Ergebnis für "Fire! Fire!" in Traditionelle Krimis

Steve thought he had left his troubled past behind. Living a quiet life with his wife and children, everything changes the night he rescues a baby from a burning house, becoming an unexpected national hero. But as the spotlight shines brighter, so does the scrutiny, and a shocking accusation is made – that Steve is the man responsible for an unsolved murder in Beachbrook years prior. As DS Willmott investigates the truth, Steve pleads his innocence.

Imran faces a criminal who has been alive for 200 years, but how? The inimitable detective is armed with his distinctive screwball humor and an airgun!

Den lille, belgiske gentleman-detektiv Hercule Poirot er på jagt efter et vaskeaegte verdensomspaendende forbrydersyndikat. Hans efterforskning fører ham til flere kontinenter og tager naesten et år. Historien fortaelles af hans gamle ven, Hastings, som egentlig skulle tilbage til England i forretningsanliggender, men vaelger at følge med Poirot. Hercule Poirot er jo, som han siger, ikke interesseret i "berømmelse og komplimenter", men udfordringer og det får han til fulde her.

I denne klassiske Sherlock Holmes-fortælling modtager en ung dame hvert år en kostbar perle fra en ukendt afsender. Kan perlen have noget at gøre med hendes fars forsvinden nogle år tidligere? Og rummer det brev, der opfordrer hende til at møde på et angivet sted på et angivet tidspunkt, løsningen på disse mysterier? Hvem andre skulle hun henvende sig til end den berømte detektiv Sherlock Holmes! Kom med Sherlock Holmes og Doctor John Watson på en rejse i denne tidløse fortælling, som er beriget med et lydunivers af Jonas Kappel Lund.

Dette er en anden Sherlock Holmes-roman, som blev bestilt i 1890 af Lippincott's Magazine og udkom samtidig i England og USA. Det er i denne historie, at Watson taber sit hjerte til sin kommende hustru, Mary Morstan, da den unge guvernante kommer til Holmes med en bøn om at finde hendes forsvundne far. Fire år efter hans mystiske forsvinden, havde Miss Morstan modtaget en anonym gave, en stor og prægtig perle, og siden havde hun fået en ny perle hvert år, uden at ane, hvem afsenderen var.

On the eve of Newgate Prison's demolition, Watson spies Holmes leaving a public sale of the prison's miscellany in the company of a beautiful stranger, and in possession of an unusual trophy–the death mask of a woman who, more than 20 years earlier, had been executed for the murder of her three children. Holmes agrees to satisfy Watson's curiosity about the memento by recounting the decades-old history of its subject.

The Saint is back - fifty audiobooks are now available starring the debonair classic crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. When the Saint and Patricia spot a country house on fire they rush to help, but are too late to rescue one man trapped inside.

Round the Fire was the title of a series of 12 mystery and suspense short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, published monthly in The Strand Magazine between June 1898 and May 1899. The series was popular with contemporary readers, and while some of the individual stories, such as "The Brown Hand", have been regularly anthologised for many years and are well-known, there are some overlooked gems here, too.

A small group of friends decide to attend a seance at a local art studio. While some of them are very sceptical about the whole thing, others believe in the medium’s abilities. The group starts a discussion about a new painting of a mythical creature, when a Frenchman joins and claims that he sees a unicorn in it. Shortly after the seance begins, a strange light fills the room and the medium starts speaking in a different voice. The voice is that of a person no longer within the living.

A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend - a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin.