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The treaty is so simple that the American president can hardly believe his luck. In exchange for a few million tons of grain, the Russians, gripped by famine, will withdraw all troops and missiles from Eastern Europe. What’s more, this great success comes in an election year! It’s too good to be true—and something is about to go wrong.

Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, two young mothers meet violent ends in a large South London house. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and Dr Robbie MacTavish, together with their friend, clairvoyant Dorothy Plunkett, are drawn into these tragic events, when young November Jones walks into Robbie’s surgery in the late autumn of 1962. What is the mystery surrounding her, and why is a restless spirit trying to communicate through her?

Der erste Fall für Ryan Wilkins und Ray Wilkins – die Chemie und der Humor des Ermittlerduos aus gegensätzlichen sozialen Welten macht Lust auf mehr. DI Ryan Wilkins kennt die Universität Oxford nur aus der Ferne. Aufgewachsen in einem Trailerpark ist ihm diese elitäre Welt so fremd wie suspekt. Nun führt ihn der grausame Mord an einer jungen Frau ausgerechnet in die ehrwürdigen Hallen eines der Colleges – und an die Seite seines Namensvetters, des smarten DI Ray Wilkins, Spross einer wohlhabenden nigerianisch-britischen Familie und Oxford-Absolvent.

Searching for their daughter could be the last thing they do. When Lacey Gibson’s daughter disappears, she’ll do anything to find her—even track down a man she hasn’t seen in sixteen years. U.S. Marshall Mason Stone had no idea he was a father, but when he discovers his daughter is...

It’s cold enough to freeze a shadow when Battle Lake local Tom Kicker braves the killer temps to bag a deer—only to get shot to death by his best buddy, Clive, in a hunting accident. Tragic, yes. Accident? Mira James, just a few weeks into working toward her PI license, isn’t so convinced.

Who shot recently wed garage owner Richard Chaloner in November, 2016? The theory at the time was that it was a robbery gone wrong. The Crime Review Team in Wiltshire, England, was formed to investigate unsolved cases. The team, headed by Gus Freeman, has successfully resolved more than a dozen cold-case murders. For this case, the Crime Review Team needs to uncover the motive for the killing—and fast. Gus dismisses the original theory that the Chaloner murder was a robbery gone wrong. Something convinces him that it was personal.

Kommissar Petersen hatte sich auf einen ruhigen und ereignislosen November auf der Insel gefreut, als ein bizarrer Mord dieser Hoffnung ein jähes Ende setzt. Während der zunächst sehr zäh verlaufenden Ermittlungen stößt er auf Machenschaften im Immobiliensektor. Die Anlage von Kapital auf den Inseln hat scheinbar eine hohe Anziehungskraft für Anleger. Ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste allerdings wird von einigen Akteuren die Gier nach dem Betongold skrupellos durchgesetzt.

Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective Inspector, he's lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes. His professional partner, DI Ray Wilkins, of affluent Nigerian London heritage, is an impeccably groomed, smooth-talking graduate of Balliol College, Oxford. You wouldn't think they would get on. They don't. But when a young woman is found strangled at Barnabas Hall, they're forced to.

Each Roman Catholic parish compiles a Book of the Dead from the lists of departed loved ones submitted by parishioners. Printed on the front of the envelopes are three words: November Dead List. In this series, a young priest opens one such envelope and discovers not a list of the dead but a list of people he knows to be alive and members of his congregation. At first he thinks it's someone's idea of a joke. Then the people named start turning up dead.

Am Abend vor Allerheiligen kommt ein junger Mann nach La Rochelle. Gilles Mauvoisin weiß noch nicht, was ihn in der Heimatstadt seiner Eltern erwarten wird. Bald bekommt er eine überraschende Nachricht: Er, der mittellose Vollwaise, ist als Alleinerbe des großen Vermögens seines Onkels eingesetzt, den alle im Ort hassten.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series created by Orson Welles, presented adaptations of classic literary works. These were performed by actors from Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. The series ran from July to December 1938, after which the title was changed to The Campbell Playhouse.