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When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect...

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * "Horowitz truly pulls off the wonderful illusion that Arthur Conan Doyle left us one last tale."--San Diego Union Tribune London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook Murder on the Links In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings...

Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn’t seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the...

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot, who is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows.

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharoah’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea…...

Some bizarre thingshave been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison. Next, another poisoning occurs in the Hatters' old mansion in New York's Greenwich Village. This time the police have a witness. But what a witness! She is a blind, deaf mute. Naturally the authorities call in Drury Lane - retired Shakespearean actor, matinee idol, master of disguise, and amateur sleuth.

Mrs. Hudsons Nichte, eine Haushälterin in Ashcroft Manor, berichtet Holmes von den mysteriösen Todesumständen ihres Hausherrn Sir Charles. Angeblich habe ihn der Fluch einer mumifizierten Affenpfote aus Indien getroffen. Er sei aus purer Angst gestorben. Doch Holmes findet schnell einige Ungereimtheiten. Steckt hinter der alten Spukgeschichte ein perfider Mord? Doch wer ist der Mörder? Oder ist am Ende doch der unheimliche Fluch eines Fakirs aus dem Himalaya dafür verantwortlich?

"Le train est aussi dangereux que le paquebot", affirme Hercule Poirot... Le lendemain, dans une voiture de l'Orient-Express bloqué par les neiges yougoslaves, on découvre le cadavre d'un américain lardé de douze coups de couteau. L'assassin n'a pu venir de l’extérieur : voici donc un huis clos, le plus fameux, peut-être, de toute la littérature policière.

What is The Secret of Chimneys? A young drifter finds out when a favor for a friend pulls him into the heart of a deadly conspiracy in this captivating classic from Agatha Christie. Little did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy...

For years now, readers of the Russell Memoirs have wondered about the tantalizing mentions of Japan. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes had spent three weeks there, between India ( The Game) and San Francisco ( Locked Rooms). The time has finally come to tell that story. It is 1925, and Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to find...a stone. A stone with a name, which they last saw in the Tokyo garden of the future emperor of Japan.

20 horas de misterio sin tregua. Tres crímenes. Un genio de la deducción. Hay asesinatos que parecen imposibles. Hay secretos que nadie se atreve a decir en voz alta. Y hay un detective capaz de verlo todo. Sumérgete en tres de los casos más impactantes creados por Agatha Christie y protagonizados por el brillante e implacable Hercule Poirot. Cada historia es un desafío intelectual. Cada pista es una trampa. Cada final te obligará a replantearlo todo.

Nachdem sie einen herben Rückschlag erlitten haben, beschließen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson zunächst einmal in die Baker Street zurückzukehren. Holmes ist entschlossen, seine Recherchen zu dem Alchemisten Gordon Adrik noch einmal ganz von vorne zu beginnen. Tatsächlich erhalten die beiden bald einen entscheidenden Hinweis, der sie Gordon Adriks Vermächtnis näherbringt. Doch plötzlich gerät Dr.

Als im Canterstone-Gefängnis in Middlesex die Anweisung eingeht, eine Fotografie des wegen Diebstahls verurteilten Gefangenen George Solly an Scotland Yard zu schicken, ahnt Direktor Paley noch nicht, dass diese kleine Alltagsaufgabe für mächtigen Wirbel sorgen wird. Denn wie sich herausstellt, ist es gar nicht so einfach, von dem Gefangenen eine „normale" Aufnahme zu machen.

It’s 1929 and an aging Dr. John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true events behind his published accounts of Sherlock Holmes’s exploits. In these pages, Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion encounter reanimated corpses in Highgate Cemetery; a very different, though ever elusive, Irene Adler; tales of madness and murder in the frozen wastes of the north; grotesque organic machines; and much more.

Step into the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle—a timeless collection of twelve masterfully crafted mysteries that first captivated readers in 1892. Narrated by the loyal and observant Dr. Watson, these iconic short stories introduce the world to the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, whose razor-sharp logic and unconventional methods forever changed crime fiction.

It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

Eine private Observierung wird für Inspektor Bishop zu einem gefährlichen Unterfangen, zumal er glaubt, dabei einen Mord beobachtet zu haben. Die vermeintlich Ermordete entpuppt sich zunächst als quicklebendig. Doch nur kurz darauf gibt es tatsächlich eine Tote zu beklagen, die der ersten Frau frappierend ähnlich sieht. Hängen diese Fälle miteinander zusammen?

Sherlock Holmes leidet an akuter Unterforderung. Da kommt es ihm gelegen, als ein junger Mann mit seiner Mutter bei Dr. Watson Rat sucht: James wird ständig von verschiedensten Krankheiten geplagt und niemand kann sich erklären, woher seine Symptome kommen. Nur ein gewisser Dr. Sinclair ist sicher, dass es sich dabei um einen Fluch handelt, der von Dämonen hervorgerufen wird.