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Franziska Möllering, die Patentochter eines Mitglieds des Magistrats von Groß-Berlin, wird eines Nachts von einem Unbekannten verfolgt. Und das, nachdem es schon einige Anschläge auf das größte Gebäude am Spittelmarkt gegeben hat. Ein Warenhaus, das sich im Besitz von Franziskas Ehemann, Gerhard Möllering, befindet. Staatsanwalt Wenk bittet Piefke, als Verkäufer getarnt, die Ermittlungen am Spittelmarkt aufzunehmen.

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...

Die Walpurgisnacht rückt näher. Auf dem Brocken verdichten sich Zeichen, Spuren und Drohungen. Ein Mann tritt aus dem Schatten – gebildet, höflich, gefährlich überzeugt. Er lädt zum Ritual. Und fordert Sherlock Holmes heraus.

Die Suche führt tiefer in den Berg. Hinweise widersprechen einander, Beobachtungen kippen, Masken beginnen zu rutschen. Was wie ein Vermisstenfall begann, entpuppt sich als Teil eines größeren Plans. Und nicht jeder folgt ihm aus Zwang.

A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD Wingfield Well known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be...

Patrick Jordan staunt nicht schlecht, als es eines Abends bei ihm zu Hause an der Tür klingelt und Wendy Bonner auf der Schwelle steht. Sie waren einst gut befreundet und wohnten im beschaulichen New Jersey Tür an Tür. Die Wiedersehensfreude ist daher groß. Nur eines stört dabei erheblich: Wendy war ganze fünfzehn Jahre lang spurlos verschwunden! Dies bleibt jedoch nicht das einzige Rätsel, das van Dusen in diesem Fall zu lösen bekommt. Eine Leiche und ein wahrhaft düsteres Geheimnis machen die ganze Sache noch wesentlich schlimmer.

William Shakespeares Macbeth zählt zu den größten Tragödien der Weltliteratur. Diese besondere Hörbuch-Edition präsentiert das vollständige Drama erstmals in einer zweisprachigen Fassung: Jeder Akt wird zunächst in deutscher Übersetzung und anschließend im englischen Original vorgetragen. So entsteht ein einzigartiges Hörerlebnis, das literarischen Genuss mit einem unmittelbaren Vergleich beider Sprachfassungen verbindet. Die vollständigen Bühnenanweisungen (Stage Directions) werden ebenso mitgelesen wie die Namen der jeweiligen Figuren vor ihren Einsätzen.

Ana Bacon, a beautiful young wife and mother, tumbled off a cruise ship into dark and deadly waters. Ana is gone—leaving behind her wealthy husband and adorable daughter—but not everything about her disappearance adds up. What secrets did she leave behind? Investigator Ryan Monahan is a numbers man. So when his company sends him the Bacon case, which could net a ten-million-dollar payout, Monahan doubts that her death is just a tragic accident. But the husband has a substantial alibi and a number of witnesses claim to have seen Ana fall, and the official ruling seems to hold up.

Young Gwenda Reed arrives in England from New Zealand, travelling ahead of her husband Giles and charged with the task of finding the perfect place to make their base. In the quiet village of Dilmouth, she finds a house with immediate appeal. A few renovations will convert it into her ideal home...

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he...

A super spy, a mysterious death and a world of yachts, private planes and underground bases - but only one question – who really is Aldrich Kemp? Enjoy this fast-paced, action-packed series, available for the first time as a complete download. Featuring a stellar cast including Phoebe Fox, Tim...

The pleasant village of Market Kindle in the south of England is home to Stoneygates, a school for delinquent boys housed in a Victorian mansion belonging to the rich and elderly Carrie Louise Serrocold and her husband Lewis. When Miss Marple pays her old friend Carrie Louise a visit, she...

George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. When a Russian é...

When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself...

Ausgerechnet am Weihnachtstag begeht Hatch den schwerwiegenden Fehler, das Lieblingsspielzeug ihrer Tochter im Taxi liegenzulassen. Die Suche nach dem Plüschtier erweist sich jedoch nicht nur als ein schwieriges Unterfangen, sondern auch als überaus gefährlich. Denn nicht nur der Taxifahrer ist mit einem Mal spurlos verschwunden, sondern in seinem Wagen sitzt auch noch ein Toter. Professor van Dusen und Hannah Hatch hasten durch die verschneiten Straßen der Großstadt, um rechtzeitig vor dem Fest ein groß angelegtes Verbrechen aufzuklären.

A Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system takes down a passenger jetliner in the skies over Belarus, showering the fields below in burning scrap. As the world begins to mourn the horrific accident, one man–new CIA director, George Lawrence–knows it is anything but. Three hundred innocents were sacrificed in order to snuff out the life of one man: Professor Alexey Sokolov, a senior adviser to the Russian government. As well as a CIA asset recruited by a ghost known as the Hangman... Trapp doesn't know any of this. 

When a two-thousand-year-old jewel of Cleopatra’s is discovered in a Brooklyn construction zone, Annja, Roux, and Garin team up to hunt for the missing tomb of Cleopatra. From the sand dunes of The Sudan, to the misty avenues of London, and the ruins of ancient Alexandria beneath the Mediterranean Sea, Annja uncovers Egyptian mysteries. The great pyramids on the River Nile have secret chambers, mummies, and tombs full of endless gold.

Ann Cleeves is well known for her 'Vera', 'Shetland', and 'Two Rivers' crime series, all of which have been adapted into hit TV shows. She was presented with the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 2017, and was appointed an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List for services to reading and libraries. This collection includes full-cast dramatisations of the first two 'Shetland' novels featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, as well as three short stories and a discussion with the bestselling author.

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

Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny...