When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal...
Product DescriptionIn the tempestuous closing years of the twelfth century, the fourteen-year-old Oba Toshiko, daughter of a provincial warlord, enters the women’s quarters of Emperor Go-Shirakawa, her body bartered for favor at court....
It is the call Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid never expected—and one he certainly doesn't want. Victoria, his ex-wife, who walked out without an explanation more than a decade ago, asks him to look into the suicide of local poet,...
Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan head to the Canadian city of Victoria to investigate a series of petty crimes. But when a woman goes missing and a body is discovered, it would appear that the petty crimes have turned deadly — and Dorothy and...
Die berühmte Schauspielerin Jane Wilkinson bittet den Privatdetektiv Hercule Poirot um einen Rat: Sie will ihren Mann, den exzentrischen Lord Edgware, loswerden - so oder so.
Poirot interessiert indessen der menschliche Hintergrund dieser...
Travis and Meyer go to Mexico to find out what kind of a life the dead daughter of a friend of Meyer's had been having down there with her dropped-out friends. The search takes them to Oaxaca where a hellish version of a hippie underculture has...
Oferta, jaką Dan Roke – właściciel stadniny w malowniczych krajobrazach Australii – usłyszał z ust hrabiego Octobra, wydawała mu się zbyt kusząca finansowo, by z niej nie skorzystać. Wystarczyło...