Ergebnis für "Simone" in Privatdetektive

Spurlos verschwunden. Klara Golders erster bezahlter Auftrag als Detektivin führt sie inkognito in die Villa der Unternehmerfamilie Meiners, deren Putzfrau Nathalie spurlos verschwunden ist. Sie tritt ihre Nachfolge an und findet heraus, dass die junge Frau eine Entlassungswelle in der Möbelfabrik verhindern wollte. Wurde ihr das zum Verhängnis? Klara setzt alles daran, Nathalie zu finden und deren geheimen Plan fortzuführen. Dabei bekommt sie Unterstützung von Fee, der 15-jährigen, eigenwilligen Tochter des Hauses.

When a prominent landowner goes missing, private investigator Atticus Priest is drawn into a web of secrets that stretch from the rolling fields of Wiltshire to the darkest corners of the past. The ancient estate of Brookmere—seat of the once-mighty Ainsley family—is crumbling, its future threatened by inheritance disputes, hidden debts, and buried scandal.

Überglücklich und frisch verliebt nimmt Klara einen neuen Fall an. Im Hotel Charlotte treibt ein Dieb sein Unwesen, den sie diskret überführen soll. Als Zimmermädchen eingeschleust, stolpert sie prompt über die Leiche eines amerikanischen Kinostars. Verschwiegenheit ist gefordert, Fingerspitzengefühl von Nöten und Klaras Neugier unaufhaltbar. Hinter dem Rücken der Polizei beginnt sie mit ihren eigenen Mordermittlungen. Wie so oft springt Klara von einem Fettnäpfchen ins nächste und landet plötzlich vor einer laufenden Kamera und einem Millionenpublikum.

Klara ist schockiert, denn Philippe ist immer noch verheiratet. Doch Stine will die Scheidung von ihm, weil sie ihren neuen Lebenspartner, einen Warenhausbesitzer, heiraten möchte. Aus Angst, dass die neue Ehe genau wie die mit Philippe scheitern könnte, bittet sie ihren Noch-Mann um seine Meinung über ihren Zukünftigen. Dieser geht amüsiert auf ihren Wunsch ein und reist inkognito zusammen mit Klara zu Stine, um den Warenhausbesitzer unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Doch die Reise verläuft anders als erwartet, denn im vorweihnachtlichen Trubel wird die Marktfrau tot im Warenhaus aufgefunden.

Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside. I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn't say no.

On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy. At first it seems like an open and shut case: a murder suicide committed by Ralph's volatile brother Cameron. Then new evidence makes Mack suspect the man who reported the crime is in fact the perpetrator. But Mack isn't the only one with a stake in the case.

As long-buried memories from his hidden past begin to resurface, Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny feel compelled to return to the small country town where Ishmael crash-landed in 1963; the place where his memories began. Norton Hedley is no ordinary town. Apparitions, sudden disappearances, sightings of unusual beasts: For centuries, the place has been plagued by a series of inexplicable events. Ishmael’s first task is to track down local author Vincent Smith, the one man he believes may have some answers.

Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are attending the re-opening of Tyrone’s Castle, an ancient Cornish inn originally built by smugglers. Over dinner that night, the guests entertain one another with ghost stories inspired by local legends and superstitions. But it would appear that the curse of Tyrone’s Castle has struck for real when one of their number disappears into thin air. And then another....

Ganz in der Nähe der Baker-Street 221 B, dem Wohnsitz von Sherlock Holmes und seinem treuen Chronisten Dr. Watson, befindet sich das Wachsfigurenkabinett Madame Tussauds. Die Erben der berühmten Wachsbildnerin plagen ernste Probleme, denn das originale Fallbeil, mit dem die französische Königin Marie Antoinette enthauptet wurde, ist aus der Ausstellung entwendet worden...

Private investigator Atticus Priest is employed by a disgruntled ex-husband to dig up dirt on his estranged wife. But when she goes missing after swimming in the River Avon, Atticus uncovers a conspiracy between five lifelong friends that goes back years. The friends did something when they were younger that they're not proud of. It's something that would land them in a world of trouble if it ever came to light. Something they've been trying to bury ever since. But Atticus finds one secret and then the next.

The Organization has dispatched Ishmael and his partner Penny to Coronach House on the shores of Loch Ness, where the secretive but highly influential Baphamet Group are holding their annual meeting. The Organization believes an imposter has infiltrated the Group, and they have instructed Ishmael to root him - or her - out. It's not Ishmael's only mission. The first agent sent by the Organization has been found dead in her room, murdered in a horribly gruesome manner. Ishmael must also discover who killed Jennifer Rifkin, his fellow agent - and why.

Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him. Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England.

Private investigator Dan Armstrong can't believe his luck when he's invited to the luxury villa of none other than Alice Graceland, movie legend and queen of the silver screen. Alice isn't looking to bankroll Dan's writing, but instead she wants him to play host at a murder mystery evening with a glamorous (but suspiciously tense) collection of Hollywood royalty. It should be a meeting of old friends - but just how friendly are they? As the murder mystery evening takes a sinister turn, Dan and Oscar find themselves navigating more than the city's canals to find the truth.

Ostern 1903: In den Armenvierteln von London werden französische Prostituierte gekreuzigt aufgefunden. In der Kleidung der Leichen entdeckt man mysteriöse Nachrichten. Scotland Yard steht vor einem Rätsel. Zur Klärung der Mordserie wird Sherlock Holmes vom König direkt beauftragt.

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed?

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, this heart-wrenching installment of the beloved and brilliant Charlie Parker series “will leave readers breathless and shaken” (Booklist). In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the legendary great detective Sherlock Holmes and penned by ten of the most acclaimed authors writing today. In 1887 A Study in Scarlet was published by a then little-known author called Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had almost given up on writing...

Set high on top of Widows Hill, Harrow House has remained empty for years. Now, on behalf of a prospective buyer, Ishmael and Penny are spending a night there in order to investigate the rumors of strange lights, mysterious voices, and unexplained disappearances, and establish whether the house is really haunted. What really happened at Harrow House all those years ago? Joined by a celebrity psychic, a professional ghost hunter, a local historian, and a newspaper reporter, it becomes clear each member of "Team Ghost" has their own pet theory as to the cause of the alleged haunting.

Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world’s largest private collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts, for the unveiling of George Cardavan’s latest acquisition: a bona fide Egyptian mummy. When a bloodstained body is discovered beside the empty sarcophagus, Ishmael is dismissive of the theory that the mummy’s curse is to blame.

Ishmael Jones is someone who can’t afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He’s employed to search out secrets, investigate mysteries, and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes, he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic Colonel, to join him and his family for Christmas, Ishmael arrives at the grand but isolated Belcourt Manor in the midst of a blizzard to find that the Colonel has mysteriously disappeared.