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The complete BBC Radio adaptations of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency featuring Botswana's only female private detective agency, run by the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe. Based on the hugely popular novels and brought to life with music and full casts, these evocative productions return us to Botswana, where Precious has more mysteries to solve.

Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After an obligatory year spent mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, she puts aside her drab black gowns, leaving the countryside and her money-grubbing in-laws behind. With her young daughter in tow, Frances rents a home in Belgravia and prepares to welcome her sister, Lily, arriving from New York - for her first London season.

Lady Hannah Simmons is a quintessential wallflower, unassuming, dowdy yet ignored by most. But underneath her plain exterior, Hannah is hiding a thrilling secret! Unbeknownst to the rest of the ton, she is Queen Victoria’s leading femme fatale, slipping unnoticed through the streets of London and listening to scandalous whispers from lords and ladies. But with daggers in her stockings and pistols in her pockets, Hannah's mission is to apprehend a deadly killer.

The latest case for the MacTavish & Scott Detective Agency starts innocently enough. The two detectives are hired to find out who is blackmailing their client, Joshua Henson. And soon, Finola is excited to be working undercover again. She quickly identifies who knows Joshua's secret - and who is trying to profit from it. But she soon realises that blackmail is only the tip of a deadly iceberg!

Finola's mission is to trace the rightful owner of an ancient Celtic knot locket she's discovered at the Castle Hotel in Aviemore, nestled in the Scottish Highlands. But what appears to be a simple, routine assignment quickly turns into a perilous game of cat and mouse, involving a secret that must be guarded at all costs. Young Scot Finola MacTavish has moved from the picturesque Isle of Skye to Edinburgh to work as a private detective in Anne Scott's agency. Along with computer whiz Lachie, the two lady detectives solve a series of baffling cases.

Sherlock Holmes is hired by an impresario named Harvey Barker to find his missing wife, Bian. Holmes investigates the circus scene and stumbles upon a case involving a tattoo. The case is gruesome and bizarre, and Holmes and Watson must track down an unscrupulous collector.

Man muss nicht immer den Helden spielen. Aber leider mag ich es, mich in Dinge einzumischen, die mich nichts angehen. Ich wollte nur einer Frau helfen, die zu später Stunde in der Innenstadt von Augsburg von merkwürdigen Typen belästigt wurde. Erst da erkannte ich, dass es sich um eine alte Freundin von mir handelte. Ismenia und ich hatten uns seit fast sieben Jahren nicht mehr gesehen. Ich wusste nicht, dass sie als Escort-Lady arbeitet.

A 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West, the sweet seventy-five-year-old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the beautiful movie star, and Stewart Hoag, whose first book was a sensation but whose career crashed when he became involved with drugs and alcohol. Divorced ten years earlier, Hoagy has been welcomed back into Merilee's life and apartment.

Tracking down a runaway wife is run of the mill. That's yesterday's blues. But finding the trombonist father of black, beautiful, reformed hooker Iris threatens to blow up into the case of a lifetime. The trail Amos Walker follows through Detroit's smoky music clubs leads him to dens of hard crime and harder drugs - where Iris and Amos will be lucky to escape with their lives, much less the truth about a past packed with menacing secrets. And that's no jazz.

The brilliant new Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker. Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case...

Jack Wilder and Howard Moon Deer are back with a baffling new case. A lonely woman, recently arrived in New Mexico, has vanished mysteriously from her house on a snowy winter day, leaving her front door open and her emotional support dog, Gurdjieff, dead on the dining table.

Wo steckt Crystal Kingsley? Ist sie wirklich mit ihrem Liebhaber nach Mexiko durchgebrannt? Um seinen Ruf zu schützen, beauftragt ihr Ehemann Detektiv Marlowe mit der Suche nach ihr. Fern von seinem Stammgebiet Los Angeles findet Marlowe sich an einem Bergsee wieder. Fast schon Urlaub. Doch da bekommt er es mit mehreren, nur scheinbar blauäugigen Blondinen zu tun. Der Ferienort wird zur Gänsehautidylle. Der Showdown mit einer korrupten Welt lässt nicht auf sich warten.

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal.

It's Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie's new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she hears a knock on the door and opens it to find a woman named Frankie, distraught at the disappearance of her daughter, Christa, a young journalist. Christa had been investigating the disappearance of young women in New Orleans over a five-year period—one every year around Halloween. Now Christa herself is missing, and Frankie fears it may be connected to a cult based in the Garden District.

Anne's good friend Gordon has taken his own life, leaving her deeply shocked. She cannot and will not believe that the successful, charismatic artist committed suicide. Then another artist is found dead - is Anne in danger too?

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of the eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, and one of the few stories in which for much of the plot Watson must act alone and try his best with Holmes left in the background. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance on account of her sex.

Lady Diana Canbury ist mit ihrer Equipage auf dem Weg zum Ball des Herzogs. An einer Kreuzung kommt ihre Kutsche zum Stehen, als plötzlich der Verschlag aufgerissen wird und ein bewaffneter Räuber zu ihr in die Kutsche springt. Mit einer schnellen Bewegung greift er der Lady an die Brust und reißt ihr die Brosche mit dem überaus wertvollen, gelben Kanarien – Brillanten vom Kleid. Die Lady fällt in Ohnmacht, der Räuber entflieht in die Nacht.

Harst und Schraut reisen weiter nach Colombo. Hier ist kürzlich die Lady Rockwell verstorben. Augenzeugen berichten jedoch, nur wenige Tage nach ihrer Beisetzung in der Familiengruft, die Lady in den Straßen Colombos gesichtet zu haben. Harst und Schraut vermuten hinter dieser List keinen geringeren als Cecil Wabberty.

In Soho wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden, die als Dienstmädchen bei Lady Carrington gearbeitet hat. In Geoffrey Stafford erwacht das Misstrauen gegenüber der vornehmen Dame. Was spielt sich wirklich hinter den Mauern der Villa ab? Als plötzlich ein Koffer mit grausigem Inhalt gefunden wird, nimmt der Fall "Lady Carrington" eine dramatische Wendung.

Weil seine Schülerin und Herzensdame Eliza Doolittle verschwunden ist, bittet ihr Sprachlehrer Professor Henry Higgins Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe. Higgins und Oberst Pickering teilen sich, genau wie Holmes und Watson, eine gemeinsame Wohnung. Wer aber hätte gedacht, dass der Oberst und Doktor Watson Regimentskameraden waren? Als Henry Higgins' erpresst wird, finden die beiden Freundespaare zwecks gemeinsamer Ermittlungen zusammen, jeder unter Anwendung seiner Spezialkenntnisse.