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Nothing is simple when you're 35th in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau, Darcy O'Mara, hope to bypass a few royal rules....

Der neue Fall des beliebtesten japanischen Krimiautors. Privatdetektiv Kosuke Kindaichi wird von einem der Anwälte eines kürzlich verstorbenen schwerreichen Seidenfabrikanten in einen abgelegenen Teil Japans gerufen. Der Anwalt fürchtet, dass das Testament einen erbitterten Kampf zwischen den untereinander verfeindeten Erben auslösen wird. Und kaum ist der Letzte Wille verlesen, nimmt eine Mordserie ihren blutigen Anfang.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending a feliz navidad tramping around South America. Meanwhile, Mummy is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward! And I’m snowed in at Castle Rannoch with my bumbling brother, Binky, and sourpuss sister-in-law, Fig.

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.

Ein stürmischer Abend am Riverside Drive: In Mrs. Myra Crabtrees Haus versammelt sich der exzentrische „Club des schwarzen Katers", um Edgar Allan Poe zu huldigen. Doch der literarische Grusel wird bittere Realität, als der Bankier Cecil Deakin tot aufgefunden wird – vergiftet! Wenig später entdeckt Professor van Dusen im Weinkeller des Hauses eine weitere angsteinflößende Überraschung.

Das tief in den nebelverhangenen Bergen gelegene Dorf der acht Gräber verdankt seinen Namen einer blutigen Legende: Im sechzehnten Jahrhundert wurden acht Samurai, die dort mit einem geheimen Schatz Zuflucht gesucht hatten, von den Bewohnern ermordet, was einen schrecklichen Fluch über ihr Dorf brachte. Jahrhunderte später kommt ein mysteriöser junger Mann namens Tatsuya in die Stadt und hat eine Reihe von tödlichen Giftmischungen im Gepäck. Der unnachahmlich verschrobene und brillante Kosuke Kindaichi nimmt die Ermittlungen auf.

Penniless and 34th in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful brother, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre- looking castle, Georgie finds the bride with blood running down her chin, and a wedding guest is poisoned.

Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan’s friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts. The outbreak of war changed everything. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive.

Der nächste Fall der erfolgreichen klassischen Krimiserie aus Japan - "Japans Antwort auf Agatha Christie." The Guardian. Der Privatermittler Kosuke Kindaichi reist auf die abgelegene Insel Gokumon, um einer der wichtigsten Familien dort eine tragische Nachricht zu überbringen: Einer ihrer Söhne ist auf einem Truppentransportschiff, das ihn nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zurück in die Heimat bringen sollte, gestorben. Doch Kindaichi ist nicht nur als Bote gekommen - mit seinen letzten Worten warnte der Sterbende, dass nun das Leben seiner drei Stiefschwestern in Gefahr sei.

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

Read by Hugh Fraser and Dan Stevens Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry...

Ever since she drove her best friend's fiance to kill himself, Isabel Drew has been nicknamed Jezebel. She is domineering, arrogant, vain—and beautiful enough to get away with it. She is starring as a princess in a medieval pageant when her past catches up to her. On tiny slips of paper, threats appear, promising death to Isabel and those around her. Fearing she may be attacked, she invites the brilliant Inspector Cockrill to keep her safe after the performance. But her precautions come too late. During the first show, Isabel falls from her tower and is dead before she hits the ground.

Bloomsbury presents Restless by William Boyd, read by Rosamund Pike. READ BY ROSAMUND PIKE CHOSEN FOR THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S READING ROOM BOOK CLUB ‘Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. ‘ Who's that?' ‘Me,' she said. ‘I am Eva Delectorskaya.' What happens to your life when everything...

Students of biblical Greek will learn all New Testament Greek vocabulary words that occur ten times or more in the New Testament by interacting with this audio product. Jonathan Pennington speaks all New Testament Greek words in descending order of frequency. Different tracks enable students to...

Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon...

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...

The Complete Father Brown Collection: Books 1-5, read by the outstanding Nicholas Boulton, includes unabridged recordings of the complete works of Father Brown—G. K. Chesterton's beloved amateur sleuth.

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar…

En la Barcelona de finales de los años 50, Daniel Sempere ya no es aquel niño que descubrió un libro que habría de cambiarle la vida entre los pasadizos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. El misterio de la muerte de su madre Isabella ha abierto un abismo en su alma del que su esposa Bea...