Ergebnis für "Lost" in Traditionelle Krimis

Im Jahr 1911 kehrt der Paläontologe Professor Challenger von einer Expedition aus dem Amazonas zurück und behauptet, dort lebende Dinosaurier entdeckt zu haben...

Here is the precursor to Jurassic Park. Victorian explorers have heard there is a remote plateau where dinosaurs still survive, and a group set outs on a dangerous mission to find out more about it.

#1 bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with another unforgettable unforgettable thriller featuring Gideon Crew. Gideon Crew—brilliant scientist, master thief—is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he...

A storm, a manor house and many secrets. Nathalie and her friends get caught in a downpour during a weekend away and seek shelter in an old manor house. Wealthy Lady Gabrielle has also found refuge at Hannigan Hall - with the Green Giant, a staggeringly valuable diamond, in her luggage. But then it disappears ... and only one of the guests can be the thief! Nathalie sets out to find the culprit only to encounter invisible guests, secret hiding places - and a perfidious plan!

June 1815. The people of London wait breathlessly for news as Napoléon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at Waterloo. Among them is Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, frustrated to find himself sidelined while recovering from a dangerous wound he recently received in Paris. When the mutilated corpse of Major Miles Sedgewick surfaces from the murky waters of the Thames, Sebastian is drawn into the murder investigation, which threatens one of his oldest and dearest friends, Irish surgeon Paul Gibson.

Jack Farlowe, der "König der Bettler", verschwindet unter mysteriösen Umständen. In der Londoner Unterwelt galt er als Kopf einer betrügerischen Bettlerbande, die überall in der Stadt ihr Unwesen treibt. Seine Verlobte, Miss Emma Prentiss, will die Wahrheit wissen und heuert einen namhaften Detektiv an, der bald den Verbleib des Verschwundenen aufklären soll. Noch ahnt Emma Prentiss nicht, was ihr bevorsteht, als sie in der Nähe des Lokals "Golden Dust" zum Aufenthaltsort ihres Verlobten geführt wird.

Chefinspektor Bliss ist in Pension. Inspektor Mander hat seinen Posten übernommen. Er verzichtet bei der Lösung seiner Fälle auf die Romane von Edgar Wallace. Stattdessen steht ihm der berühmte Schriftsteller persönlich zur Seite. In diesem merkwürdigen Fall beschäftigt die drei Ermittler ein leeres Grab. Die Überreste der vor Jahren ermordeten Maude Higgins sind gestohlen worden. Kurze Zeit später tauchen sie jedoch schon wieder auf.

Im Abenteuer um "Die fünf Orangenkerne" erwähnt Dr. John H. Watson beiläufig auch das Schicksal des britischen Segelschiffs "Sophie Anderson", und wie sein Freund und Kollege, der berühmte Detektiv aus der Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes, den kniffligen Fall seinerzeit löste, der mit dem Untergang des Seglers in Verbindung stand.Erstmals wird hier in aller Ausführlichkeit von diesem aufsehenerregenden Kriminalfall. berichtet, der Holmes schon bald davon überzeugt, dass die Dinge am Ende doch ein wenig anders liegen könnten als von Inspektor Lestrade vermutet.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood Midwinter. A child is found wandering in an ancient...

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published. With the Golden Age of detective...

As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's notorious Brimstone Club a bizarre tale is being spun for Inspector Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle. A member of the club has been sent a model of a tiny gallows, and the word is that the folkloric hangman Jack Ketch has been stalking the streets for victims by night. The threat of this supposed bogeyman becomes thrillingly real when that same night Bencolin and Marle are almost run down by a limousine with a corpse behind the wheel.

The gripping first novel in the exciting new Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author Mari Hannah. Alex should never have agreed to the spur-of-the-moment holiday with her sister. Seven days felt like a year without Daniel, her 10-year-old son. This was the first time they had been apart since he was born, and her husband had convinced her it was a good idea. It was a bad idea. Daniel has gone missing.

When an elderly Miracle Springs resident, Lucille Wynter, arranges for Nora to deliver an order of books to her creepy, crumbling Southern Gothic mansion, Nora doesn't expect to be invited in. An agoraphobic, Lucille doesn't leave Wynter House. Nor does she invite anyone inside. But when Lucille...

Dimpson McCabe - Dimpsie - has invited his closest friends of the theatre world to join him for Christmas at his castle on a private island some hours' drive from Edinburgh. The festivities have barely begun when Dimpsie is found draped atop the Christmas tree, electrocuted by the lights. It's labelled Accidental Death, but in the swirling snow suspicion is dancing among the flakes. The dogged Inspector Smith begins to circle, seeking to find the leading man or prima donna responsible.

It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained...

'Instantly gripping. Smart, timely and great fun from beginning to end' Bella Mackie, author of How to Kill Your Family 'Oozes with style, pace, and a cunningly imagined plot' Lucy Clarke, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hike 'Razor-sharp writing, great characters and a brilliantly...

Enough time has passed. Dr. John Watson can finally reopen his tin box of chronicles. In this astonishing collection, a treasure trove of new accounts of Sherlock Holmes’s extraordinary skills finally comes to light. What is the connection between murderous attacks on a colonel’s wife and the legend of King Arthur? Why is a disgraced former ship captain stalking his neighbor? Who stole the statue of The Dying Gaul from a completely secure museum in Rome? Find the answers to these confounding mysteries and more in seven exhilarating new short stories.

When four skeletons are unearthed in a mass grave in Atlanta Georgia, veteran Homicide Detective Robert Mason with the Atlanta Police Department and his twenty year old daughter, Samantha team up to discover what happened.

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits...

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween. It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to...