Traditional House

FELICITY'S FOLLY is a clean, sweet, traditional Regency romance set in a country house in Regency England, complete with quirky characters; ghosts, and a couple of mysteries! Left without a sixpence at three-and-twenty, Felicity Rhoades has vowed never to marry again. Instead, she will become a woman of independent means by taking in boarders. Felicity's “boarding house” is Rhoades Arbor, her late husband’s grand estate and her first guest is none other than a titled gentleman! Unfortunately, the best-laid plans are going to the ghosts! The Earl of Maitland arrives—pursued by a ...

When murder invades Haydn's opera stage, scandal isn't far behind . . . Charged with ensuring that an imperial wedding transpires without mishap, composer Joseph Haydn has his hands full. Barely seventeen, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, the imperial bridegroom, is reluctant to marry. And the bride, Maria Beatrice, has her reservations as well. But when an extortion note surfaces—an unpleasant reminder of the bridegroom's shameful past—the wedding seems truly doomed. Worse still, all the evidence points to Haydn's prima donna, Lucia Pacelli, being the blackmailer. Before Haydn can confront her...

In "The House in the Mist", weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others cannot be far behind", he is told. "What others?" he wonders, gazing at a stern portrait hanging on the wall. He finds he has chanced upon the gathering of friends and relatives of the man in the portrait. An inheritance is to be divided, all concerned must be present by the appointed hour.

Dr. Templeton konnte Poe in letzter Minute entkommen. Aber warum hat er Leonie einen unwichtigen Brief entwendet...

Paris, 1862. Ein schreckenerregender Doppelmord erschüttert die friedliche Welt. C. Auguste Dupin schaltet sich in die ergebnislos verlaufenden...

Nach langem Suchen findet Poe in dem kleinen Weiler Sleepy Hollow seine Schwester. Sie lebt dort in einer abgelegenen Hütte...

Traditional Japanese houses are made of wood and their roofs are covered with tiles.

Band 2 der mehrfach preisgekrönten SPIEGEL-Bestsellerreihe um Journalistin Vera Bergström. Heftige Regenfälle läuten das Ende des Sommers im schwedischen Åre ein. Das führt schließlich zu einem Erdrutsch mit tragischen Folgen. Zeitgleich wird in Stockholm das Armband des vor Jahren in den Bergen verschwundenen Schafzüchters Jonte Andersson gefunden. Neugierig geworden, beginnt Vera zu recherchieren.

Esta es la primera historia de Holmes creada después de su supuesta muerte en las Cataratas de Reichenbach. La historia en sí comienza con un asesinato: aparentemente sin motivo del Sr. Ronald Adair, hijo del conde de Maynooth, un funcionario colonial rico en Australia. Las autoridades, por no hablar de la familia del hombre, están perplejas por el caso: parece que el honorable Ronald Adair no tenía un solo enemigo en el mundo.

Two more classic dramatized Sherlock Holmes tales starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

"Тайна угрюмого дома" - повесть Александра Цехановича, жанр классический детектив. Головоломные ухищрения мошенников и торжество аналитиков русского сыска.

BRIGHTON BEAUTY is a clean, sweet, traditional Regency set in London and the walled Medieval city of Chester. Chelsea Grant hadn’t planned to be a deceiver! She had been the prettiest—and most penniless—young lady at Miss Farringdon’s Academy in Brighton. Befriending spoiled heiress Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family scandal was a schoolgirl’s naïve mistake. Now, Alayna has blackmailed Chelsea into agreeing to spend a dull month in the country with Alayna’s elderly aunt, while pretending to be Alayna! The plan might have worked but for one unforeseen occurrence, ...

India, 1922. A curse seems to have fallen upon the royal family of Satapur, a princely kingdom tucked away in the lush Sahyadari mountains, where both the maharaja and his teenage son have met with untimely deaths. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. When a dispute arises between the royal ladies over the education of the young crown prince, a lawyer's counsel is required to settle the matter.

The Emperor and some of his relatives, the imperial family, are referred to as the imperial household.

People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People’s Republic of China created a task force to find a cure. Working in the 1970s, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou reviewed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scrolls for ideas on where to start her research. She found 640 traditional treatments, and methodically started extracting compounds and testing them against malaria. Would any of them work? Follow the struggles of Nobel Prize scientist Tu Youyou as she works to find a cure to malaria.

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather’s lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake.

Miss Marple und Hercule Poirot ist kein Fall zu verzwickt, kein Abgrund der menschlichen Natur zu tief. Und dennoch gibt es ein ungeklärtes Geheimnis für die beiden Meisterdetektive: Was geschah an jenem Tag im Jahr 1926, an dem Agatha Christie unter rätselhaften Umständen verschwand? Warum hat sie nie mehr über diese Zeit gesprochen und sich auch in ihrer Autobiografie darüber ausgeschwiegen?

In London treibt ein Wahnsinniger sein Unwesen, der wahllos Büsten des französischen Kaisers Napoleon zerstört...

Sherlock Holmes wird von aller Welt für tot gehalten - so versucht Watson, auf eigene Faust dem Mörder des Baron Adair auf die Spur zu kommen...

Im strömenden Regen des Herbstes 1887 erreicht John Openshaw die Baker Street 221b. Er fürchtet um sein Leben...