"A Peter Diamond investigation." "First published in England in 1991"--T.p. verso. Includes sneak preview of author's Stagestruck.
Peter DiamondSéria
Táto séria sleduje moderného policajného detektíva Petra Diamonda, ktorý pôsobí v meste Bath a rieši zložité prípady. Každá kniha ponúka novú záhadu, ktorá preverí jeho bystrý intelekt a neochvejný zmysel pre spravodlivosť. Fanúšikovia detektívok si vychutnajú napínavé zápletky a prepracované vyšetrovanie. Je to cesta do srdca zločinu, kde je pravda vždy na dosah, ale nikdy nie ľahko dosiahnuteľná.
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“The chase, which includes a friendly Sumo wrestler and adventures in Japan, is a pleasure to follow, and Lovesey makes the relationship between tough cop and troubled child wholly beguiling.”—Los Angeles Times Fired from the police force for insubordination, Peter Diamond is reduced to working as a security guard at Harrod’s. Turns out he can’t even hold that job—he gets fired after finding an abandoned Japanese girl in the store after closing. “Naomi,” as he calls her, exhibits strong signs of autism, and he devotes himself to communicating with her in order to glean her identity and return her to her rightful home. Weeks later, a Japanese woman appears out of the blue to claim the little girl, and it appears as though Diamond’s job is done. If only that were true. Armed only with only Naomi’s drawings as clues, Diamond races to track down her kidnappers and save her life.
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Peter Diamond, Detektiv und Expolizist, wird von seiner ehemaligen Vorgesetzten um Hilfe gebeten, nachdem ein verurteilter Frauenmörder aus dem Gefängnis ausgebrochen ist. Dieser hat die Tochter eines Polizeibeamten entführt und fordert, dass Diamond seinen Fall erneut untersucht. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.
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The Bloodhounds of Bath is a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. To their latest recruit they are simply a gaggle of dotty misfits, until one of them reveals that he is in possession of one of the world's most valuable stamps, recently stonlen from the Postal Museum. Then theft is overtaken by murder when the corpse of one of the Bloodhounds is found in a locked houseboat, with the only key in the possession of a man with a perfect alibi. Burly detective Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad in Bath, finds himself embroiled in a mystery that in more than one sense evokes the classic crime puzzles of John Dickson Carr.
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Upon A Dark Night
- 344 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
The stunning whodunnit from the award-winning Peter Diamond series.
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The Vault
- 320 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
When a severed hand from the vault of Bath Abbey Churchyard arrives on Peter Diamond's desk, he is delighted to hear that, far from being a medieval relic, it is from the 1980s. But the vault is part of the house where Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written, and a fanatical American professor is thwarting their investigation. Events are complicated even further when the professor's wife goes missing . . . Highly suspicious of the professor, but unable to prove anything, Diamond concentrates on trying to identify the remains, with shocking result. But before he can get any further, the owner of Bath's largest antique emporium is brutally murdered - and the last person to see her alive was the Professor. With consummate skill, wit and ingenuity, Peter Lovesey has crafted a whodunnit of brilliant complexity.
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Diamond Dust
- 352 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
"Detective Inspector Peter Diamond is caught up in the most difficult investigation of his career - the murder of his wife. Found in one of Bath's parks, she has been shot. Mad with grief, Diamond finds himself under suspicion and decides that a little independent action is called for."--publisher.
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The House Sitter
- 400 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
A Peter Diamond Mystery, also introducing Hen Mallin, from Peter Lovesey's award-winning series
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The Secret Hangman
- 320 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
From the author of the highly popular Peter Diamond series comes this thrilling tale of mystery, mayhem and murder most foul.
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Skeleton Hill
- 352 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
Peter Diamond's tenth case is a perfect piece of superbly entertaining crime fiction from a master of the genre.
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A Peter Diamond mystery from the master of crime fiction
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In the small hours of a Sunday morning in the city of Bath a policeman on beat duty is shot dead by an unseen gunman, the third killing of an officer in Somerset in a matter of weeks. The emergency services are summoned. Ambitious to arrest the Somerset Sniper, the duty inspector, Ken Lockton, seals the crime scene, which is confined by the river on one side and a massive retaining wall on the other. He discovers the murder weapon in a garden and is himself attacked and left for dead. Enter Peter Diamond, Bath's burly CID chief. Middle-aged and not built for action, he pits himself and his team against the killer in a hunt that will test his physical powers to the limit.
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A Peter Diamond case in which the Bath detective solves a perplexing case with an international reach
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The Stone Wife
- 400 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
The new Peter Diamond case has the eminent detective in pursuit of a murderer after a theft at an auction house goes wrong
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Multi-award-winning author Peter Lovesey returns with a twisting tale that will delight fans of the series and draw in anyone who loves pitch-perfect traditional British crime fiction.
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Another One Goes Tonight
- 416 stránok
- 15 hodin čítania
Peter Diamond, the Bath detective brilliant at rooting out murder, is peeved at being diverted to Professional Standards to enquire into a police car accident. Arriving late at the scene, he discovers an extra victim thrown onto an embankment - unconscious and unnoticed. Diamond administers CPR, but no one can say whether the elderly tricyclist will pull through. But why had the man been out in the middle of the night with an urn containing human ashes? Diamond 's suspicions grow after he identifies the accident victim as Ivor Pellegrini, a well-known local eccentric and railway enthusiast. A search of Pellegrini's workshop proves beyond question that he is involved in a series of uninvestigated deaths. While Pellegrini lingers on life support, Diamond wrestles with the appalling possibility that he has saved the life of a serial killer. . .
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Beau Death
- 408 stránok
- 15 hodin čítania
Peter Diamond investigates a mystery of the past in the latest case for the brilliant Bath detective
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As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline. The problem is that she's the daughter of notorious crime baron, Joe Irving, who is coming to the end of a prison sentence. And Ben's father George is Bath's Deputy Chief Constable. But mothers and sons are a formidable force: a wedding in the Abbey and reception in the Roman Baths are set in place before the career-obsessed DCC can step in.Peter Diamond, Bath's head of CID, is appalled to be put in charge of security on the day. Ordered to be discreet, he packs a gun and a guest list in his best suit and must somehow cope with potential killers, gang rivals, warring parents, bossy photographers and straying bridesmaids. The laid-back Joe Irving seems oblivious to the danger he is in from rival gang-leaders, while Brace can't wait for the day to end.Will the photo-session be a literal shoot? Will Joe Irving's speech as father of the bride be his last words? Can Diamond pull off a miracle, avert a tragedy and send the happy couple on their honeymoon?
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The Finisher
- 360 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
"Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners are. As race day draws closer, an undocumented Albanian man named Spiro makes a run for freedom on the other side of town, escaping the chain gang that has held him hostage and its murderous foreman, who is known to his charges as The Finisher. The Finisher has killed for disobedience before, and Spiro knows there's a target on his back as he tries to lose himself in the genteel medieval city of Bath. Meanwhile Detective Peter Diamond is tasked with crowd control on the raucous day of the race-and catches sight of a violent criminal he put away a decade ago, and who very much seems to be up to his old tricks now that he is paroled. Diamond's hackles are already up when he learns that one of the runners never crossed the finish line-disappeared without a trace. Was Diamond a spectator to the prelude to a murder?"-- Provided by publisher
