Category: Historical Mysteries

wintry weather 1955, das Dorf auf der schwäbischen Alb versinkt im Schnee. Der wirtschaftliche Neuanfang ist auch in Dornstetten zu spüren, der Aufschwung der neuen Zeit wird erwartet. Aber die alte Zeit, der Krieg, das deutsche Reich lässt die Bewohner nicht los. Sie ist verschüttet und eingeschrieben in den Erinnerungen und Gefühlen der Bewohner.
Mit dem Verschwinden der Kellnerin des Saalbau wird die Gemeinschaft des Dorfes aufgewühlt. Ein Mord an der kleinen Zigeunerin, die allen Männern des Dorfes den Kopf verdrehte? Ist einer aus dem Dorf ein Mörder?
Der junge erfolgsverwöhnte Kommissar aus der nahe gelegenen Kreisstadt wird mit dem Fall beauftragt. Schon bald verfällt auch der der Anziehung und Schönheit der Verschwundenen und macht sich mit der Inbrunst eines Liebenden auf die Suche. Dabei gräbt er sich nicht nur in die verschneite Landschaft hinein, sondern bringt die unterdrückten Erinnerungen und Gefühle der Bewohner hervor.
Psychogramm einer Gemeinschaft, zugleich Porträt einer Landschaft.

Ein Winterkrimi auf der Alb
Udo Oskar Rabschs „Maria im Schnee": Eine Ermittlung in kälteren Regionen
Das Wetter kann einen Ort ins Abseits katapultieren wie ein Verbrechen. In seinem neuen Roman „Maria vom Schnee" ist es ein abgelegenes Dorf auf der Schwäbischen Alb, das der Stuttgarter Schriftsteller und Allgemeinarzt Udo Oskar Rabsch in diesen doppelten Ausnahmezustand versetzt. Dezember 1955 ist die Zeit der Handlung. Der Schnee fällt so dicht, dass sogar die Polizei mit dem Dienstwagen nicht weiterkommt.(Südwestpresse)

Ulm, Oktober 1349: Nachdem die schweren, bürgerkriegsähnlichen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den Handwerkszünften und dem städtischen Patriziat beigelegt sind, herrscht dank der Unterzeichnung des Kleinen Schwörbriefes wieder Frieden in der mächtigen Handelsmetropole an den Ufern der Donau. Um den Reichtum der Stadt zu mehren und Gott ein Denkmal zu setzen, wird mit dem Aushub einer riesigen Baugrube begonnen, die schon wenige Jahre später den Grundstein zum Bau des gewaltigsten und himmelstürmendsten Kirchenbaus der Welt empfangen soll.

Als der habgierige und grausame Glockengießermeister Conrad beschließt, sowohl das Bauvorhaben als auch die damit einhergehende Korruption zu missbrauchen, um Reichtum und einen Sitz im Rat der Stadt zu erlangen, findet sich seine vierzehnjährige Tochter Anabel plötzlich mitten im turbulenten Stadtgeschehen wieder. Begehrt vom Abt der Barfüßerabtei, in der sie als Helferin im medical institution arbeitet, erfährt sie die ungeschminkte Wahrheit über ihren Vater, als dieser sie an den Klostervorsteher verpfändet...

Parigi, 1898. Mentre los angeles Francia, divisa in due, si appassiona al processo del secolo, l’affare Dreyfus, nella capitale una serie di efferati delitti sconvolge i bouquinistes e gli habitués del quai Voltaire. Cosa ha spinto l'assassino a prendere di mira un’innocua signora con los angeles passione consistent with le marmellate fatte in casa? E a chi appartengono quelle «scarpe scure» che si muovono nell’ombra delle strade di Parigi, incrociando il cammino di ogni nuova vittima? Victor Legris e Joseph Pignot, l. a. celebre coppia di investigatori della libreria Elzévir, coinvolti loro malgrado nella vicenda, si lanciano sulle tracce del pericoloso omicida, incuranti del pericolo e… della furia delle rispettive mogli! E mentre un quadro dai contorni sempre più inquietanti prende forma, esplode lo scandalo del J’accuse di Emile Zola…

homicide and mayhem end result from govt experiments in generating human-ape hybrid "Super squaddies" in pre-World warfare II the United States during this interval secret mystery by way of Cryptozoologist/Author, Scott Marlowe

You by no means obtained the tale of what fairly occurred in the course of that fateful First Century interval. persist with a incredible American couple honeymooning in Jerusalem and research the lifeless Sea Scroll facts by no means published. learn the traditional first hand reporting which the secretive Scroll studying Committee has suppressed considering the fact that its discovery in 1947, in response to real headlines preserved from Time and the hot York occasions who trumpet fees of "Conspiracy" and "Scandal."
event the only and purely Copper Scroll that pinpoints the precise place of that outdated Israeli Treasury buried because the Romans invaded and examine why this sizeable hoard may perhaps by no means be recovered.
you are going to snort out loud on the chuffed answer to the couple's challenge with Traci's fervent non secular religion and Hill's abject skepticism.
Caution, this novel may perhaps swap a few of your presumptions.

The election effects move in, confirming the transforming into crowd’s hopes that the 1st black candidate for mayor of town may be the transparent winner. groups of supporters head to the park within the middle of town to acclaim his victory. The candidate strides to the platform from which he'll tackle the gang. He climbs the platform and attempts to talk. prior to he utters a observe, he's struck via a fusillade of bullets that kills him immediately. within the confusion, nobody can determine the assassins, who get away undetected. because the homicide of the candidate turns into recognized, black electorate develop into enraged and start rioting. The nationwide Guard—all-white troops from different elements of the state—is known as in to scale down the turmoil. With the defend patrolling the streets, a brand new coalition of leaders emerges, led by means of an excellent younger black legal professional, the beautiful girl writer of the city’s basically day-by-day newspaper, and a lady lawyer raised within the urban. They grab regulate of the city’s future, bringing the killers to justice and picking out the guy who engineered the homicide. At its center, the unconventional is an exam of the demanding situations to the deeply held tradition of a southern urban within the nineteen sixties and the braveness of the voters who lead to change.

In writing the unconventional, lawyer educator Paul Firstenberg drew on his adventure as Chancellor of Tulane collage in New Orleans, Louisiana. this can be his first paintings of fiction. He formerly authored 4 nonfiction books in keeping with his years as an govt of nonprofit companies and as an accessory professor on the Yale college of administration and the Baruch collage of Public Affairs. He bought his legislation measure from Harvard University.

Murder within the Land of Cotton is a major learn. Its feel of time and position is acute. Then as now, American society was once altering, and Firstenberg has captured it in a well nuanced means. He did preserve me guessing whether or not they may recognize the killers and even if town relatively may possibly movement on. I’m expecting the movie.

–Fredrick S. Lane, professor emeritus, Austin W. Marxe university of Public and overseas Affairs, Baruch university, town college of latest York

The novel immerses the reader within the moving panorama of the South after the passage of the civil rights legislation. The reader’s cognizance is captured by way of a high-profile homicide and the photographs of 2 notable girls who subscribe to jointly to assist advisor town to a brand new period. certainly new version southern heroines.

—Catherine Brodsky, master’s measure, paintings background, Columbia University

The hunt for the killers of the mayor retains you in suspense.

—Michael Jaffe, lawyer and senior companion in a management-consulting firm

Im Dezember 1926 verschwindet Agatha Christie spurlos. Eine groß angelegte Suchaktion beginnt, an der sich sogar Arthur Conan Doyle beteiligt. Doch Christie, deren jüngstes Buch »Alibi« gerade zum Welterfolg lanciert, bleibt verschwunden. Erst elf Tage später wird sie in einem resort gefunden, in das sie sich unter dem Namen der Geliebten ihres Mannes einquartiert hat. Bis heute weiß niemand, used to be damals geschah. was once, wenn Christie an einen bösartigen Widersacher geraten ist? used to be, wenn sie erpresst worden ist? was once, wenn die Königin der rätselhaften Morde selbst gezwungen worden ist, ein Verbrechen zu begehen? Auf intelligente und unterhaltsame Weise erzählt Andrew Wilson in einer Mischung aus Fakten und Fiktion von einem rätselhaften Fall, in dem die größte Krimiautorin der Welt selbst zur Protagonistin wird.

This early paintings by means of Wilkie Collins was once initially released in 1872. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family members enrolled him on the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, yet then took him to France and Italy with them among 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding institution, and accomplished his schooling in 1841, and then he was once apprenticed to the tea retailers Antrobus & Co. within the Strand. In 1846, Collins turned a legislations pupil at Lincoln's hotel, and used to be known as to the bar in 1851, even if he by no means practiced. It used to be in 1848, a yr after the loss of life of his father, that he released his first e-book, The Memoirs of the lifetime of William Collins, Esq., R.A., to sturdy stories. The 1860s observed Collins' inventive high-point, and it used to be in this decade that he completed status and significant acclaim, together with his 4 significant novels, the lady in White (1860), No identify (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The Moonstone, in the meantime is noticeable through many because the first actual detective novel – T. S. Eliot referred to as it "the first, the longest, and the simplest of recent English detective novels...in a style invented through Collins and never via Poe.” a number of the earliest books, really these relationship again to the 1900's and prior to, are actually super scarce and more and more pricey. we're republishing those vintage works in reasonable, prime quality, smooth editions.

The 12 months is 1968

In a gritty New England urban, days earlier than Christmas, a clergyman is came upon hung up on rocks in a river, murdered. The killer isn't discovered and the case is going cold.

Twenty-eight years later, the culprit resurfaces

Obsessed by means of the Medieval Inquisition’s attack on Cathar heretics, a spiritual enthusiast turns into an avenging angel by means of subjecting the Dominican brotherhood at a Rhode Island collage to an identical penances and punishments that their 13^th and 14^th century opposite numbers inflicted at the Lanquedoc’s unbelievers.

An unsolved case is re-openned

Police detective Georgette Duby, saddled with severe household luggage, stalks the assassin. journey Allen, an beginner historian preserving the foremost to the perp’s id, aids her in simple terms to have the tables grew to become on them.

within the Tryst Betrayed, former Indian overseas secretary Jagat Singh Mehta seems to be again on an eventful profession which started at the day after India’s independence.
In his lucid and informative sort, Mehta sheds gentle on Nehru’s prophetic statement of ideological agnosticism (named ‘Non-Alignment’ in 1946) and its distortion through the unintended overlap of decolonization with the chilly War.
Mehta argues that Nehru was once naïve on China, wishful at the Soviet Union and prejudiced opposed to the USA. The civil servants have been hypnotized through what he refers to because the ‘Panditji is aware top’ syndrome. He illustrates that Nehru’s bark was once without doubt scary yet his chew now not vicious.