Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Detectives tradicionales

Detective John Coffin must find out who killed the man belonging to the severed human head found in an urn on the church steps.

They call Charlie Muffin a traitor. He has been on the run ever since the blow-up in Berlin, when British intelligence declared him obsolete and tried to kill him. Charlie outsmarted them then, and he has done so ever since, staying one step ahead by forgoing any semblance of an even halfway normal life. Now he is alone in Hong Kong and his only protector and friend, Rupert Willoughby, is a hemisphere away. Now Rupert is in trouble. He has invested £6 million in a massive new ocean liner but the ship is destroyed by arsonists, burning completely down in a Hong Kong harbor.

"È una brutta storia. E proprio perciò la voglio raccontare." Così si apre il sipario su una vicenda che ha la più magica delle cornici, un teatro celebre in tutto il mondo, e il più brutale degli inizi, l’assassinio di una giovane donna. Siamo nell’ottobre del 1979 e alla Fenice di Venezia va in scena – o meglio dovrebbe andare in scena – Il misantropo di Molière, ma Marcellina Feltre, l’attrice che interpreta Celimene, viene trovata strangolata nel suo camerino. A indagare, assieme al suo braccio destro Bartolomeo Cadorna, è il commissario di origini siciliane Eriberto Passalacqua.

La guerra è appena finita ma le sue ferite sono ancora aperte nel paese martoriato dall'occupazione nazifascista. Aldo Marano è un sostituto procuratore che lotta per mantenere l'ordine nella provincia stremata dalla fame e adesso vessata da continui omicidi e vendette. In particolare, a togliere il sonno a Marano è il caso di un'automobile: una Fiat 1100 nera, che lascia dietro di sé una scia di morti in tutta la zona.

En Inglaterra, a fines del siglo XIX, Tras la misteriosa desaparición de su padre, Mary empieza a recibir valiosas perlas de un remitente desconocido. Después de un prolongado silencio, el generoso personaje da señales de vida y quiere que Mary se reúna con él. La joven pide ayuda a Sherlock Holmes para que la acompañe. El desconocido resulta ser Thaddeus Sholto, hijo de un buen amigo del padre de Mary. Thaddeus y su hermano han estado buscando, durante seis años, un gran tesoro que su padre escondió antes de morir.

Un antieroe con molte macchie e poche paure è il protagonista di una nuova serie noir anticonvenzionale, ironica e cattiva Maria, l’adorata nipotina del boss della Sacra Corona Unita Nino De Guido, detto ‘Zi Nino, è stata rapita. Un solo uomo può ritrovarla, uno a cui non è rimasto niente da perdere perché ha già perso tutto, un fantasma. Mazzacani è un bandito, un cane sciolto, uno che non si è mai affiliato alla Sacra Corona, e per questo è stato punito. La sua banda è stata massacrata e lui è fuori dal giro.

James Burden has unexpectedly inherited Shotlander Priory after his cousin dies mysteriously. Little does he know that the old Prior, crossing the worn threshold for the last time, had called down a curse on those who were to take over the property. 'By fire and water,' he had said, 'your line shall perish.' They had seemed the foolish words of an old and dying man. For nearly four hundred years, the descendants of Sir James Burden had held the property, though it had never passed from father to son. Until now.

Jaasoosee upanyaas kee duniya mein James Hadley Chase ka koee jawaab nahin hai. Pooree duniya mein chase ke upanyaas kaa jabardast craze hai. Unke anek upanyaason par film bhee banaayee gayee hai. Diamond Books mein prakaashit hindi upanyaason mein rahasy, Romance, Sex, aur sansaneekhej daastaan ka adbhut mishran hota hai. Inke lekhan kee ek khaas baat yah hai ki jaise hee aap kisee upanyaas ko apane haathon mein lete hain to uske sammohan mein aise bandh jaate hain ki use ant tak padhe bagair nahin rah paate.

She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced. Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue, and lust set in San Francisco in the early '50s.

All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia. In prison, inevitably, he reflected on the grotesque way it had begun, about the panics and violent anger. He asked himself, too, why the child of happily married, middle-class parents should have needed to make motiveless and unreasoning attacks on women. Holed up in that house with the girl, he had not meant to pull the trigger. It was panic.

It is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to Scotland for crucial negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert Dudley is at her side. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short when the courts master lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet beneath the queen's window. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth's privy council do not accept the official verdict of accidental death. Their fears are borne out when another tragedy rocks the realm, and points the way to a conspiracy to bring down Elizabeth and seize the throne.

It is the crowning day of twenty-five-year-old Bess Tudor's life as she returns from exile to become England's queen. But even as her magnificent procession wends its way to Westminster Palace, a shot rings out, muffled by the jostling crowd. Within moments of becoming England's ruler, Elizabeth learns of the brutal murder of a highborn lady of the court, the sister of one of her dearest friends.

The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth cannot refuse the summons. The Boleyns are in grave danger. And Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, is marked for death by a master poisoner whose reign of terror may have royal sanction.