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Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, dig your spurs in for some dusty-trail Western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, and sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. This volume includes Suspense, Tales of the Texas Rangers, This Is Your FBI, Under Arrest, Vic and Sade, The Weird Circle, The Whistler, Whitehall 1212, X Minus One, You Bet Your Life, and a bonus Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

Volume 10 includes: Under Arrest, 1949-02-06: "The Sam Carver Case"; Under Arrest, 1949-08-21: "Ruth Cutler’s Burglar"; Whitehall 1212, 1952-04-20: "Case of Mrs. Manerva Bannerman"; Whitehall 1212, 1942-05-04: "Case of William George Greenley"; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1956-04-16 through 1956-04-20: "The Shepherd Matter"; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1956-04-30 though 1956-05-04: "The Callicles Matter"; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1956-11-25: "The Royal Street Matter"; and more.

'There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. Precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.' The note was delivered to New Scotland Yard, its words evoking a cold murder case and its unsolved mystery of the ten teacups found beside the body. Scrambling to prevent a second killing, the police set up a watertight cordon at Berwick Terrace. But gunfire rings out from the top floor at 5 p.m.

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 that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve, and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, an unsolved mystery from the past has returned to haunt them...

Regel nummer et: hold dig i live. Sean Egan har arbejdet undercover de sidste ti år og er vant til at leve på kanten. For nylig har han infiltreret en af Londons farligste forbryderbander, og de har lige meddelt ham, at de vil have ham med på et helt særligt job: den dristige bortførsel fra politiets varetægt af en seriemorder kendt under navnet Natteluskeren. Morderen: Yderst voldelig, men meget intelligent. Natteluskeren har oparbejdet sit ry ved at torturere fem unge kvinder til døde.

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and foul play results in the murder of one of the household's members. Among the many transgressions Ellery will uncover are adultery, blackmail, and deceit.

Considered "The American Agatha Christie", Rinehart outsold Christie in their mutual lifetime through 1958 when she died. Her first book, The Circular Staircase, may have paved the way for The Mysterious Affair at Styles as the second does Agatha's Tommy and Tuppence series, which combined a thriller and mystery with a love match.

Rinehart's The Man in Lower Ten, the first American detective novel to make the best seller list, follows the investigation of the murder of a man in a sleeping car on a train. In this fast-paced thriller, the investigating detective builds up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people---only one of whom can be guilty.

Inspired by the real-life memoirs of Edinburgh's first detective, James McLevy, here are more fantastic fictional adventures featuring the tenacious Victorian crime-solver. Once again, McLevy and his faithful sidekick Constable Mulholland patrol the dark wynds and back alleys of 1840s Leith tracking down evildoers—aided by a surprising ally: the beautiful and resourceful brothel-keeper Jean Brash.

Der rätselhafte Tod zweier prominenter Londoner Gentlemen versetzt die gehobene Gesellschaft in helle Aufregung. Doch Scotland Yard tappt im Dunkeln und Inspector Lestrade sieht sich gezwungen, Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe zu bitten. Eine heiße Spur führt den Detektiv in eine Londoner Freimaurerloge. Für Holmes und Watson drängt die Zeit, denn einige Anzeichen sprechen dafür, dass der Mörder bald wieder zuschlagen wird. Aber dann nimmt der Fall eine unerwartete Wendung.

Varje historia har en början... Och varje historia måste få ett slut Han är den farligaste mördaren som FBI har träffat på. Och han har precis lyckats fly. De träffades för första gången på college, två av de skarpaste kandidaterna som någonsin hade tagit examen från det prestigefyllda Stanford University. I Quantico, Virginia träffades de igen. Nu har Robert Hunter blivit chef för LAPD:s Enhet för ultravåldsamma brott och Lucien Folter har blivit den flitigaste och farligaste seriemördaren i FBI:s historia.

Ten grippling short stories of Arsène Lupin: one of the most famous and intriguing figures of French detective literature. He was created by Maurice Leblanc, a brilliant journalist, writer and storyteller, and is the hero of a total of 24 books, novels and short stories alike. The fictional gentleman thief is a master of disguise, a criminal genius and a moral figure well-set in righting a few wrongs himself when Justice can't be bothered.

10. The Artist's Secret: In the Bible of the first victim Holmes finds a mysterious clue. After all it is the drawings in the library that lead the investigation on a whole new trail...

James Moriarty ist in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika im Hause der Familie Lockwood untergekommen und beginnt von dort aus, seine verbrecherischen Fäden zu spinnen. Dabei stolpert er jedoch in einen heiklen Entführungsfall, der schon bald mehrere Tote nach sich zieht. Moriarty begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem vermissten Norman Lockwood und gerät dabei zwischen die Fronten zweier verfeindeter Familien, die eines gemeinsam haben: Sie alle handeln skrupellos und kennen keine Gnade.

Ein Auftrag führt Preston Aberdeen nach London: Wertvolle ägyptische Fundstücke sollen transportiert werden. Aber kaum im Museum angekommen, werden er und Terry Zeugen eines dreisten Raubüberfalls...

1881 1908 arası dilimize 55 polisiye roman çevrilmiştir; bunların büyük kısmı melodram yapılı Fransız polisiye romanlarıdır. Ancak II. Meşrutiyet’in ilanından sonra Türk okuru çeviri polisiye roman bombardımanına tutulmuş ve bu romanlar okuyucu katında büyük bir ilgi görmüştür. Bu çeviri romanların kahramanları bir dizi halinde maceraları anlatılan aynı kişilerdir. Bu diziler öyle ilgi görmüştür ki, Nat Pinkerton öykülerinden 1909 – 1913 arasında dilimize iki yüze yakın çeviri yapılmıştır.

Sommer 1887: Als der griechische Dolmetscher Melas eines abends von einem Mann namens Latimer für einen Auftrag engagiert wird, beginnt für ihn ein Albtraum. In einem finsteren Haus wird er zu einem Gefangenen geführt und soll dort das Gespräch zwischen ihm und seinen Entführern dolmetschen. Danach drohen Latimer und dessen Komplize Melas die schlimmsten Konsequenzen an, sollte er je jemandem davon erzählen.