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When Milan Patel visits his parents at their family-run motel in Montana, he's expecting the usual drama. But shortly after he arrives, his father mysteriously dies in the motel pool. Now everyone's a suspect. What was meant to be a quick trip becomes Milan's worst nightmare, as he races to solve his father's murder while confronting the past he tried to leave behind.

Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption, and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's tales. It follows a European secret agent, Adolf Verloc, 'a London shop owner' with anarchist leanings who becomes reluctantly involved in a plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Full of great characters, melodramatic irony and psychological intrigue the tale is far from simple....

Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping, these tales will grip you with their devious narrators and crafty twists.

Conrad builds his story from the inside out, revealing a world of conspirators, police, fanatics, and bystanders whose inner lives are as explosive as any bomb they carry. Each figure—Mr. Verloc, torn between indolence and obligation; Winnie, holding a family together with quiet ferocity; the vulnerable Stevie; and the coldly obsessive Professor—is drawn with psychological depth that turns this political thriller into a devastating human drama.

River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in "one of the darkest places on earth." Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is an exploration of the nature of evil and how far a man can go towards it when released from the constraints of what can be called civilisation. Before beginning his life as a writer at the age of 36, Conrad spent 16 years as a merchant seaman. In 1889 he became captain of a steamboat in the Congo Free State, and the atrocities he witnessed there, perpetrated by the representatives of the Belgian colonial powers, led him to write what he called his Congo Diary.

Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.

When a local playboy doctor is found dead in an unearthed grave, Conrad is on the case. But this loner by choice is ill-prepared for the cemetery’s quirky owner. A beautiful brunette with a curious nature, a fascination with cats, hats and a talent for distracting him. Doesn’t help when she, well, tries to help, and constantly inserts herself into the investigation.

Sonnige Weinberge entlang der Donau, malerische Städtchen umgeben von duftenden Wiesen und kulinarische Köstlichkeiten – die Wachau ist ein Paradies auf Erden. Die ehemalige Polizistin Lou Conrad genießt die Schönheit ihrer Heimat, wo sie einen kleinen Feinkostladen führt. Doch dann rührt ein Mordfall die Idylle auf: Auf dem neu eingeweihten Bienen-Wanderweg wird eine junge Frau tot aufgefunden. Handelt es sich etwa um eine Touristin, die tragischerweise zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort war?

Secret agent Mr. Adolph Verloc operates from a seedy Soho shop, where he deals in pornography and espionage. Idle, treacherous, and self-righteous, he makes the life of his wife, Winnie, one of silent misery. When Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, and his family has to deal with the tragic repercussions of his actions. Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, while rooted in the Edwardian period, remains strikingly contemporary.

Heyst’s aim to live a solitary existence is cut short when he meets an enchanting English violinist named Lena and brings her back to his island, rescuing her from her predatory patron Schomberg. Together they create a haven and Lena reawakens Heyst’s passion for life, but the world soon breaks in on them as Schomberg exacts his revenge.

Nach dem Besuch eines Wohltätigkeitsballs in London erwartet Privatdetektiv Paul Temple und seine Frau Steve eine Überraschung: Ein Inspektor von Scotland Yard und dessen Münchner Kollege berichten ihnen von dem Verschwinden des jungen Mädchens Betty Conrad aus einem bayrischen Mädchenpensionat. Als ein mysteriöser Anruf die Temples in ein Cottage lockt, das Bettys Vater, einem berühmten Londoner Neurologen und Psychiater, gehört, finden sie dort nur die Leiche eines unbekannten Mannes.

This classic precursor to the modern-day spy novel was recently in headlines when it was revealed that the Unabomber drew considerable inspiration from its prophetic portrait of terrorism. Written in 1907 and set in Edwardian London, The Secret Agent resonates just as strongly in today's world, where a handful of fanatics can still play mad politics and victimize the innocent.

Den unge engelske sømand Jim er styrmand på dampskibet Patna, der støder på et skær i Det Indiske Ocean. Om bord er 800 pilgrimme, der hjælpeløse ser til, mens officerer og mandskab flygter fra det skib, de frygter skal til at synke. Panikken overvinder også Jim, der overhører sin ellers stærke samvittighed og flygter med resten af mandskabet. Selvom skibet ikke synker, kommer denne beslutning til at hjemsøge ham, længe efter han har udstået sin straf. For én ting er, hvad retten dømmer ham til. Noget helt andet er den straf, hans egen samvittighed idømmer ham.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.

‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the...

The Secret Agent was one of the first espionage novels ever written, and it is certainly one of the finest in the oeuvre of Joseph Conrad. The story concerns the attempt by a group of back-alley revolutionaries to destroy one of London's most famous landmarks and thereby set off a revolution.

Ein auf Senioren spezialisierter Serienmörder? Ausgerechnet im verträumten Hinterland der Algarve? Bela Silva, gerade ins Land ihrer Eltern zurückgekehrt, wundert sich über die vielen Todesfälle in der Gegend. Eigentlich wollte die in Deutschland lebende Journalistin die Auszeit nutzen, um zur Ruhe zu kommen. Stattdessen beginnt sie nachzuforschen, stößt auf altes Unrecht und jemanden, der späte Rache übt. Jemanden, den sie gut zu kennen glaubt. Als Bela noch überlegt, was zu tun ist, geschieht ein zweiter Mord. Der führt den ehrgeizigen Kommissar João Almeida vor ihre Tür.

Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent (1907) is a tragic tale based on the themes of espionage, double agents, anarchism, and terrorism. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Verloc, who works as a spy for an unnamed country. When he becomes involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, things go haywire, revealing an unholy mess that involves politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's high society.

While Fanny takes care of the business end of Amy's Travel in New York City, Amy is traipsing around Monte Carlo, managing their first mystery-themed excursion, a road rally in which guests compete to solve a fictional murder along the way. Amy still has reservations about partnering up with her mother. But both women, having lost the men in their lives, need a fresh beginning.