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Both a delightful murder mystery and a comic novel, fired by love and obsession and filled with memorable characters, Hunting Season is a captivating novel from Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series. Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the...

A forgotten voyage. A forbidden name. A secret that crosses oceans. 1938. Shy nineteen-year-old, Nora O'Brien, leaves behind her life in rural Ireland and boards a ship bound for Australia - carrying little more than a valise and a secret. On board she meets glamorous and unconventional Flo, and...

Bloomsbury presents The White North Has Thy Bones by Dorian Ravenscroft, read by Joe Eyre, Chris Simmons, Kaffe Keating and Anthony Ilott. Sarah Waters meets The Terror in this twisty, chilling historical polar gothic for fans of Michelle Paver and Emma Stonex. 'True Gothic: twisty, unreliable...

*A perfect cozy mystery to curl up with this Christmas* A luxury party sets sail on New Year's Day. But festivities will take a deadly turn… New Year’s Day 1939. The luxurious ocean liner The Midnight Star is partway through its voyage from London to New York. On board, an elite group of...

Knives Out meets Sherlock in the must-read historical murder mystery from the Times bestselling author of The Murder at World's End, for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Tom Hindle and Janice Hallett. London, 1911. Coronation fever. Suffragette unrest. A city crackling with tension. When a policeman is...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A wealthy New York businessman is found shot dead in his locked library on a snowy night. The beautiful young niece who discovered the body is the prime suspect, but a young lawyer's relentless investigation uncovers a web of hidden marriages, secret...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Set in the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, this is Charles Dickens' final, unfinished mystery novel, left incomplete at his death in 1870. The story follows John Jasper, the troubled choir master who is secretly addicted to opium, his young nephew...

„Das Geheimnis von Zelle 13“ (im Original: The Problem of Cell 13) ist eine berühmte Detektivgeschichte von Jacques Futrelle aus dem Jahr 1905, in der Professor Augustus van Dusen – genannt die „Denkmaschine“ – eine scheinbar unlösbare Wette eingeht. Professor van Dusen wettet, dass er allein mit der Kraft seines Verstandes und reiner Logik innerhalb einer Woche aus einer Todeszelle eines Hochsicherheitsgefängnisses ausbrechen kann.

Jessica Watson, Nachfahrin von Dr. John H. Watson, und ihre Freundin Lina Miller nehmen in ihrem True‑Crime‑Podcast einen der ungewöhnlichsten Fälle des legendären Duos unter die Lupe: Der Bund der Rothaarigen. Während die klassische Holmes‑Erzählung entfaltet wird, unterbrechen Jessica und Lina immer wieder die Handlung, ordnen Hinweise ein, entlarven falsche Fährten und kommentieren Holmes’ brillante Schlussfolgerungen. So entsteht ein Hörspiel, das viktorianische Spannung mit moderner Podcast‑Dynamik verbindet – und zeigt, warum dieser Fall bis heute fasziniert.

Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen ist an einem Experiment beteiligt, welches die Weltöffentlichkeit in Atem hält. Dafür wurde extra eine Unze Radium im Laboratorium der Universität Harvard gelagert. Fast der gesamte Weltvorrat dieses immens seltenen Materials. Doch plötzlich ist der wertvolle Stoff verschwunden, was eigentlich ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit ist. Doch nichts ist unmöglich für Professor Van Dusen, weshalb er auch bald die Lösung für das Rätsel weiß. Ein herrlicher Krimispaß aus der Feder von Jacques Futrelle.

Im Januar 1845 lädt die Marquise de Réthel Auguste Dupin zu einer Soirée im Faubourg Saint-Germain, auf der sie erstmals seit Langem ihr Smaragd-Collier zeigen will. Noch am selben Abend ist das Schmuckstück spurlos verschwunden, bei unversehrtem Schloss und unter den Augen eines Wächters. Der Verdacht der Polizei fällt auf die junge Nichte der Marquise, doch Dupin rechnet anders.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Singing Bone* collects five classic forensic detective stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, the pioneer of scientific detection in early 20th century crime fiction. Written by R. Austin Freeman, the inventor of the inverted detective story, these tales...

THE NECRONOMICON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES finds the Great Detective pitting his legendary skills against sinister cults, shambling shadows and malevolent madmen in these twenty-two tantalizing tales spanning two terrifying tomes. Mystery and madness await!THE ADVENTURE FROM BEYOND Stephen HerczegTHE...

Ireland, 1939: ‘Please,’ my tearful voice breaks as I press the leather-bound diary into Sister Louise’s hands. ‘Give this to the family who takes care of my baby. It’s all he’ll have to remember his Mammy...’ In the pale light of dawn, Sheila holds her precious baby close, tears...

In post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city's underworld. Paris, 1949. It's been five years since the war ended. The City of...

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as being dragged into a spy mission isn't going to stop them! Sparks fly when an old friend comes to town . . . London...

In this festive whodunit, set in a cozy snowed-in country-house, an innocent mystery game goes horribly wrong, leaving the real-life couple who invented the game Clue to solve a real murder. "A perfect Christmas crime story." —Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of the Dr. Ruth Galloway series...

“Fans of historical fiction will thrill to this dark tale.” —Publishers Weekly From the New York Times bestselling author of Dinner for Vampires, Bethany Joy Lenz, comes a romantic psychological suspense set in Victorian-era London amidst the Jack the Ripper murders. 1880s London. Cora...

As an assistant in a busy London morgue, Leonora Spencer is accustomed to death. But she is astonished when a woman who has been declared dead and delivered to an undertaker is discovered to still be very much alive. Even more revolting is the scheme Leo and Detective Inspector Jasper Reid...

In 1904 Chicago, where secrets cling as thickly as the soot on every windowsill, Jo earns her living by photographing the dead. The work is quiet and cloistered, allowing her to hide from a past that haunts her: the grief over her husband’s mysterious death, a spiraling addiction, and the...