Romans policiers historiques

The Buntings are an elderly London couple who have fallen on hard times. They take in a lodger with the strange name of Mr. Sleuth, who pays handsomely for their shabby rooms. He seems to be a perfec …

When an old professor of art informs a museum curator that a piece his institution owns is actually half of a full statue—whose other section is housed at the Louvre—an old crime begins to unravel. …

The night of his grandfather’s mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companion-ships which recently …

The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906) is a collection of lively, enjoyable stories about a French detective resident in London. Whether dealing with a gang of anarchists in ‘The Siamese Twin of …

The Foreign Office detective sat down on the edge of the table. Das E-Book The Avenger wird angeboten von idb und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: historischer Roman, historisch, Roman, R …

‘The Mystery of the Sycamore’ is an early type of detective story, falling somewhere between Conan Doyle’s genius Sherlock Holmes and Hammett’s tough-guy Sam Spade. It contains elements of the Gothic …

A rich widow…A disappearance….and Mr. Dark, a detective lawyer’s clerk. …

‘Hard on the corpse, then, too. Here’s a really lovely one!’ ‘Yes, that’s a ghost mask, and beautifully ornamented. That’s to charm the dead man back to earth again.’ ‘Does he come?’ ‘They say he doe …

Little pig Robinson was a charming little fellow; pinky white with small blue eyes, fat cheeks and a double chin, and a turned-up nose, with a real silver ring in it. Robinson could see that ring if …

This fourth novel of Boothby’s Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being’s life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monk …