Ergebnis für "The Man" in Detektive & Spannung

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick...

Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a “spectacular debut” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease and fear...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

A haunted house. Three ghosts blamed for a missing diamond. Can a centuries-old mystery ever be solved? From the author of Trex comes a twist-filled mystery perfect for spooky season reading! "A fun haunted house story full of mystery and heart!"—Lindsay Currie, #1 New York Times...

While camping near Indian Creek, Matt and his best friend, Parker, get up early to see if they can spot a blue heron. Instead, they find the body of a dead man floating in the clear water. Parker is sure that George Evans, the smooth-talking local antiques dealer, must somehow be connected to the dead man. Matt isn’t so sure - but then, on Halloween night, while snooping around Evans’s antique shop, the boys make another shocking discovery that puts their own lives in danger. There are murderous grownups who would do anything to keep what the boys found in the shop a secret....

Charlie Lewis is really good at math. So good that he’s approached by a mysterious woman who needs his help. The woman is carrying an incredible item: An actual moon rock, one of the most valuable objects on Earth, and she’s investigating the theft of a box of moon rocks from NASA’s vault at the Johnson Space Center and believes the stolen rocks are now in the possession of a former astronaut. Although she claims to work at NASA, Charlie suspects she is something else.

Fall has come upon Wolfhollow, New Hampshire where the days are shorter and the nights cooler. Leah, Avery, and Grayson Bartlett have started back into the rhythm of their school year. However, a family friend asks the children to help him with a research project for an ancestor who traveled the historical Underground Railroad, with a stop near the Bartlett home in Wolfhollow, New Hampshire. What starts off as field trips to local museums turns into an adventure filled with an underground train, a snake pit, and a rope bridge over waterfalls.

Eleven-year-old Harper Graybridge never expects that one junkyard discovery will launch him into an underground realm filled with bizarre creatures, ancient ruins, and secrets powerful enough to change his life forever. When Harper meets Lyt—an insectoid traveler searching for the mysterious “keeper”—he’s offered the adventure he’s always dreamed of in the subterranean world of Murkmor.

Milos Craft is a kid with problems. They’re not your average, everyday problems. He couldn’t care less who posted what on Snapchat. The thing keeping him up at night is his dead grandfather’s magic journal. He discovered the journal in Grandpa Harbart’s dusty, cobweb-covered basement. The pages reveal what they want as if they have a mind of their own. Passages appear and disappear at the snap of a finger. But it’s not just how they appear—it’s what they tell Milos.

Een eeuwenoud kasteel met allerlei geheimen. De nichtjes Kaat en Eva brengen de kerstdagen door in Windsor en logeren vlak bij het beroemde kasteel. Als er een diefstal wordt gepleegd zijn de meisjes er als de kippen bij om op onderzoek uit te gaan. Maar daar denkt de dief anders over. Ze krijgen de hulp van Aiden, maar ook hij kan niet voorkomen dat ze in de problemen komen, want zo’n eeuwenoud kasteel kent veel geheimen.

Kaat en Eva kijken uit naar een rustige vakantie, maar voor ze het weten belanden ze in en spannend en gevaarlijk avontuur. De inbraak in een oude kapel op de begraafplaats lijkt eerst het werk van vandalen, maar als ze een vreemd teken vinden blijkt er meer aan de hand. Hun zoektocht naar antwoorden dompelt hen onder in de geschiedenis van Mechelen en van Margaretha van Oostenrijk. Wie is de geheimzinnige Wolvenhart en waar is de schat die in zijn graf moet liggen gebleven? Hun zoektocht is niet zonder gevaar, maar de nichtjes zetten alles op alles om hun opdracht tot een goed einde te brengen.

Als Kaat hoort dat ze haar zomervakantie op de paardenstoeterij van haar oom en tante door moet brengen, is ze daar niet blij mee. Veel liever was ze met haar ouders meegegaan op hun expeditie naar het Midden-Oosten. Maar als ze voor het eerst de spookachtige burcht ziet die vlakbij de boerderij ligt, wordt ze nieuwsgierig. Als ze met haar nichtje Eva niet ver van de burcht het lichaam van een jonge man ontdekt en een geheim document over de burcht vindt, weet Kaat dat haar vakantie avontuurlijker zal worden dan verwacht.

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans...

Una serena mañana de verano, Fred Molloy, exarchivero municipal y ayudante fiel de la curiosa pareja de detectives, llega al pueblo sin resuello. Un susto le ha hecho perder la voz y cuenta por gestos lo que ha visto en el campo de golf de Fairfield Cove: ¡un hombre yacía boca arriba en el green del hoyo 18! Emily y su amigo Jamie corren al campo para indagar, pero cuando llegan no hay ni rastro del cuerpo.

Brought to you by Puffin. A fabulously funny debut novel from comedian Adam Hills featuring a young detective dream team, perfect for fans of Sharna Jackson, Robin Stevens, David Baddiel and David O'Doherty. When a priceless painting goes missing, Charley - a 12-year-old viral singing sensation...

The man in the photo is so blurry it's impossible to make out what he really looks like. And that was before he was run over by a steamroller! His name was Lenny Smile and he ran a children's charity called Dream Time, financed by millionaire author Joe Carter. Now Carter wants to know just what happened to Smile - and to the money. Unfortunately for him, he's hired the Diamond Brothers - Tim, the world's worst private detective, and his wise-cracking younger brother Nick - to solve the mystery!

Penguin Classics presents Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Freddie Jones. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the...

Welcome to Inspector Flytrap's Detective Agency, home to the world-renowned solver of Big Deal mysteries. Inspector Flytrap, a Venus flytrap, works tirelessly with his assistant Nina the Goat, a goat, on his community's unsolved cases. There's no case too big, but there are definitely cases too small for this endearingly self-important plant detective.

En començar el curs, en Víctor tem que en Marçal Batallé torni a buscar-li les pessigolles i hagi d?acabar al despatx de direcció. Però enguany les coses són ben diferents, ja que amb l´arribada de l´Ícar, el noi nou, en Batallé troba una nova distracció i deixa en pau en Víctor. Mentrestant, un misteriós esdeveniment deixa tothom entre consternat i atemorit: la Mà Negra ataca i ningú, ni el busca-raons d?en Batallé, no pot evitar les seves malifetes!

Hilton Cubitt is worried. Drawings of "dancing men" keep appearing around his house and they're frightening his wife, who seems to know what they mean. Can our brilliant hero solve the mystery of these drawings before disaster strikes?