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Holmes erzählt Watson von einem seiner ersten Aufträge, die er in London als beratender Detektiv annahm: Reginald Musgrave, ein Bekannter aus Sherlocks College-Zeiten, bat ihn damals um Hilfe, da auf seinem Landsitz zwei Menschen spurlos verschwanden. Zum einen der Butler Richard Brunton, der kurz zuvor seinen Herrn sehr erzürnt hatte, zum anderen dessen ehemalige Verlobte Rachel Howells, die krank und geistig verwirrt nach der Trennung von Brunton wie ein Gespenst durch das Haus wandelte.

Am Abend des 20. März 1888 wird Sherlock Holmes von seinem Freund Doktor Watson in der 221B Baker Street besucht. Holmes hat zuvor ein ominöses Schreiben bekommen. Kurz darauf trifft der Klient ein. Holmes kann ihn früh als den amtierenden König von Böhmen und Mähren identifizieren, obwohl der Klient seine wahre Identität ursprünglich geheim halten wollte. Der Fall ist schnell erklärt.

In dieser kompakten, fesselnden Hörbuchfassung wird Heinrich von Kleists berühmte Novelle neu erlebbar. In nur 25 Minuten entfaltet sich die dramatische Geschichte des pferdehändlers Michael Kohlhaas, der – getrieben von seinem ausgeprägten Gerechtigkeitssinn – vom rechtschaffenen...

Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling fourth installment to the captivating Regency-era Lady Petra Inquires mystery series. London, December, 1815. It’s Christmastime, and Lady Petra Forsyth is concentrating on behaving herself. Thus, she’s volunteered to assist the Lady...

London, December 1895. Former Baker Street Irregular Tim Badger, and his detective partner Ben Watson, embark on one of their most deadly investigations yet! Why did a magician unknowingly stab to death his assistant in the basket trick in front of a horrified audience at the celebrated Royal...

Agnes Lovise Matre har etableret sig som en markant stemme inden for norsk krimi. Med Tavs jord leverer hun endnu en temningsmættet nordic noir, hvor den barske natur, små lokalsamfund og dybt begravede hemmeligheder smelter sammen i en intens læseoplevelse. Der gemmer sig langt mere end...

Amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II investigates on the high seas in the sixth installment of this historical mystery series the New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment," perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Richard Osman. 1966, Caribbean Sea. The Queen is touring the islands of the...

A murdered prison guard, a dangerous fugitive, and missing evidence all point to one thing—the shadows of corruption are brewing within Scotland Yard . . . Inspector Henry Field is under pressure to track down an escaped prisoner—a man suspected of murder in a cold case that Henry is...

Im November 1896 brennt in den St. Katharine Docks ein Lagerhaus, in dem hundertachtzig Ballen Rohseide gelagert haben sollen. Der Eigentümer fordert über fünfzehntausend Pfund, doch die Versicherung zahlt nicht, bevor Scotland Yard den Fall geprüft hat, und ihr Gutachter verlangt ausdrücklich nach Inspektor Lestrade. Auf dem ausgebrannten Boden passen Asche und Schadensaufstellung nicht zusammen.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. George Harrison is a fussy, kindly, middle-aged engineer with a passion for cooking wild mushrooms. His young wife Margaret is bored, restless and drawn to romance. When two young men take the flat upstairs, a struggling writer and a handsome painter...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Benjamin H. Kyle, the philanthropist who funded the excavations of the eminent Egyptologist Dr. Mindrum Bliss, is found dead in Bliss's private Egyptian museum in New York, struck down by a statue of the lion-headed goddess Sakhmet. Beside the body lies...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The copper telephone lines are gone, but the past refuses to hang up. In the centre of the long hallway of an old Queensland farmhouse, a black Bakelite telephone sits on a purpose-built timber table, a silent witness to seventy years of family history...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A missing scientist. A deadly secret. A conspiracy that could change the course of history. When a young chemist disappears from a London laboratory, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson are drawn into a mystery that reaches far beyond the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Harcastle Court is hollow. The east wing is shut under dust sheets, the footmen have been let go, and the family can no longer pay for the house they live in. But eight guests are coming for the Michaelmas shooting weekend, because one of them holds the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Corwin, Ohio, March 1942. The men who managed and mended the telephone exchange have gone to war, and the twelve women at the switchboard now carry the whole town's voice through a wall of brass jacks and braided cords. Ruth Ann Doyle is twenty-four...

A fortune hunter comes home from a diamond-mining expedition in South Africa, but he never gets to enjoy his return. Instead, he turns up murdered, and his artificial wooden hand has vanished. Why would a killer steal a false limb, and what makes it so valuable? In a gloomy cottage nicknamed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Margaret Odell, the celebrated Broadway beauty known as "the Canary," is found strangled in her West Side apartment, her jewels torn from their box. The building has only one way in, the night operator swears no one passed, and yet someone killed her...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a hot June morning in 1920s Manhattan, Alvin Benson, a well-known Wall Street broker and man about town, is found shot through the head in the armchair of his West Forty-eighth Street home. The clues point in every direction: a lady's handbag on the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Greene mansion stands at the end of East Fifty-third Street, a dark relic of old New York where a rich, quarrelsome family lives under the terms of a strange will. One winter night, gunshots ring out, and two of the Greene sisters are found shot in...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison, all he wants is...