Ergebnis für "The Moor" in Traditionelle Krimis

Wenn Muriel Drake auf der Knochenflöte spielt, so heißt es, dann verschwinden Menschen im Moor. Und so geschieht es. Der amerikanische Industrielle Fitzgerald, sein Sohn und ihr einheimischer Führer werden vermisst. Der Angestellte Colin Finch konnte sich retten und berichtet Sir Henry Baskerville von dem Vorfall. Dieser kontaktiert Sherlock Holmes, der sich auf den Weg in das Grauen macht.

On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about. Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law. None of which the stubborn old woman denies.

Claire Morton verschwindet spurlos. Kurz darauf trifft eine Karte der jungen Frau aus dem entfernten Leicester ein. Claire hatte sich mit ihrem Vater nie gut verstanden und scheint nun ein neues Leben fernab von Breckenridge beginnen zu wollen. Doch die Karte bleibt ihr einziges Lebenszeichen. Claires Bruder Daniel entdeckt das Tagebuch seiner Schwester, das beunruhigende Informationen enthält.

In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman long-ago accused of murdering her husband - and of a hound with a single glowing eye.

When an English expat is brutally murdered, his charred corpse left on a Loire Valley hillside, the police turn to juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard to find the perpetrator. Instead, Lombard discovers a wealth of secrets, grudges, and feuds in the idyllic town of Saint-Genèse-sur-Loire. He begins to suspect that the remaining members of the Comité des Fêtes know more about the death than they are letting on.

When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Mattiew Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation. But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in another world – one of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent forgotten underbelly of society – Lombard begins to make unexpected connections.

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Ein mysteriöser Moorleichenfund führt Holmes und Watson zurück nach Devonshire, wo sie einst gemeinsam dem Hund von Baskerville auf der Spur gewesen waren. Diesmal geht es allerdings nicht um eine alte Familienlegende; vielmehr weist der Leichnam anatomische Besonderheiten auf.

In this newly unearthed journal, Sherlock Holmes offers his own account of the dark events on Dartmoor, with annotations by Mycroft Holmes. An investigation shadowed by secrets, moral ambiguity, and dangers Watson chose not to reveal. As Holmes navigates the spectral legends, a brooding landscape, and the troubled Baskerville legacy, the case proves more complex, and more human, than you the listener ever knew.

A call from an old comrade has Holmes chasing a reported agent of Satan between the towering tors and bottomless bogs of Dartmoor only to find the limits of his own confidence and his public's esteem. Only Watson stands his friend, but even his patience is stretched. Sherlock's retreat to the bees of Sussex serves only to show him that his skills are unique and are desperately needed elsewhere. On returning to London, Holmes finds malign forces have been bringing ridicule to his doorstep.

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Newly married Mrs. Jeffrey is found in the library of the old family mansion dead with a pistol tied to her wrist, and everyone is suspect. The library in the family mansion has a reputation for harboring dead men, and no one knows how or why this is so. First published in 1903, Green delivers a well-written mystery again. Who is innocent and who is not?