Títulos en Detectives tradicionales

Ten people gather together for an elegant London dinner party. By the end of the party, only nine are alive. Sometime after dinner, General Thaddeus Carlyon is brutally murdered in the hallway. Who had the strength - and motive - to murder the distinguished military hero? Nurse Latterly and Inspector Monk find the answers in a nightmarish legacy of evil.

Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail.

Sherlock Holmes, a mas de un siglo de sus primeras apariciones, sigue siendo uno de los mas populares detectives de toda la literatura. Su metodo de deduccion, su sistema de eliminar todo lo imposible para que lo que quede sea lo cierto y su personalidad han logrado que muchos consideren a ese personaje como si fuera real.

"Uno studio in rosso", il primo romanzo scritto da Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sulle indagini del detective Sherlock Holmes...

Le agognate vacanze alle Sables d'Olonne hanno preso una piega imprevista per la signora Maigret, ricoverata in clinica per un improvviso attacco di appendicite. Ogni giorno alle 15 il commissario la va a trovare e passa nervosamente il resto delle sue giornate, irritato dall'atmosfera balneare che lo circonda. Finché qualcuno non gli infila in tasca di soppiatto un biglietto anonimo: "Per pietà, chieda di vedere la malata del 15".

A Liegi, la notte annoda i destini di due adolescenti che giocano a fare gli uomini, una ballerina, il proprietario del night club e naturalmente... il morto, un ricco greco. I sospetti cadono sul misterioso francese dallo sguardo pacato ma penetrante, che si trovava sul luogo del delitto e che assomiglia in tutto e per tutto all'ispettore Maigret! Il commissario dovrà chiarire la sua posizione e naturalmente smascherare il colpevole.

A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen. Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom.

When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated. A wire had been tightly wound around her neck. The strongest suspect, because he stood to benefit by the death of this wealthy old woman, was her protégé, the famous Dr. Janney. Just before her death he received a strange caller - one whose name he would not divulge. Ellery Queen, having come to the hospital to visit his old friend Dr. Minchen, had been present during the time of the murder.

Nadie mejor que el Napoleón de los detectives para aclarar un extraño caso relacionado con seis bustos de yeso del emperador francés. Lo que empieza aparentemente como la diversión de un loco obsesionado con Napoleón I, tal como declara el inspector Lestrade, da un giro dramático cuando Horace Harker, propietario de uno de los bustos destruidos, descubre en la escalinata de su casa el cadáver del mafioso Pietro Venucci. Holmes se hace cargo de la investigación y descubre rápidamente los verdaderos motivos del aparente lunático. 

El episodio tuvo lugar en Yoxley Old Place, en Kent, a catorce kilómetros de Chatham. La casa alquilada por el profesor Coram era un remanso de paz, donde el profesor se dedicaba a trabajar con la sola compañía del servicio y de su joven secretario, el malogrado Willoughby Smith. De pronto, un día, tras oír "un alarido desatinado y bronco", la doncella encuentra al secretario agonizando. Solamente existen dos pistas: la frase de Willoughby antes de morir "El profesor...; fue ella", y las gafas de oro que aferraba en su mano. 

When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her at that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard. The villagers insist they don't know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer - the vicar's new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story.

Este libro presenta las impactantes aventuras del mejor detective del mundo. Trata seis casos criminales tan enigmáticos que solamente alguien como Holmes es capaz de resolver. Para ello utiliza su gran capacidad de observación y su aguda inteligencia. La solución es obvia; basta analizar los indicios y seguir las pistas dadas.

A tired and battle scarred surgeon returns to London after being wounded in the third Afghan war. After his money starts to run low, a chance encounter leads him to take a flat with an eccentric man at 221B Baker Street. Thus begins the famous crime-solving partnership of the Holmes and Watson duo.

A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistence, which starts in Victorian England but moves to the American West, and the environment of the early Mormon communities.

Brema, una fredda notte di fine novembre. In un albergo di infima categoria, un uomo si spara un colpo di rivoltella in bocca sotto gli occhi di Maigret. Da questo suicidio apparentemente inspiegabile, prende le mosse una caccia che porterà il commissario da Brema a Parigi, da Parigi a Reims, e infine a Liegi, alla scoperta di una società segreta: la Confraternita dell'Apocalisse.

Vicar Max Tudor, reveling in his new-found personal happiness with Awena Owen, feels that life at the moment holds no greater challenge than writing his Easter sermon. With Awena away, he looks forward to a dinner that includes newcomers to the village like West End dramatist Thaddeus Bottle and his downtrodden wife Melinda. But when one of the dinner guests is found dead in the pre-dawn hours, Max knows a poisonous atmosphere has once again enveloped his perfect village of Nether Monkslip.

In the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul bringing with them disturbing news of war...and a mystery.

In Paris, two women have been brutally murdered, and newspapers report an assortment of clues and the arrest of a man with seemingly little link to the case. One man, C. Auguste Dupin, believes that the clues reported and the findings of the investigators assigned do not match up. Dupin takes the investigation upon himself and begins to seek out the truth in this odd circumstances. 

El policía Carlos Galeote, joven e idealista, forma pareja en el Grupo de Atracos con José Pulido, un agente cínico y resignado que suelta puños con facilidad. Ambos compartirñan una serie de desventuras: desde casos de prostitución infantil, en los que están implicadas figuras de la vida pública, hasta asuntos de corrupción policial, sin pasar por alto los discretos manejos financieros que afectan al desarrollo de la economía del país.

After two London men end their business partnership, one of them is savagely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset. Investigating the killing, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the victim was universally despised in Cambury - even the victim's wife and the town's police inspector are suspect. And yet in London circles, the man was highly regarded. What triggered his death?