Traditional Detectives

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

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

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

After her well-to-do Aunt Sarah is caught shoplifting, Virginia Trent is convinced she needs to seek psychiatric help for kleptomania. So why does Virginia turn to legal eagle Perry Mason? Find out....

While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della Street, Perry Mason is approached by passenger who is worried about the wellbeing of her husband....

Who killed Philip Rease? Peter Kent was known to be a sleepwalker and a bloodstained knife was found under his pillow. There were people who would like to see Peter Kent out of the way....

When Matilda Benson solicits the help of Perry Mason, her request seems simple enough: cruise to a gambling ship moored just beyond the twelve-mile limit and buy back the IOUs....

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

Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desperate to get their hands on Cloade's money....

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....

On a cold November morning, a young American actress visits 221B Baker Street, desperate for Sherlock Holmes to protect her from the threats of a mysterious, menacing man....

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

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

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate....

"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....

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....

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

Ariadne Oliver, Queen of Crime Fiction, has been asked to devise a Murder Hunt for a fête at Nasse House, the home of Sir George Stubbs....

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message....

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....

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

Рассказ Ночь среди нигилистов вышел из под пера великого шотландского писателя Артура Конан Дойля (англ. Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859–1930).Том Робинсон, простой английский хлеботорговец, отправляется в командировку в небольшой городок под Одессой для заключения выгодной сделки. Но обстоятельства складываются так, что он оказывается в компании русских нигилистов и ему угрожает серьезная опасность.

Жилица под вуалью - рассказ из серии Архив Шерлока Холмса английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла (англ. Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930). Холмс получает сообщение от дамы под вуалью, которая настаивает на встрече. Это миссис Рондер, чье дело вызвало немало толков в лондонских кругах. Славу сэру Артуру Конан Дойлу принесли романы Собака Баскервилей, Знак четырех, Пестрая лента, Скандал в Богемии, Сэр Найджел Лоринг, Маракотова бездна, Картонная коробка и Пять зернышек апельсина.

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.

Норвудский архитектор - рассказ знаменитого английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла (англ. Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930). Шерлок Холмс соглашается помочь адвокату Джону Макфарлейну, несправедливо обвиненному в преступлении, которого он не совершал. Сэр Артур Конан Дойл является автором рассказов Общество рыжих, Серебряный, Пять зернышек апельсина, Установление личности, Пестрая лента, Желтое лицо, История голубого алмаза и Берилловая диадема. Артур Конан Дойл – всемирно известный создатель блестящего сыщика Шерлока Холмса, его зловещего противника Мориарти и ученого-оригинала Челленджера.

En el corazón palpitante de las montañas de Estinfalia, se teje un relato que desafía la mente y encanta el alma. Ésta no es sólo una historia; es una odisea que te sumerge en un mundo donde los pájaros no son lo que parecen, y los secretos más oscuros aguardan bajo plumas tintadas de misterio. Nuestro amigo Hércules Poirot se enfrenta a un desafío desconcertante, una trama tejida con la precisión de un relojero y la profundidad de los mitos más antiguos.

En Los caballos de Diomedes, nos adentramos en un caso que desafía los límites entre la mitología y la realidad. Un ingenioso detective se encuentra ante el misterio de una serie de eventos inexplicables que envuelven a una distinguida familia y sus cuatro hijas. Con una serie de fiestas decadentes como telón de fondo, la línea entre la alta sociedad y los bajos fondos se difumina, revelando una peligrosa droga que amenaza con desencadenar una tragedia.

"È una brutta storia. E proprio perciò la voglio raccontare." Così si apre il sipario su una vicenda che ha la più magica delle cornici, un teatro celebre in tutto il mondo, e il più brutale degli inizi, l’assassinio di una giovane donna. Siamo nell’ottobre del 1979 e alla Fenice di Venezia va in scena – o meglio dovrebbe andare in scena – Il misantropo di Molière, ma Marcellina Feltre, l’attrice che interpreta Celimene, viene trovata strangolata nel suo camerino. A indagare, assieme al suo braccio destro Bartolomeo Cadorna, è il commissario di origini siciliane Eriberto Passalacqua.

Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than Stackhurst's science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, clearly in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to say something about a "lion's mane", and then succumbs. He is observed to have red welts all over his back, possibly administered by a flexible weapon of some kind, for the marks curve over his shoulder and round his ribs.

In January 1903, at Baker Street, James M. Dodd sees Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. Dodd and Emsworth served together in the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Second Boer War, which has only just ended. Emsworth was wounded during this war. Dodd has not seen him since the report of his injury leading Dodd to believe something is amiss.

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his wife's disappearance. She has left with a neighbour, Dr. Ray Ernest, taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley wants the two tracked down.

Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated. This woman, formerly very quiet, has recently taken to cursing in the night, shouting "Murder, murder!" and "You cruel beast! You monster!" Also, her health has taken a turn for the worse, and she is wasting away.

The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow. Although Dixie has come to intimidate Holmes, Holmes secures Dixie's future cooperation by threatening to tell what he knows about the suspicious Perkins death involving Dixie. Dixie's boss is Barney Stockdale, and he must be connected with the Harrow Weald case, of which Holmes has just learnt from a message from Mary Maberley, a lady who lives at Three Gables, a house at Harrow Weald.

Der neunte Provinzkrimi von Bestseller- und #1-Kindle-Humor-Autor Friedrich Kalpenstein »Manche Leut’ leben für die Kunst. Andere sterben wegen ihr!« Karl Hinterleitner wird tot in seiner Garage neben einem alten Traktor aufgefunden. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass er ermordet wurde. Hauptkommissar Tischler nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Laut Zeugenaussagen war der Ermordete ein paar Tage zuvor auf einem Oldtimertreffen in eine Auseinandersetzung verwickelt.

Ce recueil de 12 nouvelles captivantes dévoile les exploits inégalés du génie de la déduction, Sherlock Holmes, et de son fidèle compagnon, le Dr John Watson. Ensemble, ils se lancent dans une série de mystères intrigants et de crimes apparemment insolubles, naviguant à travers les rues sombres et les somptueuses demeures de l'Angleterre victorienne.

Al 221B di Baker Street è cosa di tutti i giorni che persone in difficoltà o addirittura in pericolo si rivolgano a Sherlock Holmes in cerca di aiuto. Non accade altrettanto di frequente che vengano uccise poche ore dopo. Eppure è questa la sorte toccata a un cliente italiano, trovato cadavere in un appartamento londinese con una profonda ferita all'altezza del cuore.