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Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...

Allen Carr's Easyway method is a global phenomenon - a clinically proven and 100 per cent drug-free treatment for nicotine addiction. This book applies that tried-and-tested method to the problem of marijuana addiction. Whether you consider yourself an addict, or just someone who has a little too much, a little too often, the fact is you're looking for a route out, and this method will show you the way.

Whether it's worrying about work, 'doomscrolling' on your phone or overcaffeinating yourself to get through the day, modern lifestyle choices are robbing us from the sleep we deserve. But how can we break free from the vicious cycle of fatigue and insomnia? Allen Carr's Easyway method offers a unique solution. This world-renowned, clinically proven method has helped an estimated 50 million people with their behavioural issues and addictions, including smoking, alcohol, weight control and digital addiction. In this book, this tried-and-tested method is applied to sleeping difficulties.

Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, Lesley Grant, the mysterious newcomer to the village. When Grant accidentally shoots a fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair - following a very strange reaction to his predictions - Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner. That night the enigmatic fortune teller - and chief accuser - is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover.

For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting science fiction. For the first time, all of Pournelle's best short work has been collected in a single volume. Herein you will find over a dozen short stories, each with a new introduction by editor and longtime Pournelle assistant John F. Carr, as well as essays and remembrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.

One of the premiere drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills”. The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of 'peach-fancier' Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have been poisoned under the nose of the shopkeeper, Chesney stages an elaborate memory game to test whether any of his guests can see beyond their 'black spectacles'; that is, to see the truth without assumptions as witnesses.

As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's notorious Brimstone Club a bizarre tale is being spun for Inspector Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle. A member of the club has been sent a model of a tiny gallows, and the word is that the folkloric hangman Jack Ketch has been stalking the streets for victims by night. The threat of this supposed bogeyman becomes thrillingly real when that same night Bencolin and Marle are almost run down by a limousine with a corpse behind the wheel.

When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France years before; the murder of a man on a tower with only one staircase, under watch at the time at which the murder took place. With theories of levitating vampires abounding, the story comes home to Miles when he realises that the librarian he has just hired for his home is none other than Fay Seton, a woman at the heart of this bizarre and unsolved past murder.

Robert Messer, a sinner who had been left behind, and a former news anchor makes these rogue broadcasts to report the truth of the Tribulation Period. The new world government will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being heard by the public. How many will this broadcast help? Will the government find Messer and stump his operation once and for all? Good luck and may God have mercy on our souls...

Welcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and queries based on their life, whims, fancies and past glories. Among the showbiz celebrities in the hot seat are Gyles Brandreth, Jennie Bond, Antony Worrall Thompson, Esther Rantzen, Janet Street-Porter and Edwina Currie, while the rounds include Love It Or Hate It, True or False, That Special Day and Life's a Pitch.

When the police arrive at the holiday bungalow of the haughty Justice Ireton to find a man killed by gunshot and the high court judge brandishing a pistol, the case seems as straightforward as it is scandalous. Yet, with the incongruous assemblage of physical evidence, the judge's denial of any participation in the crime and the recent events of his daughter's love life combined, the deceptively simple case is soon steeped in complexity. At a loss in the bizarre circumstances, the local force calls in the larger-than-life sleuth Dr Gideon Fell.

Last night, Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museum's proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark; a lead that Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris police and expert of impossible crimes, cannot resist.

Die Easyway-Methode gegen Frustessen! Eine große Tafel Schokolade ist schnell verputzt, wenn beruflicher und privater Stress an den Nerven zehren. Und während sich abends auf der Couch Einsamkeit breit macht, wird aus der wohlverdienten Handvoll Chips nebenbei eine ganze Tüte. Emotionales Essen nennt man das Phänomen, wenn wir ohne echten Hunger über die Stränge schlagen, um negative Gefühle wie Stress, Langeweile oder Trauer abzudämpfen. Nach derlei Essanfällen empfinden wir Reue, denn Frustessen ist ungesund und führt zu Gewichtsproblemen.

A man and his wife sit beside the fire in their country cottage. They are Professor Craft and his wife Cynthia. The cottage is rather isolated three miles from the nearest house - no electricity, central heating, or telephone. Professor Craft is convinced that his wife is having an affair with a young doctor from the village, so he devises a plan to rid himself of them both.

From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.

Der einfache Weg, mit Gewichtsproblemen Schluss zu machen: Viele Frauen kennen ihn, den berüchtigten Jo-Jo-Effekt, und möchten endlich dauerhaft abnehmen. Mit der berühmten Easyway-Methode hat Bestsellerautor Allen Carr bereits Millionen von Menschen von ihren Problemen befreit. Nun zeigt er, dass sein leichter und effektiver Weg auch Gewichtsprobleme löst - und das ohne Diät, ohne Schuldgefühle und ohne Medikamente. Mit seinen einfachen Anleitungen erreicht man mühelos eine gesündere Ernährung und langfristigen Gewichtsverlust.

All jenen, die bereit sind, ihre Abhängigkeit von Zucker beenden zu wollen, zeigt dieses Hörbuch den Weg. Mit Allen Carrs sensationeller und weltweit bekannter "Easyway"-Methode kann jeder in wenigen Wochen und ohne übermenschliche Willensanstrengung die körperliche und psychische Zuckersucht überwinden, indem er seinen Konsum kritisch hinterfragt und ihr schließlich aus Überzeugung den Rücken kehrt.

Was tun Sie, bevor Sie zu Bett gehen? Wahrscheinlich noch einen letzten Blick auf das Smartphone werfen. Und nach dem Aufstehen? Geht der Blick direkt wieder aufs Smartphone? Die vermeintlichen Neuigkeiten auf dem Handybildschirm machen uns süchtig und schränken nicht nur unser selbstständiges Denken ein, sondern auch unser Sozialverhalten. So kann die Sucht nach dem Handy richtig gefährlich werden. Fettleibigkeit, Schlafprobleme, Haltungsschäden, Einsamkeit oder Sehstörungen sind nur einige Beispiele für die Folgen von übermäßigem Handykonsum.

Für alle, die endlich mit dem Rauchen aufhören wollen! Allen, die bereit sind, mit dem Rauchen endgültig Schluss zu machen, zeigt dieses Buch den Weg. Speziell Männer haben es oft schwer, Nein zur Zigarette zu sagen. Mit Allen Carrs sensationeller und weltweit bekannter "Easyway"-Methode kann jeder in kurzer Zeit und ohne übermenschliche Willensanstrengung die körperliche und psychische Sucht überwinden. In vier Tagen zum Erfolg - für Zigaretten, E-Zigaretten, Verdampfer oder Vaporizer.