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New releases
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Hercule Poirot, Book 1
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.
By: Agatha Christie
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The Estate
- By: Denzil Meyrick
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The mega-rich Pallander family are used to luxury – a castle in the Scottish Highlands, a villa in Tuscany, a billion-dollar fortune and an island in the Caribbean – but their perfect life is about to be shattered. Sebastian Pallander dies, leaving a pitiful amount of money to his wife and children. His family fight over the scraps as old rivalries and bitter jealousies come to the surface. And when Pallander’s son is killed in mysterious circumstances, everyone suspects foul play.
By: Denzil Meyrick
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Murder at Tanton Towers
- British Stately Home, Book 1
- By: Amy Myers
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone told Cara Shelly that she was crazy to set up a café in the shadow of eccentric Kentish stately home Tanton Towers. But three years later, the Happy Huffkin café is thriving, and Cara considers the Tanton Towers staff - and its eccentric owners, Max and Alison - to be like family. But one summer evening, Alison comes hurtling down to the café to beg her for help. Daphne Hanson, queen of the Towers' costume-clad dancing troupe is lying dead in the orangery. Strangled! But by whom? And why?
By: Amy Myers
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Sherlock Holmes: Brackets
- By: John Pirillo
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson chase down a notorious strangler, only to find out that he's not the only one murdering women. Who is the last strangler? And will they be able to stop him before there's more deaths?
By: John Pirillo
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Murder at the Mansions
- 1920s High Society Lady Detective Mystery, Book 7
- By: Sara Rosett
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she’s made several friends, including the modern career woman, Minerva, who draws a popular cartoon about a flapper for a London newspaper. But then Minerva comes to Olive for help after catching a glimpse of a disturbing sight—a dead body. At least, that’s what Minerva thought she saw, but there’s not a dead body anywhere in the posh building, and the residents are continuing with their lives as they normally do. Is Minerva seeing things? Is she barmy? Or is there a more sinister explanation?
By: Sara Rosett
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A Wake in Chinatown
- A Honolulu Private Investigator Novel
- By: A.P. Pierce
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brad Hunter is doing everything he can to keep his private investigation agency open, but the women of Honolulu keep distracting him from his work. His latest desire, a Chinatown barmaid, occupies too much of his time, and his money. At least until she is eliminated from his life the hard way--by murder. Within hours, his HPD detective brother puts Brad at the the top of the prime suspect list. Now that he is being scrutinized by the Honolulu Police Department, Brad heads to Chinatown to start his own investigation. What does Brad find first? A new woman, of course.
By: A.P. Pierce
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Hercule Poirot, Book 1
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.
By: Agatha Christie
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The Estate
- By: Denzil Meyrick
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The mega-rich Pallander family are used to luxury – a castle in the Scottish Highlands, a villa in Tuscany, a billion-dollar fortune and an island in the Caribbean – but their perfect life is about to be shattered. Sebastian Pallander dies, leaving a pitiful amount of money to his wife and children. His family fight over the scraps as old rivalries and bitter jealousies come to the surface. And when Pallander’s son is killed in mysterious circumstances, everyone suspects foul play.
By: Denzil Meyrick
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Murder at Tanton Towers
- British Stately Home, Book 1
- By: Amy Myers
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone told Cara Shelly that she was crazy to set up a café in the shadow of eccentric Kentish stately home Tanton Towers. But three years later, the Happy Huffkin café is thriving, and Cara considers the Tanton Towers staff - and its eccentric owners, Max and Alison - to be like family. But one summer evening, Alison comes hurtling down to the café to beg her for help. Daphne Hanson, queen of the Towers' costume-clad dancing troupe is lying dead in the orangery. Strangled! But by whom? And why?
By: Amy Myers
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Sherlock Holmes: Brackets
- By: John Pirillo
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson chase down a notorious strangler, only to find out that he's not the only one murdering women. Who is the last strangler? And will they be able to stop him before there's more deaths?
By: John Pirillo
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Murder at the Mansions
- 1920s High Society Lady Detective Mystery, Book 7
- By: Sara Rosett
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she’s made several friends, including the modern career woman, Minerva, who draws a popular cartoon about a flapper for a London newspaper. But then Minerva comes to Olive for help after catching a glimpse of a disturbing sight—a dead body. At least, that’s what Minerva thought she saw, but there’s not a dead body anywhere in the posh building, and the residents are continuing with their lives as they normally do. Is Minerva seeing things? Is she barmy? Or is there a more sinister explanation?
By: Sara Rosett
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A Wake in Chinatown
- A Honolulu Private Investigator Novel
- By: A.P. Pierce
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brad Hunter is doing everything he can to keep his private investigation agency open, but the women of Honolulu keep distracting him from his work. His latest desire, a Chinatown barmaid, occupies too much of his time, and his money. At least until she is eliminated from his life the hard way--by murder. Within hours, his HPD detective brother puts Brad at the the top of the prime suspect list. Now that he is being scrutinized by the Honolulu Police Department, Brad heads to Chinatown to start his own investigation. What does Brad find first? A new woman, of course.
By: A.P. Pierce
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Choral Mayhem
- By: Andrea Frazer
- Narrated by: Rhonda Pownall
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Virginia and Richard Grainger, new members of the Standchester Choral Society, are looking forward, nervously, to their first public performance with the choir, in a production of Berlioz's 'Romeo and Juliet'. As the performance opens, however, tragedy strikes in the form of a very public death. Whilst coping with the repercussions of this, Virginia also has to tussle with the personal problems of her next-door neighbour, Caroline.
By: Andrea Frazer
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The Sign of the Four (Annotated)
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Michael Ward
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sign of the Four is the second published work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. The Sign of Four is an incredible story of greed and revenge in which Holmes and Watson accompany a beautiful young woman on a dark and mysterious mission to defeat a peglegged man and his dwarf assistant. It also introduces Dr. Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
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The Chambers Files
- By: Charles R. Rogers
- Narrated by: Erin Shaughnessy
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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As a detective in Lake Ridge, Virginia, Bobby Chambers deals with crime on a daily basis. But as more and more of the criminal activity of nearby Washington, DC, spills over into Northern Virginia, he finds he is seeing more and more crime in his suburban community. And after his niece moves to Wyoming, he becomes more aware of how often criminal activity around the country is connected.
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A Great Detective Story
- By Charles on 05-09-24
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The Sign of the Four
- The Novels 2
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
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Death Walks Behind You
- DCI Brendan Moran, Book 3
- By: Scott Hunter
- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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DCI Brendan Moran's last minute break in the West Country proves anything but restful as he becomes embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of an American tourist. Does the village harbour some dark and dreadful secret? The brooding presence of the old manor house and the dysfunctional de Courcy family may hold the answer but Moran soon finds that the residents of Cernham have a rather unorthodox approach to the problem of dealing with outsiders.
By: Scott Hunter
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Revelations of a Lady Detective
- By: William Stephens Hayward
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs Paschal, the heroine of Revelations of a Lady Detective, is regularly consulted by the police and serves as an undercover agent as well as investigating her own cases. But even though she is 'verging on 40', she throws herself into cases with verve and gusto and has no hesitation in infiltrating a deadly secret society or casting off her crinolines in order to plummet into a sewer on the trail of a criminal.
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Simon Grave and the Wrath of Grapes
- Simon Grave Mystery, Book 6
- By: Len Boswell
- Narrated by: Chase Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Detective Simon Grave's tour of a local winery turns sour when a body is discovered in the fermentation tank for his favorite wine, Duct Tape Chardonnay. To solve the murder, he and his team of fellow detectives will have to question strangers, a long-lost love, and his choice in wines.
By: Len Boswell
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Aperture
- By: Steffanie Blais
- Narrated by: Allie Martina, Oliver Highpoint, JD Tomlinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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As the warmer days of summer gave way to the shortened, crisp days of fall, my life changed in the most unexpected of ways. I met two men and was not prepared for either of them. Theo was warm, generous, and easygoing; whereas, Wyatt was intense, serious, and protective. They share a past that neither one are honest about. Whatever happened all those years ago has created an undeniable rift between them. Augmenting the charged and confounding emotions of new love, our city has been terrorized by a serial killer, and I can feel someone watching me.
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Mystery
- By Sportstermom on 05-02-24
By: Steffanie Blais
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The Cat Wears a Noose
- Rachel Murdock Mysteries, Book 3
- By: Dolores Hitchens, Rhys Bowen - introduction
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home–and just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire erupts and kills him on the spot.
By: Dolores Hitchens, and others
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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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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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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.