Sledujte inspektora Alana Granta z Scotland Yardu, jak se ponořuje do složitých případů v srdci Londýna. Každý díl přináší nové záhady, které prověřují jeho bystrý úsudek a neochvějnou odhodlanost. Tato série je dokonalou volbou pro milovníky klasických detektivek s důrazem na logické dedukce a napínavé rozuzlení. Ponořte se do světa intrik a zločinu, kde pravda čeká na odhalení.
Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment: a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto ...
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive - just like murder...
Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. Quiet and ordinary, they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home, The Franchise. Betty Kane, a demure young woman, accuses them of kidnapping and abuse. It takes Robert Blair, solicitor turned amateur detective, to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair.
It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go to any lengths for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was such a gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater as Salcott St Mary? And why -- and how -- did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder…fraud…or simply some macabre practical joke?
Nové vydání vtipné a přemýšlivé detektivky známé autorky kriminálních a psychologických románů, v níž s prostřednictvím svého hrdiny, inspektora londýnské policie, upoutaného dočasně na lůžku a tudíž se velice nudícího, snaží vyřešit historickou hádanku. Byl protagonista jedné z nejznámější Shakespearovy tragédie Richard III. opravdu vrah, krutovládce a mravní netvor, nebo nešťastný král, proti němuž se snad všechno spiklo? Vyústění je nejen překvapivé, ale přináší nejedno zamýšlení nad otázkou pravdy v dějinách a nad rolí mýtů a stereotypů v nich. Doplněno studiemi Václava Dršky (o dějinách Anglie v době válek růží) a Jiřího Raka (o mýtech a stereotypech v dějinách).
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about 'the stones that walk' and 'the singing sand, ' which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor's orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder