Novedades

The year is 1961. Barney Carmichael is about to take on his toughest case yet when a mysterious and glamorous woman walks into his office unannounced. Her request is simple: find her son. It is soon clear that the task is far from simple, however. In fact, the more Barney and brother Jim delve into the mystery, the more confusing it becomes.

What links the murder of seventeen-year-old Helen Carstairs in 1954 to the murder, over thirty years earlier, of Private Rodney Purbright? The tragic story of two sisters, one pretty, one plain, is key to both murders. The Rowan sisters are bound together by a secret they must keep, and their reclusive behaviour plants suspicion in the minds of their neighbours, who regard them as ‘witches’. Dispensing herbal remedies and keeping a mangy black cat add to their air of mystery and seem to bear out the rumours.

When a mysterious middle-aged woman moves in next door to St Stephen’s vicarage, she is immediately taken under the wing of Nancy Harper, the Reverend Bernard Paltoquet’s redoubtable housekeeper. As the relationship between the two women develops, however, ‘Mrs Aitch’ begins to entertain suspicions that her new neighbour is not all she seems. Bernard and his friend Dr Robbie MacTavish also begin to think she has a dark secret.

“Tonight, the lights from Pittsburgh, just across the river, reflected off the low clouds, faintly lighting his way.” Blake Redman, a retired steelworker, spends his nights walking in the urban forest of Hays Woods, above a vast network of deserted mine shafts and tunnels. His comfortable life rhythms suddenly upend when he begins to hear nighttime voices, ones that inspire him to draw people and places that he doesn’t understand. Blake’s struggles to find the truth lay open old wounds while exposing a 140-year-old family legend that only takes him deeper into the unknown. The ...

Noch immer versuchen Irene Adler und Sherlock Holmes herauszufinden, wer hinter den furchtbaren Anschlägen auf die Mitglieder des Ensembles steckt. Ein neuer Verdächtiger taucht auf, der aber seine Unschuld beteuert. Und tatsächlich hätte der Verdächtige auch kein wirkliches Motiv, die Theaterproduktion zu sabotieren. Entgegen aller Vernunft entscheidet sich Irene Adler dazu, weiterhin in dem Stück mitzuwirken. Doch schon bei der nächsten Probe kommt es zu einer Katastrophe, die mehrere Mitglieder des Ensembles das Leben kostet.

Erneut erzählt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle den Hörern eine Geschichte aus seiner Geburtsstadt Edinburgh. In der Nähe der South Bridge Vaults wird die übel zugerichtete Leiche einer jungen Prostituierten gefunden. Der ehrgeizige Journalist Justin McNair wittert die Story seines Lebens: Ist es etwa möglich, dass der berüchtigte Londoner Prostituiertenmörder Jack the Ripper nach vielen Jahren in Edinburgh aufgetaucht ist? Engagiert geht er seinem Verdacht nach, nicht ahnend, dass er damit nicht nur sich selbst in größte Gefahr bringt.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have been hired by theater actor George Reynolds to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform onstage every night are the same people—only wearing different disguises each time. Is something sinister going on and, if so, what? Meanwhile, Holmes’s archenemy, Professor James Moriarty, is having problems of his own. Implicated in a rival gang leader’s murder, Moriarty and his second, Moran, must go on the run from the police as they try to find out who’s behind the frame-up.