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Erin Coleridge's used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society's monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder with extreme prejudice when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably, but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Quando un professore francese, in visita nella tranquilla cittadina di Delfzjil, viene accusato di omicidio, Maigret viene inviato in Olanda per investigare. La comunità locale è ben felice di poter scaricare sullo straniero ogni sospetto, ma Maigret scopre ben presto che più di una persona potrebbe avere avuto un buon movente: la giovane amante Beetje, la cognata Any, il giovane studente rivale in amore, e persino la moglie del defunto.

Well, it's no wonder. The plot-suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger-is from Agatha Christie. The wonderful character happens to be the world's most famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot...

In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he’s having reset as a gift for his fiancée. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party at the home of Colonel and Mrs Lacey, and in order to pursue his investigation an invitation is procured for him to the Laceys’.

In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.

Dans cette étrange aventure, Sherlock Holmes est à nouveau impliqué dans une affaire d'espionnage de la plus haute importance pour le royaume britannique. En effet, Mycroft Holmes informe son frère, Sherlock, de la mort d'Arthur Cadogan West, un jeune secrétaire à l'arsenal de Woolwich, retrouvé avec des plans secrets d'un nouveau type de sous-marin de combat. Sherlock Holmes va devoir enquêter avec tact et discrétion pour comprendre cette ténébreuse affaire.

Emile Gaboriau first introduced the young police officer and detective Monsieur Lecoq in his novel L'Affaire Lerouge. He based his character on an actual thief who later became no less than the head of the Paris police -- Eugine Francois Vidocq. As a character, Lecoq would later influence Arthur Conan Doyle in his creation of Sherlock Holmes. In this, his first foray into detection, Lecoq reveals his mastery of the art of disguise and his zeal for detection. Monsieur Lecoq: Volume I is the first of a two-part novel and details the crime and ensuing investigation.

Liv Løkke travaille comme hôtesse de caisse au Netto de Paderup. Elle déteste cette ville, elle-même, son boulot et sa vie insignifiante ; et elle n'a qu'à jeter un coup d'œil aux acheteurs pour savoir qui ils sont. Elle connaît la plupart des gens du coin, ainsi que leurs achats habituels. Mais un jour, elle se retrouve face à un client qui achète un article lui rappelant son passé, et ce jour funeste où elle sauva son frère de leur maison en feu, après qu'une explosion de gaz tua leur mère. C'est lui... L'amant de sa mère.

"Il pénétra dans le cabinet. Mais, au bout de quelques secondes, il demanda, sans le moindre étonnement d'ailleurs : - Vous l'avez pris, chère amie ? Elle répliqua : - Comment ? mais non, je n'ai rien pris. - Vous l'avez dérangé."

Neil Gibson, dont la gouvernante est accusée du meurtre de sa femme, demande à Sherlock Holmes de prouver son innocence. Le détective, aidé du fidèle docteur Watson, réussira-t-il à retrouver le vrai coupable ? Sherlock Holmes est une des plus grandes figures de la culture populaire et son seul nom est synonyme de mystère policier, de brouillard londonien et de crimes énigmatiques.

Mr Melas est engagé par Harold Latimer pour servir d'interprète entre Paul Kratides, un grec retenu contre sa volonté, et ses ravisseurs qui espèrent lui faire signer un papier permettant le transfert de la fortune de sa sœur dont il est le curateur.

Sherlock Holmes envoie le Docteur Watson, son fidèle ami, à Lausanne à la recherche de Lady Frances Carfax, une femme ayant disparu après la visite d'un ténébreux personnage.

Read by the star of the upcoming Netflix original series, Mia McKenna-Bruce! A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Seven Dials Mystery. Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other...

Bastian Pastewka liest "Hercule Poirots Weihnachten". Eine schöne Bescherung für Hercule Poirot! Der alte Simeon Lee hat zu Weihnachten den Familien-Clan zusammengerufen - doch das ist alles andere als eine traute Runde. Das ungeliebte Familienoberhaupt bringt mit seinem despotischen und provozierenden Verhalten alle gegen sich auf. Als er am Heiligen Abend mit durchschnittener Kehle aufgefunden wird, bedauert niemand seinen Tod. Ein Motiv hätten alle Anwesenden gehabt und nun ist der Weg zur reichen Erbschaft frei.

Anne Larsen, journaliste pour TV2 Jutland Est, couvre l'affaire du policier de Silkeborg qui semble avoir été renversé et tué par un de ses collègues, devant chez lui. Un incendie dont l'enquête est restée secrète éveille sérieusement sa curiosité. Elle commence à y regarder de plus près. Pourquoi Johan Boje s'intéressait-il à cette affaire ? Pourquoi n'acceptait-il pas que ce ne soit qu'une fuite de gaz accidentelle ?

In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield. Not far from the safety of the Abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: 95 bodies lie in a row, and the extra corpse tells Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine.

In the past . . . On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a new start in the tight-knit South London community...

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live...for life. But Laxter's grandson Sam says the deal doesn't include the caretaker's cat - and he wants the feline off the premises by hook, crook...or poison. When Perry Mason takes the case, he quickly finds there's much more at stake than an old man's cat - a million dollars or more to be exact....