Ergebnis für "Tiger! Tiger!" in Traditionelle Krimis

Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the 'slow horses'. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent's Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she's known Jackson Lamb long enough to have learned that old sins cast long shadows. And she also knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks, even recovering drunks whose careers have crashed and burned.

Als der britische Millionär Mornington in Marokko an einer Blutvergiftung stirbt, wird sein Freund Don Luis Perenna dazu bestimmt, den Nachlass zu verwalten. Es geht darum, innerhalb von drei Monaten den Erben eines Vermögens von 100 Millionen Francs zu finden. Leider gibt es offenbar jemanden, der es darauf abgesehen hat, alle möglichen Erben aus dem Weg zu räumen, bevor Perenna sie kontaktieren kann. Und so muss Don Luis, unterstützt von der französischen Polizei, sich diesem finsteren Gegenspieler stellen. Besonders eine attraktive junge Frau schwebt in höchster Gefahr.

In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.

Vier spannende und geheimnisvolle neue Abenteuer mit Sherlock Holmes und seinem Freund Doktor Watson.

Fifty-four people died in the avalanche that ripped apart a small New Zealand mining town. But the enquiry which follows unleashes more destructive power than the snowfall. As the survivors tell their stories, they reveal a community so divided that all warnings of danger went unheeded. At the centre of the storm is Ian Ballard, whose life depends upon being able to clear his name....

Can a deadly and ferocious tiger really be stalking the fog-enshrouded streets of Edwardian London? Holmes and Watson decide to visit the local travelling Circus and are especially interested when a performing and very agile tiger bursts into the ring....