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Author: A J Cronin
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Author A J Cronin
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 47m
John Gordon Sinclair stars as Scotland's most celebrated doctor in six BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations. When Dr Cameron gets called in to see a patient, he doesn't expect it to be his new partner Dr Finlay. But the new doctor is full of surprises: caring, stubborn, idealistic and clever, Finlay might have been welcomed to the practice with a bla...
View BookThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency: The Daddy & the Bone
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 1
Duration 1h 28m
'The Daddy' introduces us to Mma Ramotswe as she embarks on her first case and takes on a new secretary, the resourceful and talented Mma Makutsi. Together, they must find the truth about a Daddy who appears to have returned from the dead - as well as investigating a wayward teenage girl and attempting to find a vanished child. 'The Bone' sees the...
View BookChief Justice of Beauty & Confession
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 3
Duration 1h 28m
'The Chief Justice of Beauty' finds the ladies hired by a beauty contest judge to check up on the integrity of the finalists in a forthcoming competition, following the embarrassing arrest for shoplifting of a previous winner. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotsweis worried about her fianc‚, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. 'The Confession' sees Mma Ramotswe consulti...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 22: Superfluous Women
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 22
Duration 11h 32m
In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"-brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without a...
View BookAuthor: John Mortimer
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Author John Mortimer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 40m
Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases, as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent - and the not-so-innocent.The stories contained within are: 'Rumpole and the Primrose Path', 'Rumpole and the New Year's Resolutions', 'Rumpole and the Scales of Justice'...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 18: Sheer Folly
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 18
Duration 11h 17m
In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator, Lady Lucy Gerald, head off for several days to a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of architectural follies, they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive wee...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 6h 45m
According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he died behind bars. Two years later, new evidence emerges which suggests that the real murderer will strike again.
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
Duration 6h 34m
Poisoned port... pet cats in peril... purloined pearls... Twelve mystery stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, who deal with a case of wine poisoning, double identity, and murder.
View BookBooktown Mystery Series Book 3: Bookplate Special
Author: Lorna Barrett
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Author Lorna Barrett
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
SeriesBooktown Mystery, Book 3
Duration 8h 24m
Bookstore owner Tricia Miles has put up-and put up with-her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen $100. But the day she's kicked out, Pammy's found dead in a Dumpster, leaving loads of questions unanswered.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
Duration 7h 17m
Gwenda Reed has come from New Zealand to search for a home in England for her and her husband, Giles. She falls in love with a house on the South Coast where she feels strangely at home, in fact she feels she actually remembers the house. A visit to the theatre then brings a vision to her of a body in the hallway. It also brings Miss Marple into th...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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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...
View BookBooktown Mystery Series Book 2: Bookmarked For Death
Author: Lorna Barrett
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Author Lorna Barrett
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
SeriesBooktown Mystery, Book 2
Duration 8h 24m
Tricia Miles, owner of the Haven't Got a Clue bookstore, must solve her own mystery when a bestselling author is found dead in the washroom.
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 6h 25m
The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from best-selling author M. C. Beaton. The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. As the village gets ready for the Bishop's visit, the twi...
View BookAuthor: Ngaio Marsh
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Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 10h 11m
It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 21: Heirs of the Body
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 21
Duration 11h 27m
When one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone's mind is, "was it murder?" In the late 1920s in England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar-i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out wh...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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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.
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 6h 12m
Can the feisty Agatha cut it as a private investigator? She soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. But then walks in wealthy divorcee Catherine Laggat-Brown, and Agatha is given her first real case. Death threats, blackmail and physical attack soon follow, and once...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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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.
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 20: Gone West
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 20
Duration 11h 15m
In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the...
View BookThe Mysterious Affair At Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
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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...
View BookOscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Author: Gyles Brandreth
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Author Gyles Brandreth
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 10h 28m
London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan...
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