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October 3, 1959: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s latest musical, “The Sound of Music,” starring Mary Martin, has just had its world premiere in New Haven, the first stop on its road to Broadway. But for one member of the company it will prove to be the final performance. The following morning, the lifeless body of beautiful newcomer Eva Rossi–Mary Martin’s understudy–is discovered in a bizarrely-appointed hotel room, beneath a wall defaced with a bloody inscription: How do you solve a problem like Maria?

When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, I am left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to help my dear friend Belinda, as she awaits the birth of her baby alone. An opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way - my cousin the queen is in need of a spy to attend a house party in the Italian lake country. The Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding.

Jun Nakayama was a silent-film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. Like the changing social and racial tides in California - and the unsolved murder of his favorite director.

Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house's atmosphere.

The long siege is ended. Troy lies in ashes. The black ships of the Greek war-host set sail for home – but for King Odysseus of Ithaca, the return voyage holds hazards far greater than any he faced in the Trojan War. A sequel to Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of The Odyssey transforms Homer’s complex epic poem into a traveller’s tale with a cast of men, magicians and monsters: the flesh-eating Cyclops, the deadly enchantment of Circe and Odysseus’s battle to regain his wife and long-lost kingdom.

The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry.

But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise.

El anciano filósofo Pitágoras es uno de los personajes con más poder político de su época. Está a punto de nombrar un sucesor entre sus grandes maestros cuando en su comunidad se inicia una serie de asesinatos. Cada muerte tiene lugar de un modo más desconcertante e imprevisible, reflejando tras ellas una mente oscura y poderosa que parece superar a la del mismísimo Pitágoras.

Just in time for Sherlock Holmes, the major motion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law: the world’s greatest fictional detective and his famous sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they solve crimes all over 19th-century America - from the bustling neighborhoods of New York, Boston, and D.C. to fog-shrouded San Francisco. The world’s best-loved British sleuth faces some of the most cunning criminals America has to offer and meets America’s most famous figures.

In den Londoner Docklands explodiert der Kessel eines Segeldampfers. Dabei kommen der Geschäftsführer der Schifffahrtslinie und ein amerikanischer Ingenieur ums Leben. Inspektor Orville Baker vermutet einen Konstruktionsfehler, aber dann wird Dynamit sichergestellt. Für den jungen Ermittler wird der Fall zur Odyssee: Es finden sich keine Beweise, dafür eine Vielzahl an Motiven.

New York, 1874. Die Krankenschwester Alessa Arlington verwirklicht ihren Traum, sie studiert Medizin, was ihr in ihrem Zuhause in London verwehrt geblieben war. Wenige Wochen nach ihrer Ankunft wird auf den Stufen des Women's Medical Colleges of the New York Infirmary eine junge Frau tot aufgefunden, die Wörter „Hell Gate" sind ihr auf den Unterleib eingebrannt worden. Kurz zuvor wurde George Ehrets „Hell Gate Brewery", New Yorks größte Bierbrauerei, ausgeraubt und die Brauereimühlen zerstört. Besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen den beiden Fällen?

April 1410. Über ein halbes Jahr ist vergangen, seit die Salbenmacherin Olivera und ihr Gemahl beinahe einer tödlichen Intrige zum Opfer gefallen wären, doch die Lage scheint sich ein wenig beruhigt zu haben. Es herrscht eine Art Waffenstillstand mit ihren mächtigen Gegnern, der allerdings durch die Ankunft eines Wanderheilers in Gefahr gerät. Dieser behauptet, im Besitz des "Steins der Weisen" zu sein, der kurze Zeit später auf rätselhafte Weise verschwindet. Als der Heiler dann auch noch erschlagen aufgefunden wird, spitzt sich die Situation dramatisch zu.

It is 1945 in the American sector of occupied Berlin, and a German boy has discovered the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blonde and blue eyed, she has been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. When the bodies of other young women begin to pile up, it becomes clear that this is no isolated act of violence, and German and American investigators will have to cooperate if they are to stop the slaughter.

On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political. If only the killings had stopped at two. The police are desperate to come to grips with an extraordinary and disquieting upsurge of violence.

Georgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in her lovely new home. She suggests to her dashing husband, Darcy, that they have a little house party, but when Darcy receives a letter from his aunt Ermintrude, there is an abrupt change in plans. She has moved to a house on the edge of the Sandringham estate, near the royal family, and wants to invite Darcy and his new bride for Christmas.

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself.

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.

"Milano. Una piccola città, tutto sommato, con dentro il male. Un male pulsante, crudele, così viscerale che l'ha perfino costretta a mutare colore. Il nero del carbone, il grigio dei palazzi ormai è diventato rosso. Di luci, di fari nella notte, di lampeggianti d'autoambulanze, di bandiere nelle piazze, di sangue sui marciapiedi. Città rossa." Anche Milano ha avuto i suoi eroi criminali. Erano gli anni del boom economico, dell'uomo sulla Luna, delle grandi passioni politiche e loro rapinavano le banche.

Paris, 1889. Sous les lumières étincelantes de la capitale qui se prépare à célébrer son Exposition universelle, l'ombre rôde. Une ombre qui tue… et dévore les âmes. À l'I.S.F., les Investigations Surnaturelles Françaises, deux enquêteurs aux tempéraments aussi contradictoires que complémentaires sont dépêchés sur l'affaire : Louise de Stalles, succube aristocrate au charme incendiaire et au tempérament explosif, et Paul Deschanelles, nécromancien élégant, dandy jusqu'au bout de sa canne… mais incapable de regarder un cadavre sans pâlir.

Asesinatos rituales. Magia y chamanismo. Dos mujeres separadas por dieciséis mil años y unidas por las pinturas rupestres de Altamira. Los cadáveres de varios arqueólogos han sido encontrados en el interior de cuevas brutalmente mutilados. Las pinturas rupestres de esas cavernas han sido destruidas, y los sucesos tienen desconcertadas a las autoridades.

Estamos nos anos 1970, às vésperas de um feriado, quando o detetive Adam McAnnis se junta a um velho amigo para aproveitar o fim de semana prolongado no West Heart, um clube exclusivo e tranquilo em meio à natureza. Nesse primeiro momento, você talvez não desconfie das intenções dele, mas, em um livro de mistério, nada acontece por acaso.