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Was tun Sie, bevor Sie zu Bett gehen? Wahrscheinlich noch einen letzten Blick auf das Smartphone werfen. Und nach dem Aufstehen? Geht der Blick direkt wieder aufs Smartphone? Die vermeintlichen Neuigkeiten auf dem Handybildschirm machen uns süchtig und schränken nicht nur unser selbstständiges Denken ein, sondern auch unser Sozialverhalten. So kann die Sucht nach dem Handy richtig gefährlich werden. Fettleibigkeit, Schlafprobleme, Haltungsschäden, Einsamkeit oder Sehstörungen sind nur einige Beispiele für die Folgen von übermäßigem Handykonsum.

Für alle, die endlich mit dem Rauchen aufhören wollen! Allen, die bereit sind, mit dem Rauchen endgültig Schluss zu machen, zeigt dieses Hörbuch den Weg. Speziell Männer haben es oft schwer, Nein zur Zigarette zu sagen. Mit Allen Carrs sensationeller und weltweit bekannter...

Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet not a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning looking up at the huge hotel when a piece of card bearing a number floats down to him. He enters the hotel and is served with breakfast, giving the waiter the room number to charge. Then an unlucky chance compels him to go up to room 707....

For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting science fiction. For the first time, all of Pournelle's best short work has been collected in a single volume. Herein you will find over a dozen short stories, each with a new introduction by editor and longtime Pournelle assistant John F. Carr, as well as essays and remembrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.

A story about a bumbling, small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending. 

A man and his wife sit beside the fire in their country cottage. They are Professor Craft and his wife Cynthia. The cottage is rather isolated three miles from the nearest house - no electricity, central heating, or telephone. Professor Craft is convinced that his wife is having an affair with a young doctor from the village, so he devises a plan to rid himself of them both. 

A haunted balcony in an Italian villa encourages a madman to try a second murder. 

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.

In early 1940, Chaim Herzsman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. 

In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Detective Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure enough, the detective's worst suspicions are realised when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit.

A shocking murder scene unfolds in a hidden gambling den, where Monsieur de Saligny is discovered in a chilling position—his head mysteriously absent, propped up at a distance. No one saw a soul enter or exit the room during the critical moments leading to this grotesque crime. As the investigation heats up, the brilliant detective Bencolin steps in to unravel the enigma. Known for his sharp intellect and keen instincts, Bencolin faces a web of secrets and deceit. Will he crack the case before the truth fades into the shadows? John Dickson Carr, a master of detective fiction, invites you to ...

A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody stump where his head should have been bowed forward and resting on the floor. The head lay propped up facing toward the door several feet away. No one was seen entering or leaving the room between when M. de Saligny entered the room and when the body was discovered. Will shrewd detective Bencolin be able to solve the first whodunnit penned by the master of the locked room mystery, John Dickson Carr? (Summary by Ben Tucker)

One of the premiere drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”. The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

Allen Carrs Easyway ist ein globales Phänomen – eine klinisch erprobte, 100% medikamentenfreie Methode, die bereits Millionen Menschen geholfen hat, mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören. Jetzt widmet sich Allen Carr's EasyWay Institut dem Vaping, der am schnellsten wachsenden Art, Nikotin zu konsumieren. Statt mit Angst oder Verboten zu arbeiten, entlarvt die Methode die geistige Konditionierung hinter der Sucht und beseitigt das Verlangen ohne Willenskraft oder Entzug. Wer das Buch vollständig liest und die Anweisungen befolgt, kann sich von der Nikotinsucht befreien.

Four full-cast stories of suspense from the creator of Dr Gideon Fell The master of the ‘impossible crime’ novel, American author John Dickson Carr was renowned for his Golden Age detective stories featuring the eccentric genius Dr Gideon Fell. This collection brings together four of his...