Nemo - Cozy Mysteries 1

Parigi, Montmartre. Insieme alla moglie Georgette, René Magritte sta trascorrendo alcuni giorni nella Ville Lumière per un vernissage in suo onore, a cui partecipano artisti e scrittori, in una cele……続きを見る

A Bruxelles, René Magritte si trova alla fermata del tram che lo riporterà a casa. Bombetta in testa, abito scuro e pipa in bocca, il pittore ha una strana visione: vede il corpo sdoppiato di una gr……続きを見る

Após sobreviver a uma explosão numa exposição com as suas iniciais, uma mulher envolve-se numa investigação sobre a sua identidade, o paradeiro do dinheiro roubado e a morte da dona da exposição. Am……続きを見る

Op een avond wordt in het bos het lichaam van een man gevonden. Het is Kevin van Leeuwen: vader, en huisarts. De lokale krant schrijft over zelfmoord. Suzan die Kevin hielp met de voorbereidingen vo……続きを見る

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English journalist and writer, born in London on May 29, 1874. He was educated at St. Paul's School and then joined the Slade School of London to study arts. His fami……続きを見る

Barr's volumes of short stories were often written with an ironic twist in the story with a witty, appealing narrator telling the story. As the detective stories were in evidence, Barr was very succ……続きを見る

Hornung's prose is widely admired for its lucid, simple style. Oliver Edwards, writing in The Times, considered that "not the least attractive part of the Raffles books is the simple, plain, unaffec……続きを見る

'Ever heard of the Alibi Club?,' Robin asked when he was driving me home after one of the most disastrous first nights in theatrical history. When Tessa's Scotland Yard husband Robin is invited to s……続きを見る

He was confronted by the sight of his wife sagging full length on the sofa, where she had been since approximately half past six, when she was strangled to death with one of her own silk scarves. De……続きを見る

'Not complaining, are you? Right up your street, I should have thought. Solving the odd murder between professional engagements is your forte.' When the rare chance occurs for Tessa Crichton and her……続きを見る

Some fast thinking would be required, if I were not to get my head chopped off on the coming Friday. When Mrs Trelawney, a much-married Australian of considerable fortune, bought the big house at So……続きを見る

Dangerous secrets score high at an exclusive girl's school . . . but top marks belong to murder. Actress Tessa Crichton has mixed reactions to being on the panel of judges at the annual inter-house ……続きを見る

'So what tips do you need of a criminal nature?' 'Oh, nothing complicated. Just the basic rules for committing the perfect murder will do to be going on with.' The Rotunda in Dearehaven has a reputa……続きを見る

"I should warn you that it is not a pretty story." "Stories about murder rarely are." Nobody knows who started the rumour that James McGrath murdered his wife Rosamund. Certainly no one had seen her……続きを見る

Au gré d'une croisière sur le Nil, découvrez une galerie de personnages fantasques... Balade au pays des pharaons sur fond de géopolitique, dans la première partie de ce voyage où les êtres se dévoi……続きを見る

'Stabbed?' she repeated, in horror. 'Was he really?' 'I'm afraid so. From behind. He was sitting at his desk.' The soignée actress Tessa Crichton would rather be shopping and generally luxuriating i……続きを見る

With no sound at all, she pitched forward head first into the punch bowl, scattering canapés and glasses in all directions. By all accounts, Mike Parsons is a paragon: considerate, loyal and devoted……続きを見る

'For God's sake don't get the idea that you're Miss Marple. It could quite conceivably lead to your being whacked on the head.' The narrator of this classic mystery is fashionable young actress, Tes……続きを見る

'He wants to see you, personally. He's Detective Meek, he's from Homicide, and chances are he's come to report a killing.' Tessa Crichton, actress and unwitting private detective, joins the cast of ……続きを見る

'Going somewhere nice for lunch?' he enquired. 'No,' I said. 'As a matter of fact, I'm going straight back to the country. Something tells me there isn't a minute to lose.' The scene of the crime is……続きを見る

'You'll be the death of me one of these days. I'm telling you.' 'I'll be the death of myself first,' I replied. The soignée young actress Tessa Crichton is in dazzling form when Robin, her husband a……続きを見る

'What if he'd done it in reverse? Supposing the murder had already been committed by the time you saw him?' The elegant actress Tessa Crichton is starring in a film to be made in Paris. Her husband ……続きを見る

'Poor woman, how she must wish she had never come!' Prophetic words, if ever I heard any. The actress Tessa Crichton's cousin Ellen is engaged - but to someone she has known only a fortnight. The ma……続きを見る

She lay on her back, her head and shoulders at an unnaturally curved angle, as though she had arched herself in a last tremendous convulsion as death overtook her. The grass around her was stained w……続きを見る

When she turned round I saw that she had a carving knife in her hand. Why has Pelham Hargrave returned to his childhood home after twenty-five successful years in Canada and the United States, and i……続きを見る

"I am absolutely certain that someone is trying to kill me," she announced, which was pretty run of the mill compared to most of her ghastly secrets over the years. Tessa Crichton is appearing in a ……続きを見る

I had detected no sound or movement, but her eyes were open and, as I approached, she fixed them on me with an agonised stare. Tessa Crichton, actress wife of Scotland Yard Inspector Robin Price, co……続きを見る

'I'm assuming that you want to see a murderer caught and getting what he deserves?' 'You bet I do. In fact, I hope he gets worse than he deserves.' When a young American girl disappears from her fla……続きを見る

Denver stockbroker, Finny Aletter, dreams of quitting her cutthroat job to restore historic houses, but the murder of her bossーand ex-loverーElliot Fulton keeps her in the world of scavengers.When ……続きを見る

Burnt-out stockbroker, Finny Aletter, is leaving the cutthroat world of high finance to restore historic houses, where the chiseling is done with tools and not false promises.But her new career laun……続きを見る