Ergebnis für "Raymond Chandler" in Historische Krimis

Familie Rath steuert auf ein dramatisches Ende zu: Gereon hat nach der Rückkehr aus den USA ein Versteck in Rhöndorf bei Bonn bezogen und schlägt sich nach Berlin durch, um Charly beizustehen. Sie muss Hannah Singer aus den Wittenauer Heilstätten befreien und Fritze verteidigen, der unter Mordverdacht gerät. Der Judenhass wächst und mit der Reichsprgromnacht kulminiert eine Entwicklung, die Charly vorhergesehen und Gereon lange geleugnet hat.

Blackmail, espionage and a mass murderer from his past await Bernie Gunther at the French Riviera. The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him...

The definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre, The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929 and was almost immediately acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade—a...

When misadventure led a schoolboy in London to employment at Baker Street, few could have guessed where his introduction to Sherlock Holmes would lead. But as the lad matures and he finds himself caught in the middle of a murder investigation, his friendship with Holmes and Watson lures him into the role of detective. 'Billy' documents his experiences, and soon his sleuthing skills not only bring him to another murder, but also lay the foundation for his metamorphosis into a famous mystery writer.

It's May 1935, and while the rest of England is decked in red, white and blue for the King's silver jubilee, the detective agency in Birmingham's Needless Alley remains unpatriotically down at heel. With the bailiffs at their door, private enquiry agents William Garrett and Phyll Hall are...

In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction. Now a major film, Marlowe, starring Liam...

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...

A dark and atmospheric 1930s-set historical crime novel, starring private detective William Garrett. 'Marlow has a poetic eye . . . But it's her mix of detective story and Gothic ghosts, ancient folk legends and lingering wartime trauma, that lift the book' Financial Times, Best new thrillers...

An outstanding piece of literary noir and the first in a PI series set in 1930s Birmingham. An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023 'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times 'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989 BIRMINGHAM, 1933...