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The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime...

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....

Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings, and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene. Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience....

Bernal Fitzhugh hade många strängar på sin lyra. Han var inte bara skeppsläkare hos amiral Sir Francis Drake utan även spion för drottning Elizabeth av England. Något som ledde honom från Oxfords stilla kloster till det rullande däcket på ett piratskepp, från plundringen av Cartagena till den spanska inkvisitionens fängelsehålor. Bernal Fitzhugh var en äventyrare och ett råskinn, men även en skicklig läkare och en sökare på jakt efter kärleken. Frank G. Slaughter (1908-2001) var en amerikansk författare vars böcker har sålt i cirka 60 miljoner exemplar över hela världen.

The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.

While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter's cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family's murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers.

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them are the Welsh author Frank Howel Evans, whose biggest success was a series of short stories about a French detective.

When the exuberant president of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old schoolmate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to persuade him otherwise. Consequently, on the night of the embassy's reception, the house and grounds are stiff with police.

Het is 1799. Als rekruut van het Britse leger belandt Sharpe in India, waar hij het moet opnemen tegen een lokale potentaat, de Tippoo van Mysore, een man die zich steeds laat omringen door tijgers. Maar het gevaar schuilt niet alleen in vijandige rangen. Sharpe's gevaarlijkste tegenstander is sergeant Hakeswill, zijn meerdere.

"'It is no use!' she cried, at last, pushing back the mass of thick black hair falling over her white brow; 'I shall never be able to get India by heart, unless I can see the places. I wish papa would let us go reconnoitering amongst the ruined temples and other mysterious buildings; it is so annoying staying here day after day, never seeing anything outside the palace.

It wasn’t much of a story, just an obituary. Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes, heart failure. But what’s natural about killing yourself with a scrubbing brush? It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn’t stopped him on his way out of the building.

Randy didn’t have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a 20-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman, worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge of the $650,000 payroll robbery in the sensation of 14 years ago.

Ein Hamburger Privatdetektiv auf Spurensuche in der Karibik: Jeremias Voss und die Spur ins Nichts von Ole Hansen jetzt als Hörbuch. Hamburg kennt er wie seine Westentasche, doch sein neuer Fall führt Privatdetektiv Jeremias Voss einmal um die halbe Welt und dabei an seine Grenzen: Er soll die verschwundene Tochter des reichen russischen Oligarchen Malakow finden. Angeblich wollte diese mit ihrem Mann von Miami aus zu einem Segeltörn in die Karibik aufbrechen. Doch zwischen Miami und Jamaica verliert sich die Spur in der Weite des Meeres.

Dr. Dörte Paulsen, Betreiberin des Edelbordells "Palais d'Amour" beauftragt ihn mit der Ermittlung eines Doppelmords in ihrem Etablissement. Eines der Mädchen und ein Freier wurden mitten im Akt ermordet. Die Identität des Freiers ist unbekannt, Dr. Paulsen weiß nur, dass er Mitglied der besseren Gesellschaft Hamburgs war. Mehr als willig macht sich Jeremias Voss an die Ermittlungen im "Palais" und stößt dabei schnell auf ungewohnte Hindernisse: Die Polizei, die sonst Hand in Hand mit ihm arbeitet, ist in diesem Fall auffällig schweigsam.

"Even when you know who's guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the final curtain." He knows who you are and he knows what you did! He's The Whistler—a mysterious figure of the night who knows the nameless terrors of which you dare not speak! Here's radio noir at its finest in twenty tales of crime, mystery, and fate starring Bill Forman as The Whistler. The plotters and the pawns are played by Jeff Chandler, Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Gerald Mohr, Eleanor Audley, Joseph Kearns, Frances Robinson, and more.

Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, musical, and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully-dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions.

El hallazgo de un cadáver en una playa interrumpe bruscamente la serenidad del paraíso natural de las islas Cíes. Las gaviotas acorralan con su macabro vuelo los restos de un cuerpo que ha sido acuchillado y que tiene el rostro desfigurado de manera brutal. No hay duda: entre los habitantes del camping cercano se esconde un asesino, y el idílico paisaje no recobrará la calma hasta encontrarlo. Nora Pardo, una detective en horas bajas, se ve obligada a tomar las riendas de la investigación y poner a prueba sus capacidades con el fin de desenmascarar al autor del crimen.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but is it mightier than the .45? That's the dilemma faced by hard-nosed crime reporter Randy Stone each week in one of radio's most memorable newspaper dramas: Night Beat. While guns blaze and thugs prowl the back alleys of Stone's Chicago, the solving crimes is almost incidental to the unraveling of compelling human problems. Frank Lovejoy stars as the enterprising Chicago newspaperman, whose stories focus not on the essential corruption of humanity, but on its basic decency.

From hardboiled to homespun, newspaper reporters were featured prominently as dramatic characters during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1940s and 1950s. Radio Spirits is pleased to bring together 15 of these classic audio shows for your listening pleasure, all digitally remastered and restored.

From the number one best-selling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fourth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series. The Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this novel as a reporter is found murdered at the Bathurst Arms, squatters are evicted from a military camp and there are new developments in the three-year-old hunt for a missing teenager. And in spite of all that's going on, Jill Francis, a local journalist, and DI Richard Thornhill find they can no longer resist their feelings for each other.