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Author: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew star in this thrilling Radio 4 dramatisation of P.D. James' enduringly popular mystery. When two men are discovered with their throats cut in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, the police are faced with an intriguing challenge. For one of the victims was ex-Government minister Sir Paul Berowne, the other Harr...
View BookCadfael: The Virgin In the Ice
Author: Ellis Peters
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Author Ellis Peters
Narrator Philip Madoc
SeriesThe Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Book 6
Duration 2h 15m
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael's monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina and her broth...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Nicholas Le Prevost
Duration 43m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret's Little Joke', Maigret and his wife take a secret holiday in Paris. When a murder occurs, Maigret must get his information from the press and radio. How can he leave Janvier to solve the crime alone?
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
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Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 10h 4m
Gunmen are terrorising young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What - if anything - links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler falls back on well tried police methods such as questioning neighbours and house-to-house searches...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 2: A Dedicated Man
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 2
Duration 8h 2m
A well-liked, respected historian and archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder-and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookAuthor: Robert Ludlum
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Author Robert Ludlum
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 7h
The first book in the Jason Bourne series. Jason Bourne was fished out of the Mediterranean, his body riddled with bullets. Evidence shows that plastic surgery has altered his face, and implanted beneath the skin on his hip is a frame of microfilm. On the film is a number which leads to a bank account in Zurich and four million dollars. Suddenly Bo...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 52m
Watson gets the surprise of his life upon seeing a familiar face, coinciding with the seemingly motiveless murder of one Ronald Adair. What secrets does the empty house hold and who is the returning stranger who gives Watson such a shock? Expect exemplary detective work as always in this gripping story.
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Clifford Norgate
Duration 6h
The sixtieth birthday party of Silas Kane was marred by argument and dissension among his family. And then, the morning after the celebrations, Kane is found dead at the foot of a cliff. When Kane's nephew is also murdered, all clues point to an elderly lady of eighty as the killer. But as the redoubtable Superintendent Hannasyde discovers, nothing...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 12h 44m
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours...
View BookSherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator David Timson
SeriesSherlock Holmes, Book 2
Duration 4h 32m
Conan Doyle's second novel about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes, first appeared in England and the United States in Lippincott Magazine in February 1890. The Sign of Four brings Mary Morstan, a beautiful young governess, to the home of consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Mary's father, an officer in the British Forces who had...
View BookCharles Paris Mysteries Book 8: Murder Unprompted
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Geoffrey Howard
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 8
Duration 5h 4m
"I want you all out-gone-dead-exterminated!" high strung Alex Household cried out, when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play called The Hooded Owl-to an actor who couldn't remember his lines. But did that mean that it was Alex who had shot the leading man dead during his climactic speech? charles Paris, for one, co...
View BookAuthor: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator Various
Duration 30m
William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented on CD for the very first time. Bluebeard's Keys sees Blake receiving a mysterious key in the post. The attached...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 1h 3m
A Cornish holiday goes dreadfully wrong when a young woman is found dead next to her singing, laughing, insane brothers. What is the significance of the roaring fire, and what dark forces are at work? The only men for the job are of course Holmes and Watson, who a listener can rely upon to unravel this perplexing conundrum.
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 14h 40m
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation Wallander is always, tan...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 49m
Mr. Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is Professor Presbury's personal secretary, and until recently he has enjoyed the old Camford physiologist's implicit trust as though he were a close member of the family. The professor, however, has begun to act strangely after returning from a mysterious fortnight's absence. He is...
View BookA Very Rude Woman & Talking Shoes
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 8
Duration 1h 27m
'A Very Rude Woman' finds Precious Ramotswe facing change at The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, while Mr J.L.B. Matekoni meets the rudest person in all Botswana. 'Talking Shoes' sees a new detective taking on a case for the Agency, while Mma Ramotswe, among others, has a problem with high blood pressure.
View BookAuthor: Amy Lloyd
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Author Amy Lloyd
Narrator Tamaryn Payne
Duration 8h 52m
Charlotte wants a fresh start. She wants to forget her past, forget her childhood crime - and, most of all, forget that one terrible moment. It's the reason she's been given a new name, a new life. The reason she spent years in prison. But even on the outside, with an ankle monitor and court-mandated therapy, she can't escape the devastating memory...
View BookAuthor: Claire Douglas
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Author Claire Douglas
Narrator Hannah Daniel
Duration 9h 19m
COULD YOUR DREAM HOME BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? After what happened in London, Kirsty needs a fresh start with her family. And running a guesthouse in the Welsh mountains sounds idyllic. But then their first guest arrives. Selena is the last person Kirsty wants to see. It's seventeen years since she tore everything apart. Why has she chosen now to w...
View BookAuthor: James McAleavey
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Author James McAleavey
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 5, Book 4
Duration 42m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In A Food Of The Blue, Father Baldi attempts a relaxing scholarly retreat at the great Cranolly House. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the...
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