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The Truth
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- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth....
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Superb
- By debra on 21-11-21
By: Peter Grainger
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Cavendish & Walker: Volume 1
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- By: Sally Rigby
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....
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Awful book
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On Eden Street
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- By: Peter Grainger
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The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway.
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Love this Kings Lake world
- By MKC on 22-04-24
By: Peter Grainger
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection
- 60 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules
- Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Brian Blessed, and others
- Length: 48 hrs and 33 mins
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Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....
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Fantastic
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By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Into Death's Arms
- The Wild Fens Murder Mystery Series, Book 12
- By: Jack Cartwright
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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When DCI Freya Bloom is called to a crime scene early one Sunday morning, little does she know that the friendships she has counted on so many times will be called into question and her time in the Lincolnshire fens could be coming to an untimely end…along with her career.
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Oooh! Did't See That Coming!
- By Loraine Brennan on 26-04-24
By: Jack Cartwright
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See No Evil
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- By: David J. Gatward
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DCI Harry Grimm hates getting sick. Fighting a terrible cold, the under-the-weather detective is already pushing his limits by going house hunting with his girlfriend.
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The best one yet
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The Truth
- A DC Smith Investigation, Book 9
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth....
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Superb
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Cavendish & Walker: Volume 1
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- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
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Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....
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Awful book
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On Eden Street
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- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway.
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Love this Kings Lake world
- By MKC on 22-04-24
By: Peter Grainger
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection
- 60 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules
- Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Brian Blessed, and others
- Length: 48 hrs and 33 mins
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 09-09-23
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Into Death's Arms
- The Wild Fens Murder Mystery Series, Book 12
- By: Jack Cartwright
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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When DCI Freya Bloom is called to a crime scene early one Sunday morning, little does she know that the friendships she has counted on so many times will be called into question and her time in the Lincolnshire fens could be coming to an untimely end…along with her career.
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Oooh! Did't See That Coming!
- By Loraine Brennan on 26-04-24
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See No Evil
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- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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DCI Harry Grimm hates getting sick. Fighting a terrible cold, the under-the-weather detective is already pushing his limits by going house hunting with his girlfriend.
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The best one yet
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A Face in the Crowd
- Prime Suspect, Book 2
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Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks, fighting every step of the way to break through Scotland Yard's glass ceiling. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, a high-profile case threatens to destroy everything she has worked for....
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An uncomfortable read.
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A Man with One of Those Faces
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The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history....
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Outstanding
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One of Us Is Dead
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- By: Peter James
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Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has been alerted to a number of suspicious deaths that he can’t get out of his mind. But how are they linked?
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Dying Fall
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Ruth Galloway receives a phone call that bears shocking news....
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Best Served Cold: A DCI Harry Grimm Novel
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North Yorkshire, England. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is reluctantly easing into life in the dales. As he gradually acclimatizes to the slower pace of the countryside while he awaits a return to the city, he’s called out to inspect a farmer’s crushed body....
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Enjoyable listen
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The Wherryman
- British Detective Tanner Murder Mystery Series, Book 6
- By: David Blake
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Four missing children, three murdered men, and the helm of a boat with a blood-red sail, hiding a secret only he can tell....
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the latest book about John tanner
- By Daisy on 06-06-21
By: David Blake
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Murder on the Orient Express
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- Narrated by: Tom Conti, Jane Asher, Ruta Gedmintas, and others
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What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery....
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All-star Poirot!
- By Mikey on 05-11-17
By: Agatha Christie
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McLevy: The Collected Series 7-12
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Crime Drama
- By: David Ashton
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Siobhan Redmond, full cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
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Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond star in series 7-12 of the Victorian crime drama....
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absolutely LOVE this series
- By Loui on 22-11-22
By: David Ashton
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The Railway Detective
- The Railway Detective, Book 1
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: Peter Walters
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest in mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating....
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Oh dear
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By: Edward Marston
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The Inspector Graham Mysteries
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- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
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Graham is a detective inspector with London’s Metropolitan police force. He’s a career police officer, an educated, reserved, thoughtful, some might say, complex man....
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Thoroughly enjoyable police detective series
- By Godiva 2000 on 23-10-23
By: Alison Golden, and others
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Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series Compilation
- Cherringham 37-39
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- Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village to find herself...
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A great series
- By Jenny on 14-01-24
By: Matthew Costello, and others
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Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1
- Three classic full-cast dramatisations
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L. Sayers' best-selling novels....
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I got totally immersed!
- By Caroline Armstrong on 04-12-17
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Silent Victims
- Prime Suspect, Book 3
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When a body is found in one of London's poorest districts, the coroner's report identifies the victim as young, black and female, but impossibly anonymous....
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whispering and shouting
- By Molly on 19-07-22
By: Lynda La Plante
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Dark Is the Grave
- DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 1
- By: T. G. Reid
- Narrated by: Steve Worsley
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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When the chief suspect in the notorious "peekaboo cop killer" case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over....
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Loved it
- By Lindsay on 02-03-22
By: T. G. Reid
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The Wintringham Mystery
- Cicely Disappears
- By: Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country-house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solve....
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Good old fashioned mystery
- By Christopher Leach on 18-12-21
By: Anthony Berkeley, and others
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Rich Men, Dead Men
- Detective Inspector Simon Wise Crime Thriller, Book 1
- By: Michael Dylan
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Inspector Simon Wise, reeling from the death of his partner and harbouring more than a few secrets of his own, is assigned to the case. But the killer leaves no clues as to their identity, only bodies in their wake, and each new death sends Wise's team in startling new directions....
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Wow
- By Dave & Linda on 12-02-24
By: Michael Dylan
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Voice of Rage
- Voice, Book 2
- By: Kerry Barnes
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Harley Mason, you may love her or hate her, but never underestimate her. As the Masons settle down to a more normal life following the death of three family members, a shocking discovery of a schoolgirl found dead in nearby woods starts the finger pointing once again....
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Like this author but story was too weird.
- By jill fraser on 05-09-21
By: Kerry Barnes
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Her Dying Mind
- The Wild Fens Murder Mystery Series, Book 11
- By: Jack Cartwright
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When the body of an elderly woman is discovered propped against her bedroom door clutching her heart, locals are saddened but not surprised....
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Her Dying Mind
- By Amazon Customer on 24-10-23
By: Jack Cartwright
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Murder Never Retires
- DI Hillary Greene, Book 12
- By: Faith Martin
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Hillary Greene returns to Thames Valley Police HQ, acting as a consultant for the Crime Review Team, looking into murders which the police have never been able to solve. She wasn't sure she wanted to go back. But solving crimes is irresistible for Hillary Greene.
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Hilary Green
- By Dennis Luckman on 26-02-24
By: Faith Martin
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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....
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Reasonable
- By Elizabeth on 06-12-11
By: Agatha Christie
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The House at Sea's End
- Ruth Galloway, Book 3
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood....
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Boring
- By Kit on 26-05-20
By: Elly Griffiths
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Hanging Falls
- A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, Book 6
- By: Margaret Mizushima
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A deluge has flooded the high ground near Hanging Falls - but heavy rains aren't the only menace descending on Timber Creek. While on a scouting mission to pinpoint trail damage, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo, stumble upon a body floating at the edge of a lake....
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The least enjoyable
- By Fee on 05-08-23
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Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume Three
- The Sixties (1960-1968)
- By: Francis Durbridge
- Narrated by: full cast, Marjorie Westbury, Peter Coke
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
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Paul Temple swings into the '60s with five complete radio dramas featuring the writer-cum-amateur detective and his wife, Steve, plus bonus archive material....
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Excellent nostalgia
- By Anonymous User on 18-06-17
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Prime Suspect
- Prime Suspect, Book 1
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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DCI Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way, opposed and resented at every step by her male colleagues....
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Inappropriate narration
- By Amazon Customer on 09-10-20
By: Lynda La Plante
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The Last Bow of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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"His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to "Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes".
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A Study Scarlet
- Sherlock Holmes - The Novels 1
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.
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The Adventure of Black Peter
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 49 mins
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A ship captain is found dead, stabbed through with a harpoon. Police Inspector Stanley Hopkins, who is being mentored by Sherlock Holmes, brings the case to Holmes and Dr. Watson. An abusive man, the captain had many enemies, widening the suspect list. The investigation finds Holmes and company on a stakeout, on a case that involves a chance meetings on the high seas and stolen securities.
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The Adventure of the Empty House
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a three-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson, who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the “second most dangerous man in London” who has a good reason to hope for Holmes’ demise.
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The New Sherlockian
- By: Kelvin Jones
- Narrated by: Kevin E Green
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada.
By: Kelvin Jones
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: George Pearson
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In a Paris newspaper, there appears a report of an extraordinary crime committed on the Rue Morgue. The police are unable to solve the case. Intrigued, Dupin decides to conduct his own investigation.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Last Bow of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to "Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes".
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A Study Scarlet
- Sherlock Holmes - The Novels 1
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.
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The Adventure of Black Peter
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A ship captain is found dead, stabbed through with a harpoon. Police Inspector Stanley Hopkins, who is being mentored by Sherlock Holmes, brings the case to Holmes and Dr. Watson. An abusive man, the captain had many enemies, widening the suspect list. The investigation finds Holmes and company on a stakeout, on a case that involves a chance meetings on the high seas and stolen securities.
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The Adventure of the Empty House
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a three-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson, who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the “second most dangerous man in London” who has a good reason to hope for Holmes’ demise.
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The New Sherlockian
- By: Kelvin Jones
- Narrated by: Kevin E Green
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada.
By: Kelvin Jones
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: George Pearson
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In a Paris newspaper, there appears a report of an extraordinary crime committed on the Rue Morgue. The police are unable to solve the case. Intrigued, Dupin decides to conduct his own investigation.
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Widening Stain
- By: W. Bolingbroke Johnson, Nicholas A. Basbanes - Introduction by
- Narrated by: Todd Menesses
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. It's more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure erotica.
By: W. Bolingbroke Johnson, and others
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The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than Stackhurst's science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, clearly in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to say something about a "lion's mane", and then succumbs. He is observed to have red welts all over his back, possibly administered by a flexible weapon of some kind, for the marks curve over his shoulder and round his ribs.
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The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his wife's disappearance. She has left with a neighbour, Dr. Ray Ernest, taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley wants the two tracked down.
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The Adventure of the Three Gables
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow. Although Dixie has come to intimidate Holmes, Holmes secures Dixie's future cooperation by threatening to tell what he knows about the suspicious Perkins death involving Dixie. Dixie's boss is Barney Stockdale, and he must be connected with the Harrow Weald case, of which Holmes has just learnt from a message from Mary Maberley, a lady who lives at Three Gables, a house at Harrow Weald.
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes about his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason thinks he has gone mad. Sir Robert's sister, Lady Beatrice Falder, owns Shoscombe, but it will revert to her late husband's brother when she dies. The stable has a horse, Shoscombe Prince, who Sir Robert hopes will win the Derby. He would be out of debt if that actually happened.
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The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated. This woman, formerly very quiet, has recently taken to cursing in the night, shouting "Murder, murder!" and "You cruel beast! You monster!" Also, her health has taken a turn for the worse, and she is wasting away.
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The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1903, at Baker Street, James M. Dodd sees Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. Dodd and Emsworth served together in the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Second Boer War, which has only just ended. Emsworth was wounded during this war. Dodd has not seen him since the report of his injury leading Dodd to believe something is amiss.
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Inspector Hanaud: 3 Mysteries
- Inspector Hanaud 1–3: At the Villa Rose, The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel, The House of the Arrow
- By: A. E. W. Mason
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook contains the first three adventures of A. E. W Mason’s enigmatic and mercurial Sûreté detective, Inspector Hanaud—a key inspiration for Agatha Christie’s celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. First, Hanaud investigates the murder of wealthy Mme Dauvray at the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains. Then, during a visit to London, Hanaud unravels a case of theft and murder following a costume party at a prestigious hotel.
By: A. E. W. Mason
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Into Death's Arms
- The Wild Fens Murder Mystery Series, Book 12
- By: Jack Cartwright
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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When DCI Freya Bloom is called to a crime scene early one Sunday morning, little does she know that the friendships she has counted on so many times will be called into question and her time in the Lincolnshire fens could be coming to an untimely end…along with her career. The victim, a retired woman named Linda Wilson, lies at the edge of a small forest atop the Lincoln edge, a steep escarpment that runs throughout Lincolnshire.
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Oooh! Did't See That Coming!
- By Loraine Brennan on 26-04-24
By: Jack Cartwright
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Dread Exile
- By: Paul Ernst
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A reporter drowses off at his typewriter, to awaken to a very strange presence that has the appearance of a misshapen man. The "creature" appears not to be of this world, but when it begins to speak in a very strange voice it obviously knows George the reporter, and it has a story to tell.
By: Paul Ernst
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The Scowrers. A Sherlock Holmes Novel
- The Valley of Fear 2
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty.
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Death in a Lonely Place
- Jake Jackson, Book 2
- By: Stig Abell
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside for a quieter life. And now, he finally seems to have his wish – spending his time swimming in his lake, tending to his chickens, and enjoying long, lazy evenings with his newfound love, Livia. But the return of an old case shatters the calm, and pulls him into the shadowy world of No Taboo – a secretive group serving the extravagant whims of the elite. As the web around Jake tightens, he must determine who he can really trust in his small community. Or else he will learn just how far No Taboo will go to protect their secrets.
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- By Sarah F on 24-04-24
By: Stig Abell