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Every nosy neighbor, gossipy friend, and meddling relative is just one good mystery away from becoming a detective. From behind locked doors or out in broad daylight, driven by chance or curiosity, amateur sleuths get in over their heads in these six hair-raising, hilarious stories.

Love visiting strange new magical worlds? Jump through a portal into these wonderful stories by Angela Pepper, best-selling author of the Wisteria Witches Mysteries.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

Timothy West takes on the role of Rumpole in this collection of cracking court cases. The stories included are: Rumpole and the Primrose Path, Rumpole and the Scales of Justice, Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror, Rumpole Redeemed.

The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unsuspecting victims on the sands of an estuary and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain. This British Library anthology collects the best mysteries set on choppy seas, along snaking rivers and even in the supposed safety of a swimming pool, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Phyllis Bentley and R. Austin Freeman.

Rosi hat's nicht einfach - mit mehreren Putzfrauenjobs hält sie sich und ihren faulen Freund über Wasser. Sie muss sich eine Menge gefallen lassen, besonders im Haus einer alten Frau, für die sie arbeitet. Als sie dort immer mehr Zeit verbringt und sich zunehmend verändert, platzt Rosis Freund der Kragen. Er erschlägt die Alte. Doch ob er damit den eigenen Haussegen retten kann? Und kennt er überhaupt Rosis liebste Stellung? Diese und eine weite kriminell-böse Erzählungen sind in diesem Hörbuch zu hören.

All'officina di Nando Iaccarino facevano la fila gli appassionati di auto e moto d'epoca, perché lui riparava sempre l'irreparabile. Ora spetta ai Bastardi di Pizzofalcone scoprire chi lo ha ucciso. E per farlo, ciascuno di loro deve mettere da parte le proprie angosce, i propri dolori, i propri segreti. E difendersi dai grandi capi della questura che non vedono l’ora di assistere alla loro caduta. Spettacolare come quella degli Angeli.

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty...

Zwei spannende Kriminalerzählungen: Dem leidenschaftlichen Russen Iwan eilt ein Ruf voraus - als Liebhaber und als Ex-Häftling. Er versteht selbst nicht ganz, warum ihn sein Temperament immer wieder in Schwierigkeiten bringt. Umso mehr freut ihn die Hilfe einer verständnisvollen Kneipenwirtin, denn Iwan ahnt noch nichts von der Raffinesse, die sie hinter ihrer selbstlosen Fassade verbirgt... Der gediegene Literaturprofessor Bernhard Wollweber hingegen forscht über die ferne Welt der Nibelungensage.

„Das letzte Problem" ist eine Sherlock-Holmes-Kurzgeschichte von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle und schildert den (vorerst) letzten, großen Fall - die Konfrontation mit dem berüchtigten Widersacher Holmes': Prof. Moriarty! Der gemeinfreie Text wurde von StanArts für diese Aufnahme überarbeitet.

This bundle includes books four, five, and six of the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series: Book Four: Red Velvet Revenge, Book Five: Going, Going, Ganache, and Book Six: Sugar and Iced.

In what many refer to as one of the first and greatest science fiction thrillers, a mysterious stranger wanders into an inn, wrapped head-to-toe in bandages. What lies beneath the bandages is something even more mysterious. As Wells tackles issues of identity, deception, and the deterioration of the human mind, listeners will be drawn into the story of the mysterious man, whose own mistakes end up whisking him into a whirlwind of deceit, terror, and even murder. In the end, the question will be asked: when your sense of self and identity vanish, who will you become?

Eine Frau nachts allein in einem großen Haus - plötzlich erweist sich ihre Angst vor Einbrechern als begründet. Kann sie den ungebetenen Besucher davon überzeugen, dass sie nicht die wohlhabende Bewohnerin, sondern nur der Homesitter ist? Eine ebenso spannende wie groteske Situation entwickelt sich und offenbart allmählich ihren Hintersinn. Diese und eine weitere Geschichte finden sich auf diesem Krimi-Hörbuch.

This collection of the finest short story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Burke, Harry Kemelman, and everyone in between. Edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, it offers a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.

THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE TOTALLY BINGE-WORTHY GRACE MCKENNA MYSTERY SERIES!

In "The Necklace Affair", Captain Lacey agrees to help a society matron discover what has become of her expensive diamond necklace and to clear her maid, who has been arrested for its theft. Lady Clifford declares that the rival for her husband's affections has stolen the necklace, but Lacey soon realizes that the problem is not so simple.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) var en amerikansk digter og forfatter, der er kendt og elsket verden over for sine gyserhistorier og digte. Ved siden af virket som forfatter arbejdede Edgar Allan Poe som skribent, redaktør og anmelder. Edgar Allan Poe udmærker sig ved at blande romantikken og den gotiske litteratur i sine digte og noveller, hvilket giver dem en helt særlig plads i den amerikanske litteraturhistorie.

The Agatha Christie Anthology is an immersive audio collection that brings together one hundred novels, stories, and poems by the undisputed Queen of Crime. This anthology moves effortlessly from classic detective novels to tightly crafted short stories and rare poetic works, revealing Agatha Christie's remarkable range. It captures the elegance of Golden Age crime, the pleasure of pure puzzle-solving, and the timeless fascination with human nature.

Die großen Detektive: Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin und Sherlock Holmes. 15 Kriminalgeschichten von Edgar Allan Poe und Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, gelesen von Richard Heinrich und Alex Bolte. Wenn es um das Genre der Kriminalerzählung geht, kommt man am Namen Sherlock Holmes nicht vorbei. Dabei wurde die Figur des genialen, exzentrischen Detektivs bereits viel früher von niemand Geringerem geprägt als dem Meister des Schaurigen und Mysteriösen: Edgar Allan Poe. Mit seinen Geschichten um C. Auguste Dupin legte Poe den Grundstein für das gesamte Kriminalgeschichtengenre.

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain - and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students. Queen's adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries.