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Fully-dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music 'A remarkable undertaking... applauding them, and particularly Clive Merrison's Holmes, made my hands sore' The Times Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective...

A comprehensive collection of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley - plus bonus documentary. Legendary actor Carleton Hobbs played the great Baker Street detective for over 17 years between 1952 and 1969, alongside Norman Shelley as Holmes's friend and...

Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories. In Last Seen Wearing, Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague. But two years, three months and two days after teenager Valerie Taylor's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence....

Who is behind the mysterious advert reading ‘Wife available – what offers?’ What prompted a ‘third girl’ to suddenly pack her bags and leave her flatshare? And when a newly married couple’s honeymoon period comes to an abrupt end, is the wedding dress to blame? Conceived by respected...

A collection of intriguing thrillers by Philip Levene Philip Levene was a prolific radio dramatist who also penned 19 episodes of ITV’s The Avengers, which won him a Writers’ Guild Award. While many of his works have unfortunately been lost, this collection of surviving recordings showcases...

Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and '30s. One of his recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger Sheringham, a novelist and amateur detective. In these two classic tales, Roger Sheringham must investigate two terrible murders

Sherlock Holmes, berühmtester Detektiv aller Zeiten und Erfinder der Deduktion, klärt zusammen mit Dr. Watson jeden Fall auf. Die Box versammelt insgesamt 14 Kriminalfälle aus Doyles Kurzgeschichtenbänden Die Memoiren des Sherlock Holmes und Die Rückkehr des Sherlock Holmes. Darunter Holmes’ allererster Fall wie auch sein vermeintlich letzter Fall, in dem er sich seinem großen Gegner, Professor Moriarty, geschlagen geben muss und an den Reichenbachfällen sein Leben zu lassen scheint.

London, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dr. John Watson, pensionierter Armeearzt, ist auf der Suche nach einer Bleibe in der britischen Hauptstadt, als er in einer Bar auf einen alten Bekannten trifft. Der macht ihn im Laboratorium des St. Bartholomew‘s Hospital mit seinem Kollegen Sherlock Holmes bekannt und kurz darauf beziehen Holmes und Watson das berühmte Apartment in der Baker Street 221 B, das in Zukunft Schauplatz und Ausgangspunkt zahlreicher Kriminalabenteuer des außergewöhnlichen Duos sein wird.

Raymond Chandler gilt mit seinem umfangreichen Werk als Pionier des modernen amerikanischen Kriminalromans. Die Helden seiner zahlreichen Romane und Kriminalkurzgeschichten repräsentieren die Prototypen der sogenannten "hardboiled detectives": hartgesottene, zynische Männer, die nicht unbedingt gesetzestreu vorgehen, wenn sie ihre gefährlichen Fälle aufklären.

A collection of RD Wingfield’s finest thrillers from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties Best known for his ‘Inspector Jack Frost’ series of novels, RD Wingfield also penned a string of gripping thrillers for BBC Radio. Initially thought lost, many of the 14 dramas in this collection were...

Five full-cast BBC Radio thrillers from renowned crime writer R.D. Wingfield Author and dramatist R.D. Wingfield was best known for creating one of Britain's most beloved fictional policemen, Inspector Jack Frost, who featured in 10 bestselling books and a hit ITV series starring David Jason...