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The Body in the Library
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?
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Stephanie Cole narrates this beautifully.
- By Bug on 21-02-18
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The Body in the Library
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
- Series: Miss Marple, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-08-06
- Language: English
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Death in the Clouds (Dramatised)
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story. On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Poirot suspects that a poisoned dart is the real cause - and, perhaps rather too conveniently, a blow pipe is discovered stuffed down the back of his seat. Clearly the murder can only have been committed by one of the passengers or crew on the plane.
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Simply superb!
- By Aedifico on 10-05-23
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Death in the Clouds (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, full cast
- Series: Hercule Poirot, Book 12, Hercule Poirot (Radio, TV), Book 12
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-09-10
- Language: English
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Towards Zero
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. It's all part of a carefully paid plan for murder.
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Hugh Fraser + Agatha Christie = Fantastic
- By AmySharpe2003 on 06-06-15
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Towards Zero
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Series: Superintendent Battle, Book 5
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 27-12-06
- Language: English
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Enter a Murderer
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when a prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases.
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A great mystery
- By Keithj on 17-02-16
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Enter a Murderer
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Murder in Tuscany
- Armstrong and Oscar, Book 1
- By: T A Williams
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this break will help him to think about the next chapter in his own life story? But only days into the course, Jonah Moore is found stabbed to death with his award-winning silver dagger! And Dan finds himself pulled out of retirement with a killer to catch.
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Gentle Tuscan murder mystery
- By Kevin on 01-12-22
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Murder in Tuscany
- Armstrong and Oscar, Book 1
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Series: Armstrong and Oscar, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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Blood Stained
- Detective Claudia Nunn, Book 1
- By: Rebecca Bradley
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon, Adam Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Detective Claudia Nunn’s colleague DS Dominic Harrison has been leading the case against a dangerous serial killer, who hunts his victims using a dating app. But now his own wife has gone missing. Then a large pool of blood is discovered in their garage. And Dominic is the prime suspect. Is Dominic being framed by a serial killer, or will Claudia expose an even uglier truth?
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Good Listen
- By Diane Walmsley on 23-04-22
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Blood Stained
- Detective Claudia Nunn, Book 1
- Narrated by: Laura Brydon, Adam Price
- Series: Detective Claudia Nunn, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe, eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty, is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.
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Brilliant!
- By me,myself,andI on 30-08-21
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Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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The Murder Room
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime.
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Easy listen
- By SGdeCT on 18-01-16
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The Murder Room
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 12
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 24-07-14
- Language: English
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A Lover Too Many
- Inspector John Crow Series, Book 1
- By: Roy Lewis
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Peter Marlin's wife is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect. She'd only just returned from an unexplained absence of several months. And during that time, Peter had found a new lover. Everything points to the husband but there's no real proof. Inspector John Crow is called in to help the local police. But his new colleagues aren't keen on an outsider. And Crow must solve the case before anyone else dies.
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Terrible
- By Anonymous User on 25-08-24
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A Lover Too Many
- Inspector John Crow Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Series: Inspector John Crow Series, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-06-19
- Language: English
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Death and the Dancing Footman
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers. It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre. They would be the characters in a drama that he would devise. It ended in snowbound disaster. Everyone had an alibi - and most had motives as well. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, when he finally arrived, knew it all hung on Thomas, the dancing footman....
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Not much Alleyn in it.
- By Keithj on 26-06-16
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Death and the Dancing Footman
- Narrated by: James Saxon
- Series: Roderick Alleyn, Book 11
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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Cat Among the Pigeons
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress, shot through the heart from point blank range.
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A polemic against the English education system.
- By Mary Carnegie on 05-12-17
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Cat Among the Pigeons
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 32
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-04-07
- Language: English
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Dying Fall
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library. Ruth Galloway receives a phone call that bears shocking news. A friend of hers from college, Dan Golding, has been killed in a fire at his Lancashire home. Her shock turns to alarm when she gets a letter from Dan. He has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever but he needs Ruth's advice. Even more alarming, he sounds vulnerable and frightened. DCI Harry Nelson is also rediscovering his past. Up north for a holiday, he meets his former colleague Sandy MacLeod, now at Blackpool CID.
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readers
- By Margaret on 25-04-13
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Dying Fall
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 5
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Series: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 5
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 31-01-13
- Language: English
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Murder Must Advertise
- Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 10
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. In his tenth appearance, he takes a job as an advertising copywriter to expose a ruthless killer. Victor Dean fell to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, but no one seems to be sorry. Until an inquisitive new copywriter joins the firm and asks some awkward questions....
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Pure Sayers ruined by pronunciation of Bredon
- By Retriever470 on 07-08-15
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Murder Must Advertise
- Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 10
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Series: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Book 10
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-07-15
- Language: English
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The Long Dead
- DCI John Blizzard #1
- By: John Dean
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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When an archaeological investigation of an old prisoner of war camp turns up several bodies in unmarked graves, it should be an open and shut case for DCI John Blizzard. But on a foggy November morning, his instinct that something is not quite right is confirmed when forensics show that while most of the victims died during a flu epidemic after the Second World War, one of the deaths was far more recent. Who is this man? Why was he killed? As Blizzard and his team investigate, they begin to uncover a cruel crime and a promise of revenge that goes back generations.
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FAB!!!!!I
- By Joyce MacBain on 30-03-19
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The Long Dead
- DCI John Blizzard #1
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Series: DCI John Blizzard, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-18
- Language: English
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Death of an Expert Witness
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense. When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own.
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satisfying
- By sally on 22-08-16
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Death of an Expert Witness
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-12-14
- Language: English
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The Tales of Max Carrados
- By: Ernest Bramah
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened. This exclusive audio collection features 11 Max Carrados stories.
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Too much of the stale Old England for me
- By EGM on 05-11-19
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The Tales of Max Carrados
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-02-16
- Language: English
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10-lb Penalty
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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At nearly 18, easy-going Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. His father, George, driven towards a life of public service and politics, asks his son to enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's growing reputation and career.
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Dick Francis wins again!
- By Dr on 29-04-14
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10-lb Penalty
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-03-05
- Language: English
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Sparkling Cyanide
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Agatha Christie’s classic thriller. Features the recurring character Colonel Race from Death on the Nile, Cards on the Table and The Man in the Brown Suit. Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary – in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously.No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman’s face, contorted beyond recognition – or what they remembered about her astonishing life.
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not to be confused with another story
- By H. Davis on 23-09-19
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Sparkling Cyanide
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Series: The Colonel Race Series, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-04-11
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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With his devoted Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil, including the diabolical Professor Moriarty.
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It's obvious after he's explained it.
- By Sara on 09-06-10
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-10-11
- Language: English
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4.50 from Paddington (Dramatised)
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: June Whitfield, Ian Lavender, Joan Sims, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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A Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple with Ian Lavender, Joan Sims and Susannah Harker. Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.
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Reasonable
- By Elizabeth on 06-12-11
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4.50 from Paddington (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: June Whitfield, Ian Lavender, Joan Sims, Susannah Harker
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-09-10
- Language: English
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