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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary "Gate of Baghdad", also known as the "Gate of Death". When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr. Parker Pyne.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
A man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman in a mirror - yet when he turns round there is nothing there. Can he prevent a premonition coming true? Basic human loyalty and jealousy are at the fore in this chilling tale.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 2
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 2
Duration 4h 44m
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millio...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Polina Nazarova is a soprano whose past is dangerously entangled with the present. Given the opportunity to sing her Tosca opposite the arrogant and cruel Andre Breon, it seems that her desire for revenge may prove irresistible.
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Miss Lonelyhearts and the Emerald Style
Author: Barry Devlin
Author Barry Devlin
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
In the first of this murder mystery series set in Dublin, Paolo Baldi, Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer, accidentally becomes involved in solving a murder at an Italian chip shop.
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Author: Francis Durbridge
Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 3h 39m
From 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials. Now the dapper duo return refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves, to investigate the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind in post-war London. Enlisted by S...
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Author: John Le Carre
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Simon Russell Beale Et Al
Duration 2h 49m
George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest professio...
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Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow, Volume 2
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Series: Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow, Book 2
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Various
SeriesSherlock Holmes: His Last Bow, Book 2
Duration 2h 55m
Includes: The Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Devil's Foot and His Last Bow.
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Author: Dan Brown
Series: Robert Langdon, Book 1
Author Dan Brown
Narrator Richard Poe
SeriesRobert Langdon, Book 1
Duration 6h 56m
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a pow...
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Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener & Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
Author: M. C. Beaton
Series:
Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
SeriesAgatha Raisin Mystery, Book 3
Duration 1h 50m
Agatha Raisin, the Columbo of the Cotswolds, is back in four more full-cast dramas based on the bestselling books by M.C. Beaton. The Potted Gardener - When a garden festival is announced, the village of Carsely is gripped with enthusiasm for water features and mulch. But the Grim Reaper is in the garden... The Gardener's Legacy - When her arch riv...
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A Man Lay Dead & A Surfeit of Lampreys
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Jeremy Clyde
Duration 1h 53m
A Man Lay Dead A game of 'murders' at Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party becomes far too realistic for anyone's liking. First a guest arrives with a dangerously lethal dagger and then, when the gong sounds to announce the start of the game, the victim plays dead in a very convincing manner. Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn believes the unus...
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Author: Raymond Chandler
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 1h 28m
Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable and very missin...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 36
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 36
Duration 1h 27m
John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs. Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the c...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 20
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Peter Sallis
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 20
Duration 1h 20m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. D...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
The year is 1920, and an ambitious doctor meets a nun apparently traumatised by what she witnessed in the Great War. An attempt to restore the woman's sanity results in the uncovering of something very sinister indeed.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Having lost her husband and only child to the war in Afghanistan, a young woman turns to an Irish couple for hope in the form of a miracle. But dark forces are at work, and the price to pay for salvation may be too much to bear.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 9
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 9
Duration 2h 20m
"Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck. The evidence against her is overwhelming, the case cut and dried. But what was the truth behind it all? What enemies lurked in the background of the victim's life? Hercul...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather more than just his job is at stake.
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