Ergebnis für "peter grant" in Literatur & Belletristik

Peter Grant, unser Londoner Lieblings-Bobby und Zauberlehrling, steht vor völlig neuen privaten Herausforderungen. Beruflich bekommt er es mit der Serious Cybernetics Corporation zu tun, dem neuesten Projekt des Internet-Genies Terrence Skinner. Und prompt holt die Magie ihn wieder ein. Denn in den Tiefen der SCC ist ein Geheimnis verborgen, eine geheime magische Technologie, die zurückreicht bis weit ins 19. Jahrhundert, das Zeitalter von Ada Lovelace und Charles Babbage.

Seltsame Dinge geschehen im Skygarden Tower, einem berüchtigten Sozialwohnblock in Südlondon. Dinge, die eine magische Anziehungskraft auf Police Constable und Zauberlehrling Peter Grant ausüben. Zunächst geht es nur um ein gestohlenes altes Buch über Magie, das aus der Weißen Bibliothek zu Weimar stammt. Doch dann weitet sich der Fall rasant aus.

Es ist Ferienzeit in London und Abigail, Peter Grants lästige Cousine, kann mehr oder weniger tun und lassen, was sie will. In der Gegend von Hampstead Heath verschwinden immer wieder Teenager. Nach kurzer Zeit tauchen sie wieder auf, unverletzt, aber ohne eine Erinnerung, wo sie waren. Wer hat sie fortgelockt – und warum? Unterstützt von einer Bande sprechender (und ziemlich eingebildeter) Füchse stürzt sich Abigail ins magische Abenteuer.

Eine gefährliche Loge. Ein tödliches Artefakt. Ein magisches Abenteuer. Liams Alltag als Siegelwahrer des magischen Museums in London endet abrupt: Im Louvre liegt vor einem Gemälde zur Französischen Revolution ein Toter – nur der Torso, der Kopf fehlt. Spuren von Artefaktmagie deuten auf die Loge hin. Mit Julia jagt Liam in Paris den Mörder und stößt dabei nicht nur auf eine Diebesgilde, sondern auch auf einen entscheidenden Hinweis zur Großen Verwüstung und das Ende des Museumsnetzwerkes.

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone - which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows.

In Lockdown: From My Pets’ Perspective, author Jacquelyn Bishop brings to life the witty, heartwarming, and downright hilarious thoughts of Max the dog and Ziggy the cat as they navigate the strange world of quarantine.

Exclusive to Audio! Somewhere amongst the shadowy stacks and the many basements of the British library, something is very much amiss - and we're not talking late returns here. Is it a ghost, or something much worse? PC Peter Grant really isn't looking forward to finding out....

Set in small-town rural Virginia the series gets an explosive start in Searching for Lilly when our heroine comes to town as part of the film crew on a paranormal research show. They’re looking for Bigfoot, but there’s a deeper mystery to solve when bodies start appearing in the forest. Book two, Searching for Elsie features a down on her luck single-mother, who is working at the local bar and living in a motel to make ends meet.

The village of Ashford, New Jersey, is about to discover terror. The Howler, a bloody killer who has already shredded six teens, is moving in. Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege - jock trouble, girl trouble, school trouble, family trouble. Then one frosty autumn night, Don is jumped by the Howler. Suddenly they're surrounded by fog, green fire, the sound of iron striking iron.... And Ashford's real horror begins.

Die Gruselkabinett Box 36 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Der Judas-Kuss", "Das Zeichen der Bestie", "Der Wolverden-Turm", "Der gewaltige Gott Pan".

In this fast-paced political thriller, Major Brooke Grant joins the president's top-secret CIA team and races around the globe in pursuit of a terrorist known only as the Falcon. On the day of Major Brooke Grant's wedding, an explosive-packed rental truck detonates a deadly bomb, killing...

A diverse selection of dramas by award-winning writer RC Sherriff Playwright and screenwriter RC Sherriff was best known for his anti-war classic Journey’s End, based on his own experiences of serving on the Western Front. He was a co-writer on several successful screenplays, including The...

General Lucifer of the Kingdom army is convicted of treason and is banished to the earth, along with his rebel forces. Later, when the Kingdom of Heaven establishes a colony on earth, the former general makes his move and grabs control of the colony, and enslaves the human colonists. For the next seven thousand years, Kingdom forces clash with Lucifer's rebels in a war that is invisible to the humans of earth. Each human eventually finds that they are barred from crossing the border into the safety of the Kingdom.

Eine Flaschenpost wird aufgefunden und löst eine gefährliche Suche nach dem verschollenen Kapitän Grant aus. Amerika und Australien, Indianer und zu allem entschlossene Sträflinge sind Stationen dieser Jagd um die halbe Welt.

"ANGLO-AMERICAN accord is splendid sentiment. America ever rises gladly to this toast. But we must drink from our own crystal chalice of unsullied truth, and not from a poisoned loving-cup of coalition propaganda!" The Poisoned Loving-Cup investigates and documents the egregious pro-British, anti-American propaganda inserted into public school textbooks following World War I, all in the name of improving British-American relations. (Summary by MamaPhish and the Introduction)

A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in...

An informed political thriller from two Washington insiders, America's leaders must hunt down a master terrorist in hiding and neutralize the threat of political betrayal. The greatest nightmare for the free world today would be an extremist in hiding, controlling and coordinating radical...

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detective ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes, in Victorian London. Along the way you'll also meet Josephine Tey's formiddable Inspector Alan Grant, as-well as G. K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown, as they solve crimes in wondorously inventive and ingenious ways.

Step into the shadowy world of crime and deduction with The Detective Club, a spectacular collection of 77 classic mysteries featuring some of the greatest detectives in literary history. From the meticulous mind of Hercule Poirot to the sharp intuition of Miss Marple, the legendary brilliance of Sherlock Holmes, the unwavering determination of Inspector Alan Grant, and the resourceful wit of Albert Campion—this anthology brings together the finest sleuths to ever grace the page.

Flatmates Judith, Giles and David once had it all: youth, optimism, ambition and degrees from one of the country's best universities. In their 20s, they were full of potential, but 10 years later, they're simply might-have-beens. Stuck in Streatham and strapped for cash, they're forced to mooch off their more successful mates just to get by.