Etiqueta: detectives
La obra, publicada originalmente en inglés en 1946, es la más conocida de la serie de novelas policíacas escritas por Edmund Crispin protagonizadas por Gervase Fen, profesor titular de lengua y literatura inglesa en un college de Oxford.
La trama se centra en un extraño caso de asesinato en el...
Un grupo de amigos se reúne a la salida del colegio para llevar a cabo investigaciones detectivescas. Protagonizarán "Las aventuras de La Mano Negra", escritas por Hans Jürgen Press Cuatro historias que invitan al lector a participar en el juego de pistas que, a través del entramado del texto...
Antes de alcanzar fama universal como autor de teatro y brillante conversador, Oscar Wilde ganó su prestigio inicial con la publicación de sus primeros cuentos: la aparición de El crimen de lord Arthur Saville y El fantasma de Canterville en 1887 le granjeó cierta notoriedad por su irónica manera...
“Sherlock Holmes” is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is “Mr Hosmer Angel”? Which student saw the “Exam Paper” before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith on “The Dangerous Road”? Can you find the answers before Sherlock Holmes...
'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his...
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were...
A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog...
On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throws acid into her face. Then her...
The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are...
Clare West collects and edits the present antology of murder: “Crime Never Pays”. The unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just only an accident? Who will...
