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An evil stalks London, blown in from the tropics. A group of merchants are dying one by one. The elementary choice to investigate these mysterious deaths is, of course, the team of Holmes and Dr. Watson. But the unique gifts of their housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, and her orphaned assistant Flotsam, will also be needed to solve the case.

Katie LeClair has finally settled down as the new doctor in Baxter, Michigan. After years of moving, schooling, and training, she wants nothing more than to find a place she can call home, and a small town outside of Ann Arbor seems perfect. Katie quickly gets to work in building a life for herself in Baxter, and beyond reviving her love life, she also finds a pair of business partners in a team of father and son family practitioners. But that idyllic dream is immediately shattered when one of her patients is found dead.

THE FIRST NOVEL IN LEE CHILD'S #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES—NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO! “From its jolting opening scene to its fiery final confrontation, Killing Floor is irresistible.”—People Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just...

Thuppariyum Sambu is a detective short-story series in Tamil, written by Devan in the early 20th century. The novel's protagonist is Sambu, a not-very-intelligent bank clerk in middle age, who solves difficult crime puzzles out of serendipity but is quick to explain as well as take credit. Sambu's character is sometimes considered to be a comical version of Sherlock Holmes.

The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life - days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the abbey's sexton is found dead under an avalanche of gouda. Despite the reservations of the local constable, Sister Agatha is convinced it's murder and the game is afoot.

Whose Body? first introduced Lord Peter to the world and begins with a corpse in the bath of a London flat. Clouds of Witness finds Wimsey investigating murder close to home, and in Unnatural Death he investigates the suspicious demise of an elderly woman. First broadcast on BBC radio in the 1970s and presented here in their entirety, these full-cast adaptations are admired by fans of the genre worldwide.

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook Murder on the Links In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings...

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child Roy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be . . . Arriving late for a funeral, James Taylor spots a familiar face in the church – his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke. Except it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two...

কল্পনার গোয়েন্দাকাহিনীর ফেলুদা-ব্যোমকেশদের সঙ্গে বাস্তবের সত্যান্বেষীদের ফারাক বিস্তর। বাস্তবের অপরাধ-তদন্তে রোমাঞ্চ উত্তেজনা ততটা নেই, যতটা রয়েছে পরিশ্রম এবং অধ্যবসায়ে। নির্মাণের জগৎ মূলত, সৃষ্টির ততটা নয়. অপরাধীকে চিহ্নিত করার মধ্যেই কাল্পনিক গোয়েন্দার কাজ শেষ. বাস্তবের গোয়েন্দাদের দায় শুধু অপরাধের কিনারাতেই শেষ নয়, নিখুঁত তদন্তে দোষীর শাস্তিবিধান পর্যন্ত অবকাশ নেই বিশ্রামের। অভিজ্ঞ এই পি এস অফিসার সুপ্রতিম সরকারের এই বইটিতে ধরা আছে কলকাতার বারোটি চাঞ্চল্য খুনের মামলার রুদ্ধশ্বাস নেপথ্যকথা, রক্তমাংসের গোয়েন্দাদের কীর্তি, তদন্তের কি-কেন-কখন.

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook The Man in the Brown Suit is Agatha Christie at her best, as a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station. Pretty, young Anne came to London looking...

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to...

Perry Mason is dining peacefully at the Golden Goose cafe when he receives a mysterious phone call. The frantic woman on the other end of the line is desperate to retain Mason's services, but suddenly vanishes during their cryptic phone conversation. The only clues: a newspaper clipping about a blackmail case, and the combination to a safe scrawled on a scrap of paper.

It's been 12 years since ER nurse Frankie Stapleton fled the quiet banks of Stillwater, but with her sister's pregnancy taking a dangerous turn and a string of failed relationships in Chicago hanging over her, Frankie is back and hoping to put the past behind her. Within minutes of arriving at Stillwater General Hospital, however, she ends up saving a man's life, only to have him turn up dead hours later - and the hospital blames Frankie.

Erin Coleridge's used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society's monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder with extreme prejudice when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably, but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?

Rampton Farm, Northumberland, has always been a gloomy, godforsaken place. Now it’s earmarked for demolition—to make way for just another tawdry amusement park. It will be progress, and nothing can stand in the way—except perhaps Arnold Landon, the Planning Officer who must glean the lie of the land.

Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed - until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish. Deadly Games: DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. When a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself. Forensic psychologist, Dr Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the books, putting her skills to the test. The two headstrong women join forces to stop the killer.

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook The Secret Adversary From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo—now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS. Tommy and Tuppence are young, in...

Wenn Ermittler die Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse überschreiten müssen … Der packende Auftakt der nervenaufreibenden Krimi-Dilogie über ein ungleiches Polizistenduo. Kurz nachdem sich Kriminalhauptkommissar Lutz Hirschfeld von Berlin nach Bonn versetzen ließ, wird er bereits mit dem grausamen Fund einer ermordeten jungen Frau konfrontiert. Die erste Untersuchung der Leiche bringt keinerlei Hinweise auf die genaue Todesursache.

In Kopenhagen ermitteln Jeppe Kørner und Anette Werner. In der dänischen Hauptstadt werden sie immer wieder mit schockierenden Fällen konfrontiert: Eine junge Studentin wird erstochen und gebrandmarkt in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden, die Leiche eines jungen Mannes wird in einer Müllverbrennungsanlage entdeckt und der Modezar Alpha Bartholdy liegt, verätzt von einer unbekannten Substanz, tot auf der Straße. Besonders brisant ist ein Mordfall, der ganz Kopenhagen beschäftigt: Im ältesten Brunnen der Stadt, inmitten der Fußgängerzone, wird eine Leiche gefunden.