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Imran faces a criminal who has been alive for 200 years, but how? The inimitable detective is armed with his distinctive screwball humor and an airgun!

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I denne klassiske Sherlock Holmes-fortælling modtager en ung dame hvert år en kostbar perle fra en ukendt afsender. Kan perlen have noget at gøre med hendes fars forsvinden nogle år tidligere? Og rummer det brev, der opfordrer hende til at møde på et angivet sted på et angivet tidspunkt, løsningen på disse mysterier? Hvem andre skulle hun henvende sig til end den berømte detektiv Sherlock Holmes! Kom med Sherlock Holmes og Doctor John Watson på en rejse i denne tidløse fortælling, som er beriget med et lydunivers af Jonas Kappel Lund.

DCI Warren Jones has a bad feeling when the body of a young woman turns up in Beaconsfield Woods. She’s been raped and strangled but the murderer has been careful to leave no DNA evidence. There are, of course, suspects – boyfriend, father – to check out but, worryingly, it looks more and...

Dette er en anden Sherlock Holmes-roman, som blev bestilt i 1890 af Lippincott's Magazine og udkom samtidig i England og USA. Det er i denne historie, at Watson taber sit hjerte til sin kommende hustru, Mary Morstan, da den unge guvernante kommer til Holmes med en bøn om at finde hendes forsvundne far. Fire år efter hans mystiske forsvinden, havde Miss Morstan modtaget en anonym gave, en stor og prægtig perle, og siden havde hun fået en ny perle hvert år, uden at ane, hvem afsenderen var.

Den lille, belgiske gentleman-detektiv Hercule Poirot er på jagt efter et vaskeaegte verdensomspaendende forbrydersyndikat. Hans efterforskning fører ham til flere kontinenter og tager naesten et år. Historien fortaelles af hans gamle ven, Hastings, som egentlig skulle tilbage til England i forretningsanliggender, men vaelger at følge med Poirot. Hercule Poirot er jo, som han siger, ikke interesseret i "berømmelse og komplimenter", men udfordringer og det får han til fulde her.

Round the Fire was the title of a series of 12 mystery and suspense short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, published monthly in The Strand Magazine between June 1898 and May 1899. The series was popular with contemporary readers, and while some of the individual stories, such as "The Brown Hand", have been regularly anthologised for many years and are well-known, there are some overlooked gems here, too.

The Saint is back - fifty audiobooks are now available starring the debonair classic crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time. When the Saint and Patricia spot a country house on fire they rush to help, but are too late to rescue one man trapped inside.

Harriet Martens, named ‘The Hard Detective’ by the media because of her unrelenting opposition to every sort of evil-doing, has been secretly summoned to London to investigate corruption in the country’s most prestigious crime-fighting team, the elite Maximum Crimes Squad. And she suddenly finds herself under fire. Not only is she opposed at every turn by the head of the Squad, but she is menaced by other, more mysterious, figures.

A small group of friends decide to attend a seance at a local art studio. While some of them are very sceptical about the whole thing, others believe in the medium’s abilities. The group starts a discussion about a new painting of a mythical creature, when a Frenchman joins and claims that he sees a unicorn in it. Shortly after the seance begins, a strange light fills the room and the medium starts speaking in a different voice. The voice is that of a person no longer within the living.

A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend - a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin.

When Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are hired to find a girl from the upper classes who has gone missing in the East End, they assume her kidnapping is the work of white slavers. But when they discover five girls have been murdered in Bethnal Green, taunting letters begin to arrive in Craig's Court from a killer calling himself Mr. Miacca. Barker fears that Miacca might be part of the Hellfire Club, a group of powerful, hedonistic aristocrats performing satanic rituals.