Ergebnis für "Escape" in Historische Krimis

Audrey Rose und Thomas stecken nicht zum ersten Mal in einer Mordermittlung. Diesmal führt sie ihr Weg auf einem Ozeandampfer nach New York. Eine Truppe Zirkusartisten sorgt für Unterhaltung an Bord, doch das Vergnügen ist von kurzer Dauer. Bald erschüttert eine Reihe brutaler Morde die Passagiere. Jeder ist verdächtig, auch der undurchsichtige Entfesselungskünstler Harry Houdini. Der einzige Fluchtweg führt in den dunklen Abgrund der See. Es liegt an Audrey Rose und Thomas, den Mörder zu überführen, bevor sie die nächsten auf seiner Liste sind.

A young Minnesota housewife arrives at the long tunnel leading to Whittier, Alaska, exhausted from a run for her life after witnessing her husband commit a murder. While earthquake-scarred Whittier is the perfect haven due to its geographic isolation, not everyone is as they seem and most harbor secrets of their own.

In 1904, the future best-selling writer Edna Ferber, then a 19-year-old fledgling reporter in Wisconsin, teams up with famed escape artist Harry Houdini to solve the baffling murder of a girl who has mysteriously disappeared from a locked room at the local high school.

March 1945. After six bloody, tear-stained years, the war was nearly over. However, for the German prisoners of war incarcerated in Island Farm Camp 198, the end could not arrive soon enough, so they decided to escape. As the German prisoners fled to all points of the compass, one of their members, Kurt Schneider, was left with blood on his fingers and a gun in his hand.

Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe with his company of redcoats and riflemen meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco. But there, despite a stunning British victory, the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back.