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London im Jahre 1829 – ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme – doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren … Folge 3 – Die Spur des Bösen "Der Kampf, Mr Cluskey, ist noch nicht vorbei. Ich habe Sie gerettet, und jetzt retten Sie mich!" Diese Worte raunt die junge, orientalische Schönheit...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
London im Jahre 1829 – ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme – doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren … Folge 5 – Das Biest von Glastonshire Glastonshire, ein kleines, verschneites Dorf außerhalb von London: Die grauenhaft zugerichtete Leiche des Landschaftsmalers Sir Robert Sheffield wird an...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
When two little children are murdered and the suspect – the children's mother as well as one of Freud's patients – is arrested, the Professor is compelled into action: he is sure the suspect is innocent. Instead he suspects the children's father committed the murder. He is able to persuade Karl Gruber of his suspicions. Together, they explore the family background behind the case… but will they be able to prevent an impending disaster in time?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
London im Jahre 1829 – ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme – doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren… Folge 2 – Der Opiumkult Graham Cluskey ermittelt im Fall des Massakers am englischen Königshof. Wer auch immer für die Tat verantwortlich ist: Er zieht im Hintergrund die Fäden und vernichtet alle...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
London im Jahre 1829 – ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme – doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren… Folge 1 – Raserei Buckingham Palace im April 1829: Das festliche Bankett König Georgs IV. wurde zum Schauplatz eines grausamen Massakers. Die überlebenden Augenzeugen berichten, die Adligen seien...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
März, 1870. In Piccadilly wird die Leiche einer Frau gefunden. Die Spur führt Inspector Ben Ross nach Yorkshire, während seine Frau Lizzy sich mit einem anderen mysteriösen Fall beschäftigen muss. Mit einem geheimnisvollen Mädchen, das die Leute immer wieder in einem Haus auftauchen sehen, von dem aber niemand etwas Genaues weiß – und das dann plötzlich ganz verschwindet. Bald schon weisen Indizien auf eine Verbindung zwischen den Fällen hin. Und es wird wieder einmal gefährlich für Lizzy und...
| Автор | Ann Granger |
Vienna, 1920: Professor Sigmund Freud is known for his interest in the human psyche, but Psychoanalysis is still an emerging field with its share of critics. When Constable Karl Gruber seeks out Sigmund Freud's help in dealing with a gruesome murder case, the professor sees a new opportunity to explore the many facets of human behavior and thinking. Together with his stubborn daughter Anna, Sigmund Freud sets out to help Constable Gruber and solve the unusual and mysterious cases of...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Traveling secretary Hattie Davish and her trusty typewriter alight on a small town in Illinois, where the Civil War may long be over, but certain mysteries refuse to be buried. . .Hattie Davish is delighted to be ably assisting her wealthy employer, Sir Arthur Windom-Greene, an English scholar who is fluent in Civil War history and hard at work putting together a definitive biography of General Cornelius Starrett. Their research takes them to Galena, Illinois, where they quickly learn that time...
| Автор | Anna Loan-Wilsey |
"'This remarkable novel is nothing less than a secret history of southern California—a radical past that might yet redeem our future."—Mike Davis, author of City of QuartzA chance encounter with a faded «Wanted!» poster in a San Diego library sends journalist Jack Wilson on a wild adventure through southern California's radical past. As Jack searches for the truth about I.W.W. outlaw Bobby Flash, he uncovers a hidden history of real-life revolutionaries . . . and...
| Автор | Jim Miller |
When the acclaimed Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, officers Juanita Diaz and Brian Fitzgerald of the NYPD must investigate the crime. But what they find is much more gruesome than they ever could have imagined. Suspicion soon falls on a tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, and Diaz and Fitzgerald must traverse the city, from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland, to find the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Studio 3 | Literatur um Mitternacht des SFB präsentiert: Friedhelm Ptok liest «Der Malstrom» von Edgar Allan Poe, Hannes Messemer liest Edgar Allan Poe's Erzählung «Die Maske des roten Todes». DER MALSTROM von Edgar Allan Poe erschien erstmals 1841 und zählt zu den 'Tales of Terror'. Ein alter Mann gibt wieder, wie er aus einem Schiffswrack und einem Wasserstrudel entkam. Das Werk gilt als früher Vertreter der Gattung Science Fiction. Die Geschichte ist auch bekannt unter dem...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction, Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest, has an uncanny insight to human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in stories such as Sherlock Holmes, the mysteries Father Brown solved were more local murders by small town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down to those in the area of the crime. The cozy mystery style that The Innocence of...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Trapped in what appears to be an endless bloodbath – vividly presented with Heffernan's meticulous historical research – three boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war's end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the third comes home as an unfeeling psychopath. The novel turns on the subsequent murder of the psychopath, and the offer of redemption for the...
| Автор | William Heffernan |
Paris 1878: Der alte Lord Littleby, Sammler orientalischer Kostbarkeiten, wird ermordetaufgefunden. Und nicht nur er. Auch seine beiden Kinder nebst der gesamten Dienerschaft sind dem rasenden Mörder zum Opfer gefallen. Die Spuren führen den Ermittlungsbeauftragten Kommissar Cocheauf das Luxusschiff Leviathan, das sich auf seiner Jungfernfahrt durch den Suezkanal nach Kalkutta befindet. An Bord treten jede Menge verdächtige Passagiere auf – und ein alter Bekannter: Erast Fandorin. Dieser beginnt...
| Автор | Борис Акунин |
Russland leidet unter einer Reihe von Anschlägen derterroristischen Kampfgruppe KG. Als General Chrapow heimtückisch in der Maske des Staatsrats Fandorin erstochen wird, fühlt sich dieser – der «Echte» – in seiner Ehre gekränkt. Ein Ansporn mehr, den Verräter zu suchen, der geheime Informationen an die Terroristen weitergibt. Dieser politische Krimi, schildert die einzigartige Atmosphäre der russischen Revolutionsbewegung in ihren Anfängen.
| Автор | Борис Акунин |
It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is hot favorite to win. His only serious rival is Parmonos from Sparta. When Parmonos is found beaten to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. The Judges of the Games sentence Timodemus to be executed in four days' time. Complicating everything is the fact that Athens and Sparta are already at each other's throats. If an...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
London im Jahre 1829 – ein dreckiger Moloch voller finsterer Geheimnisse und unerklärlicher Phänomene. Die neugegründete Polizeitruppe des Scotland Yard soll Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Constable Graham Cluskey ist Feuer und Flamme – doch die mysteriösen Fälle führen ihn an die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren … Folge 6 – Der Fluch des Museums Spuk im Museum: In einer Depesche berichtet der Direktor des Yorkshire-Museums von ungewöhnlichen Vorkommnissen, körperlosen Gestalten und grauenhaften...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Paris: July 1890. Inspector Achille Lefebvre and his wife Adele are enjoying their stay at a seaside resort-until a body found hanging from a bridge in a public park demands the Inspector's attention. Is it suicide or murder? A twisted trail of evidence draws Inspector Lefebvre into a shadowy underworld of international intrigue, espionage, and terrorism. Time is of the essence; pressure mounts on the Sureté to get results. Achille's chief orders him to work with his former partner,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Felix Markham, Duke of Winchelsea, has devoted his life to being the perfect statesman and raising his daughter after his beloved wife's death. But when devastating bombings on the railway leave London in an uproar, he is determined to bring the mastermind of the attacks to justice. He will lure the fox from his den by any means. In her youth, Johanna McKenna donned a French accent and stage name to escape the clutches of her violent father and became the darling of the New York City stage...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Lucien, Duke of Arden, is on the brink of disaster, about to lose everything he worked so hard to attain as the leader of the Special League. When Home Office obliges him to join forces with a Pinkerton agent to keep his position, he is determined to send the fellow back to American shores faster than he can say «Yankee Doodle.» There's just one small problem with his flawless plan to undermine the unwanted agent… Hazel Montgomery has spent the last ten years as a Pinkerton detective,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
At the public execution of the anarchist assassin Laurent Moreau, the outgoing Chief Inspector warns his protégé, the newly promoted Lefebvre: «I've heard that some of Moreau's cronies have sworn revenge. You don't want to get killed your first week as chief.» Meanwhile, Lefebvre is charged with investigating the disappearance of the Baron de Livet, a brash millionaire with connections to Russian spies and a history of gambling, womanizing, and fighting in duels. The case is more...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Amid the hustle and bustle of the Paris 1889 Universal Exposition, workers discover the mutilated corpse of a popular model and Moulin Rouge Can-Can dancer in a Montmartre sewer. Hysterical rumors swirl that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel, and Inspector Achille Lefebvre enters the Parisian underworld to track down the brutal killer. His suspects are the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, an acrobat at the Circus Fernando named Jojo, and Sir Henry Collingwood, a mysterious English gynecologist and...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers on the last day of battle for the new Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help the French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down; but circumstances have it...
| Автор | Gayle Ridinger |
The year is 1618 and the beginning of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Lieutenant Jack Channing's life is about to be immutably altered by two events. He falls in love with a beautiful countess and witnesses an attempt on the Polish King Sigismund's life. News reaches the court that assassination attempts on Catholic monarchs have occurred elsewhere in Europe and Jack is charged with the responsibility of finding and crushing the perpetrators – murderers that became known as the...
| Автор | Stanley Goldyn |