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The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless...

A collection of intriguing thrillers by Philip Levene Philip Levene was a prolific radio dramatist who also penned 19 episodes of ITV’s The Avengers, which won him a Writers’ Guild Award. While many of his works have unfortunately been lost, this collection of surviving recordings showcases...

The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all of South Africa’s neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe for all sorts of intrigue and illicit activities. The American Secretary of State will visit the Chobe; the North Koreans, the Okavango; Arabs, French, Chinese, and Russians are scattered among the various lodges and hotels in the country before, during, and after the games.

In Botswana, people of the north live in harmony with the wildlife, yet predators and poachers roam freely. The lions may be kings, but hyenas will steal their prey. A Chobe Game Park pack led by the alpha female is especially fearless. The locals call her Kotsi Mosadi, Setswana for Danger Woman.

Ike Schwartz, sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée, Ruth Harris, president of a local university, survived a trying year of academic and local politics and now seek some peace and quiet on Scone Island, a rocky piece of land four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, a reliable water supply, and phone service guarantees their peaceful seclusion. The fact that there has been a suspicious accident resulting in the death of the mysterious Harmon Staley need not concern them at all. And it doesn’t - until Ike’s past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the area’s famous 12-foot tides.

Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining, and real-estate development firm. He and his party of company executives are traveling in Botswana to consult with the government about accessing their extractable resources. Sekoa is a male lion who shares with his bipedal enemies the misfortune of being the bearer of HIV/AIDS. Painter, pursued by his own "hyenas", only wishes to find a last resting place where he can further his dream. Their paths cross with tragic consequences.

Flying to Baltimore for his class reunion, mystery writer Frank Smith leaves behind the unsolved disappearance of his wife and dogged persecution by the police. He finds another mystery at his school: boys who went missing 25 years ago.

Ike Schwartz is the sheriff of Picketsville, a small town not far from Washington, D.C. A former CIA agent, Ike remains connected to the Agency through a friend who sometimes still involves him in cases on the side. Ike is also courting Ruth, the fiercely independent president of the town’s new university. All this is usually enough to bring some interesting conflicts Ike’s way.

When a young woman is found strangled to death and left on a park bench in Santa Rosa, California, Detective Eddie Mahler and his Violent Crime Investigations (VCI) Team are called to the scene. The crime immediately flashes Mahler back to two unsolved homicides - young women who were also strangled - that took place at this same location a couple of years earlier. His inability to find evidence against the man he knows was responsible for their deaths has haunted him since.

The past has always felt near in the historic house of Jonathon Lydell III, who proudly advertises his family connection to the Virginia Lees. But now, history is repeating itself in a truly bizarre and spooky way. Sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick are dispatched to resolve the mystery of the strangely identical murders 150 years apart.

Annie has fallen out of the habit of listening to her husband. She and Paul have been married for a long time; it's easy to nod as he drones on, responding to his voice while completely ignoring every word he says. That becomes a problem, of course, when Paul disappears and the police have questions.

The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book of the same name. The main character Martin Blaine is the infallible FBI Field Agent Sheppard. The stories were often told from the viewpoint of the perpetrating criminals who were pursued by the FBI. The series contains all surviving 94 episodes that were aired in 1949-58.

Un terrible accident d'avion... Quand Gabrielle apprend la mort de Laurent, son mari, elle s'effondre. Elle se retrouve désormais seule, avec Tristan, son fils de quatre ans, dans une famille qui ne lui a jamais réellement donné sa place. Chez les Lambert-Duval, seuls l'argent et l'ambition comptent. Eux qui ont fait leur réputation et leur fortune dans la prestigieuse ville de Lyon grâce à leur entreprise de recherche pharmaceutique, n'ont jamais eu l'intention de s'encombrer de cette jeune provençale un peu rêveuse.

Um 1641 versucht der Kapitän eines niederlädischen Schiffes, das Kap der Guten Hoffnung zu umfahren. Es herrscht ein unbarmherziger Sturm, die See ist seit Wochen rau und tosend. Nach 16 Wochen vergeblichen Kampfes meutert die Mannschaft.

In the1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. Here writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now this series resurrects from those pages the toughest of tough detectives in sonic dramatizations from the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear.

Großmeister der Spannungsliteratur, ungekrönter König des Politthrillers und internationaler Bestsellerautor - Frederick Forsyth ist ein Mann der Superlative. Dass er auch die kleine literarische Form überzeugend beherrscht, beweist eindrucksvoll sein neues Buch. Ob Forsyth von einem Staranwalt erzählt, der ganz eigene Vorstellungen von Gerechtigkeit hat und vor eigenwilligen Maßnahmen nicht zurückschreckt, oder von höchst unfeinen Gepflogenheiten in der feinen Kunstwelt...

New York, 1928: Mehrere kriminelle Banden kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft über den Alkoholschmuggel in Manhattan, dem Herzen New York Citys. Überfälle und Mord sind an der Tagesordnung. Doch während sich die italienischen und irischen Gangs bekriegen, arbeitet im Hintergrund ein Mann daran, die Kontrolle allein zu übernehmen: Arnold Rothstein, der Zar der Unterwelt. Unberührt von diesen Konflikten kuratiert Frederick Crichton im Brooklyn-Museum seine erste große Ausstellung über einige der ruhmreichsten ägyptischen Pharaonen.

Im Jahr 1927 ist New York die Stadt der Träume und eine Verheißung für eine große Zukunft. Eine ebensolche erhofft sich auch der Archäologieprofessor Frederick Crichton, der aus Boston in die Stadt kommt, um eine Beschäftigung im Museum aufzunehmen. Allerdings zerplatzt dieser Traum schnell. Stattdessen findet Crichton sich im Haus eines exzentrischen Millionärs wieder, um diesem die Authentizität eines ägyptischen Artefakts zu bestätigen. Doch die einfache Aufgabe wird zu einem Albtraum für den Archäologen.

One day Krantz comes home to witness his wife being unfaithful to him. In a fit of anger he kills both his wife and her lover, who is also Krantz’s lord. Krantz fears the punishment he will surely receive, so he flees with his three children. His safe haven is the Hartz Mountains. There he meets a beautiful young lady who he marries shortly after. Their marriage however does not go as expected. The bride’s night-outs raise Krantz’s suspicions.

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