Whilst visiting Venice in 1911 Thomas Mann's eye was drawn to a young sailor-suited boy of almost supernatural beauty, and was inspired to write "Death in Venice". This is a biography of that boy, who went on to lead a life as rich and...

Weihnachten 1935. Ein verschneites Herrenhaus am Rande von Dartmoor in der englischen Grafschaft Devon. Freunde des Hauses haben sich bei Colonel Roger ffolkes (sic!) zum Festessen versammelt - oben, im Dachgeschoss, liegt die Leiche von...

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is...

Die zehnjährige Miranda Porter, das einzige Kind von Major Porter und seiner Frau Lilibet, befindet sich mit ihren Eltern auf einer Kreuzfahrt im Indischen Ozean, als sie in einer Vollmondnacht von einer seltsamen Stimme geweckt wird:...

Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires von Adair, Gilbert

'The Dreamers' is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes. Cocooned in their apartment, the three of them push themselves further until the violence in...

London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime...