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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator David Suchet
Duration 6h 2m
Young, beautiful Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.
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Author: John Le Carre
Author Carre John Le
Narrator John Le Carre
Duration 11h 15m
The missing man: Harting, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. The missing files: forty-three of them, all confidential. The timing: appalling and probably not accidental. London's security officer Alan Turner is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files, as Germany's past, present and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Colonel Race, Book 2
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesColonel Race, Book 2
Duration 2h 20m
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful - a girl who had everything. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger - 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger'.
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Author: Alistair Maclean
Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 30m
A Radio 2 dramatisation of the Second World War novel. Set during the Second World War over a period of four days in Yugoslavia, this classic thriller tells of the daring efforts made by a small group of specialists to silence the German guns at the Greek fortress of Navarone, to facilitate a planned invasion.
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Author: P. D. James
Author P. D. James
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 15h 34m
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. Four weeks after agreeing to defend Gerry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Adam Dalgliesh investigates, only to find that her many enemies include colleagues, criminals, family - and even her lover.
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Author: John Le Carre
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 6h
A murder in one of England's leading private schools leaves everybody asking, why? One of the school masters finds that his wife has been killed in their home. But before she died, the victim wrote a letter in which she predicts her own murder - at the hand of her husband. George Smiley investigates.
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A Brother Cadfael Chronicles Book 3: Monk's Hood
Author: Ellis Peters
Series: The Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Book 3
Author Ellis Peters
Narrator Stephen Thorne
SeriesThe Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 7h 40m
In exchange for himself, his wife and two servants to be kept for life, Gervase Bonel assigned his manor to the abbey of St Peter and St Paul at Shrewsbury. Within a short time however, Bonel is dying, poisoned by one of Brother Cadfael's famous concoctions and the investigation begins. The third Cadfael mystery.
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Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
Duration 12h 44m
Lord Peter Wimsey arranged a quiet country honeymoon with Harriet Vane, but what should have been an idyllic holiday in an ancient farmhouse takes on a new and unwelcome aspect with the discovery of the previous owner's body in the cellar.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 9
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 9
Duration 2h 20m
Hercule Poirot joins an international cast of characters on the glamorous Orient Express, and is approached by a wealthy American who offers the detective 'big money' to protect him. The next day the man is found dead in his cabin, stabbed twelve times. There are no lack of clues for Poirot - but which are real and which a clever plant? One thing i...
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Author: Wilkie Collins
Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Peter Jeffrey
Duration 18h 50m
The Moonstone, a large, beautiful yellow diamond, stolen from an Indian shrine, is given to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday and, that same night, stolen again. Sergeant Cuff is employed to find the precious stone and has no shortage of suspects. As each character describes their version of events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Ray Jones
Duration 6h
The Bantrys wake one morning to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy make-up, which is smeared across her distorted cheeks. The respectable Bantrys invite Jane Marple to solve the mystery before tongues start to wag.
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 1
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 1
Duration 5h 29m
There had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn had stormed out of the house and the atmosphere had changed to one of impending doom. With impeccable timing Poirot makes his dramatic entrance...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 7
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 7
Duration 8h
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around the woman's throat. The body crumpled. The the other train sped off. Miss Marple investigates.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 3
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator James Saxon
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 3
Duration 5h 54m
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when Mrs Symmington commits suicide. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Norman Barrs
Duration 6h 29m
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon. One of the party is found murdered, and tension mounts as the survivors realise that not only is the killer among them, but that they are likely to kill again...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 10
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 14
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders
Author: Simon Brett
Series: Charles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Duration 57m
Charles Paris, actor and amateur sleuth, is working in television as the brainless bobby sidekick to a suave detective. The accidental death of an unpromising actress causes little suspicion, except in Charles' mind. He decides to investigate.
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Author: Raymond Chandler
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 8h
Philip Marlowe is the centre of a succession of curious and increasingly violent happenings when he agrees to take on a case for Little Sister. He is swept into a series of collisions with movie stars, gangsters, small town girls and the police.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Series: Miss Marple, Book 4
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 4
Duration 8h 43m
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Is it a hoax? As the time approaches a crowd gathers, and then the lights go out. Miss Marple investigates.
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Author: Suzanne Berne
Author Suzanne Berne
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Duration 8h 20m
When the murdered body of a local boy is found in the woods, suspicions transform young Marsha's once-secure neighbourhood. Marsha begins to watch her neighbours and when Mr Green, the shy bachelor from next-door, takes an interest in her mother, Marsha is drawn into a cruel chain of events. Winner of the Orange Prize.
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