Traditional Detectives

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

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....

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

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

Aspiring actress Stephane Olger just wants to be in pictures. But she may end up in mug shots instead when she gets herself caught up in a crime....

Poker-faced Nellie Conway, the nurses bed-ridden Elizabeth Bain, brings trouble when she calls on Perry Mason with a glass phial containing four pills which she suspects are poison....

After con man Greg Moxley married Rhoda Lorton, he took her money and flew - only to have his plane crash. Years later, Rhoda weds millionaire scion Carl Montaine. But now Moxley has turned up....

Internationally best-selling author Sophie Hannah and the world's favorite detective, Hercule Poirot, return in this follow-up to The Monogram Murders....

The national burglar of France faces off against the national detective of England in two unforgettable stories....

"The Ravenscrofts didn't seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid..." And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself....

An artist is found dead in a gallery with locked doors and windows. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors. Two seemingly impossible crimes....

Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation, Hercule Poirot....

With his devoted Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil, including the diabolical Professor Moriarty....

A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls' school in the English countryside....

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 beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing - she had been strangled....

Young Marjorie Clune's best asset is her greatest misfortune: a pair of exquisite legs. They attract the perfect heel, a self-professed movie promoter named Frank Patton....

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

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other "little pigs" who could have done it....

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond....

Thuppariyum Sambu is a detective short-story series in Tamil, written by Devan in the early 20th century. The novel's protagonist is Sambu, a not-very-intelligent bank clerk in middle age, who solves difficult crime puzzles out of serendipity....

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....

The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Gold Club tells Perry Mason a strange story. She says that while she peacefully sun-bathed near the course, someone made off with her Cadillac....

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....

When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry Mason for help....

An einem sonnigen Vormittag im Juni suchte Holmes und Watson eine Frau auf, die sich Sorgen um ihren Ehegatten machte. Dieser behauptete nämlich auf einer Geschäftsreise im Ausland zu sein, doch seine Ehefrau sichtete ihn ein paar Tage zu vor in der Stadt. Da Holmes den Fall verschmähte, beschloss Watson der Frau zu helfen. Watson nahm die Fährte auf und fand recht rasch Dinge über den abtrünnigen Ehemann heraus, die seiner Frau wahrscheinlich nicht gefallen würden. Doch noch ehe Watson seiner Klientin Bericht erstatten konnte, befand er sich selbst inmitten drin des Geschehens.

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Vor allem sein hellsichtiger Blick auf die Seelenzustände der Täter lässt den gewitzten katholischen Priester bei seinen Ermittlungen ein ums andere Mal die verzwicktesten Fälle lösen. Um einen kleinen Tisch saßen sechs Personen, eine so bunte, zusammengewürfelte Gesellschaft, als hätte jeder einzelne auf derselben einsamen kleinen Insel Schiffbruch erlitten.

Holmes und Watson wurden früh morgens von Inspektor Wolfford aus dem Bett geholt. Ein Mordfall in einem Pub. Der vierte Mann einer Kartenspielrunde wurde im Nebenzimmer tot aufgefunden. Verdächtigt werden seine drei Mitspieler. Doch jeder der drei Männer gesteht plötzlich den Mord an Adam Brown und bezichtigt sich selbst als alleinigen Täter.

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

Mrs Paschal, the heroine of Revelations of a Lady Detective, is regularly consulted by the police and serves as an undercover agent as well as investigating her own cases. But even though she is 'verging on 40', she throws herself into cases with verve and gusto and has no hesitation in infiltrating a deadly secret society or casting off her crinolines in order to plummet into a sewer on the trail of a criminal.

Los crímenes de la calle Morgue, también conocido como Los asesinatos de la calle Morgue o Los asesinatos de la rue Morgue, es un cuento del género policíaco y de terror del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, publicado por primera vez en la revista Graham's Magazine, de Filadelfia, en el mes de abril de 1841. Se trata del primer relato de detectives propiamente dicho de la historia de la literatura, es decir, la primera historia sobre detectives que reúne todos los elementos que más tarde van a retomarse como característicos de las novelas policiales.

"His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to "Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes".

Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a three-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson, who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the “second most dangerous man in London” who has a good reason to hope for Holmes’ demise.

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.

A ship captain is found dead, stabbed through with a harpoon. Police Inspector Stanley Hopkins, who is being mentored by Sherlock Holmes, brings the case to Holmes and Dr. Watson. An abusive man, the captain had many enemies, widening the suspect list. The investigation finds Holmes and company on a stakeout, on a case that involves a chance meetings on the high seas and stolen securities.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson müssen überhastet nach Southend-on-Sea an der Themsemündung reisen. Ein verzweifelter Hilferuf von Inspektor Lestrade deutet darauf hin, dass es für ihn um Leben und Tod geht.

Adéntrate en el laberinto de la política y el crimen escuchando Los Establos de Augías, que teje el gran engaño entre las sombras del poder. En este inteligente relato, el astuto Hercule Poirot se enfrenta no a un asesino sigiloso, sino a un entramado de corrupción que pone a prueba su agudeza mental. La limpieza de los establos míticos palidece ante la tarea de desinfectar la podredumbre de un ayuntamiento lleno de secretos tan antiguos como sórdidos.

Late one night, Sir Charles Baskerville is attacked. Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, is on the case.

"Одинокая велосипедистка" - рассказ, принадлежащий перу английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла (англ. Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930). Вайолет Смит обучает дочь мистера Каррутерса музыке за щедрую плату. Но идиллия заканчивается, когда в доме появляется некий Вудли... Другими популярными произведениями автора являются "Этюд в багровых тонах", "Собака Баскервилей", "Его прощальный поклон", "Знак четырех", "Пестрая лента", "Общество рыжих", "История голубого алмаза" и "Слава Шотландии".

"Пестрая лента" - одно из наиболее увлекательных произведений английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла (англ. Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930). К Шерлоку Холмсу обращается девушка по имени Элен Стоунер. Она просит сыщика помочь ей с расследованием смерти своей сестры, Джулии Стоунер, которой не стало за две недели до свадьбы. Славу сэру Артуру Конан Дойлу принесли романы "Собака Баскервилей", "Знак четырех", "Скандал в Богемии", "Сэр Найджел Лоринг", "Маракотова бездна", "Картонная коробка" и "Пять зернышек апельсина".