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L'ispettore Guido Lopez è pronto a trascorrere il Natale come al solito: a casa, in compagnia di un buon libro, e poi magari in centro a guardare il Duomo con il naso in su. Perché non si ammazza indiscriminatamente sotto le feste, si sa. Ma questo non è un Natale come gli altri e l'ispettore è costretto a svegliarsi dal suo torpore. E in fretta. Sotto la spessa lastra di ghiaccio che copre il lago artificiale dell'Idroscalo, infatti, viene ritrovata una testa mozzata - è la testa di una bella donna, bionda, la pelle di un pallore abbagliante.

Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.

Dr. Alexander Scofield encounters his friend, retired police captain Waverly Underhill, at a Provincetown art opening. Then they both encounter a murder. The celebrity judge is stabbed in the back upstairs. Downstairs, there are seventy or eighty guests, one of whom must have done it.

Captain Underhill takes charge and quickly devises a simple but ingenious test that will force the killer to reveal himself.

La morte non fa sconti a nessuno. Forse è per questo che anche un uomo avido e arido come Settimo Panieri sente il bisogno di alleggerirsi l'anima prima che lo trascini a fondo per l'eternità. La statua in bronzo che giace nella sua cantina fu pescata quarant'anni prima nelle acque di Ventotene. Ora è arrivato il momento di restituirla al legittimo proprietario: lo Stato italiano.

Escaping New York City and the espionage case that made her question everything, recently widowed FBI Agent Lina Connerly returns home to sell the house she has inherited in Greenfield, California. With her teenage son, Rory, Lina hopes to reassemble her life, reevaluate her career, and find a clear way forward. Adrift and battling insomnia, she discovers that her father’s sleepy hometown has been transformed into a Silicon Valley suburb on steroids, obsessed with an annual exam called the Wonder Test.

Privatdetektiv Philip Maloney ermittelt mit Charme, Schalk und unverkennbarer Raubeinigkeit. Seine Fälle werden ihm von seinen Klienten zugetragen und beginnen harmlos, doch stößt Maloney im Laufe der Ermittlungen meistens auf eine Leiche. Widerwillig muss er mit der Polizei zusammenarbeiten. Der zuständige Beamte ist nicht der Hellste und löst lieber Kreuzworträtsel als Kriminalfälle. Am Ende klärt immer Maloney den Fall.

El detective Edgar 'El Zurdo' Mendieta regresa, esta vez comisionado para investigar el asesinato de Mayra Cabral de Melo, una bailarina de prostíbulo a la que le han mutilado un pezón. La investigación lo forzará a adentrarse aún más en el mundo del narcotráfico, que ha iniciado una guerra contra el Estado mexicano. El país es un polvorín. El Zurdo se encontrará con políticos oscuros, un boxeador fracasado y una reserva de caza donde el padre del presidente de Estados Unidos ha sido atacado.

It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope--only to find that the...

It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope--only to find that the...

High school is not something I ever wanted to do over - it was awful the first time around. So why do I have to go back as part of a new undercover assignment? Because the universe loves playing jokes on me, obviously.

This Dragnet episode originally aired on August 28, 1952.

THEY MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVICT HIM, BUT THEY HAVE ENOUGH TO RUIN HIS LIFE. Dr. Matt Newman thought he was leaving his life as a surgeon in private practice for a better one in academic medicine. But the kidnappers who attacked him as he left the hospital at 2 a.m. have no such...

When the body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of ardent, deluded and downright dangerous admirers, and Lefty himself is haunted by one steamy night he spent in her generous company. So begins an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a war of bloody attrition against the Mexican state.

Lester Powell's Chandleresque detective Philip Odell was a huge hit on the BBC Light Programme between 1947 and 1961, thrilling audiences with his crime-solving adventures in post-war London. This gripping collection brings together the only two surviving radio serials featuring the tough-guy investigator—one of which, Test Room Eight, is published here for the very first time.