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With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows...

When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror.

FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems . . . In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal...

The Continental Detective Agency's Operative is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town "Poisonville," and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, floozies, bootleggers, and hit men are all in Dashiell Hammett's first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective.

Read by Hugh Fraser Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah. “He was murdered, wasn’t he?” When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. A prima donna soprano is commissioned to give a command performance at a country estate. It sets off a chain of tragic events – but are they accidents or an act of revenge?...

A killer turns a young family's dream holiday into an unfathomable nightmare in bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark's Remember Me. Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal attorney, rent a house on Cape Cod, in the hope of restoring their faltering marriage. The birth of their daughter...

A young Polish girl fixated on fame ~ A killer with a deadly obsession Detective Jack Mackinnon has his work cut out trying to track down missing student, Anya Blonski. As Mackinnon follows the trail of obsession and murder to the shady owners of the Star Academy, who thrive on society's...

Mark Ablett is hosting all his friends at his English country house when he receives a letter from his estranged brother, Robert, announcing Robert's intention to arrive from Australia. Not long after his arrival, Robert turns up dead, his body found with a bullet wound to the head, and Mark is nowhere to be seen. Antony Gillingham and his friend Bill Beverly play Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve this whodunnit mystery. This is Milne's only mystery novel.

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

David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a “slow horse” of Slough House, MI5’s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather’s library.

Senator Fawcett, a man with many enemies, is found stabbed to death in his study. Patience and her father, Inspector Thumm, try to unravel the web of circumstantial evidence that has enmeshed an innocent man. Patience refuses to be beaten by a lack of evidence and, with the help of Drury Lane, finally stops an execution and brings the true criminal to justice.

Danish designer Frans Jessen’s sculptural design, the Running Servant, has grown from a single clay prototype into an international billion-dollar business. But success comes at a price—everyone wants a piece of it. Following an extensive copyright suit launched by two of his oldest friends...

Halb bewusstlos und dem Tode nah wird Moriarty von der Crew eines kleinen Schoners aus den Fluten des Atlantiks gerettet. Die Reise geht auf eine kleine Insel, die auf den Namen Cat Rock getauft wurde. Doch es hat den Anschein, als sei Moriarty vom Regen in die Traufe gekommen, denn es gehen seltsame Dinge auf dem kleinen Eiland vor sich. Die einheimischen Fischer sprechen von Geistererscheinungen. Die neuen Bewohner der Insel tun dies als Aberglaube ab.

Nachdem in der Themse eine weitere Leiche mit fehlenden Körperteilen gefunden wurde, erkennt Oscar Wilde, dass er erneut die Zusammenarbeit mit Irene Adler suchen muss. Jedoch hält sich Miss Adler nicht in ihrem Hotelzimmer auf und in der Baker Street 221b ist sie seit dem Zerwürfnis auch nicht mehr gewesen. In Oscar Wilde steigt ein furchtbarer Verdacht auf. Während er sich gemeinsam mit Dr.

Auf dem Wochenmarkt in Newton treffen Pater Brown und Hercule Flambeau die völlig aufgelöste Mrs. Flores. Sie erzählt den beiden, dass sie am Morgen ihren Nachbarn James Wheeler erstochen in seinem Garten aufgefunden hat. Das Ehepaar Wheeler galt im Dorf als das Traumpaar schlechthin, doch nun deutet alles darauf hin, dass es schon seit längerer Zeit in der Ehe der Wheelers gekriselt hat. Und schon bald muss sich Pater Brown mit der Frage beschäftigen, ob Mrs.

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson und Bastien Lavache stellen schnell fest, dass sie nicht die einzigen Gefangenen der vermeintlichen Voodoo-Gemeinde sind. Auch der von ihnen gesuchte Mr. Paisley wird dort gegen seinen Willen festgehalten. Während Dr. Watson den verletzten Spediteur notdürftig behandelt, erfahren Sherlock Holmes und Bastien Lavache einiges von Mr. Paisley, was ein völlig neues Licht auf ihre bisherigen Ermittlungen wirft. Und noch während sie sich in Gefangenschaft befinden, kommt es zu einem weiteren, mysteriösen Mord.

Professor Van Dusens und Hatchs nächstes Ziel ist Österreich. Daraus entwickelt sich zu Van Dusens Leidwesen ein Wanderurlaub in den Bergen. Als sich die beiden verlaufen, gelangen sie zu einer heruntergekommenen Herberge, in der sich allerlei merkwürdige Gestalten tummeln. In der Nacht bricht nicht nur ein heftiges Unwetter über den Gasthof herein, es kommt auch zu einem brutalen Doppelmord! Kurz darauf geht eine Lawine auf das Haus nieder.

Read by Hugh Fraser Now Streaming Exclusively on BritBox! When a gathering at a clifftop estate leads to murder troubled detective James Leach and Superintendent Battle must unravel a web of secrets and jealousy—before another victim falls. What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt...

A classic Marple mystery, read by the inimitable Richard E. Grant. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.