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In "The Incredulity of Father Brown," G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his "stumpy" Roman Catholic prelate has the wisdom and mindset to solve. As usual, Chesterton loves playing with early twentieth-century class distinctions, "common-sense" assumptions, and the often anti-Catholic biases of his characters. He loves showing, through his characters, how those who hold themselves superior to the "fantasies" of Brown's Catholic faith themselves devolve into superstitious blithering when faced with the tiniest of mysteries.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted by the criminal underworld at last gets the better of him. Though Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most bizarre and extraordinary cases - the disappearance of the race horse Silver Blaze, the horrific circumstances of the Greek Interpreter and the curious mystery of the Musgrave Ritual among them - a criminal mastermind is plotting the downfall of the great detective.

Read by Hugh Fraser and Christopher Lee Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a collection of eleven tantalizing tales of murder and other criminal pursuits—including the classic title story, the basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated Billy Wilder film starring Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone...

Multicast narration featuring Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, and more Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The...

In the story, Lord Murchison recounts to his old friend a strange tale of a woman he had loved and intended to marry, but was now dead. She had always been very secretive and mysterious, and he one day followed her to see where she went, discovering her stealthily going to a boarding house. He suspected there was another man, and confronted her the next day. She confessed to having been there, but said nothing happened. He did not believe her and left; she died some time later.

Inspector David Graham is back! Graham's a career police officer, with a tragic past. His quiet, thoughtful exterior hides a complex mind, and a fierce determination to see justice done. Like many of us, sometimes he has to look his demons in the eye, to keep fighting the good fight. This box set contains the eighth, ninth, and tenth books in the series: The Case of Sampson's Leap, The Case of the Uncommon Witness, and The Case of the Body in the Block. This murder mystery series contains no profanity or graphic descriptions of sex or violence.

The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T’ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series.

This collection contains the 1930 versions of first four Nancy Drew audiobooks, gathered into one volume!

Eine alleinstehende Dame bekommt ein Paket, das zwei frisch abgetrennte menschliche Ohren enthält. Nachdem Holmes, der von der ratlosen Polizei hinzugezogen wird, die grausigen Präsente untersucht hat, ist er sich sicher, dass eines der Ohren zu einer mit der Empfängerin nahe verwandten Frau gehört. Bald erkennt Holmes, dass das Organ zur seit kurzem vermissten Schwester der alleinstehenden Frau gehört und dass hinter dieser ekelerregenden Fracht ein Doppelmord steht.

Ten acclaimed authors. Ten original mysteries. Sherlock Holmes returns. In this thrilling new collection, the world’s greatest detective is reimagined by some of the finest writers at work today. From the gaslit streets of Baker Street to cases that test even Holmes’s legendary powers of...

The dead don't lie. They just don't have long to talk. Vinny Deluca's gift is simple and brutal: after biological death, he has seventy-two hours to talk to the departed before they fade. As a retired Detroit homicide cop working the county coroner's office in small-town Arizona, he's learned to use those hours well. When fifteen-year-old Danny Reyes drops dead at a church cookout, the official ruling is cardiac arrest. But Danny's ghost is pressed into the corner of the exam room, shaking, terrified—and he has a name he doesn't want to say.

Im britischen Detection Club versammelte sich die Crème de la Crème des Krimigenres – neben Agatha Christie und Dorothy L. Sayers etwa auch G. K. Chesterton und Anthony Berkeley Cox. Gemeinsam haben diese vier und neun weitere Autoren 1931 einen Kriminalroman geschrieben, der seinesgleichen sucht: Jedes Kapitel stammt aus einer anderen Feder, und keiner der Autoren wusste beim Schreiben, welche Auflösung die Verfasserin des vorherigen Kapitels im Sinn hatte.

One ordinary choice. One unexpected consequence. And suddenly, there is no easy way back. When a Simple Choice Turns Dark is a collection of ten suspenseful stories about ordinary people whose everyday decisions lead them into dangerous situations. A surveyor takes an unfamiliar shortcut. An...

Bloomsbury presents The Phantom Coach Edited by Michael Sims, read by William Hope and Penelope Rawlins. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest...

Bloomsbury presents The Phantom Coach Edited by Michael Sims, read by William Hope and Penelope Rawlins. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections have been widely praised...

A Case of Identity: Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance.

In Hummelstich scheint die Welt noch in Ordnung zu sein: Die Dächer der niedlichen Fachwerkhäuser funkeln und glitzern unter strahlend blauem Himmel und die Bewohner gehen emsig ihrem Tagewerk nach. Aber der schöne Schein trügt – denn hinter der Bilderbuchfassade tun sich mörderische Abgründe auf. Aber zum Glück ist die energische Hobbydetektivin Bea von Maarstein vor Ort! Zusammen mit ihrem persönlichkeitsgestörten Papagei Dr. Jekyll und dem Dorfpolizisten Sven Grüneis löst sie jeden noch so verzwickten Fall.

Kloster, Mord und Dolce Vita: eine Krimi-Serie wie ein Urlaub in der Toskana. Drei Folgen in einem Hörbuch! Italiens berühmter Krimi-Autor Marco Molinari quartiert sich im Kloster ein, um in Ruhe zu schreiben. Bald geschehen Morde in Santa Caterina – und zwar exakt wie im neuen Roman des Schriftstellers beschrieben.

An der rauen Nordsee, auf Sylt, an Islands schwarzem Strand und zwischen den Nebeln einer Hallig wird das Meer zum Schauplatz tödlicher Geheimnisse. In »DeichSühne« von Andreas Schmidt untersucht Kommissarin Kristin Voss zwei grausame Morde zwischen Haithabu und der Eckernförder Bucht. In »Blutiges Sylt« von Patrick Burow suchen Silja Hansen und Eike Norden nach dem Mörder einer jungen Frau, die am Strand erschossen wurde.

Here are six delightful tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister for the defense, Horace Rumpole. Eccentric characters such as his wife, Hilda, otherwise known as "She Who Must Be Obeyed," and his philandering colleague Claude Erskine-Brown are back as Rumpole visits a snooty restaurant...