da Gama? Die Sao Gabriel?

Did she jump or was she pushed? Devastated by the loss of their only child, David and Marsha Jacobs hire Rachel to find out why Lisa leaped to her death from the fifth-floor window of her martial arts studio. The tai chi instructor, who was studying to be a Zen Buddhist priest, seemed to have it all: beauty, brains, a vocation she adored, a sexy lover—and her beautiful, sad-eyed Akita, who may have been the only witness to her death and is still grieving the loss of his mistress.

Rachel and Dash have a new client. Well, three new clients. A trio of transvestite working girls want Rachel to investigate the death of one of their own. Rosalinda's throat was slashed on Halloween right after the Greenwich Village parade. Finding her killer isn't exactly the NYPD's top priority—and LaDonna, Chi Chi, and Jasmine are terrified that they'll be next.

Rachel has just been hired as undercover security at a dog-training symposium at a posh Manhattan hotel. How can the Greenwich Village PI and her pit bull, Dashiell, turn down the hefty fee, plus free room and biscuits at the Ritz? All Rachel has to do is keep the peace among the competitive diva dog trainers who have come with their prize pooches from all corners of the globe.

It's truffle season, and in the hills around Bologna the hunt is on for the legendary Boscuri White, worth more than its weight in gold. But when an American truffle 'supertaster' goes missing, English Detective Daniel Leicester discovers not all truffles are created equal. Did the missing supertaster bite off more than he could chew?

When the body of a radical protestor is found floating in one of Bologna's underground canals, it seems that most of the city is ready to blame the usual suspects: the police. But when private investigator Daniel Leicester, son-in-law to the former chief of police, receives a call from the dead man's lover, he follows a trail that begins in the 1970s and leads all the way to the rotten heart of the present-day political establishment.

Divorced dog-trainer-turned-private-eye Rachel Alexander and her canine assistant Dash - short for Dashiell - are hired by a man named Dennis Keaton to investigate the hit-and-run death of his friend and neighbor Clifford Cole, whose body was found on an isolated Christopher Street pier. The police are treating the gay painter’s suspicious death as a hate crime, but Dennis insists Cliff hadn’t cruised the waterfront in months. Plus, Magritte, Cliff’s champion basenji - a competitor in the upcoming Westminster Dog Show - may have been a witness to the crime and is now missing.