Private Investigators

The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation. Their young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and brought to justice. But the brutal crime scarred the idyllic town of Cambridge forever.

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

Life as a private investigator in the suburbs of Florence isn’t always as glamourous as Dan Armstrong imagined it to be, until he is asked to investigate a recent spate of violent attacks on a Hollywood movie set in Florence....

Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda "Birdie" Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave away when she was only sixteen.

A million-pound heist. A man on the run. A gang hellbent on seeking revenge....

Dan Armstrong and the new love of his life, Anna, are heading to a hotel deep in the gorgeous Tuscan countryside for a long weekend. But when a mutilated body is discovered in the hotel grounds, Dan is called in to help with the investigation....

Private investigator Sebastian Clifford and his partner Birdie step into the world of celebrity when a star of children's TV turns to them for help. She's being blackmailed by someone who knows about her murky past, and she's desperate to keep it hidden....

Annapolis. The U.S. Naval Academy. Here begins Widow's journey—a path from a promising naval career to a crossroads of life and death. Rewind to Widow's final days as a twenty-two-year-old midshipman, where a dying woman's request catapults him into a whirlwind of lies and buried truths.

Former soldier. Ex-copper. Current man on the edge. Shunned by his old colleagues, and dividing his time between a dead-end job and the bottom of a whisky bottle, former Police Scotland detective superintendent Bob Hoon’s life is a mess....

To his many thousands of fans, ex-SAS officer Ben Hope stands tall as a warrior, a protector of the innocent, a defender of those in need, relentless in his pursuit of those who exploit others or prey on the weak.

It was a tragic accident. Wasn't it? A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thriller....

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

Ex-Police Scotland detective Bob Hoon has made himself some powerful enemies. Following his brutal search for the missing daughter of an old army colleague, Hoon is being hunted by the Loop....

When Marius Quin is invited to speak at the Mystery and Detection Society he jumps at the chance of a luxurious weekend away on the English coast. But arriving at Torquay’s Grand Hotel with his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague, there is the definite sense that all is not well.

Private investigator Dan Armstrong is no stranger to working with criminals, but when he’s approached for help by Bianca Moretti, he’s on high alert. Bianca is intelligent and beautiful, and Dan likes her, but he also once sent her to prison…

Promises are meant to be kept. Especially a promise like this. Jack Widow is submarine-watching near Kitsap Naval Base, outside Seattle, when he runs into an old friend.

After three years behind a desk, Inspector John Barton wonders if he’s still got what it takes. An opportunity arises to return to Major Crimes, so he jumps at it, after all he’s been around the block a few times.

When Italy’s greatest opera singer, Rodolfo Argento, is killed in a terrible car accident, the police initially rule his death a tragic accident or suicide. But his elderly mother, Violetta, believes this to be poppycock! Her son was a brilliant driver and had too much to live for.

High school wasn’t a grand time for everyone, but when a group of friends decide to meet up at a B and B ahead of their 10-year reunion, old grudges resurface, and one of them ends up dead. Now the owners, a kindly older couple, are on the hook.

A cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany. It's murder in paradise....

Eighteen months after Hillary suffered a personal tragedy, she is throwing herself into her work to try to get over it. Former soldier Gareth Proctor joins her team and finds himself quickly growing to enjoy his new environment. The first cold case he works on is the murder of Andrew Feeley.

Deep inside Wyoming, in the dead of winter, CIA Agent Alex Shepard is desperate. A few days ago, he sent an undercover agent to the Red Rain Indian Reservation to investigate an unthinkable terrorist plot....

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult.

When an unknown someone shoots him and leaves him to die, Harry Dresden hopes he might be heading to a better place. Unfortunately being dead doesn't make Harry's life any easier....

A mistaken arrest puts Widow into the Miami criminal system. A mysterious phone call from the US Secret Service and Widow is on his way to DC to face a covert emergency....

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Dancing Men third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is "The Five Orange Pips", part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The original title was "The Dancing Men," when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903.

The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.

The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's. Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Priory School tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire.

Nach meiner Entführung befand ich mich noch in einem Krankenhaus als uns auch schon gleich der nächste Fall ereilte. Ein Mann, Ende Dreißig, wurde unter starken Schmerzen in die Notaufnahme gebracht. Vergiftung, lautete die Diagnose, die er zum Glück aber überlebte. Daraufhin engagierte uns das Opfer, Mr. Walters, um den verübten Mordversuch, angeblich ausgeführt von seiner Ehefrau, an ihn zu beweisen. Die Angelegenheit gestaltete sich aber schwieriger als gedacht.

Plötzliche Dunkelheit. Hände packten Watson. Er schlug wild um sich, doch es half alles nichts. Ein heftiger Schlag auf den Kopf. Als er wieder erwachte, befand er sich in einer Art Zelle. Doch wo war er genau? Einzig, der Glockenschlag von Big Ben, dröhnte laut in seinen Ohren. Doch weshalb brachte man ihn hier her? Von den Tätern weit und breit keine Spur.

Nachdem Watson wieder bei Holmes in der Bakerstreet eingezogen war und bei Holmes wieder der Alltag Einkehr hielt, kämpfte Watson weiterhin tagtäglich mit den Geistern der Vergangenheit. Der Tot seiner geliebten Caroline verfolgte ihn bis tief in die Nacht hinein. Holmes befand, dass es an der Zeit war, Watson mit seinen Erlebnissen zu konfrontieren, damit dieser endlich mit dem Mord an seiner Frau abschließen konnte.

Als der Zeitungsjunge Billy Sherlock Holmes eines Tages von seinem verschwundenen Freund Jake und dessen vermisster Schwester Lilly erzählt, lässt sich dieser nicht lange bitten. Gemeinsam suchen sie das Waisenhaus von Miss Walsh auf. Doch die Ungereimtheiten die sich bei diesem Besuch ergeben, lassen Holmes böses Erahnen. Zusammen mit Eddy und Alice geht er der einzigen Spur nach, die sie haben. Was die drei dabei schließlich entdecken, lässt einem das Blut in den Adern gefrieren.

The Crooked Man, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Crooked Man 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay, of The Royal Mallows based at Aldershot Camp, is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife, Nancy, is the prime suspect.

The Reigate Squires was one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventure of the Reigate Squires was first published in 1893. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Reigate Squire twelfth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Watson takes Holmes to a friend's estate near Reigate in Surrey to rest after a rather strenuous case in France. Holmes finds that his services are needed here, but he also finds that his recent illness serves him well. His host is Colonel Hayter.

The Greek Interpreter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally serialised in Strand Magazine in 1893. This story introduces Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. Doyle ranked The Greek Interpreter seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Final Problem is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This story, set in 1891, introduced Holmes's archenemy, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Conan Doyle later ranked The Final Problem fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories. Holmes arrives at Dr. John Watson's residence one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with grazed and bleeding knuckles.

Die Box versammelt insgesamt 10 Kriminalfälle aus Doyles Kurzgeschichtenbänden Die Abschiedsvorstellung und Die letzten Fälle. Nachdem Sherlock Holmes knapp dem Tod entronnen ist, wird der Meisterdetektiv tatsächlich etwas milder und lächelt sogar ab und an, was seiner genialen Kombinationsgabe jedoch keinen Abbruch tut. Die Hörspiel-Edition enthält die legendären Inszenierungen des Bayerischen Rundfunks und des Saarländischen Rundfunks aus den 60er-Jahren sowie Hörspiele des SWR aus den 80er-Jahren — mit herausragenden Sprechern wie Peter Pasetti und René Deltgen.

Eine Kinderleiche – weggeworfen wie Abfall ... Der Auftakt der bekannten Thrillerreihe um Ermittler Roland Benito von der dänischen Krimi-Königin! Manche Bilder kann man nie wieder auslöschen ... Ein schreckliches Verbrechen erschüttert die dänische Großstadt Aarhus: Ein totes, zehnjähriges Mädchen, weggeworfen in einem Abfallcontainer. Kommissar Roland Benito von der Polizei Ostjütland soll herausfinden, wie es zu der grausamen Tat kommen konnte. Hilfe erhält er von unerwarteter Seite – der Zeitungsreporterin Anne Larsen, die schon bald auf eine erste Spur stößt.

Kathryn Walker enjoys an enviable life. Her husband is an accomplished doctor, her children are bright and successful, and she devotes herself to charity work that uplifts her Suburban Colorado community. Settling into a new year, her life couldn’t be better. . . Until April.

Ein Kollege von Dr. Watson bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe: Ein wichtiger Spieler des Fußballvereins Portsmouth AFC wurde Opfer eines brutalen tätlichen Angriffs. Holmes und Watson reisen an die Kanalküste, um die Hintergründe zu ermitteln.

Jonny Mendez arrives in a small coastal town and in less than an hour, bullets fly. Not the welcome he had hoped for. To make matters worse, two men are killed, and authorities suspect Jonny behind the crime. Despite the false accusations, they hold him in custody. Then more dead bodies fall. Is Jonny’s arrival to blame for the incidents plaguing the once peaceful town, or a mere coincidence?

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

Das Verschwinden der Lady Frances Carfax (The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax) erschien erstmals im Dezember 1911 im Strand Magazine mit Illustrationen von Alec Ball. 1917 wurde er mit sieben anderen Fällen in dem Sammelband Seine Abschiedsvorstellung veröffentlicht. Der Fall erschien in Deutschland auch unter dem Titel Das geheimnisvolle Verschwinden der Lady Frances Carfax. Die alleinstehende und durch Europa reisende Lady Frances Carfax ist bereits seit mehreren Wochen spurlos verschwunden.

Someone had axed Fred Hunter, The Trib's resident muckraker, and his whole family. And I was suspect #1. I'm Dan Warden, newly deposed police chief of Oregon City. It was one of Fred's columns that led to my resignation in scandal. The prosecutor needed a trophy for the next election and my head was his prize.

Der Detektiv auf dem Sterbebett (The Dying Detective) erschien erstmals im November 1913 im Collier's Weekly. 1917 wurde er mit sieben anderen Fällen in dem Sammelband Seine Abschiedsvorstellung veröffentlicht. Der entsetzte Dr. Watson erfährt von Holmes' Vermieterin, dass der Detektiv bereits seit drei Tagen schwer erkrankt im Bett liegt. Der Ermittler weigert sich jedoch, einen Arzt hinzuzuziehen. Da er sich sicher ist, an einer seltenen Tropenkrankheit zu leiden, schickt er Watson zu einem Plantagenbesitzer, der sich damit auskennen und Holmes' letzte Rettung sein soll.

Seine Abschiedsvorstellung (His Last Bow) erschien erstmals im September 1917 im Collier's Weekly und im Strand Magazine. Am Vorabend des ersten Weltkrieges treffen sich der deutsche Botschaftsrat Baron von Herling mit dem besten Geheimagenten des deutschen Kaiserreiches von Bork in dessen Landhaus. Die beiden feiern die Erfolge, die von Bork in den letzten vier Jahren in England erzielt hatte, konnte er doch eine Unmenge an strategisch wichtigen Informationen nach Berlin weiter leiten.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.

Die Pappschachtel (The Cardboard Box) erschien erstmals Anfang 1893 im Strand Magazine und wurde 1917 mit sieben anderen Fällen in dem Sammelband „Seine Abschiedsvorstellung“ veröffentlicht. Dieser Fall wird vor allem in britischen Ausgaben des Kanons der Kurzgeschichtensammlung Die Memoiren des Sherlock Holmes zugerechnet. Die amerikanischen Verleger befanden die Geschichte als zu brisant und druckten sie erst mit sieben anderen in der Abschiedsvorstellung ab. Eine alleinstehende Dame bekommt ein Paket, das zwei frisch abgetrennte menschliche Ohren enthält.