Ergebnis für "Pyramiden" in Privatdetektive

1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate sarcophagus, is finally opened and it turns out the mummy inside it is a fake it looks like there is no rest for Clara after all... Later that night, she is summoned back to the museum and asked to investigate a series of stolen Egyptian artefacts.

Das berufliche Interesse an Mumifizierungstechniken der Pharaonenzeit führt den Meisterdetektiv in Begleitung seines zeitweiligen Assistenten David Tristram nach Ägypten. In Alexandria angekommen erwartet ihn unverhofft der Auftrag des Ausgräbers Doktor Jones, die verloren gegangene historische Landkarte aus dem Besitz des Veteranen Major Wallace wiederzubeschaffen. Holmes trifft auf den zwielichtigen koptischen Priester Menas, der nebenbei einen Kunsthandel betreibt und auf einen ebenso undurchsichtigen Kaufmann, der sich Saladin nennt.

Private Eye Hannibal Jones takes on the most important client of his life: Cindy Santiago, the woman he loves. Cindy has been betrayed by a close friend and taken in a scam that has left her almost penniless. The swindler has not only taken her money, he has stolen her confidence and robbed her of her will to live. Hannibal's only lead is Irene, the woman who got Cindy's friend involved and wants to run away with him. She may hold the key to Cindy's problem...until she is gunned down right in front of Hannibal in a drive-by shooting.