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എഡ്ഗ്വയര്‍ പ്രഭുവിന്റെ കൊലപാതകം പോലീസിനെ ആശയക്കുഴപ്പത്തിലാക്കി. പ്രഭുവുമായി അകന്നു കഴിയുന്ന ഭാര്യയും നടിയുമായ ജെയ്ന്‍ വില്‍ക്കിന്‍സന്റെ നേര്‍ക്കാണ് സംശയത്തിന്റെ മുനകള്‍ നീണ്ടത്. പ്രഭു കുത്തേറ്റു മരിക്കുന്നതി നു തൊട്ടു മുന്‍പ് ജെയ്ന്‍ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ സന്ദര്‍ശിച്ചിരുന്നതായി പ്രഭുവിന്റെ ഭൃത്യന്‍ മൊഴി നല്‍കി. പക്ഷേ, അതേസ മയംതന്നെ ജെയ്ന്‍ ഒരു വിരുന്നില്‍ പങ്കെടുത്തതായും തെളിവുകള്‍ ലഭിച്ചു. ഒരാള്‍ക്കെങ്ങനെയാണ് ഒരേസമയം രണ്ടു സ്ഥലങ്ങളില്‍ പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടാന്‍ സാധിക്കുന്നത്? പൊയ്‌റോട്ടിന്റെ തലച്ചോറിലെ ചാരകോശങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് കനത്ത വെല്ലുവിളി ഉയര്‍ത്തിയ കേസ്.

Surgeon Getorius Asterius, his wife Arcadia, the eunuch archpriest of a pagan fertility cult, the female head of a heretical Arian church, and an ambitious senator in league with a Chinese merchant: These are the prime movers in this mystery set in Ravenna, Italy, in A.D. 440. When Getorius is summoned to examine the castrated body of a youth found by Thecla in her Arian church, who is the sobbing "Vestal Virgin" nearby? Is there any connection between this crime and the fact that a senator is smuggling counterfeit Western coins to the Eastern Empire, and contraband Chinese products back to Ravenna?

It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers, just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break comes when there's a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger - and what he finds upends his sense of justice.

In search of respite, China takes off to St. Theresa's Monastery with her friend Maggie, a former nun. The goal is a brief, tranquil retreat—but there's a conflict at the convent. The Mother Superior has recently died, and a battle over the future of St. Theresa's suggests that her sudden demise might not have been accidental. Now, China's quest for a replenished spirit takes second place to a more earthbound pursuit: catching a killer.

Baking. It can get a guy killed. When a retired detective superintendent chooses to take a culinary tour of the British Isles, he hopes to find tasty treats and delicious bakes...what he finds is a clue to a crime in the ingredients for his pork pie. His dog, Rex Harrison, an ex-police dog fired for having a bad attitude, cannot understand why the humans are struggling to solve the mystery. He can already smell the answer - it’s right before their noses. He’ll pitch in to help his human and the shop owner’s teenage daughter as the trio set out to save the shop from closure.

Campion investigates once more, but this time he is on the run from the police - classic British crime writing at its best. Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty's government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancée

The Gyrth family had guarded the Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the extraordinary legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique of its kind. It was irreplaceable. No thief could hope to dispose of it in the ordinary way. And indeed no ordinary thief would dream of trying. But there are others besides those who make their living by robbery, others whose immense wealth and passion for collecting render them less immune to the practical considerations that must guide even the less honestly minded citizens.

Cuando dos jóvenes británicas desaparecen en su año sabático en Tailandia, su caso pasa a copar el foco de la atención mediática internacional. La periodista Kate Waters está lista para informar sobre la historia: como siempre, quiere ser la primera en conseguir la exclusiva y descubrir la verdad, y esta vez no será una excepción. Sin embargo, a medida que se van conociendo más detalles de la investigación, Kate no puede dejar de pensar en su propio hijo, a quien no ha visto en dos años.

Un escueto párrafo en el periódico anuncia el hallazgo de unos restos antiguos de un bebé en una zona en construcción de Londres. Muy pocos lectores siquiera le echarán un vistazo. Para tres mujeres, sin embargo, la noticia es imposible de ignorar. Para la primera, es el recuerdo de lo peor que le ha pasado en la vida. Para la segunda, la peligrosa posibilidad de que su secreto más oculto sea revelado. Para la tercera, la periodista Kate Waters, la primera pista en una carrera para descubrir la verdad.

Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peter's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

Aquel sofocante verano de 2002, Lucía Romasanta, astróloga, madre soltera y redactora de la sección del horóscopo con más éxito del país, recibe una perturbadora carta de un admirador anónimo. Un texto manuscrito que la hace directamente responsable de la muerte de una desconocida en caso de que no tome partido. A esta primera carta le seguirán otras, cada vez más violentas, más amenazadoras, más personales… Una historia que pasará a formar parte de las investigaciones de la Policía Judicial como el famoso «Caso del horóscopo».

En La ciudad de cristal, Daniel Quinn, escritor de literatura policíaca, recibe una llamada telefónica de un desconocido que lo toma por un detective y le encarga un caso. En Fantasmas, un detective privado y el hombre al que debe vigilar juegan al escondite en un claustrofóbico universo urbano. En La habitación cerrada el protagonista debe confrontar los recuerdos de un amigo de la infancia cuando recibe la noticia de su desaparición.

Un policía es brutalmente atacado una fría noche en extrañas circunstancias. Seis meses después despierta en la cama de un hospital sin recuerdos y con la clara sensación de que su vida corre peligro. Comienza una carrera en la que deberá investigar lo que le sucedió aquella noche, antes de que su destino le acabe atrapando de nuevo.

Jim French, the producer-director of Imagination Theatre, kept the tradition of great radio drama alive for nearly 40 years. He combined old-time skills with new-time production values - and here are 17 thought-provoking thrillers to prove it! In this collection, you'll hear favorites from his stock company, actors from radio's "Golden Age", and performers better known for their television work. You'll even hear a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who guest stars as a writer of horror novels!

Un lladre desafortunat i una excrupier alemanya es troben en la ciutat turística de Rimini. Quan l'Adelmo veu una finestra oberta en un edifici solemne i elegant, no pot evitar sucumbir a la temptació. Un cop a dins, però, s'adona que no està sol. Amb ell està la Lise, una excrupier alemanya i extravagant. El robatori es converteix en una sèrie de visites mentre sentiments estranys i complexos afloren en les seves converses, on entendran l'amor i també la foscor de l'ésser humà. Una novel·la sobre crims passionals, sobre sacrifici i traumes del passat.

Un periodista infiltrado en una banda de narcotraficantes, un portero de discoteca y un policía corrupto. El periodista Ignacio Escolar se sirve de estos tres personajes para plantear una trama de asesinatos y droga en la mejor tradición de la novela negra. Escrita con buen pulso y con final impactante, esta historia corta no deja indiferente al lector.

The eerie, haunted, and wildly tormented world of Edgar Allan Poe has enchanted, amazed, and horrified the universe.