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Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 1h 27m
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you,...
View BookKaren Pirie Book 2: A Darker Domain
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Eilidh Fraser
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 2
Duration 12h 56m
1984. The miners' strike is dividing the country. In a struggling coal-mining town, the miners and their families are living at the edge of their resources. On the 14th of December, five miners break ranks to travel to Nottingham and work. For those who stay behind, this is an unforgivable betrayal. Twenty-three years later, a young woman is asking...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Rosenheim
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Author Andrew Rosenheim
Narrator John Chancer
SeriesJimmy Nessheim, Book 2
Duration 12h 42m
Los Angeles, September 1941. With the Nazis occupying Europe, and their armies now halfway across Russia, America hovers on the brink of war. Tensions are also rising in the Far East, and in California fears grow of a Pacific Coast invasion. There is mounting anxiety about the loyalty of the state's own Japanese population. But back in Washington D...
View BookAuthor: John Lawton
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Author John Lawton
Narrator Lewis Hancock
Duration 12h 36m
The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russ...
View BookSexton Blake: First Class Ticket To Nowhere
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 29m
In First Class Ticket to Nowhere, lost in the fog, Sexton Blake and his friends stumble across a deserted railway station. Then there's a gunshot.
View BookThe Case of the Missing Servant
Author: Tarquin Hall
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Author Tarquin Hall
Narrator Sam Dastor
Duration 9h
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners,...
View BookThe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianc‚e. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party a...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
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Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 1
Duration 8h 53m
Eva is walking by the river one afternoon when a body floats to the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait patiently while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box Eva dials another number altogether. The dead man, Egil, has been missing for months, and it doesn't take long for Inspector Sejer and his team to estab...
View BookThe Saint. Saint Closes the Case
Author: Leslie Charteris
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Author Leslie Charteris
Narrator Paul Rhys
Duration 56m
Leslie Charteris' square-jawed, blue-eyed hero loved, fought and stole his way through Europe from the 1930s to the 1970s, endlessly pursuing blondes, baddies and boodle. Adored by women and feared by his foes, he was renowned for both his heroic exploits and his nefarious reputation - and he always left his trademark calling card at the scenes of...
View BookAuthor: A A Milne
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Author A A Milne
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 40m
Far from the humorous escapades in his famous Hundred Acre Wood, A. A. Milne brings to The Red House Mystery all the suspense of classic whodunit: an unexpected visitor, a mysterious murder, a secret passageway, a beautiful woman and a suspicious valet. But when a guest at the inn becomes a self appointed 'Sherlock Holmes' and acquires his own, per...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 06: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 7h 40m
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator, is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. She is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, and the Agency is very busy, but she cannot ignore a plea which is made to her by a woman with a tale of particular misfortune. Unf...
View BookAuthor: Nuala Ellwood
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Author Nuala Ellwood
Narrator Sally Scott
Duration 11h 45m
Kate Rafter is a successful war reporter. She's the strong one. The one who escaped Herne Bay and the memories it holds. Her sister Sally didn't. Instead, she drinks. But when their mother dies, Kate is forced to return to the old family home. And on her first night she is woken by a terrifying scream. What secret has Kate stumbled upon? And is she...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 1: Cold Granite
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 1
Duration 13h 28m
Stuart MacBride's number one best-selling crime series opens with this award-winning debut. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather...It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much wors...
View BookAuthor: Francis Duncan
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Author Francis Duncan
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers
Duration 9h 18m
Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for Christmas. When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But then again, he has never been able to resist anything in the nature of a mystery - and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the village of...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 13: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 8h 50m
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade, The Principles of Private Detection. But who is the eminent author, Mr Clovis Andersen, and what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility, and yet . . . When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday, he is delighted and int...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 5: The Curse of the Golden Cross
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 5
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Curse of the Golden Cross', the past and present collid...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 2: Dying Light
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 2
Duration 12h 45m
The number one best-selling detective series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride continues in this second crime thriller. It's summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying...It's summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying...It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitu...
View BookDeath In Paradise Series Book 1: A Meditation On Murder
Author: Robert Thorogood
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Author Robert Thorogood
Narrator Phil Fox
SeriesDeath in Paradise, Book 1
Duration 9h 59m
An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, featuring on-screen favourite detective, DI Richard Poole. Enhance your enjoyment of the series as, for the first time, Robert Thorogood brings the characters to life on the page in an all-new locked-room mystery. Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: leader...
View BookPhryne Fisher Book 2: Flying Too High
Author: Kerry Greenwood
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Author Kerry Greenwood
Narrator Stephanie Daniel
SeriesPhryne Fisher, Book 2
Duration 5h 3m
Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the second Phryne Fisher mystery, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous detective flies even higher, handling...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 4 : The Mistake of the Machine
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 4
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Mistake of the Machine', Father Brown visits his friend...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 11h 24m
Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers. Public panic overcomes official indifference, and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are being abducted during festivals, a...
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