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A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict Cumberbatch In the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and...

Grieving her mother’s death, Mari Lennox travels to Kyoto, Japan to take photographs of Yanagi Inn for a client. As she explores the inn and its grounds, her camera captures striking images, uncovering layers of mystery shrouding the old resort—including an overgrown, secret garden on a forbidden island. But then eerie weeping no one else in the inn seems to hear starts keeping her awake at night.

The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She is 35 years old and owns her own home in one of Cleveland's most diverse, artsy, and interesting neighborhoods. She has a job she likes as an administrative assistant at an all-girls school and a volunteer interest that she's passionate about - Jazz is a cadaver dog handler. Jazz is working with Luther, a cadaver dog in training. Luther is still learning cadaver work, so Jazz is putting him through his paces at an abandoned building. When Luther signals a find, Jazz is stunned to see the body of a young woman.

Jazz Ramsey is just getting used to the idea that her on-again-off-again beau, Nick, might actually be a permanent fixture, when she gets an alarming call in the middle of the night from his mother, Kim: There's a dead man in her backyard. Kim has a long history of drinking and a vivid imagination, so when Jazz's human remains detection dog, Wally, finds no evidence of a body, Jazz thinks she can breathe easy. But when the body of a middle-aged man is discovered in a nearby park, and a photo of Nick and his mom is found in his pocket, Jazz has to admit that something isn't adding up.

Professional women gather from all around Ohio to talk to schoolgirls about their careers. Jazz Ramsey has also signed up to give the girls a taste of her lifelong passion: cadaver dog training. She hides a few bones in the unused fourth floor of the school for Gus the dog to find. The girls are impressed when Gus easily finds the first bone, but then Gus heads confidently to a part of the floor where Jazz is sure no bones are hidden - at least, not any that she's put there. But Gus is a professional, and behind a door that no one has opened in ages, is a human skeleton.

Abigail Logan, leidenschaftliche Whisky-Brennerin und begnadete Fotografin, möchte mit ihrem Partner Grant eine romantische Auszeit auf einer kleinen schottischen Insel verbringen. Doch daraus wird nichts: Gastgeber Neil spannt die Kollegin direkt ein, um die Werbetrommel für seine Whisky-Destillerie zu rühren. Seine Umgestaltungsideen gefallen nicht jedem der siebenundsechzig Inselbewohner. Als ein geheimnisvoller Mönch sein Unwesen treibt und jemand ermordet wird, werden sofort die Fremden verdächtigt - auch Abi und Grant.

Die verschwundene Frau von Edinburgh Abigail Logan, die Besitzerin einer preisgekrönten Destillerie, besucht ein Whisky-Seminar in Edinburgh. Dort freundet sie sich mit Amanda an, die ein Frauenhaus leitet. Als kurz darauf eine der Frauen tot aufgefunden wird, bittet Amanda Abigail um Hilfe. Dann verschwindet eine weitere Frau spurlos, und eine Lösegeldforderung erreicht das Frauenhaus. Während Abigail sich um die Tochter der Entführten kümmert, beginnt sie auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln - denn sie hat einen schrecklichen Verdacht.