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A razor-sharp, mind-bendingly clever whodunnit from award-winning playwright and actor, Toby Schmitz. Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect. It’s 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New York-bound, with a full manifest of passengers. When a dead...

A savage murder interrupts a May-December marriage and leaves Brother Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing - and a secret - are hid among the lepers of Saint Giles. Now Brother Cadfael's skills must ferret out a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul - in the fifth Brother Cadfael Chronicle, a work that displays Ellis Peters' special genius at her best.

The novel is set on the edge of Dartmoor, a rugged, brooding upland in Devonshire, southwestern England. The tiny village of Sittaford, "at all times remote from the world," Christie tells us, is even more isolated because of a huge snowstorm. Here Mrs. Willett, a recent arrival, along with her daughter, Violet, has rented the house of Captain Trevelyan, a wealthy retired naval officer. Mrs. Willett hosts a séance, inviting several neighbors, including John Burnaby, the captain's best friend.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

Meet maverick British detective DI Skelgill... "mad, bad and just a little bit cozy." WHEN A LONG-SERVING MASTER at one of England’s most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide. It soon becomes clear...

Narrated by Rory Kinnear In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence...

"Quand le commissionnaire nous eut quitté, Holmes prit la pierre et l'éleva à la lumière. Quelle jolie chose ! dit-il. Voyez comme elle brille, comme une étincelle ! Évidemment elle est le noyau, le foyer d'un crime : comme toutes les belles pierres ! Les belles pierres sont les appâts favoris du diable. Dans les joyaux plus gros et plus anciens, chaque facette pourrait figurer un crime. Cette pierre-ci n'a pas plus de vingt ans.

L'affaire du sept de cœur débute lorsqu'un jeune homme ouvre le courrier suivant : "à partir du moment où vous aurez ouvert cette lettre, quoiqu'il arrive, quoique vous entendiez, ne bougez plus, ne faites pas un geste, ne jetez pas un cri. Sinon, vous êtes perdu".

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...

An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the...

Read by Hugh Fraser Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead. Mrs. Packington...

Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: "Henrietta". In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. Poirot's enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It seems everyone in the drama is a suspect, and each a victim of love.

Read by David Suchet In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows. Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused...

The wild and passionate tale of Cathy and Heathcliff's impossible love for each other and its phenomenal setting on the blasted Yorkshire moors has to be one of the best-known love affairs in literature.

Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt “Anthony Horowitz throws down the gauntlet in his infernally clever Sherlock Holmes pastiche.” — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz...

Read by Hugh Fraser In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture...

While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della Street, Perry Mason is approached by passenger who is worried about the wellbeing of her husband. Not long afterward, her husband is seen jumping off the ship, an apparent suicide - but when the body is recovered, it turns out that he was shot. Accused of murder, the wife puts her fate in the hands of Perry, who in the course of piecing things together unearths the fact that the husband had once accepted a huge bribe while serving on a jury.

This audiobook includes the complete collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, all read by the award-winning Jonathan Keeble.

Tizenhat évvel ezelőtt Caroline Crale-t elítélték férje, a zseniális festő meggyilkolásáért. Most lánya, Carla egyetlen célja, hogy bebizonyítsa anyja ártatlanságát. Hercule Poirot-nak nincs könnyű dolga: tizenhat év porát kell lefújnia az emlékekről. Öt tanú, öt különböző nézőpont. Az „öt kismalac" közül azonban valaki hazudik. Hercule Poirot – aki természetesen mit sem veszített zsenialitásából – bravúros logikával kideríti az igazságot...