In Rio findet eine Konferenz der OAS statt. Botschafter und Außenminister vieler Länder werden erwartet.Nacio Madeira Mendes, ein Auftragskiller, wird von Portugal nach Rio geschickt: Für die Summe von zwanzig Millionen Cruzeiros soll er Juan Dorcas, den Delegierten Argentiniens, aus dem Weg räumen....Der Roman In Rio droht Gefahr des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Robert L. Fish (* 21. August 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio; † 23. Februar 1981 in Trumbull, Connecticut)...

Die brasilianische Metropole Rio de Janeiro und der Staat São Paulo sind die Schauplätze einer fesselnden Handlung. Die einfallsreiche Arbeitsweise des Kommissars José da Silva ist zwar besonders erfolgreich, hat aber auch äußerst gefahrvolle Überraschungen und völlig unerwartete Entwicklungen zur Folge. So gelangt da Silva schließlich auf die geheimnisumwobene und gefürchtete Insel der Schlangen, wo ein dramatisches Finale zum Ziel der Ermittlungen kommt...Robert L. Fish (* 21. Au...

Kenner und Liebhaber von Detektiv-Geschichten sind jetzt vielleicht etwas verwirrt!Das Titelbild zeigt doch...?Die Namen klingen auch wie...?Ganz recht: gemeint sind Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson.Robert L. Fish hat sehr gekonnte Parodien geschrieben, also in komischer Nachahmung von Form und Sprache des berühmten Arthur Conan Doyle neue, spannende Fälle für seine Helden erfunden: Schlock Homes klärt auch die verzwicktesten Kriminalfälle durch genau...

In the diamond fields of South Africa, a London boy makes a fortuneOn a Dutch plantation in South Africa, two bored children are throwing rocks when their mother calls them inside and notices that one of her sons is holding a glittering, uncut diamond. When word reaches Europe that there are diamonds in South Africa just waiting to be plucked from the ground, men and women of all nations race to make their fortune. Among them is young Barney Isaacs – who will be lu...

Twelve loving parodies of the great detective – each a masterpiece in its own rightThe world-famous amateur detective Schlock Homes is eating breakfast when a telegram arrives. It was sent by a woman named Miss Wimpole, and she is terribly upset. Miss Wimpole brings a case that stretches from the tombs of Egypt to the deserts of Mexico, with a stop at the racetrack in between, and it is but the first misadventure in this riotous collection of tales.Whether ...

To keep his wife in furs, a smuggler sneaks a painting across the Spanish frontierIt is 1948, and few in Belgium live comfortably enough to haggle over payment – particularly those who make their living outside the law. Kek Huuygens is an exception. As far as his wife knows, this dapper gentleman is an art appraiser who moves in the finest circles. But although Kek knows all there is to know about art, he does not appraise it. He moves it – from one thief to anothe...

A traveler is murdered in Rio for the sake of a stuffed snakeThe man in white has money to fly, but he boards a bus instead. When he arrives in Rio de Janeiro well after midnight. He is on his way to make his fortune when he spots the killers following him and knows is life is through.A few hours after dawn, the man in white is brought to the city morgue – another anonymous corpse to be inspected by Captain JoséDa Silva, liaison between Interpol and the Bra...

To protect a witness, a loose cannon of a cop takes on the whole mobClancy doesn't care that the shooter is a witness in an important trial. All he knows is that the guy has a gun – and no one pulls a gun on Lieutenant Clancy. Shooting the state's witness earns Clancy a transfer to the backwater 52nd Precinct. To get his career on track, he is forced to accept a humiliating assignment: babysitting mob kingpin Johnny Rossi while he waits to testify before the crime ...

In search of a missing treasure, Da Silva returns to an old caseOff the island of Barbados, the crew of a Brazilian ocean liner hear the sounds of Carnival coming from shore. A small boat pulls alongside, and a band of steel drummers offer to play for them. As they make their rounds on the ship, the bandleader slips away. He forces one of the crew to open the ship's safe, and escapes before the song has ended, taking half a million dollars in gems with him....

A gang of assassins draw Da Silva into Brazil's rugged interiorGeorge Chaney may have been raised in the roughest neighborhoods of the United States, but he's never been anywhere quite as dangerous as Paraíso. On the run from the mob, Chaney comes here in search of sanctuary. But he will find that though the city's name means paradise, its reality is much closer to hell.Chaney is found gunned down execution style, with a tag around his neck that re...

A New York cop goes after an escaped prisoner with murder on his mindFor a hit-and-run with a stolen car, Lenny Cervera bought himself five to ten in Sing Sing. When his sentence comes down, this two-bit thug vows revenge on everyone who helped put him there. He swears to kill the judge, the district attorney, and the cop who cuffed him: Lieutenant Clancy. But Clancy pays his tough talk no mind, but he has no idea that Lenny Cervera is about to arrange an early rel...

At an international summit, Da Silva searches for an assassinOff the coast of Rio de Janeiro, a freighter battles the waves. The steward has been stricken with appendicitis and a coast guard helicopter brings him to shore, where he is put in an ambulance and rushed to hospital. But when the ambulance arrives, the patient has disappeared. He was never sick, and he is not a sailor. He is an assassin, and he's vanished into thin air.The Organization of America...