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Three of the most popular mysteries of all time in one audiobook. Includes stories of Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe's detective Auguste Dupin. Adapted and narrated by Jim Weiss.

Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. There is shock in the local high school when Alison Shaw, a young, dynamic chemistry teacher, goes into a coma after being struck by a falling smart board. But is it an unfortunate accident or something more sinister? When the headteacher asks amateur sleuth Alfie McAlister to investigate, Alfie enlists the help of Liz and Marge, his fellow members of the Bunburry Triangle.

From the authors of the best-selling series CHERRINGHAM. When Sir Harry's Aunt Lavinia invites her friends from The Arts Club down to Mydworth Manor for a weekend of Bohemian fun, she's not expecting a prince to turn up too, eager to join in the frolics. But when a body turns up in the prince's bedroom, it's up to Harry and Kat to find the killer.

Cwen is a captivating tale of adventure, magic, romance, and destiny, set in ancient Germania and Britannia. Born common, the daughter of an Italian glassblower and a Saxon maiden, the raven-haired beauty possesses remarkable grace and cunning. Preferring the forest's solitude to village life, she develops a profound and fearless fascination with nature, where she learns to feel realities that cannot be seen. This passion for nature is exceeded only by her love of an ancient codex, a gift of her father's, believing it holds a key to untold secrets.

Penny dreadful writer Kate Ardleigh solves one mystery after another in this bundle collection of the first three titles in Robin Paige's Victorian Mystery series.

A Karin Slaughter Will Trent thriller collection featuring Fractured, Undone, and Broken.

A Karin Slaughter Will Trent thriller collection featuring Fallen, Criminal, and Unseen

Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle. Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

La historia sigue a Poirot y a su amigo Hastings mientras asisten a una fiesta en la mansión de un conocido. Durante la velada, una de las invitadas, una joven llamada Margery, propone jugar a un juego que consiste en que cada invitado debe salir de la sala y pensar en una forma de cometer el "crimen perfecto", luego regresar y relatarlo al grupo. A medida que avanza el juego, los relatos se vuelven más oscuros y perturbadores, lo que incomoda a algunos de los asistentes.

Who killed Stuart Burlington? Earlsraven is shaken by the news that its renowned antiques dealer has been slain with a samurai sword from his own collection. A web of secrets surrounds the case, and Nathalie and Louise - the owner of the Black Feather inn and her formidable cook - are determined to unravel it. They have an unexpected ally in the form of Hector Peroux, a celebrated private detective from Belgium. Together they are soon able to track down a suspect.

Wendy Ballantine wendet sich mit einem ungewöhnlichen Anliegen an MacTavish & Scott: Der Privatdetektiv Jackson Ripley, den sie engagiert hat, um ihren untreuen Ehemann zu beschatten, soll observiert werden. Denn obwohl Wendy dem Ermittler ein üppiges Honorar zahlt, hat sie den Verdacht, dass er nicht zuverlässig arbeitet. Um den Vertrag mit ihm kündigen zu können, braucht sie allerdings Beweise dafür. Finola kommt so in die kuriose und keineswegs einfache Situation, einen Kollegen zu überwachen. Bald schon zeigt sich, dass Ripley tatsächlich sein eigenes Ding macht - und das ist nicht ungefährlich.

This collection of mysteries from a fresh voice in Southwestern fiction stakes out the common ground between Tony Hillerman, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Collection includes Nail’s Crossing, Greasy Bend, Butcher Pen Road, and Ten-Acre Rock.

A collection of seven short stories, featuring crime-fighting duo Tilly and Poe: The Killing Field, Why Don't Sheep Shrink?, Dead Man's Fingers, Strange Ink, A Permanent Solution, Mondo Bizzarro and Once in a Red Moon.

Lily McGee has had enough of Hollywood! Tired of the high life, she decides to leave it all behind to live in a small English village and try her hand at writing murder mysteries... But Lily finds that her cozy crime-writing skills become crime-fighting skills as her sharp mind and amateur sleuthing ability are called upon to solve an array of strange happenings in little Didlington.

1.-Chales Augustus Milverton 2.-La aventura de los 3 estudiantes 3.-Peter el negro 4.-La segunda mancha 5.-Los tres cuartos desaparecidos 6.-El busto de Napoleon 7.-El ciclista solitario 8.-El colegio Priory 9.-La casa vacia 10.-La granja Abbey Grange 11.-Los lentes de oro 12.-Lo muñecos danzantes 13.-La aventura del constructor de Norwood

Es ist Faschingszeit und ein frischer Wind weht durch Bayerisch Öd! Ein neues Kaffeehaus hat seine Türen geöffnet - und die Besitzerin ist eine Neu-Zugezogene aus Wien. Und dann schwirrt auch noch eine mobile Yogatrainerin im Dorf herum. Nach dem feucht-fröhlichen Faschingsmontag gibt es jedoch ein böses Erwachen: Denn es liegen nicht nur Schnapsleichen herum, sondern auch die tote Yogalehrerin! Sie wird ausgerechnet im neuen Kaffeehaus gefunden.

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village to find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 40 - 42. "Cold Case": It's winter in Cherringham, and petty thief Charlie Topper's life is in danger. Desperate, he reaches out to Jack and Sarah for help: last summer - during a robbery - he witnessed a cold-blooded murder, and now he fears the killer is after him.

Schon hatte sich van Dusen damit abgefunden, seine Assistentin Hatch an ihr neues Leben mit Mann und Kind in Kalifornien zu verlieren, da schlägt das Schicksal unerwartet zu. Ein brutaler Mord erschüttert den engsten Kreis des Professors selbst und erschüttert muss er feststellen, dass er nicht nur das Opfer, sondern auch den Täter kennt – und bald nichts mehr so sein wird, wie vorher.

Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and '30s. One of his recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger Sheringham, a novelist and amateur detective. In these two classic tales, Roger Sheringham must investigate two terrible murders

For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early “lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them.