Margaret Storey Bücher

Roman, übersetzt von Caroline Einhäupl und Barbara Schmitz-Burckhardt, umfasst 217 Seiten.

Investigating a series of serial killings that has taken place in the reputedly haunted village of Biddinghurst, Kent, Superintendent Robert Bone uncovers an unlikely but disturbingly plausible scenario for the crimes. Original.

SOME GUESTS DON'T KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE... The party at the Manor had been a smash, and rock star Ken Cryer was feeling, well pleased... until he found golden Alix Hamilton in his bed. Despite her seductive pose, Alix didn't fancy Ken, or anyone else. She was dead—shot twice, with two different guns, in a room Cryer had specifically locked against intruders. For Superintendent Robert Bone, these were only the first complications in a case that would include champagne corks that masked the sound of gunfire, a missing, suspect, a stolen religious artifact, an orphaned cat, and the unexpected assistance of one very pretty biology teacher. But it would take a second body to lead Bone, at last, to the unrepentant murderer...

Set during the secession crisis of 1861, this book immerses readers in the tensions faced by Kentucky's legislature following Lincoln's election. Students confront critical issues surrounding slavery and the legality of secession amidst the threat of violence, prompting deep discussions about the state's future and moral dilemmas of the time.

When Superintendent Robert Bone attends an amateur opera performance at Haddon House, his daughter Charlotte’s school, he imagines he’s finished with work for the day. But when at the end of the evening the pretty and ambitious English teacher, Claire ‘Sugar Plum’ Fairlie, is found in the Domestic Science room, where a knife has been firmly and terminally buried in her back, Bone finds himself launching a murder inquiry.The prime suspect has to be Mr Sharpe, who was found with the body; he has made no secret of his infatuation with Claire and admits she had lately rejected him. But Bone is convinced that Sharpe is innocent and, as one suspect after another starts to emerge, he begins to wonder just how many enemies the popular Miss Fairlie actually had. Yet only when another teacher, the charming Grizel Shaw, draws Bone’s attention to some inexplicable behaviour does the light begin to dawn...

Sigismondo, ein geheimnisumwitterter Kahlkopf, eine Art äRenaissance-Kojakä, hat es am Hof eine italienischen Herzogs mit Entführung, Mord, Eifersucht, Verrat, Ehebruch und Intrigen sowie mit Raufereien und Messerstechereien zu tun, ehe sich das tumultuarische Geschehen lichtet und die blutige Fehde zweier verfeindeter Adelsgeschlechter beigelegt ist.