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Intrepid American newlywed Jane Wunderly learns that tigers aren't the only dangers lurking in 1920s India, when a murder in a popular resort town threatens to destabilize the local government and undermine the resistance movement for Indian self-rule . . . Ooty, 1927: Accompanying Mr. Redvers...

Inmitten der Trümmer des Nachkriegs-Tokio trauert die einst adlige Familie Tsubaki: Der feinsinnige Flötenkomponist Vicomte Tsubaki hat sich aus rätselhaften Gründen das Leben genommen. Als sich die Familie versammelt, um den Geist des Verstorbenen zu beschwören, schlägt das Schicksal erneut zu. Der brillante Detektiv Kosuke Kindaichi soll den Fall untersuchen.

Brought to you by Penguin. Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo - an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogerian - hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world. Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in...

A centuries-old score. A city built on secrets. A melody that kills. When a celebrated music impresario is found dead in Venice—his body slumped in the hot house of a remote palazzo, a cryptic musical interval in his hand—rumours swirl around a rediscovered manuscript: the original score for...

Oakham, near Bruton, is a tiny village by a big river without a bridge. When a man is swept away by the river an explanation has to be found. The story is relayed by the village priest, John Reve, who in his role as confessor is privy to a lot of information that others have not. But will he be...

After surviving a fierce storm on Moon Lake, Nancy Drew meets a frightened girl named Laura Pendleton, who begs for her help. Laura’s new guardian, Jacob Aborn, is a cruel, greedy man with a secret agenda. He keeps her locked up inside a remote bungalow, where nobody can interfere with his plans. As Nancy investigates, she discovers the shocking truth behind the criminal’s scheme. Before she can get the police, the villain catches her and leaves her trapped! Can Nancy escape from the bungalow and catch up to the criminal before he escapes with Laura’s inheritance?

'A treat for anyone who hankers for a light-hearted, modern-day Trollope' - S.G. MACLEAN 'A triumph of wit and intelligence' - ROBERT J. LLOYD The hunt for an ancient king could prove deadly... Leicestershire, 1774. Following a minor royal scandal, Susan Bell's father has lost his post as Dean...

When Nancy Drew visits the Lilac Inn, she’s caught up in more than just the charm of the place. Emily Crandall is about to celebrate her 18th birthday and inherit a fortune in jewelry—but someone has other plans. After a shocking robbery at the inn, Emily’s guardian, Jane Willoughby, becomes the prime suspect. As Nancy digs deeper, she uncovers a web of secrets and deception that leads her to a suspicious maid named Mary Mason.

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride...

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...

Lou & König geraten in die mörderische Jagd nach einem Diamanten – Teil 2 der historischen Krimibestsellerreihe Berlin, im Steppensommer 1947. Die viergeteilte Stadt ächzt unter einer Hitzewelle. Als die entstellte Leiche eines Sowjetoffiziers im Landwehrkanal gefunden wird, übernimmt...

Henkersohn. Söldner. Mörder? 1626: Deutschland versinkt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Jakob Kuisl ist knapp fünfzehn, Sohn eines Henkers, und er schwört, dass dieses Erbe ihn nicht einholen wird. Doch Jakobs Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als sein bester Freund auf schreckliche Weise ermordet...

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. 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...

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...