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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Ray Jones
Duration 6h
The Bantrys wake one morning to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy make-up, which is smeared across her distorted cheeks. The respectable Bantrys invite Jane Marple to solve the mystery before tongues start to wag.
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 1
Duration 5h 29m
There had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn had stormed out of the house and the atmosphere had changed to one of impending doom. With impeccable timing Poirot makes his dramatic entrance...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 7
Duration 8h
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around the woman's throat. The body crumpled. The the other train sped off. Miss Marple investigates.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator James Saxon
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 3
Duration 5h 54m
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when Mrs Symmington commits suicide. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Norman Barrs
Duration 6h 29m
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon. One of the party is found murdered, and tension mounts as the survivors realise that not only is the killer among them, but that they are likely to kill again...
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 10
Duration 2h 30m
When Miss Marple comes up from the countryside for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakeable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 14
Duration 2h 20m
The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in an unusual case after a member of an archaeological expedition is murdered at an ancient site in the Iraqi desert.
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A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders
Author: Simon Brett
Format: Online
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Simon Brett
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 13
Duration 57m
Charles Paris, actor and amateur sleuth, is working in television as the brainless bobby sidekick to a suave detective. The accidental death of an unpromising actress causes little suspicion, except in Charles' mind. He decides to investigate.
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Author: Raymond Chandler
Format: Online
Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 8h
Philip Marlowe is the centre of a succession of curious and increasingly violent happenings when he agrees to take on a case for Little Sister. He is swept into a series of collisions with movie stars, gangsters, small town girls and the police.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 4
Duration 8h 43m
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Is it a hoax? As the time approaches a crowd gathers, and then the lights go out. Miss Marple investigates.
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Author: Suzanne Berne
Format: Online
Author Suzanne Berne
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Duration 8h 20m
When the murdered body of a local boy is found in the woods, suspicions transform young Marsha's once-secure neighbourhood. Marsha begins to watch her neighbours and when Mr Green, the shy bachelor from next-door, takes an interest in her mother, Marsha is drawn into a cruel chain of events. Winner of the Orange Prize.
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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 6h
In this novelisation of a playscript, the formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to let the thief replace it, no questions asked. When the lights come on, Sir Claud is dead and Hercule Poirot must act quickly to prevent a global catastrophe. (Adapted by Charles Osborne).
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Author: P. D. James
Format: Online
Author P. D. James
Narrator Sue Reardon Smith
Duration 10h 40m
Commander Adam Dalgliesh discovers that his old friend, the chaplain of a private home for the disabled, has died suddenly. Other deaths follow and Dalgliesh senses that the home is not all that it seems.
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Online
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 6h 24m
When the body of Sir Charles Baskerville is found in his garden, there are no signs to explain his death. Did he die of fright? Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have a mysterious case to solve - is the Baskerville family really haunted by a phantom beast 'with blazing eyes and dripping jaws' which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Ba...
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Temperance Brennan Book 2: Death Du Jour
Author: Kathy Reichs
Format: Online
Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Bonnie Hurren
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 2
Duration 13h 30m
On a bitterly cold night in the eerie silence of an old church, forensic anthropologist Dr Brennan digs carefully. She is there to exhume the body of a nun who died in 1888 and is now proposed for sainthood. But the body has been moved. Why have the nun's remains been disturbed? And what will Dr Brennan discover when she finally manages to lift the...
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Author: John Mortimer
Format: Online
Author John Mortimer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 40m
Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases, as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent - and the not-so-innocent.The stories contained within are: 'Rumpole and the Primrose Path', 'Rumpole and the New Year's Resolutions', 'Rumpole and the Scales of Justice'...
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Author: John Le Carre
Format: Online
Author Carre John Le
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 32m
The second book in the 'Search for Karla' trilogy which follows 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'. George Smiley is chief of the battered British Secret Service at a time when the betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. His method is attack, the quarry Karla, Soviet Chief of Espionage, the battleground Ho...
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Author: Dan Brown
Format: Online
Author Dan Brown
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 6h 40m
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci...
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Author: Elizabeth Kuti
Format: Online
Author Elizabeth Kuti
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 24m
Returning for a second series, the nation's favourite agony uncle - Mr. Spectator - continues to offer his wit and wisdom on the morals and manners of his countrymen in his daily writings; but who exactly is this mysterious Spectator, and why does everyone want to find him all of a sudden?Embarking on a quest to discover the identity of London's mo...
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Author: Edward J Mason
Format: Online
Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Noel Johnson
Duration 2h 19m
The very first adventure of radio legend and national hero Special Agent Dick Barton. Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero. For years the nation tuned in to hear the famous signature tune, Devil's Gallop, herald another cliff-hang...
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Author: Edward J Mason
Format: Online
Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 19m
Captain Richard Barton, late of the Commandos, made his radio debut on the Light Programme in 1946 and quickly went on to become Britain's most popular hero. This is the 1972 re-make of the very first adventure of the radio legend.
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