Henry Carter Hull

Cuando Astrid acepta inscribirse en la web de citas, tal y como le pide su hermana y tomar así el control de su vida sentimental, parece una gran idea, aunque al principio no le guste, pero es fácil de hacer y consigue matar dos pájaros de un tiro: silenciar las constantes charlas de su controladora hermana y obligarle a salir del hospital donde trabaja. Pero… ¿Qué sucedería si esa decisión aparentemente trivial, inspirase al mal absoluto...

A man fears his beloved is not who she claims to be in this sophisticated puzzler by John Dickson Carr, a master of the British-style detective novel. David Garth has just stepped off the train at Charing Cross when he is summoned to Scotland Yard to answer questions about a person believed to be living a double life. A neurologist, Garth is an expert on the brain, but in matters of the heart he is clueless. He has fallen in love with Betty Calder,...

Ein Begegnis voller Poesie entspinnt sich vor den Toren der Burg Silbleincastell. Diese birgt das Geheimnis um einen Klan, welcher sich seit alters der Hege der unnahbaren Windhunde verschrieben hat. Dessen jüngstem Abkömmling, dem gemütvollen Ugo, eignet ein besonderes Talent: Wie niemandem sonst gelingt es ihm, eine Anziehung auf die leidenschaftlichen Beutegreifer auszuüben, womit er jeden anderen Reiz in den Schatten stellt. Die Gabe ist Teil...

Just when left-leaning journalist Jack Parlabane trades in his muckraking career for domestic quietude, the muck comes calling. Conservative tabloid tycoon Roland Voss, his wife, and their two ineffectual bodyguards have been found at Voss's country estate with their throats slit. An arrest has been made, the media is pouncing, and Parlabane smells a fix. So does public defender Nicole Carrow. The pigeon is her former client, a harmless Robin Hood...

Inspector Charlesworth investigates a strange murder in a dress shop The sales room at Christophe et Cie is staffed by five young women. Each is beautiful in her own way-and each could be a murderer. One morning, two of the women purchase some oxalic acid to clean a stain off a Panama hat. No one knows how the poison gets into Miss Doon's system, but it doesn't take long to kill her. When Inspector Charlesworth steps into the little shop, he finds...

For the sake of honey, Bognor investigates a cabal of treasonous monks As the friars of the abbey gather for group prayer, Brother Luke stays in the garden. His tardiness is not due to an overenthusiasm for his potatoes, but to the fact that he is lying face down in the dirt, strangled to death by his own crucifix. For Simon Bognor, this will prove inconvenient. A special investigator attached to the British Board of Trade, Bognor knows that Brother...

A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, "The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and often beauty. Sometimes the softened towers of the great steel bridges rose above the river mist like fairy towers suspended between Heaven and earth. And again...

After a boozy Oxford reunion, Bognor is distressed to learn one of his classmates is a killer Nothing depresses Simon Bognor like a university reunion. Every pimply-faced boy he knew two decades prior has made something of himself, while Bognor languishes at the Board of Trade, muddling along in an investigatory position for which he is hideously unqualified. Although more often than not his job requires catching murderers, he lacks even the observational...

Nach ihrem blutigen Einsatz in Osttirol, kehren die beiden Brüder, Sergio und Max, in ihre alte Heimat, ins schwäbische zurück. Der illusionslose, wortkarge noch Europol-Polizist Max, der das Recht vertritt, aber Gerechtigkeit sucht und der empathische, humorvolle Genussmensch Sergio, der junge Rentner. Hier im geschichtsträchtigen, beschaulichen Oberschwaben wollen sie mit ihrer Family die Rente genießen. Doch auch hier, auf dem historischen...

Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from London to Sussex to South Africa. Mystery novelist Christopher Kent accepts a friend's outlandish bet and sets out to travel from Johannesburg to London with nothing but the cash in his wallet and the clothes on his back. He arrives with twenty-four hours to spare, his...