Ergebnis für "The Professor" in Weibliche Detektive

Kurz nachdem June in das Haus ihrer Tante in Lower Foxdale gezogen ist, geschieht etwas Schreckliches: Ihr Nachbar, der pensionierte Professor Leighton, stürzt in seinem Haus eine steile Treppe hinunter und stirbt. Die Polizei hält seinen Tod für einen Unfall, aber die junge Frau hat Zweifel. Kurz vor seinem Tod hat ihr der Professor von einer bedeutsamen Entdeckung erzählt, die er zunächst geheim halten wollte. June stellt Nachforschungen an und stößt auf die Spur eines verloren geglaubten, sehr wertvollen Buches.

Anonyme Briefe für Lord John. Ob sich Miss Daisy da nicht überschätzt hat? Ihr Schwager Lord John hat sie gebeten herauszufinden, wer ihm seit einiger Zeit diese kompromittierenden anonymen Briefe ins Herrenhaus von Oakhurst schickt. Zu Anfang kommt sie ausgesprochen gut voran mit ihren Ermittlungen, doch dann entdeckt sie eines Nachmittags auf dem Friedhof eine Leiche, erschlagen von einem Granitengel. War es ein Unfall oder gar Mord? Und führt die Spur zu dem treuherzigen Landpfarrer, dem eleganten Arzt oder den frömmelnden Damen in ihren viktorianischen Villen?

“The Professor is a thoroughly gripping mystery about power, ambition, and the lengths we will go to in order to succeed. Pacey and full of tension, this one will stick with you long after THE END.” –New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author, Karin Slaughter For fans of Tana...

"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story...

Daisy and Frederica Linden, having finally found their beloved father, Professor Rudolph Linden, are on the last leg of the journey they began so long ago. The only thing now in their way is the notorious gang of air pirates who haunt the archipelago between Port Townsend and Victoria. Corporal Kent of the Royal Canadian Airborne Police gallantly offers to escort their conveyance in an official airship, hoping against hope that Freddie will fly with him and give him an answer to a very important question.

Between her kitty quilt-making business and her three beloved cats, Jill has her hands full. That doesn't stop her from wanting to solve the mystery of the milk cow that's gone missing from her friend's farm. But imagine her surprise when a stolen cow leads to the discovery of 50 stray cats and one dead body - a victim of cold-blooded murder....

Ein Toter im Tierpark... Eine Kette von dramatischen Ereignissen wird ausgelöst durch einen Toten im Tierpark, die Kommissarin Heike Stein und ihre Kollegen von der SoKo Hamburg vor ein großes Rätsel stellen. Ein zweiter Mord lässt das Geschehen in einem völlig anderen Licht erscheinen, und als die Kommissarin endlich den Fall zu lösen scheint, gerät sie plötzlich allein und hilflos in die Hände von zu allem entschlossenen Fanatikern. Wird Heike Stein dieses Abenteuer überleben? Heike Stein, die sympathische, junge Kommissarin der Hamburger Polizei, hat es nicht immer einfach.

If Professor Maxie Reddick is honest with herself, there’s a very personal reason she pursued a career in criminology: the unsolved murder of her sister, Susan, nearly 30 years before, and her belief that the local police force let her family down. Now Maxie has been drafted in to help investigate a murder – nothing particularly unusual about that, except when a fingerprint at the scene provides a shocking and unexpected link to her sister’s suspicious death.

Professor Molly investigates a mysterious paddling accident and discovers that it isn’t just business majors who cheat to get what they want. Whether it’s moving up in the college rankings, getting a seat in the big canoe race, or just looking out for themselves, some people will do whatever it takes to get ahead.

Forced to attend the Student Retention Office's summer retreat, Professor Molly brings her game of buzzword bingo to fend off boredom. But when a serial harasser collapses face-first into his haupia cheesecake, the event goes from dull to disastrous. Now Molly has to fight to keep her best friend out of the worst kind of trouble - and herself off the unemployment line.

Small town life, big academic egos, corruption, revenge, and Spam musubis! The Musubi Murder is the first campus crime novel set in Hawaii, and the perfect gift for mystery lovers, Hawaii expatriates, disillusioned academics, and anyone who fancies Spam (the meat). Renowned Hawaii-born voice-over artist Nicole Gose brings her spot-on vocal characterizations and impeccable comic timing to this reading.

Math Professor Sophie Knowles becomes involved in the restoration of the campus bell tower, which has been closed for decades, ever since a student died there in a tragic accident. Sophie is curious when history seems to repeat itself - one of her students, Jenn, who was chosen to play the carillon in the new bell tower is beaten and left in a coma. Are students associated with the bell tower cursed? Sophie is determined to get to the bottom of Jenn's tragedy, which may mean digging back in history and finding out what happened 25 years ago.

Un piovoso giorno di novembre del 1998 un Professore scompare misteriosamente dall'Istituto di Anatomia Patologica di Torino. Il Commissario Aurelio Baldanzi, solerte quanto scettico, viene chiamato d'urgenza, ma il mistero appare da subito più intricato del previsto, tra racconti di fantasmi e dell’antica maledizione di un Professore scomparso anni prima proprio nello stesso giorno e forse ancora ansioso di vendetta.