Anthologies & Short Stories

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations....

Fine-art aficionado. Master of disguise. Jewelry expert. Historian. Gentleman. Burglar. Arsene Lupin is all of these and more....

A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball....

Audacious heists, outrageous disguises, and the million-dollar charm of Arsène Lupin are splendidly exhibited in these 10 tales detailing the exploits of our favorite gentleman burglar....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels....

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation...

Presenting the complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, read by award-award winning narrators Jonathan Keeble and Peter Noble....

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series....

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries....

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series....

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy....

For twenty-first century connoisseurs of crime, The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries celebrates how the nineteenth century added a fierce modern twist to the ancient theme of bloody murder....

This thrilling anthology contains five action-packed tales of incredible journeys, a murderous treasure hunt, invaders from outer space and international espionage - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors.... 

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits....

Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl....

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping.... 

This masterful collection of 17 classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction....

A modern short story collection featuring the great detective....

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation...

This Audiobook contains the following works: The Builder [Frank L. Packard], The Man Who Didn't Count [Frank L. Packard], Red Petals...

BBC radio productions of the finest works of Wilkie Collins: sensation novelist, early master of the mystery story and pioneer of detective fiction....

Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss present their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures, with introductions read by Mark Gatiss....

Dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey's classic mystery novels. Scottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey was one of the greatest Golden Age crime writers and the author of eight mysteries, including six featuring Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant....

Sarah und James sind im Urlaub. Im Seebad Scheveningen können sie vom Hotelzimmer aus direkt auf den Strand und das Meer sehen. Sarah ist begeistert und lauscht nachts zur Entspannung den Wellen. Bis sie etwas Ungeheuerliches beobachtet: Ein Mann wird erschossen! Der Mörder durchsucht dessen Taschen und verschwindet in der Dunkelheit. Sarah traut ihren Augen kaum. Doch als sie unten ankommt, ist die Leiche verschwunden. An ihrer Stelle sitzt ein Hund. Hat sich Sarah den Mord nur eingebildet? Der Überzeugung ist jedenfalls die örtliche Polizei.

Die Memoiren des Sherlock Holmes, erschienen 1893 unter dem englischen Originaltitel The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, ist die zweite Sammlung von Detektivgeschichten um Sherlock Holmes von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In sämtlichen Geschichten des Bandes fungiert, wie auch in fast allen übrigen Sherlock-Holmes-Geschichten, Holmes’ Freund Dr. Watson als Ich-Erzähler.

In "Frostbitten Secrets: Unmasking the Architect," join detective Nora Larsen as she witness her race against time to unmask the elusive Architect and bring him to justice before he strikes again. Then, venture to the "Whispers of Vágar: Unveiling the Faroese Enigma" where detective Haldur Johansen must confront his own demons as he unravels a series of chilling murders, each with a cryptic symbol that holds the key to the town's dark past. Finally, set sail on a perilous voyage in "The Phantom Passenger: Voyage of Shadows," where a mysterious figure haunts the decks of a ferry.

Eine Ehe zwischen zwei Kettenrauchern kann eine durchaus harmonische Beziehung sein. Dumm ist es nur, wenn einer der beiden plötzlich den Entschluss fasst, dem Glimmstängel ein für allemal abzuschwören... (Die Nichtraucherin) Keiner auf dem Polizeirevier glaubt der alten Dame, die dort verzweifelt um Hilfe bittet, weil sie sich von einem gefährlichen Stalker bedroht fühle. Nur den jungen Polizeianwärter Gerbmann lässt die Sache nicht kalt.

A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead with her hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. Two sisters take shelter in a shuttered old house at the end of a country road . . . only to discover they're not alone. And the author's most beloved characters, Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson, make an appearance in a newly uncovered tale with a witty nod to Sherlock Holmes.

This bundle includes books four, five, and six in the Nine Lives Magic Mysteries.

On New Year's Day, Fran takes her dog Latte on a walk. Luck of all luck, she finds a dead blonde on the sidewalk—right outside Ryan's house. Sammy, Fran's best friend, has been staying with Ryan, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. Fran can't just sit back and watch her best friend—and the cafe's best latte-maker—go to jail.

In her Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz introduces us to Jewel Bay, a tight-knit Montana community that thrives on tourism and farm-to-table fare. Featuring Erin Murphy, beloved proprietor of the Merc—a century-old general store converted into a local foods market-each book brings us closer to the folks who call Jewel Bay home, and the cunning culprits in their midst.

This audiobook contains the first three adventures of A. E. W Mason’s enigmatic and mercurial Sûreté detective, Inspector Hanaud—a key inspiration for Agatha Christie’s celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. First, Hanaud investigates the murder of wealthy Mme Dauvray at the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains. Then, during a visit to London, Hanaud unravels a case of theft and murder following a costume party at a prestigious hotel.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891. Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail.