Ergebnis für "monster" in Historische Krimis

Tauche ein in das skurrile London der Jahrhundertwende! In Van Dusen und das grünäugige Monster trifft Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen – alias Die Denkmaschine – auf einen Fall, bei dem klassische Logik an ihre Grenzen stößt. Ein rätselhafter Anrufer, eine unheimlich leuchtende grüne Augenfarbe und ein Fall, der selbst den brillanten Kopf des Professors ins Schwitzen bringt. Alexander Wohnhaas hört diese turbulente Detektivgeschichte von Jacques Futrelle mit spürbarem Vergnügen, Witz und feinem Gespür für Atmosphäre.

Die Verschwörung um Groß-Berlin zieht immer weitere Kreise. Walter Piefke kann wirklich niemandem trauen. Sind auch seine ehemaligen Kollegen von der Polizei involviert? Plötzlich treten die Geister der Vergangenheit wieder in sein Leben, denn zum einen geht es um die Spezialeinheit Argus und... seinen Bruder Hermann Piefke!? Zu allem Überfluss bekommt Walter es mit einem Serienmörder zu tun. Ist das Monster von Moabit wieder da?

Who or what is responsible for the gruesome deaths of members of the secret society known as the Order of Osiris? Dr. Armiston, an irascible, confirmed bachelor who believes in medicine, not mysticism, is certain the deaths are only tragic accidents. The members of the Order of Osiris suspect something more sinister is at work.

Hannah Miles navigates the etiquette of monster hunting through the parlours of a magical Regency England. This collection contains: Manners and Monsters, Galvanism and Ghouls, and Gossip and Gorgons.

A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay. Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction–until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation. Except Hannah discovers her role is to apologize in the wake of the rude and disgraced man tasked with finding the murderer.

1933. Hannah Snow is fleeing her unhappy marriage to an MP when she finds herself in a small hotel on the banks of Loch Ness. But when a monster is spotted in the depths of the waters, the press descends – and Hannah finds her hiding place is discovered. Someone has been looking for Hannah, and when they find her events will take a devastating turn. Present day. True crime podcaster Scarlett finds herself intrigued by the mystery of Hannah Snow, wife of a promising government minister who disappeared in 1933 – just months before her husband also went missing, presumed dead.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Night Watch, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction” (Stephen King). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money...

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