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Göteborg 1798. Ett avhugget huvud hittas i kanalen nedanför Domkyrkan. Har en likplundrare varit i farten? Har studenterna vid gymnasiet stulit huvudet som ett osmakligt skämt? Eller går rent av en mördare lös i Göteborg? Den sorglösa och liderlige polisbetjänten Christian Kanterlind...

Året är 1838. Maximilien Lefèvre, en fransk arkeolog, anländer till Istanbul för att söka efter en försvunnen bysantisk skatt. Hans närvaro skapar oro i stadens grekiska grupperingar och snart hittas hans kropp stympad. Detektiven Yashim, som i ett svagt ögonblick försökt hjälpa...

Dezember 1881, ein Zug der London, Tilbury & Southend Railway unterwegs nach London. Im Abteil: Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John H. Watson – und mit ihnen Richard Tennant, ein Mann von einnehmender Liebenswürdigkeit, samt seiner auffallend stillen Gattin Cécile.

With Special Guest Star ANJELICA HUSTON playing Thessaly Edwards. A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron’s elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions. Replete with beautifully observed period detail...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *Great Porter Square: A Mystery* is a classic Victorian suspense novel by B. L. Farjeon, complete in two volumes. When naive orphan girl Lydia Holdfast arrives at a grand, gloomy London house on Great Porter Square to work as a companion, she stumbles...

Ende der Langeweile einer idyllischen Landpartie. Als Beatrice Hyde-Clare kurz nach Mitternacht in der Bibliothek von Lakeview Hall über die Leiche eines Gastes stolpert, ist es mit ihren hehren Vorsätzen weiblicher Zurückhaltung vorbei. Offiziell wird als Todesursache Freitod angegeben, Beatrice aber weiß es besser. Schließlich hat sie den eingeschlagenen Schädel des unglückseligen Mr. Otley gesehen.

England, 1929: Mydworth – ein kleiner verschlafener Ort im ländlichen Sussex. Hier geschieht selten etwas Aufregendes ... Aber das ändert sich, als der junge Adlige Sir Harry Mortimer zusammen mit seiner amerikanischen Frau Kat in seinen Heimatort zurückkehrt. Bei einer glanzvollen Party auf Mydworth Manor werden kostbare Juwelen gestohlen. Einer der Täter wird auf der Flucht erschossen, der andere entkommt.

Leipzig, die Bücherstadt. 1930. In der Bibliothek ihres Stiefvaters stößt Amalia Lux auf sieben Exlibris mit der Darstellung mysteriöser Masken, signiert mit »L. Gora«. Als mehrere Morde geschehen, fällt der Verdacht auf Amalia, die als Kind gegen ihren Willen aus den Kolonien nach Deutschland gebracht wurde. Welche Verbindung gibt es zwischen den Exlibris und den Toten? Plötzlich selbst eine Gejagte, macht Amalia sich auf die Suche nach der verschollenen Künstlerin.

April 29, 1585. Coroner John Derrick is summoned to the cozy village of Bramley to investigate a naked dead man found beneath a waterwheel. An unfortunate drowning, by all indications. But upon closer inspection, the case takes a macabre turn: The deceased is missing a certain piece of his...

A killer stalks the streets of London, murdering Christmas-hating misers, a mystery only reformed penny-pincher Ebenezer Scrooge can solve. But Scrooge's chief witness is dead, his prime suspect is a mystical spirit that can walk through walls and his two faithful friends, Tiny Tim and the Widow...

Sherlock’s elder - and still more brilliant - brother, Mycroft (read by Rory Kinnear), is too busy to grieve this apparent loss. Working as an agent for the British government, Mycroft is tasked with the politics of maintaining an empire on the verge of collapse. But on the streets of London, a killer is on the loose. A sequence of bloody bodies litter the East End, murders which echo those of Jack the Ripper four years before. Against his better judgement, Mycroft is forced to step out from the shadow of his brother, and join the hunt for the truth.

When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered.

A country house. A dangerous secret. And a fiancé Etty Redgrave definitely cannot trust. England, 1868: Newly engaged, Etty Redgrave should be planning her wedding. Instead, she travels to the countryside for Lady Darby’s summer house party, determined to uncover why her fiancé lied to secure her hand. When Tristan Bankes-Fernsby, Duke of Rockingham, arrives asking questions of his own, Etty finds herself under scrutiny. He has no faith in the match and every intention of uncovering the truth behind it.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Notting Hill Mystery, first published in 1862 by Charles Felix, is widely recognized as the very first full-length detective novel in English literature. When a wealthy English gentleman dies under suspicious circumstances, his insurance...

A Victorian historical mystery with paranormal intrigue, featuring London's most tenacious private detective, a missing heiress, a ransom note signed by the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack, and a secret courtship that refuses to stay out of the investigation. Private detective Matilda Wren's latest...

When British spy Olivia Redmond is summoned again by her elusive spymaster, she's expecting danger—not an invitation to teach drawing to captured German generals at Trent Park House. But beneath the genteel cover of sketches and civility lies a deadly ruse: the lavish POW mansion is wired for sound, every whispered secret a weapon in Britain's intelligence war.

A forgotten correspondence. An obscure pirate. A race no one saw coming. Some discoveries rewrite history. Some discoveries rewrite lives. Some do both. Paul Anderson is a restless history PhD student facing the prospect of a bland, but safe, academic career. When he uncovers lost correspondence...

A country Christmas in Victorian England takes a murderous turn in Agatha and Lefty Award–winning author Dianne Freeman’s delightful mystery featuring Frances Hazelton, the former Countess of Harleigh, and her husband, George. Frances and George are looking forward to a Christmas season...

A country Christmas in Victorian England takes a murderous turn in Agatha and Lefty Award winning author Dianne Freeman’s delightful mystery featuring Frances Hazelton, the former Countess of Harleigh, and her husband, George. Frances and George are looking forward to a Christmas season...

A family, their liquor store, and the clash of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments in 1920s St. Paul The Kaner brothers were getting by well enough running Kaner’s Fine Wine and Spirits in St. Paul, Minnesota, until Prohibition took effect in January 1920. With their liquor store...