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Actor, writer and director Mahesh Dattani is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India’s National Academy of Letters. Included here are all three of his plays featuring Uma Rao – PhD student, daughter-in-law of Bangalore's deputy commissioner of police, and wife of the superintendent. Priyanga Burford (neé Elan), stars as the intrepid sleuth, with full casts including Shiv Grewal, Saeed Jaffrey, Ajay Chhabra, Amerjit Deu and Nitin Chandra Ganatra.

Fourteen stories, all in classic style, introduce Holmes to new clients with strange and quirky problems. Clues to a fortune are hidden in a ludicrous painting, a modern mummy walks, and a novel tourist attraction holds the key to why an unattractive lady is suddenly pursued by an amorous admirer.

Hope Walker is a big city investigative reporter who finds herself back home in the quirky and lovable town of Hopeless, Idaho. Along with getting reacquainted with her Granny and her best friend Katie, Hope finds herself investigating dead bodies. It appears that murder has arrived in Hopeless!

In England's shadowy corners, from misty woods to ancient university halls, criminal psychologist and head of the Ritualistic Behavioural Crime unit Dr Harrison Lane, confronts the country’s most challenging crimes. A boy's body with cryptic messages. A man pinned down by horseshoes. A student etched with strange symbols. Each scene is a piece of a terrifying puzzle only Harrison can solve. As he unravels these ritualistic killings, Harrison digs up long-buried secrets that shake quiet towns to their core. But the deeper he delves, the more his own past threatens to engulf him.

Das idyllische Kleinstadtleben in Glastonbury gerät aus den Fugen, als der junge Straßenmusiker Rusty plötzlich verschwindet. Whalley, der ihn oft mit Kaffee versorgt und sich mit ihm angefreundet hat, macht sich Sorgen. Doch als Rustys Hund Otis plötzlich allein durch Glastonbury streift, ist für June klar, dass mehr hinter seinem Verschwinden steckt, als sie zunächst vermutet. Denn Rusty hätte seinen Hund niemals im Stich gelassen... June, Whalley und Pomona stellen Nachforschungen an und ahnen nicht, dass sie sich damit selbst in große Gefahr begeben.

Sherlock Holmes‘ Buch der Fälle (Original: The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes) ist eine von Arthur Conan Doyle geschriebene Sammlung von zwölf Krimi-Kurzgeschichten um seinen berühmten Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und dessen Freund Dr. Watson, die 1927 in Großbritannien veröffentlicht wurde. Das Buch der Fälle enthält die letzten zwölf Sherlock-Holmes-Erzählungen, die Doyle zwischen 1921 und 1927 schrieb. Zuvor hatte der Autor bereits in Seine Abschiedsvorstellung acht Detektivgeschichten zusammengefasst.

Die Abschiedsvorstellung des Sherlock Holmes (Original: His Last Bow) ist eine von Arthur Conan Doyle geschriebene Sammlung von acht Krimi-Kurzgeschichten um seinen berühmten Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und dessen Freund Dr. Watson, die 1917 in Großbritannien veröffentlicht wurde.

A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his "perimeter" from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the "last journalists" accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects 20 tight, powerful stories - all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time - along with an original screenplay.

Zwei kriminelle Organisationen, die um ihre Machtposition in Marseille kämpfen. Nur eine kann als Sieger hervorgehen. Und schon wird einer der Bosse ermordet. Wird es nun zu einem Krieg zwischen beiden Verbrecherorganisationen kommen? Oder steckt etwas ganz anderes dahinter, denn weitere Morde werden verübt. Hat jemand einen Entschluss gefasst und lebt nur noch für die Rache? Die Ermittler Pierre Marquanteur und François Leroc folgen der Blutspur, die sich durch Marseille zieht.

The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers. Written exclusively for the store, the stories were given as a holiday gift to its customers as a thank you for their business, handed out or mailed between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Welcome to Brighton, England, the home of local crime reporter, Colin Crampton. Brighton is a great town on the south coast of England. There are long beaches, seaside piers, quaint lanes, and an ornate palace, the Royal Pavilion.

From New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman comes an extraordinary anthology of her best short writing. Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly.

If you love early rock & roll, poodle skirts, clever who-dun-its, a charming cat, and an even more charming detective, you're going to love this series. Enjoy books 1 and 2 of the 1950s Cozy Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lee Strauss!

Mitzy Moon is hitting her stride as a psychic sleuth, and now she has to go undercover! The cases are piling up as Mitzy infiltrates a Ren Faire, boards a gambling boat, and travels back to Arizona. Warnings from the sexy sheriff, her meddling Ghost-ma, and a spoiled feline all fall on deaf ears, while the list of greedy suspects grows. She’ll have to play her cards just right or end up on a fatal losing streak!

Bandenmitglieder aus dem Dealer-Milieu in Marseille werden umgebracht, nachdem sie einen Drohbrief erhalten hatten. Ein Mann macht sich verdächtig, ein obdachloser Clochard, der in einer besonderen Mission unterwegs ist.

Eifelige Kurzkrimis - In diesem heiteren Kurzkrimi-Band nimmt Andrea Neven die Leser und Hörer mit auf ihren tödlichen Schreibfeldzug, der durch ihre Heimat, die Eifel, führt. Die Kurzgeschichten und Gedichte sind in sich abgeschlossen und können unabhängig voneinander gehört werden. Dies gilt für beide Teile dieses Hörbuches. Auch wenn darin nicht alle Ortschaften real existieren, sind doch alle Begebenheiten und Schauplätze herrlich eifelig. Mit Hinterlist und trockenem Humor lässt sie so manchen Dorfbewohner in die Falle tappen.

As a scientist, Sherlock Holmes would have certainly been familiar with the famous dictum attributed to Aristotle: Nature abhors a vacuum. In that same vein, fans of the Great Detective must look at 1885 and 1886 and see a somewhat similar void.

A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window', the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K. Benedict, USA Today-bestseller Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale and many more.

Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping, these tales will grip you with their devious narrators and crafty twists.

Dying to Go (Nothing to Gush About) Thirty-nine-year-old Rosi Laruee—named Rosisophia Doroche after her mother’s beloved Golden Girls—decides that the end of her twenty-year marriage and her dad’s impending knee replacement surgery are all the excuses she needs to visit Tucson Valley Retirement Community. But the drama follows Rosi when she finds the body of local tart and business owner, Salem Mansfield.