Amateur Sleuth

What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery....

The Inugami Curse is a fiendish, intricately plotted classic mystery starring the legendary Detective Kosuke Kindaichi. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will....

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story....

Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid find themselves hosting a colorful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture is being shown to mark Halloween....

It's almost summer in Southbourne, and the ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are ready for another season of sun, sea, and... murder....

Poirot is astonished to receive a call from Chief Inspector Japp, informing him that Mr Morley has shot himself. There was no reason for him to commit suicide, and Poirot believes he was murdered.....

The Honjin Murders is Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time....

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas feature Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden....

As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster....

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth....

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the...

After his father dies, Grayson Dyle, the owner of a fledgling product design firm, observes his mother hiding an envelope in the casket. He retrieves the letter, revealing that he and his brother, Dean, a home automation guru, were adopted....

Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon, a socialite sitting at her table suddenly falls face-first into the chicken salad....

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house party when the festivities lead to murder....

Mrs Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious....

Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932....

July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson....

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must stop a killer lurking among a young family in the newest installment of the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries....

When Dan Armstrong is asked to provide security for some of the most powerful tycoons in the media world at a private villa on the outskirts of Pisa, he’s pretty sure it will be an easy job. But when one of the group is found murdered, Dan’s heart sinks....

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days holiday....

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life....

When a failed entrepreneur is temporarily left in charge of his aunt's huge gothic home, he knows he must be able to make a profit from it somehow. Murder, he decides, is the only way to do it. For Madingley Grange is the perfect venue for a 1930s murder-mystery weekend....

Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside....

Upon finding a mysterious note at the scene of an accident, spunky Ann Beddingfeld throws caution to the wind and sets sail for an adventure to South Africa. She gets more thrills than she bargained for....

Hannah Aschenbrenner blickt auf eine lange Reihe an verkorksten Beziehungen und gescheiterten Karriereideen zurück. Nun glaubt sie, ihr Glück endlich gefunden zu haben und zieht wegen einer Affäre mit Jochen Weiß, dem Direktor des Schwarzwälder Hotels »Rebenglück«, von Bayern nach Baden. Doch dann wird Jochen tot in seinem Bett aufgefunden. Kommissar Björn Klingele wittert einen Mord aus Eifersucht. Um ihre Unschuld zu beweisen, stellt Hannah eigene Ermittlungen an. Dabei trifft sie auf mysteriöse Sagengestalten, deckt hochprozentige Geheimnisse auf und begibt sich selbst in Lebensgefahr.

Der Sylter Landfrauenverein steht Kopf: Ein spannender TV-Backwettbewerb lockt die Teilnehmerinnen aus den Dörfern der Insel an. Doch die fröhliche Stimmung wird durch merkwürdige Vorfälle getrübt, und als eine Teilnehmerin auf tragische Weise ums Leben kommt, ahnt Siggi, dass mehr hinter dem vermeintlichen Unfall steckt. Kann es sein, dass jemand den Wettbewerb bewusst sabotiert und dabei auch vor Mord nicht zurückschreckt? Kommissar Christiansen hat wegen einer Politikerhochzeit alle Hände voll zu tun und will von Siggis Mordtheorie nichts wissen.

Folge 23: Seltsame Vorkommnisse im Kloster von Santa Caterina: Ständig läuten die Kirchenglocken inmitten der Nacht. Ist dies der Geist der verstorbenen Schwester Raffaella? Eines Nachts wird Isabella von einem Schrei geweckt. Sie eilt nach draußen und findet eine Leiche vor dem Turm - allem Anschein nach heruntergefallen und in die Tiefe gestürzt! Isabella und Carabiniere Matteo machen sich auf die Suche nach dem Geheimnis des Glockenturms. Isabella ahnt nicht, in welche Gefahr sie sich begibt. Benvenuto a Santa Caterina!

Bei einem Ausflug zum Strand führt Kater Brown sein Frauchen Alexandra Berger zu einem bewusstlosen Mann mit einer Kopfwunde. Der stellt sich als Jan Veerdijk heraus, ein früheres Mitglied einer berühmten Boyband. Als er aufwacht, erzählt er panisch, dass ihn jemand töten wollte. Ein Schuss habe ihn nur knapp verfehlt, und beim Sturz habe er sich den Kopf angeschlagen. Doch was den Niederländer nach Greyman's Hollow führt, will er nicht verraten. Ist er etwa in illegale Geschäfte verwickelt? Und dann gibt es den ersten Toten, und alle Spuren führen zu Veerdijk.

Marie kann es kaum erwarten: Malcolm Melone, der neue Star am deutschen Schlagerhimmel, will im Beach Residence & Spa sein aktuelles Musikvideo drehen. Doch eines Morgens ist der Schlagerstar spurlos verschwunden. Gemeinsam mit den anderen Hotelangestellten und dem Produzententeam macht sich Marie auf die Suche und findet seine Leiche am Strand. Offenbar wurde er bei einem romantischen Picknick mit einer Champagnerflasche erschlagen.

A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet, but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dismay some of the guests seem to have problems with the estate's unconventional practices and aren't afraid of voicing their concerns. Having Harriet and her husband and interim estate manager Matthew as the hosts of Thorncroft House, while his lordship is ill, is obviously not to everyone's taste! But Harriet won't let their opinions get in the way of running the household. She and her husband seem to have things under control until a series of unusual accidents occur around them.

Immensely entertaining, The Beacon is a murder mystery with a difference, bursting with humor, local color, memorable characters, and pause-resisting action.

Ein Antiquitätenhändler wird unfreiwillig zum Ermittler in einem Mordfall, als eines Tages eine Leiche in seinem Laden sitzt... Spannung und Unterhaltung sind in diesem Kriminalroman von Waldi Lehnertz alias 80 Euro Waldi garantiert! Das Leben könnte so schön sein – ein See, eine Angel, ein friedlicher Morgen – doch stattdessen erlebt Antiquitätenhändler Siggi den Schock seines Lebens. Jemand ist in seinen Antikladen eingebrochen und hat ihm etwas hinterlassen: eine Leiche. Tot sitzt der Mann im Sessel und starrt ihn an.

November, 1923. Olive’s school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi’s dotty grandmother fears for her life—or so she’s said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that the dowager is far from muddled. The sharp and imperious matriarch refuses to admit to her worries and sends Olive on her way. Without a client or case, Olive is swept into the glittering lifestyle of the “fast set,” and their decadent excess. But then among the cocktails and champagne, a murderer strikes during a frivolous party game, and Olive realizes the dowager’s fears were well-founded.

England 1921. Lady Elizabeth Gaskins is throwing a big party to celebrate her birthday. But when an odious guest gets killed and steals her thunder, her father, the Earl of Buxley, becomes a suspect. After all, he came to blows with the dead man in front of several witnesses. Determined to find out who murdered his childhood friend, Lord Buxley summons a detective from Scotland Yard. Not to be outdone, Lady Bess and her spunky cohorts, the oldest Dowager Countess and great aunts, embark on a hunt for the killer.

Amelia Peabody and her family of archaeologists are back in a new mystery in which Emerson and Ramses are close to unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for—the tomb of King Tut.

Pregnant werecougar Lily Mason and her human mate Parker Knowles will soon be first-time parents, and they're not nervous at all. Hah! Yes, they are. The duo is determined to do everything right. Including getting their two adorable pitties, Smooshie and Elvis, prepared for a human sibling, baby-proofing everything around the house, buying a family-friendly vehicle, and taking birthing classes at the community center. Lily and Parker are making friends with several of the other parents-to-be. They are bonding over nurseries, baby showers, and all the joys and not-so-joyous parts of pregnancy.

There's nothing unusual about a ham operator contacting other radio enthusiasts. Unless he's been dead for five years. When Harrie McKinsey and Ginger Vaughn—who have been described as the Lucy Ricardo and Ethyl Mertz of murder mystery—decide to study for their ham radio licenses, they get pulled into this mystery and find a trail leading to a long-lost treasure somewhere in New Mexico.

Solicitor Benedicta "Ben" O'Keeffe and her boyfriend Police Sergeant Tom Molloy race to Dublin after hearing that some strangers had moved in with Ben's parents. When they arrive, only Ben's parents and their strange lodger remain, but come morning the lodger has left. Not wanting to leave them alone, Ben persuades her parents to come and stay with her in Inishowen.

Saturday night at the movies has some added flair now that Darren and Elise Shultz are reopening one of Salem's classic theaters. Charlene is delighted to help the couple with their venture, and Darren has lined up a cult classic double-header featuring Lon Chaney in The Wolfman. But things get hairier than expected when Elise starts to choke on her popcorn mid-movie-and once the lights go up, she's dead . . .