Traditional Detectives

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....

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....

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

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances....

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

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....

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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....

This is the very first Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court....

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant....

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

A Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple with Ian Lavender....

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....

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

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

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L. Sayers' best-selling novels....

"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....

Mr. Thipps wakes up to the worst day ever. A dead body in his bathtub wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. So many questions. Luckily, Lord Peter Wimsey catches wind of this – for he has a keen mind for solving crimes, although he is the pampered aristocratic amateur....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple....

In order to help her seriously ill boyfriend, gorgeous Sally Madison sets out to separate wealthy Harrington Faulkner from some of his money by offering him a cure for his ailing exotic fish....

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....

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....

Joan Kirby doesn't believe her husband's story about picking up a stranded woman in the middle of the night and dropping her off at a hotel....

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

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

Everyone told Cara Shelly that she was crazy to set up a café in the shadow of eccentric Kentish stately home Tanton Towers. But three years later, the Happy Huffkin café is thriving, and Cara considers the Tanton Towers staff - and its eccentric owners, Max and Alison - to be like family. But one summer evening, Alison comes hurtling down to the café to beg her for help. Daphne Hanson, queen of the Towers' costume-clad dancing troupe is lying dead in the orangery. Strangled! But by whom? And why?

Sherlock Holmes hatte seiner Klientin Mrs. Westerwell versprochen, das Geheimnis, rund um die Geburt ihres toten Babys vor elf Jahren, aufzudecken. Zusammen mit Dr. Watson und Alice fand er bald heraus, dass das Baby lebt und heute ein fröhliches Mädchen ist. Als jedoch plötzlich Mrs. Westerwell entführt wurde und das Mädchen auch als vermisst galt, hieß es nun für Holmes, dem Täter schnell auf die Spur zu kommen und rasch zu handeln.

Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she’s made several friends, including the modern career woman, Minerva, who draws a popular cartoon about a flapper for a London newspaper. But then Minerva comes to Olive for help after catching a glimpse of a disturbing sight—a dead body. At least, that’s what Minerva thought she saw, but there’s not a dead body anywhere in the posh building, and the residents are continuing with their lives as they normally do. Is Minerva seeing things? Is she barmy? Or is there a more sinister explanation?

Als Alice, Holmes und Watson, eines sonnigen Vormittags im Juli, einen soeben abgegebenen Umschlag überreicht, ahnen die Drei noch nicht, welch neues Abenteuer ihnen da gerade wieder in die Hände fällt. Denn der Umschlag entpuppt sich als Tagebuch einer jungen Frau, die schon manches in ihrem Leben erlebt hatte. Der letzte Eintrag endet vor zwei Tagen und kündigt einen Mord an.

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.

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.

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home–and just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire erupts and kills him on the spot.

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.

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.

In a Paris newspaper, there appears a report of an extraordinary crime committed on the Rue Morgue. The police are unable to solve the case. Intrigued, Dupin decides to conduct his own investigation.

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.