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In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th-century history. Then she was written out of it. Drawing on the secret intelligence files on Edith Tudor-Hart, along with the private archive letters of Kim Philby, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel—by the granddaughter of Kim Philby—tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man.

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The Builder" [Frank L. Packard], "The Man Who Didn't Count" [Frank L. Packard], "Red Petals" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Other Man's Story" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Shebeeners" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Waterwitch" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Brand of the Wild" [G.B Lancaster], "A Fair Smuggler" [George Newnes], "A Castaway of the South" [Gilbert Parker], "As Deep As the Sea" [Gilbert Parker], "The Gift of the Simple King" [Gilbert Parker], "The Treasure of Sacramento" [Nick Guy Boothby].

From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it. For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in...

La vita è una fusione tra il bene e il male, il bene è il cuore di essa, il male è un veleno dannoso, oscuro e misterioso. E anche vero però che lo stesso male, in tutte le sue forme a volte è inspiegabilmente attraente. Mi chiamo Edith e vi do il benvenuto nel mio piccolo mondo. Vi leggerò e vi canterò le mie storie. Ognuna ha come la protagonista quell'attrazione oscura! Sono qui per osare nella mia più assoluta umiltà! Buon ascolto! Un ringraziamento speciale per la mia correttrice Paola Suraci.

Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg, August 1580: Häscher, Heiler, Henker... nur einen dieser Berufe hat sich Frantz Schmidt selbst ausgesucht, und doch muss er allen dreien nachkommen. Als Nachrichter von Nürnberg ist Meister Frantz ein Unehrlicher, trotzdem kommen die Bürger im Geheimen zu ihm, um ihre Zipperlein von ihm behandeln zu lassen, denn seinen Händen wird Zauberkraft nachgesagt. Auch die Witwe Christina Zahlmeisterin gehört zu jenen, die seine Dienste in Anspruch nehmen. Als die halb lahme Frau erschlagen aufgefunden wird, gerät ihre Magd Kathi in Verdacht und wird verhaftet.

En janvier 2019, les familles d’Edith Blais et de l’Italien Luca Tacchetto lancent un appel à l’aide: les deux voyageurs ont disparu quelque part en Afrique sans laisser de traces. Entre la nouvelle de leur disparition et celle de leur libération, 15 mois s’écouleront pendant lesquels personne ne sait ce qu’il est advenu d’eux. Avec Le sablier, Edith lève le voile sur son histoire et répond aux questions que tous se posent.

At Urban List, we’re downright obsessed with the best true crime podcasts. For the super sleuths among us, there’s never enough heart-pounding, jaw-dropping content to satisfy our curiosity about the darker side of humanity. Whether you're commuting, hitting the gym, or winding down at night (if you dare), these podcasts are guaranteed to grip your attention from the first episode.We’ve scoured the web to bring you the top true crime podcasts that are equal parts chilling and compelling. If you’re in the mood for shocking mysteries, criminal masterminds, and cold case revelations, this...

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin: ten grippling short stories in which the world's premier thief looks back on a lifetime of adventure and mysteries. He uses his wit and courage to outsmart criminals, pull wool over the eyes of the French police, and solve terrifying mysteries, always keeping just enough time to save a pretty lady and pocket something for himself. Intelligent, witty, funny: there is the real gentleman thief in all his brilliance!

Voilà vingt ans que Catherine Velis et Alexander Solarin, son mari, ont enterré, dans un lieu connu d'eux seuls, les pièces du Jeu de Montglane. Avec eux s'arrêtait la longue liste des propriétaires du jeu, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'à Catherine II de Russie. Avec eux, la partie, initiée en 1791, en pleine Révolution, avait trouvé son mat. Et les rêves de pouvoir légendaires que sa possession inspirait s'évanouissaient du même coup. À jamais... Mais alors qu'Alexander accompagne sa fille, prodige aux échecs, au monastère de Zagorsk, en Russie, où doit se dérouler une compétition très attendue, il tombe en arrêt.

Il faut tout le brio du gentleman cambrioleur pour organiser le vol de 12 tapisseries de grandes valeurs, représentant Edith, l'épouse du dernier roi des Saxons, surtout lorsque ces trésors sont protégés dans un château imprenable.

It's the late 60s, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests, and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mgina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. Minaya soon discovers that, 30 years earlier both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the beautiful, unsettling Mariana.

It's a case reminiscent of the explosive story of Susan Smith, convicted in the drownings of her two young sons in South Carolina. But in The Unforgiven, three young children are in the back seat of a car driven by Amanda Hamm's boyfriend as it slips into an Illinois lake. Amanda and her boyfriend survive. Her three children do not.

A thrilling volume of short stories featuring great storytellers such as O.Henry, Edith Wharton and M.R. James to keep you on the edge of you seat.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program. Digitally Remastered by Timely Audio.

Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to Zeena, his older and ailing wife, Ethan Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of their youthful cousin, Mattie Silver, who becomes employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but also stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. However, their growing love for each other is discovered by the embittered Zeena, and it presages an ending to the tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.

This sixth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time offers a variety of works by some of the most lauded writers in the field of suspense and literature.

Mord bei Scheidungswunsch. In der Selbsthilfegruppe Scheidung was tun? dürfen die Teilnehmerinnen anonym von ihren Eheproblemen berichten. Die Frage der leitenden Psychologin, ob der Tod des Gatten eine Erlösung wäre, wird einhellig bejaht. Dann stirbt Noras Mann. Ein Zufall?

El relato se centra en un triángulo amoroso situado en el contexto de la alta sociedad. La trama gira en torno a dos hombres, amigos cercanos, que se encuentran enamorados de la misma mujer. Esta situación pone a prueba no solo sus sentimientos románticos sino también su amistad y lealtad. La mujer en cuestión es retratada como una figura encantadora y codiciada, cuya elección entre estos dos hombres es un punto central de la historia.

"You won't know till afterward. You won't know till long, long afterward." When Ned and Mary Boyne hear that their new house is haunted, they laugh it off and joke that every good house in the countryside must have a ghost for it to be worth purchasing. They move in and forget all about its supposed supernatural quirks. But when Mary notices a strange change in her husband's behaviour, she begins to suspect a not so friendly ghost is indeed at play.

Ihr Herz schreit nach Rache, ihre Seele nach Erlösung – und das Schicksal hat einen eigenen Plan. Eine mitreißende Dark Romance über die zerstörerische Kraft der Liebe und den Mut, ihr trotzdem zu folgen. Mit gebrochenem Herzen flieht Camy nach Kanada, nachdem sie Chris, die Liebe ihres Lebens, verloren hat. Während sie versucht, wieder festen Boden unter den Füßen zu finden, erreicht sie eine mysteriöse Botschaft, die ihre Realitäten in Frage stellt. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Freundin Isabella begibt sich Camy auf eine gefährliche Suche nach Antworten.