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The corpse of a young woman is found on a golf course. Clues are few until Sussex Police discover she was a student...and a model on a pornographic website run by two of her tutors. Technically, the deviant owners of this website are doing nothing illegal. 

DI Henderson is forced to face his prejudices, resulting in an explosive confrontation. University has just become a very dangerous place.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it", said C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest English writers of the medieval period. This audiobook is a part of a set of ten audiobooks of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and exciting stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them.

For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a horrible secret and the fear that his rebuilt life could be shattered at any moment. Now his dread has become a certainty, and he has been arrested for the arson murder of 26 people. David Rosenfelt, a native of Paterson, New Jersey, is a graduate of NYU. He was the former marketing president for Tri-Star Pictures before becoming a writer of novels and screenplays.

কল্পনার গোয়েন্দাকাহিনীর ফেলুদা-ব্যোমকেশদের সঙ্গে বাস্তবের সত্যান্বেষীদের ফারাক বিস্তর। বাস্তবের...

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.

Sous la plume alerte de Vidocq, les coulisses de la capitale se dévoilent. Le tome premier s’ouvre sur Choisy-le-Roi: châteaux de Mansard et de Gabriel, souvenirs de madame de Louvois, du grand dauphin, de la princesse de Condé, de Louis XV et de madame de Pompadour; terrasses battues par la Seine, pavillon des gardes épargné par le temps et les révolutions. De ces vestiges chargés d’histoire, le récit glisse vers les coins obscurs où s’ourdit ce que la ville cache.

The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie. Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the...

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his out-flung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. It's a clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now, in the words of the rhyme, can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

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.

"The Blue Cross" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was the first Father Brown short story and also introduces the characters Flambeau and Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of the Father himself, but rather those of Valentin.

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?

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history. Or else they’ll be history.

"Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original — a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you."— A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The Window "Clever and surprising...The superb character-driven...

Eigentlich möchte Carol nur in Ruhe ihren Lebensabend genießen. Doch das ist nicht so leicht – für eine Serienmörderin. Als sie ins Seniorenheim Sheldon Oaks einzieht, ist Carol selig: endlich ihre eigenen vier Wände. Endlich Freiheit. Denn die letzten 35 Jahre hat sie im Gefängnis verbracht. Wegen siebenfachen Mordes. Carol ist Serienmörderin. Na ja, war Serienmörderin. Jetzt ist sie im Ruhestand. Und froh, in Sheldon Oaks etwas für sie gänzlich Neues zu finden: Freundschaft. Bis genau vor Carols schönem neuen Balkon jemand ermordet wird.

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, California, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her-but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic basket and bringing her along for the ride.

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.

Speedy Death (1929) is the debut novel by Gladys Mitchell, introducing her famous detective, the unorthodox psychoanalyst Mrs. Beatrice Bradley, who investigates a murder at a country house party where a woman’s body is found in a bathtub, leading to a series of events and suspects among the guests.

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.

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.

Die junge Adlige Violet de Merville hat sich in Baron Gruner verliebt und ignoriert dessen kriminelle Vergangenheit. Holmes versucht, Violet mit Unterstützung von Gruners ehemaliger Geliebter Kitty Winter zu überzeugen, dass die Beziehung eine Gefahr birgt. Als Holmes durch einen Anschlag verletzt wird, schickt er Watson unter dem Vorwand eines Gesprächs über chinesisches Porzellan zu Gruner und gelangt so an ein Buch, das Gruner inkriminiert.