Повесть Артура Конан Дойля «Собака Баскервилей» была написана в 1902 году и продолжила цикл повестей и рассказов, объединенных общим героем — гениальным сыщиком Шерлоком Холмсом.

The crime story takes place in 1992, just after the political transformation in former Czechoslovakia. Commissioner Krauz ("very young, cheeky, quick and inexperienced, but promising") investigates a murder. The clues lead to the former communist politica

Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marsh

On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pu

In Somoza's new novel, A Study in Black, it all begins in June 1882, when a nurse, Anne McCarry, middle-aged, ugly, unmarried, arrives in Portsmouth, where she has accepted a position at the prestigious Clarendon House mental hospital. She is assigned to take care of a mysterious gentleman. This strange patient calls himself Mr. X, he cannot stand daylight, but he is endowed with extraordinary...

Since childhood, Tatyana was called Mystery, first by her father, then by her friends. So all her life she has been surrounded by complete mysteries and mysteries. Before she had time to move away from her previous task, the police assigned her a new one, which at first does not look serious, only very strange. Two female corpses have disappeared from the city morgue without a trace! Both of...

Leipzig in den Nachkriegswirren 1920. Kriminalinspektor Paul Stainer kehrt aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft zurück, das Grauen der Schützengräben noch in den Knochen. Ein aufsehenerregender Fall zwingt ihn allerdings, sich mit der Gegenwart zu befassen: In der Villa eines Fabrikanten werden mehrere Menschen erschossen. Alles sieht nach einem missglückten Einbruch aus. Doch eine verängstigte Zeugin...

»Das Spinnennetz«, 1923 in der Wiener »Arbeiter-Zeitung« erschienen, ist ein unheimlicher Roman: Sein Thema ist die Formation von Rechtsextremismus und Antisemitismus, deren Verbreitung Roth in den Zeitungsbeiträgen dieser Jahre mit stetig wachsender Beunruhigung kommentierte. Während er als Journalist diese Vorgänge von außen verfolgt, schildert er sie in seinem Roman aus der Perspektive eines...

‘Express to Galicia’ is a new detective novel by Bohdan Kolomiychuk, in which tangled cases and dangerous investigations await the reader. Spring of 1906. During a vacation in Switzerland, Lviv police commissioner Adam Vistovych unexpectedly gets involved in a dangerous spy game in which not only human lives are at stake, but also the fate of empires.

Every time the streets erupt with communist demonstrations. The director of the Viennese police receives a message that at the same time two young states, the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, are demanding the extradition of a certain Adam Vistowicz, the chief commissioner from Lemberg, Galicia. Why did a humble policeman interest the highest diplomatic circles? Will it be possible to...

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.

Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political turmoil, young Samson Kolechko is forced to place his engineering career on hold. But in the city of Kyiv everything remains up for grabs and new opportunity lurks just around the corner . . .