Thriller de intriga. Narra el hallazgo en la estación londinense de Waterloo de un hombre muerto sin causa aparente, y un desconocido intenta sin éxito apoderarse de la llave que el fallecido lleva en...

Harry Stone, también conocido como Harry el Valet, era detective. Solía cambiar de nombre al registrarse en los hoteles, hasta que la policía de Rodhesia lo relacionó con el robo al Banco Nacional de...

El joven y millonario Jimmy Blake no tiene otra ocupación en la vida que divertirse. Vive en su magnífica mansión con su primo Gerald, un prestigioso científico sin dinero. Un día Gerald le invita a una...

Ambientada en los barrios más pobres de Londres, una serie de sucesos aterrorizan a los vecinos y dejan perpleja a la policía. El inspector Mason, uno de los Cinco Grandes de Scotland Yard, a partir del...

En el marco de Londres a principios del siglo XX, John Lexman –escritor de novelas de misterio- , casado con la joven e inteligente Mary, se ve involucrado en la muerte por asesinato de un prestamista....

El Círculo Carmesí es una organización secreta que extorsiona y asesina en el Londres de principios del s. XX. Su ingenio diabólico y su eficacia desafían y atemorizan a la sociedad. Así, el lector se...

Los tres instrumentos de la muerte: El padre Brown es convocado para investigar el asesinato del anciano más alegre de Londres. La Clave N.º 2: El mundo del espionaje inglés depende de la súper secreta...

Bienvenidos a la colección 3 libros para conocer, nuestra idea es ayudar a los lectores a aprender sobre temas fascinantes a través de tres libros imprescindibles y destacados. Estas obras cuidadosamente...

Antología de cuentos policiales clásicos y otros que se ubican en los límites del género. "El tratado naval", "El jardín secreto", "El guardia", "El problema de la celda 13" y "El robo del elefante blanco".

LOS MEJORES TIMADORES, LADRONES, GRANUJAS Y RUFIANES DE LA ÉPOCA DE SHERLOCK HOLMES, REUNIDOS EN UN SOLO VOLUMEN. GRANT ALLEN, GUY BOOTHBY, E. W. HORNUNG, ROBERT BARR, ARNOLD BENNETT, WILLIAM LE QUEUX,...

"I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne." Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in the sober...

John Sands, einem abgefeimter Verbrecher ist es gelungen das Vertrauen von Harry Leman, dessen Nichte und auch deren Verehrer, des Journalisten Jimmy Cassidy zu erringen. Um die Millionen Harry Lemans...

"THE OFFICER," said Private Smithy, of the 1st Anchesters, "is a new officer. It isn't the new kind of uniform, or the new Salvation Army cap, or the new silly way of wearing his shoulder sash. He's a...

LIEUTENANT BAXTER was writing letters home and, at the moment Cornish came into the mess-hut, was gazing through the window with that fixed stare which might indicate either the memory of some one loved...

ON the night of May 27, 1911, the office of Gilderheim, Pascoe and Company, diamond merchants, of Little Hatton Garden, presented no unusual appearance to the patrolling constable who examined the lock...

Der wohlhabende Londoner Geschäftsmann Trayne hat einen raffinierten Plan ausgearbeitet, um die berühmten Kronjuwelen aus dem Tower zu rauben. Mühelos werden daraufhin die Juwelen erbeutet. Graham gerade...

Zu den Bekannten des Reporters Michael Quigley gehörten Einbrecher, Diebe, Schwindler, Bankräuber, Taschendiebe und viele andere Leute, die nicht gern mit der Polizei in Berührung kamen. Auch mit fast...

"MURDER is neither an art nor a science, it is an accident," said Socrates Smith, and Lex Smith, his younger brother, his most devoted admirer and his dearest trial, grinned sardonically. A greater contrast...

Der verstorbene Mr. Derrick sammelte Daumenabdrücke verschiedenster Menschen, um zu beweisen, dass verschiedene Leute die gleichen Daumenabdrücke haben können. - Inspektor Staines besucht seinen Freund...

MR. MANNERING was called "the Captain" in the village of Woodern Green, which is on the southern edge of Buckingham. Possibly because of his military appearance and the frigidity of his manner; though...

MANY years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on the...

IF you leave the Plaza del Mina, go down the narrow street, where, from ten till four, the big flag of the United States Consulate hangs lazily; through the square on which the Hotel de la France fronts,...

SANDERS had been away on a holiday. The Commissioner, whose work lay for the main part in wandering through a malarial country in some discomfort and danger, spent his holiday in travelling through another...

Dick Martin's last official job (as he believed) was to pull in Lew Pheeney, who was wanted in connection with the Helborough bank robbery. He found Lew in a little Soho cafe, just as he was finishing...

I tre Giusti, Poiccart, Manfred e Gonsalez, si trovano ad affrontare un caso che darà loro del filo da torcere e che si rivela subito carico di pericoli, tanto che già nelle prime pagine rischiano l’arresto....

Ein offensichtlich geisteskranker Serienmörder übt an vermeintlichen Verbrechern, die mangels Beweisen nicht verurteilt werden konnten, gnadenlose Selbstjustiz. Er enthauptet seine Opfer, ihre Köpfe schickt...

Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer in the early 20th century, known for his crime and detective fiction. The Devil Man is one of his lesser-known works, but it is a classic example of his style....

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich, 1º aprile 1875 – Beverly Hills, 10 febbraio 1932) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, drammaturgo e sceneggiatore britannico. Assieme ad Arthur Conan Doyle e...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich, 1º aprile 1875 – Beverly Hills, 10 febbraio 1932) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, drammaturgo e sceneggiatore britannico. Assieme ad Arthur Conan Doyle e...

The lady, called by her intimate friends Nita, stopped at the end of the crowded path which leads to the bandstand. “Mary, I do not think you need come any farther. Take a park chair and wait for me....