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Dr Watson comments: 'The stage lost a fine actor' when Holmes chose to devote his formidable talents to the solution of crime. Two of these stories, "The Reigate Squire" and "The Adventure of Beryl Coronet", Sherlock Holmes demonstrates his thespian powers as he unravels the mysteries.

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and foul play results in the murder of one of the household's members. Among the many transgressions Ellery will uncover are adultery, blackmail, and deceit.

Trapped on a burning mountain, the Queens take refuge with a killer. Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are driving over the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain Road when they come face to face with a wall of flame. They tear back in the other direction, fire at their fenders, and finally find safety in a clearing, at the home of Dr. Xavier, a renowned surgeon. He is a genial man, but his distracted, mysterious smile conceals dark secrets.

In the comfortable English Dorsetshire village of Anneypenny in the 1930s, fruit farmer Douglas Sewell–narrator of the story–sees his friend John die in agony. The death certificate states gastric ulcers but the post mortem’s revealing of poison punctures Anneypenny’s idyllic backdrop. Soon every friend and neighbour seems to harbour something suspicious. Douglas challenges his readers, or listeners, to answer the key questions before throwing out several scenarios and turning them upside-down in a tantalising path to the truth.

Inglaterra, 1914. O mundo está em guerra. O capitão Hastings, ferido e abalado, é convidado para ir à mansão Styles para se recuperar. Trata-se de uma grande e antiga casa de campo – propriedade da família de um velho amigo – e um refúgio perfeito. Pelo menos, à primeira vista. Mas, sob o calor escaldante do verão, os problemas vão aparecendo. Tensões latentes estão dividindo a família, e acabam chegando a um desfecho aterrador. Emily Inglethorp, a rica matriarca da família, é torpemente assassinada no meio da noite. E ninguém em Styles está acima de suspeita.

Als Agnès von der örtlichen Polizei erfährt, dass ihre Tante Colette gestorben ist, traut sie ihren Ohren nicht. Die Schwester ihres Vaters, ihre Tata, ist doch bereits vor drei Jahren gestorben und liegt seither auf dem Friedhof von Gueugnon begraben. Agnès wird aufgefordert, die Leiche zu identifizieren – und es besteht kein Zweifel: Es ist Tante Colette. Doch wer ruht dann unter dem Grabstein, der ihren Namen trägt? Und warum hat sie ihren eigenen Tod vorgetäuscht?

Ein blutiges Ritual erschüttert das vornehme Wien des Jahres 1896: Bei einer vermeintlich satanistischen Messe wurde eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet – ihre Kehle durchgeschnitten, Zunge und Herz fehlen. Als Inspektor Leopold von Herzfeldt mit den Ermittlungen beauftragt wird, stößt er auf eine Freimaurerloge. Der Totengräber Augustin Rothmayer, empört über eine Grabschändung auf dem Zentralfriedhof, bietet ihm seine Hilfe an. Gemeinsam mit Herzfeldts Verlobter, der scharfsinnigen Reporterin Julia Wolf, und dem aufstrebenden Nervenarzt Dr.

Hercule Poirot ermittelt in dem tragischen Familiendrama — und einem Mordfall »Du siehst doch ein, dass sie sterben muss!« Diesen Satz, den Raymond Boynton an seine Schwester richtet, hört Hercule Poirot zufällig in seinem Jerusalemer Hotel mit. Als Mrs Boynton, die tyrannische Stiefmutter der Geschwister, wenig später auf dem Weg nach Petra ermordet wird, erinnert sich Poirot an die verschwörerischen Worte. Er hat nur 24 Stunden, um den Fall zu lösen. Genug Zeit jedoch, um Überraschendes zu Tage zu fördern ... Ungekürzte Lesung mit Christoph Maria Herbst ca. 5h 50min

In the fog-shrouded streets of Edwardian London, legendary detective Sherlock Holmes is drawn into a deceptively simple case: an elderly widow receives a mysterious offer to buy her home—the very house called Three Gables—along with every item of its furniture, so long as nothing may ever leave it. What follows is a twist-laden investigation involving a murdered diplomat’s secret manuscript, hired thugs, a glamorous widow with something to hide, and Watson silently watching the game unfold at Baker Street.

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict Cumberbatch In the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and...

The Big Four In this official edition from the Queen of Mystery, Hercule Poirot gets caught up in an international scheme. Now with a beautiful new series look. Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot’s bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a...

The scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi returns to solve another fiendish murder mystery. An old friend of Kindaichi’s invites the detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe, the site of a 20-year-old unsolved murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi in the village than a new series of murders strikes – several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses, and it soon becomes clear that the victims are being killed using methods that eerily echo the lyrics of an old local children’s song …

Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime...but something doesn't quite add up. Blake is a third generation Army Ranger, awarded the Silver Star for his heroism in Afghanistan - how could a beloved son of this tight-knit burgh commit such a grisly deed?

This is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep. When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi? Or, as they are known in the West...vampires.

Jerry Broadfield thinks he's a good cop. But now he's been charged with extortion - and his former buddies in the NYPD would like to see him laid out on a morgue slab for squealing to a committee on police corruption. Suddenly, he's got a lot of enemies, and when a dead call girl turns up in his apartment, his troubles get even bigger. Broadfield screams "setup," but nobody believes him - except ex-policeman, now unlicensed PI Matthew Scudder. Because Broadfield turned traitor no cop is going to give Scudder any help with this investigation, so Scudder's on his own.

Small-time stoolie Jake "The Spinner" Jablon made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers from informer to blackmailer. And the more "clients," he figured, the more money - and the more people eager to see him dead. So he's greedy but scared, and he turns to his old acquaintance Matthew Scudder, who used to pay him for information back in Scudder's days as a cop. Scudder's his insurance policy - if anything happens to "The Spinner," Scudder can check up on the people who wanted him dead. No one is too surprised when the pigeon is found floating in the East River....

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.

"Have you ever seen a ghost, Mr. Holmes?" asks Victoria Temple, and Sherlock Holmes, at the height of his powers in 1898, must face a new challenge, one that plunges the great detective into the realm of the supernatural. Miss Temple has been found guilty - but also insane - at her trial for murdering a child under her care. She is locked away in the Broadmoor lunatic asylum, and worse still, she believes fully in her own guilt....

A dark shadow looms over the Rhineland, where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schädel, in which a small group of suspects are still assembled. As thunder rolls in the distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the maze-like passages and towers of the keep.

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. Inspired by the unsolved Peasenhall murder case of 1902, 'Blind Man’s Hood' shows Carter Dickson’s penchant for true crime. When Rodney Hunter and his wife, Muriel, arrive late to a Christmas party in rural Kent, they are unsettled to find the isolated stately home open and empty of guests. While they await the party’s return, they are welcomed in by a mysterious hostess who regales them with the dark legend of Jane Waycross.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime. It is one of the classics of early twentieth century detective fiction.

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

Man würde nie erraten, dass Lottie Jones Leichen im Keller hat. Sie lebt schon seit Jahrzehnten in der Stadt. Sie wird älter. Sie liebt die einfachen Freuden wie den wöchentlichen Bingo-Abend in der Kirche und das Tratschen mit ihren Freundinnen über das Liebesleben ihrer Kinder. Aber als die investigative Journalistin Plum Dixon vor ihrer Haustür auftaucht und Fragen über Lotties Vergangenheit stellt, insbesondere über ihre Verbindung zu zahlreichen ungelösten Morden, nun, das kann Lottie wirklich gar nicht leiden.

London Fields by Martin Amis is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

When Laura Carlyle left behind high society for committee meetings and quiet cups of tea, she never imagined her next guest would bring gossip, grief — and a murder. Rebecca Farrell is certain her husband didn’t just drop dead. And Laura’s late husband, an ex-civil servant with far too many secrets, taught her exactly how to spot a lie. Luckily (or not), help arrives in the form of Sebastian Silver — silver-haired, sharp-suited, and possibly a conman. He knows things about Harry Farrell that no one else does. The question is: can he be trusted?

ماري جيرارد فتاة بريئة فى عمر الزهور تعيش حياتها وهى تحمل داخلها الكثير من الآمال والأحلام ، ولكنها فجأة تلقى حتفها فى حادثة غامضة ، فما هو الدافع من قتل تلك الفتاة البريئة أهو الغيرة أم ماذا؟ تتلاحق الأحداث وتتشابك لتصبح أكثر غموضاً والكل يلقي باللائمة على إلينور كارليل تلك الفتاة ذات المستوى الأرستقراطي المرتفع، ولكن هل هي فعلاً القاتلة؟ إن جميع الأدلة تثبت ذلك ، ولكن كان لهيركيول بوارو ، بذكائه الحاد ، له رأى آخر؟ فهل يستطيع إثبات براءتها؟ هذا ما سنعرفه فى هذه الرواية البوليسية الرائعة.

تلك رواية أخرى من روايات الروائية العالمية الكبيرة أجاثا كريستي" وهي رواية ـ مثل معظم روايتها ـ مفعمة بالغموض والإثارة. والرواية التى بين أيدينا تدور فى إحدى جزر الهند الغربية ، تلك الجزر الساحرة، بالغة الجمال، إلا أن هذا الجمال يعكر صفوه وقوع بعض جرائم القتل الغامضة، وتستعمل الشخصية الرئيسية فى الرواية ـ الآنسة ماربل ـ كل ما يمكن أن يصل إليه خيالها بغية الوصول إلى حل ألغاز الجرائم، حتى تتمكن في النهاية من حل لغز جريمتى قتل وقعتا بالفعل، وكذلك منع وقوع...

على نحو درامي , ونسق متناغم , وأسلوب بديع صورت لنا الأديبة العالمية أجاثا كريستي " جريمة قتل مروعة حدثت فى منطقة "تشيمنيز" . تلك المنطقة التى تحيط بها هالة من الغرابة وعدم الوضوح . أضف إلى ذلك اختلاف طبائع الشخصيات

إنها رواية رائعة جديدة للمؤلفة البوليسية أجاثا كريستى وقد اتبعت فيها أسلوباً جديداً لم نعتده فى رواياتها من قبل حيث إن هذه الرواية تحتوى على 13 لغزاً أو جريمة غامضة يقصها أبطال الرواية ويحاولون بعدها الوصول إلى حل تلك الجرائم، إلا أنها تكون من الصعوبة بحيث تستعصى على أذكى العقول حيث تتشابك خيوط تلك الجرائم على نحو معقد إلى أن تأتى الآنسة ماربل" بذكائها الحاد وذهنها المتوقد لتكشف هذه الجرائم واحدة بعد الأخرى على نحو يذهل الجميع، إنها رواية رائعة، فحاول أن تصل لحل هذه الألغاز قبل الآنسة ماربل، أم أنك ستعجز مثل الجميع؟!"

كعادتها دائماً تقوم أجاثا كريستي رواية مثيرة وتشد الانتباه حتى آخر كلمة منها . وتلك التي بين أيدينا عبارة عن مجموعة من القصص البوليسية الحافلة بالألغاز المثيرة والحبكة القصصية الرائعة. وبطلها هو ذلك المحقق الذي ذاع صيته عالمياً؛ إنه هيركيول بوارو. يبحر بنا بوارو في عالم الجريمة، مظهراً دقة ملاحظاته واستنتاجاته التي تكشف أذكى المجرمين. وفى تلك المجموعة القصصية يأخذنا بوارو إلى أماكن متنوعة؛ سواء أكان على البر بين نجوم السينما، أو الشقق الرخيصة، أو حجرات الأسلحة، أو خزائن الأثرياء، أو حتى مقابر الفراعنة .