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When Charles Paris’ agent rings with the news that he has a part for him in a new musical, Charles is delighted - and somewhat amazed, as he can neither sing nor dance. But Maurice has an ulterior motive: as one of the show’s backers, he wants Charles to play detective and investigate a series of accidents that have dogged the production. The pianist has been shot in the hand, and another cast member fell downstairs - or was he pushed? Anxious about their investment and their star, Chris Watt, the ‘angels’ are keen to ensure that nothing else goes wrong.

Charles has got a part in a new sitcom. It's been a while since he's done comedy and the world has changed enormously; it's now all single camera and darker subject matters. Maurice is thrilled to see Charles getting in with the cool gang rather than clock-watchers counting their pension pots. Charles counts his lines, hears the offer and says yes please! He's also relieved to have an excuse not to model for Frances, who has taken up painting.

Actor and reluctant sleuth Charles Paris is facing chaos on the domestic front. He's lodging with his ex-wife Frances, and now their pregnant daughter has moved in as well. It's all a bit much.... So he is over the moon when he lands a job on the BBC Radio Rep - but the ink is barely dry on his...

Leon Garfield was the renowned author of more than 30 novels for children and adults. He won numerous awards for his work, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Inspired by Charles Dickens, he set many of his tales in the 18th and 19th century, and became Dickens’ co-author when he wrote an ending to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which was left unfinished on Dickens’ death. Their joint version was dramatised for radio in 1990, and is included here, together with adaptations of two of Garfield’s own thrilling adventures.

This is the third novel featuring the Rev Oughterard, vicar of St Botolph's and genteel murderer of parishioner Mrs Elizabeth Fotherington. So far eluding arrest (but with fears of imminent exposure), he is in the grasp of his blackmailing pal, the shady Nicholas Ingaza, who forces him to steal a valuable figurine of a prancing pig from collector Claude Blenkinsop. Naturally the project backfires and the hapless vicar is plunged into further skulduggery during which someone is murdered.

Ein traumatisierter Ex-Soldat und eine verbitterte Prostituierte - ein Pulverfass, das hochzugehen droht. Sex, Drogen und Gewalt sind ihr Lebenselixier, das zum Spiel mit dem Feuer wird. Und als es zum ersten Toten kommt, gibt es für beide kein Zurück mehr.

Eine Hochzeit, der schönste Tag im Leben, wird für das Brautpaar leider zum Unglück - begleite Rose Morgan und Charles Bailey bei ihren Ermittlungen zu ihrem neuesten spannenden Fall.

Rose Bailey reist mit Charles Morgan nach Paris, um ihre Schulfreundin zu besuchen, die berühmte Krimiautorin Marsha Hawkins. Dabei lernen sie jedoch auch die gefährliche Seite der Weltmetropole kennen, denn das Verbrechen scheint ihnen auf Schritt und Tritt zu folgen. Gemeinsam mit Marsha müssen sich die beiden Spürnasen aus Heaven´s Bridge mit der Pariser Unterwelt messen.