Gower Street, London, 1882. Sidney Grice, London's most famous personal detective, is expecting a visitor. He drains his fifth pot of morning tea, and glances outside, where a young, plain woman picks her way between the piles of horse-dung towards his front door. Sidney Grice shudders. For heaven's sake – she is wearing brown shoes. Set between the refined buildings of Victorian Bloomsbury and the stinking streets of London's East End, THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS is for those who like their crime original, atmospheric, and very, very funny. THE GOWER DETECTIVE SERIES: The Mangle Street Murders. The Curse of the House of Foskett. Death Descends on Saturn Villa.
Il detective di Gower Street Serie
Addentratevi nelle strade illuminate a gas del Londra degli anni '80 dell'Ottocento, una città ricca di segreti e ombre. Seguite la brillante mente deduttiva di un rinomato investigatore privato e della sua intraprendente pupilla mentre svelano misteri sconcertanti. Dalle grandi dimore ai vicoli bui, le loro indagini svelano un arazzo di intrighi, pericoli e il lato nascosto della società vittoriana. Preparatevi per un viaggio avvincente in cui l'intelletto si scontra con l'inganno in ogni caso meticolosamente costruito.
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La maledizione di casa Foskett. Le indagini dei detective di Gower St
- 448pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
Sidney Grice, of 125 Gower Street, is London’s premier personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours. Once a voracious reader, he will pick up neither book nor newspaper. His ward, March Middleton, has been left to dine alone. Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney Grice and March Middleton have an investigation to mount - an investigation that will draw them to an eerie house in Kew, and the mysterious Baroness Foskett...
Death Descends on Saturn Villa
- 416pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
London: 1883. Sidney Grice is London's foremost personal detective. Called away to Yorkshire, he leaves his ward, March Middleton, to run his house. But hearth and home hold little charm for March, who harbours dreams of becoming London's foremost, and first, lady detective. So, when a mysterious letter arrives from her long-lost uncle, she accepts his invitation to stay at the palatial Saturn Villa. Her new Uncle Tolly is sweet, eccentric and – come the morning – very, very dead. But March is not called upon to solve the case, instead she's in the frame for murder. THE GOWER STREET DETECTIVE SERIES: The Mangle Street Murders. The Curse of the House of Foskett. Death Descends on Saturn Villa.
A cold case needs reopening ... fast in the next case for Sidney Grice and March Middleton - the Gower Street Detectives.
The Secrets of Gaslight Lane
- 400pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
London, 1883: All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Sidney Grice is swotting up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward, March Middleton, sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day. The household is, perhaps, too quiet. So, when a beautiful young woman turns up at the door, imploring London's foremost personal detective to solve the mystery of her father's murder, Grice can barely disguise his glee. Mr Nathan Garstang was found slaughtered in his bed, but there is no trace of a weapon or intruder. A classic locked-room case. But what piques Grice's interest is the crime's link to one of London's most notorious unsolved murders...
Gli strani delitti di Steep House. Le indagini dei detective di Gower St
- 507pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
Londra, 1884. Al civico 125 di Gower Street, che corrisponde all'indirizzo di Sidney Grice, il più famoso detective privato della città, regna la pace. Dopo le consuete chiacchiere serali, il grande investigatore e la sua pupilla March Middleton si sono ritirati nelle loro stanze, lasciando la dimora in un silenzio carico di armonia. Ma questa condizione non è destinata a durare. Qualcuno bussa freneticamente alla porta e ben presto il mistero e la morte tornano a intrufolarsi dentro casa: sta per cominciare una nuova indagine. Un'indagine che coinvolge un conte prussiano, due damigelle in difficoltà, un cinese che viene dal Galles e persino un gangster alla ricerca del vero amore. Ognuno di questi personaggi si muove tra le misteriose rovine di una casa, un tempo rinomata: Steep House. Riusciranno, una volta ancora, il detective Grice e la sua assistente March a risolvere il mistero? E quale sarà il prezzo da pagare per riportare a galla tutta la verità?