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Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence’s mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened and why. Was it poison or just ill luck?

Read by Emilia Fox In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer. One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at...

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?

The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow. Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented English who came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed.

El libro que lanzó a la fama a Agatha Christie, ahora en formato audiolibro. El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd rompió todas las reglas de la novela policíaca y convirtió a Agatha Christie en un nombre reconocible. Roger Ackroyd sabe demasiado. Sabe que la mujer que ama envenenó a su brutal...

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business - and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career.

Fred Wood, einer der aussichtsreichsten und energischsten Studenten an der Universität, möchte Lord Haderley um die Hand seiner einzigen Tochter bitten. Ein lautstarker Streit entsteht und Fred Wood verlässt wutentbrannt das Anwesen. Gleich darauf findet sich Dr. Rowing bei dem Lord ein. Lord Haderley wird von schlimmen Krämpfen geplagt. Schnell schlussfolgert der Arzt eine Vergiftung und verabreicht den Lord ein Gegengift. Wenige Minuten später ist der Lord tot.

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent. When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent help, the retired spy turned sleuth knows only she stands between an accused young woman and the gallows. Evidence at the scene makes Lizzie Worrel’s innocence difficult to believe, and with the police treating it as an open-and-shut case of arson, Lady Hardcastle faces a barrage of resistance as she tries to dig out the truth.

"The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger" (1927), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated.

Carmen Langborne is a woman who no one seems to like very much, and now she's gone missing. But there is no body, no leads and no real suspects. And the police have given up. Carmen's stepdaughter Florence hires private detective Tyrone Swift to find the missing woman. If the body is found, Florence will inherit half of a very valuable house. As Swift delves deeper into the family’s affairs, he discovers dark family secrets that threaten the reputations of powerful people. Will Swift get to the truth before those with much to hide stop him?

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A timeless collection of classic detective fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Speckled Band and The Red-Headed League, along with The Cabman’s Story. Written by Arthur Conan Doyle, this volume delivers suspense, clever deductions, and unforgettable Victorian mystery...

When a man dies under mysterious circumstances at a London Underground station, Anne Beddingfeld—a courageous and curious young woman—finds herself drawn into a dangerous investigation. A single clue leads her to a mysterious stranger in a brown suit, setting off an unforgettable journey from England to South Africa. As Anne travels aboard a luxury ocean liner, she encounters secret identities, international criminals, hidden treasures, and deadly conspiracies.

Sara ha encontrado un cadáver paseando por el campo y su identidad, bien conocida por todos, puede suponer un terriblemente descubrimiento para Cuquina. ¿Se redimirá la pija insoportable o servirá para hacerla aún más terrible de lo que ya era?

Step into the shadowy world of Sherlock Holmes with three classic mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle. This collection features The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, and The Adventure of the Dying Detective, filled with brilliant deductions, dangerous secrets...

Le shérif Walt Longmire doit mener à bien une affaire des plus importantes : marier sa fille unique, Cady. Mais pendant les préparatifs de la cérémonie, Walt et son ami Henry Standing Bear sont les témoins d'un étrange suicide. Audrey Plain Feather s'est jetée de la falaise avec son fils dans les bras. L'enfant est miraculeusement sain et sauf, mais il apparaît rapidement que cette mort est un meurtre déguisé.

Enter the world of timeless detective fiction with Classic Detective Mysteries and Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Vol. 4. Featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Copper Beeches alongside Charles Dickens' My Friend the Murderer and Hunted Down, this collection delivers classic mysteries...

The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth series...

Sam Spade, a street-wise private detective working the streets of San Francisco, takes a job from a gorgeous but desperate woman and soon finds himself wrapped up in a shady conspiracy to acquire a one-of-a-kind, priceless purloined artifact—The Maltese Falcon. Full of twists and turns, questions and answers that create more questions, rabbit trails and red herrings, The Maltese Falcon is the quintessential hardboiled detective story.

What if the greatest fortune ever hidden… was never meant to be found? In 1988, rising Wall Street star Jim Comerford loses everything overnight—his job, his reputation, and his future. But when whispers of a mysterious millionaire with no visible source of wealth surface, Jim sees one last chance to reclaim control of his life. William Bennet lived like a king—luxury apartments, elite parties, powerful connections—yet when he died, he left behind nothing. No accounts. No assets. No trace. Only questions.