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This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death.

Maurice Questing was left to die in a pool of boiling mud. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted - if he wasn't a spy himself.

John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turns red before his eyes - the colour of murder. But did he really commit the heinous crime he was accused of?

Una muerte en el metro, una nota enigmática y un asesinato vinculan a Anne Beddingfeld, joven hija de un arqueólogo, con una peligrosa red de intrigas. Su única pista: "Kilmorden Castle". Impulsada por el misterio y el deseo de vivir una gran aventura, Anne se embarca en una investigación que la llevará por mar y tierra en busca de la verdad. Un clásico de Agatha Christie, lleno de giros inesperados y suspenso en el centenario de su publicación.

It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him. But who actually did?

Josiah Amberley ,es socio de la firma Brickfall y Amberley, fabricantes de materiales artísticos. Cuando se jubiló, se había casado con una mujer 20 años más joven que el. La afición de Amberley al ajedrez le hizo tomar amistad y llevar a su casa al doctor Ray Ernest. El interés del joven doctor fue pasando del tablero de ajedrez a la joven esposa de su competidor. Amberley acude a Holmes para que investigue la desaparición de su esposa que, aparentemente, ha huido con el joven amante y con todos los ahorros de su marido....

Peter Robinson, the acclaimed author of the bestselling series Stephen King calls “the best now on the market,” returns with a gripping, emotionally charged mystery in which the revered detective Alan Banks must find the truth about a murder with possible racial overtones—and save a friend...

Ancora una volta saranno Sherlock Holmes e l'amico Watson a sciogliere una trama apparentemente inspiegabile.

Per Sherlock Holmes c'era soltanto una donna, e tale donna rispondeva al nome di Irene Adler, il cui ricordo è senz'altro dubbio e discutibile. Un intrigo che rischia di influenzare le sorti dell'intera Europa... Sherlock Holmes dovrà dar fondo a tutte le sue straordinarie doti investigative per scongiurare uno scandalo internazionale, ma in quest'avventura l'infallibile detective di Baker Street, incontrerà per la prima ed ultima volta il suo nemico più tenero e feroce, del quale conserverà il ricordo più tenero e straziante.

Il primo degli audioracconti dedicati al famoso personaggio creato da Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...