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The inimitable Agatha Christie intrigues, surprises, and delights with The Mysterious Mr. Quin—a riveting collection of short stories centered around the enigmatic Harley Quin, whose unpredictable comings and goings are usually a good indication that something is about to happen…and rarely...

Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's...

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the '50s, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the suspect is deemed hopeless, so the case is handed to a novice. But the novice's superiors didn't count on the tenacity and wit of the young and hungry Horace Rumpole.

The Saint is back - 50 audiobooks are now available starring the debonair classic crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. In these three early adventures, the Saint's reputation starts to rise, as he tackles thieves, smugglers and killers.

Una fortuna peligrosa es un juego de pasiones encontradas llevado con brío y penetración, así como una aguda recreación de los esplendores y miserias de las altas finanzas. Una obra llamada a sorprender a los admiradores de ese gran novelista que es Ken Follett y que ahora podrás disfrutar en formato audiolibro.

Kiron has secretly gathered an army of dragon riders to seek refuge in the abandoned desert city they have named Sanctuary, where they join with other dragon riders to rid their world of both war and magical domination. But now it is time to build a new society in Aerie: an ancient city that seems to have been designed for dragon riders and their dragons.

It is 3000 BC. A hundred clans have been destroyed and thousands of people are dead. The Wolf God commands an inexperienced young warrior to hunt down the bloodthirsty demon horde. With a handful of his faithful spear-brothers and a heartbroken young seeress at his side, his quest will take him on a perilous journey through devastated lands. He may be the son of a god and a mortal woman, but he will need more than just his great strength to overcome the dark forces that stand in his way.

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.

Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life; and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison.

The year 1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife, Audrey, and their three-year-old son, Harry. Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family.

harles II is well established at White Hall Palace, his mistress at hand in rooms over the Holbein bridge, the heads of some of the regicides on public display. London seethes with new energy, freed from the strictures of the protectorate, but many of its inhabitants have lost their livelihoods. One is Thomas Chaloner, a reluctant spy for the feared secretary of state, John Thurloe, and now returned from Holland in desperate need of employment.

The North Sea, October 1904 - When Russian warships bombard the Hull trawler fleet, killing innocent fishermen, public outrage pushes Britain and Russia to the brink of war, the sparks from which could inflame the entire continent. Doctor Ingo Finch, once of the Royal Army medical corps, is long done with military adventuring. But when a stranger seeks him out, citing a murderous conspiracy behind the infamous 'Dogger Bank Incident', Finch is drawn back into the dark world of espionage.

1899, South Africa: As the Boer War rages, Captain Ingo Finch of the Royal Army Medical Corps pieces together casualties at the front. Later, recovering in Cape Town, he is woken by local police. A British officer has been murdered, and an RAMC signature is required for the post-mortem. Shocked by the identity of the victim, the bizarre nature of the crime and what appears a too-convenient resolution, Finch turns detective. He is soon thrust into a perilous maze of espionage and murder.

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye. On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in...

Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability. Onshore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked - but how?

Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau.

Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.

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.

Kriminalkommissar Alfred König bekommt es im Hungerwinter 1946/47 mit einer Frauenleiche im Schnee zu tun. Die junge Fotografin Lou Faber hat die Tote in den Ruinen gefunden und trägt mit ihren Fotos unfreiwillig zur Ermittlung bei. Während Heiligabend näherrückt, lassen Lou die gefalteten Hände der Toten nicht los. Mit ihrer Intuition hilft sie König und ahnt bald, dass hinter seinem Schweigen ein Geheimnis steckt, das sie verbindet. Der Fund weiterer Leichen setzt die Ermittler unter Zeitdruck und weist in eine neue Richtung, zurück in die finstere Vergangenheit.

لم يحتج هيركيول بوارو لكل مهاراته البوليسية لادراك أن هناك شيئا ما يزعج سكرتيرته الآنسة ليمون، فقد اقترفت ثلاثة أخطاء بخطاب بسيط للغاية، يبدو أن انتشار هوس السرقة ببيت الطالبات الذي تعمل به شقيقتها يشتت انتباه مساعدته هذه المعروفة بكفاءتها، ونظراً لأن الفترات اليائسة تستدعي اجراءات يائسة من وجهة نظره يوافق المحقق العظيم على اجراء التحقيق، يبدو أن بوارو لم يكن على دراية بأن اليأس هو الدافع المشترك بينه وبين القاتل .

تحتوي على الكثير من الحب والطاقة... لقد عرضت بوارو مثلما ابتكرته كريستي تماماً، وبالروح نفسها التي تذكرك بأفضل رواياتها""

ذاكرة العامة قصيرة للغاية؛ فقد أصبحت حادثة مقتل جورج ألفريد سانت فنسنت مارش, الملقب بالبارون إدجوير الرابع, شيئًا من الماضي وأصبحت في طي النسيان، على الرغم من الاهتمام الشديد الذي أحاط بها والإثارة البالغة التي سببتها، وحلت محلها أحداث جديدة مثيرة.

Alexander Morton stars as the roguish detective Mr Cullender in two original radio dramas by Ian Rankin, and as Inspector Rebus in Let it Bleed – plus a selection of original stories Best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, Sir Ian Rankin is one of Britain’s most successful and acclaimed...

The thirty-seventh mystery in Peter Tremayne's long-standing and much-loved series, featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. Praise for the Sister Fidelma mysteries: 'The background detail is brilliantly defined . . . wonderfully evocative' The Times 'A challenging and unusual...

1296: Als der Tempelritter Gérard d'Acre auf eine Audienz bei Papst Bonifatius wartet, wird er Zeuge, wie dieser gegen den französischen König Philippe wütet. Gérard ahnt, dass zwischen den beiden mächtigsten Männern des Abendlandes ein gefährlicher Konflikt droht. Unterdessen erhält der Ritter Constantin Fleury den Auftrag, einen königlichen Minister zu beschützen, der auf seiner Reise durch Frankreich Propaganda gegen den Papst macht. Dann erfährt Constantin jedoch, dass sein heimisches Rittergut überfallen und seine schwangere Frau Agnès und ihr Sohn entführt wurden.

After the rigors of the Great War and Spanish Flu pandemic, Miss Rose Ivy is eager to leave tragedy behind and enjoy a new career as Circus Salmagundi’s tattooed lady. But their engagement in the quiet town of Esquimalt is cut short when a housekeeper is bludgeoned to death, a nightmarish devil mask is stolen from a private art collection, and Rose is accused of both murder and theft. To clear her name, Rose must root out the real killer. Her investigation unravels a seedy history of stolen artifacts, forgotten folklore, and hidden identities.

Basada en la historia real de una mujer asombrosamente valiente que salvó a cientos de madres y a sus hijos durante la Guerra Civil Española y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.La Maternidad situada en el Château d'en Bardou, desempeñó un gran labor solidaria durante la II Guerra Mundial gracias al...

Dinasti Joseon. Serangkaian mayat ditemukan di pinggiran ibukota dekat Gunung Inwangsan. Semuanya ditemukan dengan mata terbuka lebar dan lima luka panjang di dada mereka. Siapakah pelakunya? Kyoung-ho, pengurus mayat dari kantor koroner, memiliki petunjuk sama sekali... hingga saat dia didekati...

Camilleri inventa poco delle vicende che trasforma sulla pagina in vorticosi caroselli di persone e fatti - qui il fatto vero, conosciuto dalla celebre Inchiesta sulle condizioni della Sicilia del 1875-76, è il susseguirsi di intrighi, delitti e tumulti seguiti alla incomprensibile determinazione del prefetto di Caltanissetta, il toscano Bortuzzi, di inaugurare il teatro di Caltanissetta con una sconosciuta opera lirica, Il birraio di Preston. E anche in questo attenersi al fondo di verità storica c'è probabilmente un senso preciso: in Sicilia non serve attendere che la storia si ripeta per avere la farsa.

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 …