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Multicast narration featuring David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, and more At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. Featuring narration from David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, Isla Blair, and Simon...

Ivy Morgan-Harker, Harper Harlow-Monroe, Rowan Gray-Davenport, and Maddie Graves-Winters want to keep their families safe. Trouble keeps finding them, however. They will work together to do what’s right…one way or another.

Ten stories. Ten roads. And after traveling them, you may never look at a highway the same way again. Some roads take you home. Others hide stories that were never meant to be discovered. A wrong turn. A passenger who knows too much. A bridge with a decades-old secret. A route that seems impossible to escape. In Cursed Roads, the ordinary can become inexplicable with the next turn.

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the...

All 8 parts of this explosive FBI serial available in this box set! FBI Special Agent Lara Grant thought that she’d put her past behind her — finally — with her last case. But now a serial bomber is targeting Manhattan’s elite power players, offering them a choice between saving hundreds...

Trickery in Toyland - It's the week before Christmas, and Abby and Lacy are on a mission—find the one toy Lacy's youngest wants more than anything. But when Toyland's long-awaited shipment arrives without the elusive gift, the pair jump into a high-stakes holiday scavenger hunt where the coveted toy is part of the prize package. What begins as merry fun quickly turns chaotic as half the parents in town seem to be chasing the same hard-to-find treasure… and some will do anything to win.

The erudite Dr Thorndyke returns in this next anthology of his many and varied cases by R. Austin Freeman. This collection includes the stories: The Blue Scarab: For what reason was a valueless blue-glass Scarab ornament stolen? Could it have any connection to a lost family legacy? The Case of...

This classic detective anthology by GK Chesterton, beloved by both readers and writers of crime fiction alike, narrated here by Michael Ward. Father Brown is a small, unobtrusive Essex parson, but underneath his wide brimmed hat, lurks one of the finest deductive minds in all England. Included...

Written by R.Austin Freeman, The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke (also sometimes known as The Singing Bone) present five tales of crime and forensic detection from the inventor of the inverted detective story: The Case of Oscar Brodski A lost diamond merchant chances upon the house of a fence and...

Four pulse-pounding mysteries. One unstoppable couple. The origin of the Thorny Rose. Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are brilliant, bold, and deadly together — the ultimate power couple in the world of crime-solving. But every legend has an origin story.

One of the most anthologized short stories in American literature, Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is regarded as a remarkable feat of genius, and has gone on to influence the likes of Ernest Hemingway and William Golding amongst others. A haunting exploration of death, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' masterfully blurs the lines between perception and reality in the final moments of a man's life. Set during the American Civil War, it follows Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathiser, facing execution by Union soldiers.

Tra i vicoli stretti dei caruggi genovesi e le pieghe nascoste della memoria, ti avventurerai tra delitti irrisolti, confessioni tardive e verità che nessuno sembra voler raccontare. Tra giornalismo, amicizie complicate e amori sfuggenti, ogni storia è quindi un viaggio nel cuore di una città che non smette mai di sorprendere.

1889 was a full year indeed... Against a vibrant backdrop of world events, local scandals and the lingering aftermath of the Ripper murders, we find our heroes, SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR. WATSON racing through the gaslit streets of London, bringing malefactors to justice–and saving the innocent from iniquity!

Hochspannung aus dem deutsch-dänischen Grenzland: TV-Journalistin Kira Lund ermittelt. Eine erfahrene Sporttaucherin kehrt von ihrem Tauchgang in der eisigen Flensburger Förde nicht zurück. Als Tauwetter einsetzt, findet man schließlich ihre Leiche. Doch die Untersuchungen zeigen: Dies war kein Unfall.

Dr. Autumn Trent hat nach ihrem ersten offiziellen Fall als FBI-Agentin noch nicht einmal alle Berichte geschrieben, da werden Sie und der Rest der Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse in die Hauptstadt Washington gerufen, um eine Serie von Einbruchsmorden aufzuklären. Die sechs Opfer haben nicht viel gemeinsam, doch sie alle sind wohlhabende Ehepaare, die eine Dinnerparty geben wollten und kurz davor getötet wurden.

În „Casa pustie”, Sherlock Holmes revine în mod spectaculos după dispariția sa de la Cascadele Reichenbach. Alături de doctorul Watson, el investighează o crimă misterioasă și întinde o cursă ingenioasă pentru a demasca un ucigaș periculos. O povestire captivantă, care...

Malcolm Crisp, the Worshipful Master of a small Masonic Lodge in Randolph County, West Virginia, is dead before page one. He maintained four interconnected systems that no one else knew were one system: the beehives as a communication channel between the living and the dead, the crows as surveillance from the far side of that threshold, a dead cedar hung with blue bottles as containment for what came back uninvited, and the Lodge ritual as the formal transmission protocol that gave the bees' messages their authority.

Ultima problemă îl aduce pe Sherlock Holmes față în față cu cel mai redutabil adversar al său, genialul profesor Moriarty. Într-o confruntare plină de suspans, urmăriri și pericole, Holmes și doctorul Watson pornesc într-o cursă dramatică prin Europa, iar deznodământul va...

Ten more cases from the files of The Great Detective, comprising adventures previously published in the anthology 'The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories', as well as some recent additions from Doctor Watson's despatch box. • Mrs Maria Blackwell is concerned by the threatening and persistent observations of a stranger, each time she dines at Simpson's with her husband. • New artwork is appearing, in the style of the great Leonardo. It is not claimed that they are newly-discovered works of The Master, so why is someone prepared to kill to gain their possession?

Instead of focusing on the usual mysteries in which Sherlock Holmes is the primary investigator, this volume puts a spotlight on an oft-overlooked part of his career in detection, putting the emphasis on his role as a consultant. For the first time ever, The Consultations of Sherlock Holmes collects sixteen ingenious cases in which he serves as a last resort for other detectives – both private investigators and those from the official police force – who come to Holmes for his unique perspective and aid as "the only unofficial consulting detective" in the world.