Ergebnis für "Penelope" in Krimis

Die Mordsaison ist eröffnet. Olive Ogilvie war die Königin des Stickens. Mit 103 Jahren ist sie gestorben, und nun endlich darf auch der Garten besichtigt werden, den sie mit ihrem Mann, einem genialen Architekten, entworfen hat. Shaftesbury wird von Touristen geflutet, höchst skurrile Menschen tauchen auf. Bald wird auch klar warum. In Olives Garten sei ein Schatz versteckt, heißt es. Dann wird die erste Leiche gefunden - und Penelope, Shaftesburys Hobbydetektivin, bekommt mehr Arbeit, als ihr lieb sein kann. Cosy Crime vom Feinsten - humorvoll, spannend und höchst unterhaltsam.

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung - Mord. In Shaftesbury ist es wieder einmal Zeit für den Wettbewerb um den schönsten Liebesbrief. Den hat in den letzten Jahren stets die rüstige Greta Huntington-Dillinger gewonnen. Doch daraus wird in diesem Jahr nichts: Greta stürzt von der Leiter an der Liebeseiche, in deren Astloch die Teilnehmenden ihre selbst verfassten Briefe hinterlegen. Schnell ist klar, dass es kein Unfall war: Jemand hat die Leitersprossen angesägt. Wer wollte der alten Dame Böses? Penelope St. James nimmt sich der Sache an.

Willkommen in Shaftesbury! Penelope St. James zieht aus London in den kleinen Ort Shaftesbury, um dort eine Partnervermittlungsagentur zu eröffnen. Der Anfang ist schwierig, denn Handyempfang gibt es nur auf dem Friedhof, und ihr neuer Nachbar Sam ist ausgerechnet Tierarzt - mit Tieren kann Penelope nun wirklich nichts anfangen. Als sie mitansehen muss, wie eine Frau überfahren wird, ist sie misstrauisch, denn sie glaubt nicht an einen Unfall.

Showdown in Shaftesbury. Turbulente Zeiten im idyllischen Shaftesbury: Ein Rabe terrorisiert das Dorf, ein Kleptomane scheint von Haus zu Haus zu gehen, und obendrein wird das Anwesen Highgrove Hall von einem abgerissenen Mann gekauft, der aussieht, als hätte man ihn eben aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Alles Fälle für Penelope St. James meint man im Dorf, weil alle sie für eine verdeckt arbeitende Detektivin halten. Doch der schwierigste Fall erwartet Penelope noch - als sie den neuen und schon unbeliebten Pfarrer tot in der Kirche findet.

Der Organist der Kirche wird während des Gottesdienstes vor aller Augen erschossen. Wer hat ein Interesse daran, einen harmlosen Kirchenmusiker zu ermorden? Neben der heimtückischen Bluttat gibt ein mysteriöser Zettel in der Hand des Toten Rätsel auf. Wer ist Penelope?

Der Organist der Kirche wird während des Gottesdienstes vor aller Augen erschossen...

Penelope faceva il pubblico ministero, poi un misterioso incidente ha messo drammaticamente fine alla sua carriera. Un giorno si presenta da lei un uomo che è stato indagato per l'omicidio della moglie. Il procedimento si è concluso con l'archiviazione ma non ha cancellato i terribili sospetti da cui era sorto. L'uomo le chiede di occuparsi del caso, per recuperare l'onore perduto. Penelope, dopo un iniziale rifiuto, si lascia convincere... Gianrico Carofiglio ci consegna una figura femminile dai tratti epici.

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy. Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been ‘put to sleep’; a hanged horticulturist; a murdered rambler and a curate who meets his Maker somewhat sooner than expected.

Penelope Spada è stata un magistrato che non si piegava, che voleva la verità ad ogni costo. Poi qualcosa si è rotto ed è dovuta uscire dalla magistratura per un motivo che ancora non conosciamo. Ciò che sappiamo però è che adesso la sua vita è molto più complicata perché si è dovuta inventare una nuova professione, una nuova identità e… non sa neanche lei se è la cosa giusta. Un bar come ufficio, uno sbirro come confidente e un giornalista che le porta un caso di giustizia mancata innescano questo primo… "caso".

Penelope se despierta en casa de un desconocido, después de la enésima noche para olvidar. Se marcha sola y en silencio, recorriendo las calles grises del otoño milanés. Trabajaba como fiscal hasta que un misterioso incidente acabó dramáticamente con su carrera. Un día acude a ella un hombre que en su día fue investigado por el asesinato de su esposa. La causa se archivó, pero no borró las terribles sospechas que habían recaído sobre él.

In the picturesque village of Ashbury, Kent, the local amateur dramatics group is ready to bring *Hamlet* to the stage. But the performance takes a deadly turn when one of their own is found stabbed behind the arras, just like Polonius. Veteran actor and former Hollywood heartthrob, Gerald Temple, now fights for his life in a very different type of theatre—the operating theatre!

Published in 1888, The Legacy of Cain is the last of Wilkie Collins’s completed novels. Two sisters, Helen and Eunice, are brought up by their father, Reverend Gracedieu. He has deliberately kept the girls in ignorance of their true ages, to disguise the fact that one of them was adopted after her birth mother was executed for the brutal murder of her husband. In time, both girls fall for the same man, Philip Dunboyne, but when he eventually chooses one of the sisters, events take a sinister turn.

P. D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.” –People Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of...

Award-winning author P.D. James' second mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD! When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland...

A collection of RD Wingfield’s finest thrillers from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties Best known for his ‘Inspector Jack Frost’ series of novels, RD Wingfield also penned a string of gripping thrillers for BBC Radio. Initially thought lost, many of the 14 dramas in this collection were...

Award-winning author P.D. James third mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD! Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer–but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely...

The first entry in a clever, lighthearted mystery series set in modern Provence—a delightful blend of Agatha Christie and Peter Mayle—featuring the irrepressible Penelope Kite, a young-at-heart divorcee with a knack for stumbling across dead bodies. It’s love at first sight when Penelope...

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.

Paris, 1928: Agatha Christie and fellow writer Dorothy L Sayers board the Orient Express, bound for Constantinople. Christie in particular is looking forward to a break from recent dispiriting events in both her work and private life – the finalisation of her divorce from her philanderous husband Archie, and the miserly reception of her latest book.

The fifth mystery in the acclaimed and bestselling Adam Dalgliesh series by “the reigning mistress of murder”(Time), P.D. James, is now available on CD. Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father...