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Emmy award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi reads all 12 stories from this last collection to feature Holmes and Watson.

Als Oscar Wilde wieder einmal dabei ist, sich mit den Akten der ungelösten Fälle zu beschäftigen, fällt ihm eine Karte entgegen. Auf dieser ist vermerkt, dass sie den Weg zum "Buch des Grauens" weist. Zwar hat Wilde nicht die geringste Ahnung, was es mit dem "Buch des Grauens" auf sich hat. Doch seine Neugier ist geweckt.

Während eines Spazierganges ereilt Mr. Holmes überraschend eine Depesche mit folgendem Inhalt: „Lieber Mr. Holmes. Im Altenwohnheim in Chiswick häufen sich in den letzten Wochen unglaubliche Vorfälle. Mitarbeitern und Bewohnern ist längst Angst und Bange zu mute. Ich erbitte ausdrücklich Ihre hochgeschätzte Hilfe! Gezeichnet, ein Wegbegleiter." Wenige Tage später gibt es den ersten ungeklärten Mord in besagtem Altenheim. Holmes lässt sich widerwillig von Inspektor Lestrade, Inspektor Wolfford und seiner Vermieterin Alice breit schlagen, den Fall zu übernehmen.

Im Sommer 1885 weilt Johann Strauss (Sohn) im Rahmen einer Konzertreise in London. Dem geplanten Auftritt in einer der größten Konzerthallen Englands droht jedoch die Absage, als es im Umfeld des Walzerkönigs zu einem Verbrechen kommt. Johanns verzweifelter Bruder Eduard bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe.

Kurz vor Weihnachten wird Sherlock Holmes mit einem Erpressungsfall konfrontiert. Der Geldverleiher Jacob Marley soll 10.000 Pfund bezahlen – widrigenfalls droht der Täter mit Konsequenzen. Holmes und Watson nehmen die Spur auf.

Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper - she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That's when she sings her song of woe to Perry Mason, who promises to turn her blues into greenbacks with the help of his crack team, Della Street, and Paul Drake, and a hefty lawsuit.

C'est toujours et simplement par déductions logiques que Miss Jane Marple résout, sans sortir de son fauteuil, tous les mystères criminels que lui soumettent ses amis. Les humains sont partout les mêmes ! De cet adage, Miss Marple fait une loi infaillible pour démasquer les intentions et les secrets de tous. Sur ce livre audio, trois enquêtes de Miss Marple : "Le Sanctuaire d'Astarté", "L'herbe de la mort", "La demoiselle de compagnie".

To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly, he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her deathbed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble that Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?

The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Body in the Library. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now...

Meet Lord Peter Wimsey, stylish, eccentric, seeming a fool, but in fact one of the great English detectives. The discovery of a body in a bathtub wearing only a pair of spectacles launches a motley set of sleuths and suspects toward a ghastly conclusion.

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood. From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a somber note. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral, his attorney found that the will was missing and immediately called in the district attorney. When Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, are brought in to solve the mystery, Ellery mentions the one place they have not searched for the will: the coffin.

Der charismatische Vlad Forris gründet auf Gupidus eine Religion, was jedoch der Galaktischen Union missfällt. So sollen Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson die Gefährlichkeit der neuen Bewegung unter die Lupe nehmen. Es wird eine feurige Angelegenheit.

Zur Eröffnung seiner neuen Ausflugsschifffahrtslinie lädt der frischgebackene Reeder Donald Powers nicht nur die wichtigsten Geschäftsleute der Stadt, sondern auch Pater Brown zu einer Dampferfahrt auf der Themse ein. Doch die Fahrt steht unter keinem guten Stern. Neben mehreren kleinen Vorfällen kommt es zu einem Mordanschlag auf einen der Passagiere. Pater Brown nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und steht bald vor einer Reihe von Fragen. Sollte das Opfer tatsächlich sterben? Oder ging es bei den Anschlägen nur darum, Donald Powers Ruf zu schaden?

Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box, Hazell hatches a daring plan to retrieve a highly sensitive government document before it reaches the German Ambassador. In...

Last Seen Wearing is the second Inspector Morse novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance...

When the body of troubled teenager Elodie Duncan is pulled from the river in Abbeyford, the case is at first assumed to be a straightforward suicide. Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is shocked to discover that she'd met the victim the night before her death, introduced by Kate's younger brother Jay. As the case develops, it becomes clear that Elodie was murdered.

When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated. A wire had been tightly wound around her neck. The strongest suspect, because he stood to benefit by the death of this wealthy old woman, was her protégé, the famous Dr. Janney. Just before her death he received a strange caller - one whose name he would not divulge. Ellery Queen, having come to the hospital to visit his old friend Dr. Minchen, had been present during the time of the murder.

Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with his own family's past, in this "brilliant sequel" to the national bestseller The Life We Bury (Publishers Weekly) Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter...

Classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries from Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring clever deductions, eerie secrets, railway intrigue, and timeless detective adventures in Victorian England...

A new ‘Christie for Christmas’ – a full-length novel adapted from her acclaimed play by Charles Osborne. Following Black Coffee and The Unexpected Guest comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a...