Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), investigates the curious case of a stolen exam paper in this classic mystery - with a brand-new introduction by bestselling author Vaseem Khan. Bombay University is in the grip of a cheating scandal, centred on one of its most deplorable colleges. A final exam paper has been stolen and sold prior to the test, leading to calls for th ...
Sister Fidelma returns in the thirty-first Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne. Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess G ...
Italienische Flieger uber Wien! Wahrend alle gebannt in den Himmel starren, geschieht in der Nahe des Naschmarkts ein Mord. Joseph Maria Nechyba ubernimmt die Ermittlungen. In Riesenschritten naht mittlerweile das Ende Osterreich-Ungarns. Oberinspector Nechyba ist schlie?lich personlich anwesend, als Kaiser Karl im Schloss Schonbrunn die Verzichtserklarung auf die Teilnahme an den Regierungsgeschaften unterzeichnet und die Republik ausgerufen wi ...
Funf weite Bierreisen durch das Heilige Romische Reich, vier ermordete Bierbrauer, drei machtige Herzoge und zwei Habsburger-Kaiser liegen auf dem Weg zu einem Gesetz, das die Jahrhunderte uberdauern sollte: das Reinheitsgebot fur Bier. Auf seiner Reise durch die wichtigsten Bierstadte des 15. Jahrhunderts ist der „Kaiserliche Bierkieser“ Georg den Geheimnissen seiner Zeit auf der Spur: Was bedeutet Kaiser Friedrichs mystisches Ratsel AEIOU? Ga ...
Lovely Faith Yardley's betrothal to a man from the north is abruptly followed by murder – and more murder. Transformed by terror, quaint and beautiful Williamsburg, Virginia waits for the killer to strike again, and wonders: This time, will it be Faith Yardley herself? <P> "Another of Leslie Ford's ace items in murder and love, full of suspenseful moments and first-rate: sleuthing." –New York World Telegram <P> &qu ...
Nothing is fair in love and war. . .Europe's elite have gathered at the glittering Congress of Vienna–princes, ambassadors, the Russian tsar–all negotiating the fate of the continent by day and pursuing pleasure by night. Until Princess Tatiana, the most beautiful and talked about woman in Vienna, is found murdered during an ill-timed rendezvous with three of her most powerful conquests. . .Suzanne Rannoch has tried to ignore rumors that he ...
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 Ga ...
Amid the treachery of war and the whirl of revelry, no one is what they seem. . .Nights filled with lavish balls. . .lush, bucolic afternoons. . .. Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, warily partake in the country's pleasures. But with the Congress of Vienna in chaos and the Duke of Wellington preparing for battle, the festivities are cut sh ...
