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Six short stories from the Queen of Crime, featuring our favourite young detectives, Tommy and Tuppence. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant...

Die Sherlock Holmes Box 19 beinhaltet die Doppel-Hörspiele „Der Frauenmörder von Boston", „Watsons erster Fall".

The Adventure of the Dying Detective, published in 1913, is a short story in which Dr. Watson is urgently summoned to 221B Baker Street to find Sherlock Holmes apparently dying of a rare and highly contagious Eastern disease. Holmes, weak and delirious, refuses ordinary medical help and insists that only one man—Mr. Culverton Smith, an expert on tropical illnesses—be brought to him.

Em "O Mistério do Trem Azul", Agatha Christie nos leva a uma viagem repleta de luxo e intriga a bordo do famoso Trem Azul, que percorre a rota da Riviera Francesa. Ruth Kettering, uma rica herdeira americana, está entre os passageiros do trem, transportando consigo um valioso rubi conhecido como "Coração de Fogo". No entanto, sua jornada toma um rumo trágico quando Ruth é encontrada morta em sua cabine, e a preciosa joia desaparece misteriosamente.

Schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft auf Highdale Castle müssen Holmes und Watson feststellen, dass ihr neuster Fall nicht so leicht zu lösen sein wird, wie ursprünglich angenommen. Mehr und mehr verstärkt sich ihr Eindruck, Teil einer Inszenierung zu sein. Doch welches Stück wird eigentlich für sie gespielt? Und warum?

Sherlock Holmes ist eine 1886 vom britischen Schriftsteller Arthur Conan Doyle geschaffene Kunstfigur, die in seinen im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert spielenden Romanen als Detektiv tätig ist. Besondere Bedeutung für die Kriminalliteratur erlangten Doyles Werke durch die beschriebene forensische Arbeitsmethode, die auf detailgenauer Beobachtung und nüchterner Schlussfolgerung beruht.

The system is broken - and it wants you dead! An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares. The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father." DI Thomas Ridpath is called...

Sherlock Holmes und sein guter Freund und langjähriger Mitbewohner, Dr. John Watson, bilden ein unzertrennliches Ermittlerpaar – bis Watson im Zuge des Falles „Im Zeichen der Vier" Miss Mary Morstan kennenlernt, sich in sie verliebt und sie schließlich heiratet. Doch Watsons brennende Neugier auf Sherlock Holmes Fälle treibt ihn immer wieder zurück in die Baker Street – so dass Holmes und er auch in dieser Zeit noch so manches gemeinsame Abenteuer erleben.

Quando a enfermeira Amy Leatheran aceita a oferta de cuidar de Louise, esposa do arqueólogo Dr. Leidner, em uma escavação perto de Hassanieh, no Irã, ela não esperava se ver envolvida em uma trama de paranoia, ciúmes e traições.Louise, sua paciente, é ex-esposa de um agente secreto...

It’s 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date - a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London’s most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. 

Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs Rowena Drake for the local teenagers. During her preparations for the party, the conversation turns to Ariadne's grisly...

A strange house A ghost from the past As soon as she moves into Hillside, Gwenda knows there’s something strange about this house. A sealed room. A hidden door. The apparition of a young woman being strangled. But strangest of all – this all seems quite familiar. As her friend Jane Marple...

'Nora Breen will become a favourite character' Ian Moore 'A glorious read' Amanda Mason 'Nora Breen is Maria Von Trapp on steroids' Richard Armitage Sharp-eyed former nun Nora Breen is back, as the latest attraction in Gore-on-Sea turns deadly . . . On a brilliant December morning, Nora finds...

Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.” — Vogue ""[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller...

Multicast narration featuring Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, and more Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The...

An outsider in London investigates a series of brutal murders targeting English aristocrats in a timely and provocative historical novel brimming with intrigue, wit, and rage. London, 1905: Law student and military veteran Balvinder dev Singh has found an extralegal way to fund his studies. As...

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison, just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive.

Blue Lightning is the fourth in a stellar suspense series from Ann Cleeves set on the Shetland Islands, the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fiancé home to Fair Isle, the tiny island he comes from, to meet his parents. The island is...

Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves’ beloved Shetland series, which is now a major success for the BBC, and available to stream in the US. From Ann Cleeves, winner of the Crime Writers Association's Diamond Dagger Award, comes Cold Earth. In the dark days of a Shetland winter...