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Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

Eleven sparkling stories from comic master P.G. Wodehouse, of hapless young clubman Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant Jeeves, who is always urbanely ready to rescue the young master and his friends from the soup.

A rare collection of stories of love, longing and loss from a region that has witnessed decades of conflict, Loal Kashmir seeks to answer the question: what happens when you cannot communicate your longing to your beloved? Loal, the Kashmiri word for love and affection, is the common thread...

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

In this short, funny, sci-fi tale, every human being on Earth suddenly receives a specific superpower. Everyone, that is, except Dale. But instead of moping around, Dale fools a world of superheroes into believing he was blessed with the power of making a perfect cappuccino. His business takes off beyond his wildest dreams—at least, until he meets Brenda, his personal supervillain, the only person on the planet with a perfect superpalate.

Through this book, Ruskin Bond helps listeners appreciate the small things in life. Not only does he know how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself. Bond himself weaves in and out of the this eclectic narrative that involves an old lady who climbs trees, clock towers, a cassowary bird, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, djinns, and ghosts.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Mr Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp that he can solve...

Three offbeat stories of crime and conundrum, set in the present moment, from the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author of Underground Airlines and The Last Policeman.

Aacharya Chatursen Shastri was an important Hindi-language novelist, famous for works like Goli, Somnath, Vayam Rakshamah, and Aabha. Meri Priya Kahaniyan is a collection of his stories where he is able to demonstrate his versatility as a writer in creating significantly varied characters and narratives while maintaining his unique style of storytelling.

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's...

Right Behind You is a collection of 13 horror stories of different genres. The thing that connects these stories is the emotion of our inner fears that resides in all of us. We might mask these fears, we might even deny them, but they emerge when least expected, and then they begin to encroach upon every aspect of our lives. In this collection of assorted horror stories, you will find noir horror, urban myths, fantasies, campfire tales, stories of phobias, gore, and even a story that takes place entirely on chat.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

While spending the night in an eerie, decrepit, old bungalow in late 19th-century India, the narrator tells how he begins to hear the unmistakable sounds of a billiard game in the locked adjoining room. It's a room that was once a billiard-room where one of the sahibs is said to have died in the midst of a game... and is believed to have become a ghost.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman, read by Santino Fontana. The father has a story he needs to share before it's too late. As he tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away, he reveals even more about...

‘If you find my stories obscene or filthy, then the society you are living in is obscene and dirty,’ once said Manto. While Manto was time and again accused of obscenity, his stories addressed several social issues. With his astute understanding of the complexity of human nature and his ability to write griping stories, Manto was considered one of the most powerful voices of his time. This collection brings together some of Manto's finest stories including 'Chor', 'Mausam ki Shararat' and 'Paseena'.

First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double is a classic doppelganger story and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. Considered the most Gogolesque of Dostoyevsky's works, the novella brilliantly depicts Golyadkin's descent into madness in a way that is hauntingly poetic. The Double illustrates Dostoyevsky's uncanny ability at capturing the complexity of human emotion.

ஒருபுறம் பழங்குடியினர் இனத்தில் பிறந்து இடம் தவறி குருகுலம் செல்லும் பையன் அங்கேயே படித்து, சிவில் சர்வீஸ் முடித்து பணிக்குச் சேருகிறான். அதிகாரியானாலும் தன் இனத்தாலும் இட ஒதுக்கீட்டின் காரணத்தால் பணிக்கு வந்தமையாலும் அவன் பதவிக்கு ஏற்ற மரியாதையுடன் நடத்தப்படவில்லை. மறுபுறம் அதிகாரியின் தாய் என்பதையும் தாண்டி நகர் வாசத்தில் ஒன்ற விரும்பமில்லாத, பிச்சை எடுப்பதை தொழிலாகக் கொண்டு வாழும் அவனது பாசமிக்க பழங்குடி அம்மா. இவர்களுக்கு நடுவில் சாதாரண அரசாங்கப் பணியாளரான நடுத்தர வர்க்கத்து பெண் ஐஏஎஸ் தகுதிக்காக பழங்குடி அதிகாரியை மணமுடித்து தெருவில் பிச்சை எடுக்கும் மாமியாரின் மருமகளாகிறாள்.

इस किताब में शामिल कहानियाँ पात्रों की अलग-अलग मनोदशा का चित्रण करती हैं। एक सरकारी कर्मचारी की बेबसी को ‘टारगेट’ में देखा जा सकता है। मासूम लड़कियों से हो रही हैवानियत ने विचलित किया तो निम्मो का किरदार पैदा हुआ जो ‘बॉडी पार्ट्स’ में नादानी से भावुकता और फिर डर से निकलकर आक्रोश और आखिर में दिलजमा (कोल्ड ब्लडेड) बनने का सफर तय करती है।

Nitya, a single child ignored by her parents, makes an unlikely friend - a boy with a strange power who has mysteriously manifested in her room. Nikhil creates a replacement for his dead mother - a clay doll that has her likeness. Things take a bizarre turn when his clay mother starts communicating with him. Nihar, a teenage orphan, has walked a long way to seek shelter in an orphanage he has heard a lot about, unaware that it is the house of a terrifying secret.