El renombrado director de orquesta Helmut Wellauer aparece muerto, envenenado con cianuro pot?sico, durante una representaci?n de La Traviata en el c?lebre teatro veneciano de La Fenice. Hasta el comisario Guido Brunetti, acostumbrado a la...
El avión se acercaba ya al canal de la Mancha cuando la pasajera del asiento número doce, madame Giselle, inclinó la cabeza hacia adelante. Cualquiera hubiese dicho que se había quedado dormida. Cualquiera, menos el asesino que acababa de...
Muerte en un país extraño, segunda novela de Donna Leon protagonizada por el comisario Brunetti después de Muerte en La Fenice, arranca con la aparición de un cuerpo en un canal veneciano. El cadáver es el de un ciudadano...
Para reseñar esta novela es imprescindible hablar primero del comisario Brunetti, Guido Brunetti, el personaje principal sobre el que gira toda la obra de Donna Leon. Le dio vida en el año 1992, con la novela Muerte en La Fenice, y desde...
When Jane and neighbor Shelley Nowack sign up for a gardening class at their local community center, they end up with a substitute, the pompous Dr. Stewart Eastman, after an unknown intruder sneaks into the home of the regular teacher, Julie...
Murder at the Tsar’s private palace… and sinister monk Rasputin is a suspect. The Russian Revolution draws Professor Axelson and his assistant Agnes into a terrifying web of intrigue and violence. Fleeing for their lives amid the death throes of...
He was a middle-aged, medium-sized, unobtrusive sort of man, with the stamp of upper-class conservatism on his clothing and features and he lay sprawled on his back on a sidewalk in Miami Beach, Florida with a bullet-hole between his eyes.
There...
At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe – who turn out to be a prominent, wealthy, middle-aged married couple – have obviously been murdered; the way Mr. Smith-Aidoo...
From the author of The Necropolis Railway, The Blackpool Highflyer, and The Lost Luggage Porter comes another thrilling mystery featuring railway detective Jim Stringer. It is winter 1909, and Jim desperately needs his anticipated New Year’s...