Ergebnis für "mafia" in Historische Krimis

Die Mafia - ein Unterwelt-Phänomen, eine Organisation des professionellen Verbrechens -, für derart banale Formen der Kriminologie pflegt ein Professor van Dusen sich bekanntlich nicht zu interessieren", gab eben dieser noch hochnäsig von sich, bevor ihn äußere Umstände zu einem Meinungsumschwung bewegten. In der 35. Straße werden van Dusen und Hutchinson Hatch in eine Kutsche gezerrt und in das Quartier des ermordeten Mafia-Bosses Pasquale Malavita verschleppt.

When an Italian assassin's body is found floating in a barrel in Victorian London's East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn are called in to investigate. Soon corpses begin to appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the vendettas of rival Italian syndicates - and it is no longer clear who is a friend or foe.

An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence and of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather. New York, 1933: The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New...

The debut of a brand-new, action-packed series from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of ?pure entertainment? (People). Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800...

Charlie and Margaret discover the dark side of Hollywood in this sequel to New York Times bestseller The Hellfire Club—a thrilling cocktail of corruption and ambition from CNN's Jake Tapper. Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled...

Aprile 1980. Stella lascia Basilea, dove lavora all'Università, e parte all'improvviso per Piana degli Albanesi, in provincia di Palermo. Appena arrivata, fa amicizia con Eva, Ditria e Vito. Ma forse non è la prima volta che li incontra. Forse doveva tornare in quella terra per scoprire l'origine degli incubi che la tormentano. Anche George, "u miricanu", arriva a Palermo dagli Stati Uniti.

Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo must out-pace a self-made millionaire in pursuit of a fortune that could prove his family ties to a centuries-old dynasty in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war...