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Gordon Griffin
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Alan Melville
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Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy and forbidding, but the party is warm and hospitable except for the presence of Jacobson, the sinister butler. The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company. After a weekend of adventure with attempted robbery and a vanishing guest, secrets come to light, and Jim unravels a mystery from his past.
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Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children of Osiris, led by the eccentric High Prophet, Eustace K. Mildmann. The cult is a seething hotbed of petty resentment, jealousy and dark secrets - which eventually lead to murder. The stage is set for one of Inspector Meredith's most bizarre and exacting cases.
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Stereotypes
- De Katherine en 05-11-19
De: John Bude
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Surfeit of Suspects
- De: George Bellairs
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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Following a mysterious explosion, the offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the three directors are killed and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of an ignited gas leak is dismissed and the presence of dynamite revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene. But beneath the sleepy veneer of Evingden lies a hotbed of deep-seated grievances. Confounding Littlejohn's investigation is an impressive cast of suspicious persons, each concealing their own ax to grind.
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Wonderful
- De Ms Peach en 11-09-19
De: George Bellairs
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The Secret of High Eldersham
- De: Miles Burton
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. And when the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted. Detective Inspector Young forms a theory about the case so utterly impossible that merely entertaining the suspicion makes him doubt his own sanity. Surrounded by sinister forces beyond his understanding, he calls on a brilliant amateur and 'living encyclopedia', Desmond Merrion.
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Great listen
- De Ms Peach en 01-08-19
De: Miles Burton
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The Cornish Coast Murder
- De: John Bude
- Narrado por: Ben Allen
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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The reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. But the vicar's peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, an ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen with a bullet through his head. The local police inspector is baffled by the lack of clues.
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A Good Old Fashioned Who Done It
- De C. Rosser en 05-12-16
De: John Bude
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Fear Stalks the Village
- De: Ethel Lina White
- Narrado por: Oona Beeson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer's mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition - until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the 'queen of the village' Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, where there is venom in the air and dark secrets are threatening to come to light, the shadow of death is not far behind.
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Interesting Classic
- De wisconsinclark en 08-21-24
De: Ethel Lina White
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The Incredible Crime
- De: Lois Austen-Leigh
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence Pinsent is a remarkable young woman. One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard who is pursuing a quarry of his own. Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge.
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Slow and distant characters
- De Mrs Harvey, teacher en 03-13-23
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Death of a Bookseller
- De: Bernard J. Farmer
- Narrado por: Nick Rawlinson
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls into the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was killed, and which of his rare books was taken, Wigan dives into the world of 'runners' and book collectors, where avid agents will gladly cut you for a first edition and then offer you a lift home afterwards.
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Great plot twist!
- De MolllyT en 11-22-22
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A Man and His Mother-in-Law
- De: Roy Vickers
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
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After Arthur Penfold’s wife reveals she is leaving him to care for her ailing aunt, he sets upon a path of murder and deceit to avoid the social embarrassment of a second marital breakdown. But the purchase of a poetry book triggers a sequence of events that begins to unravel both Arthur and a seemingly open-and-shut murder case.
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Quick, Fun Intrigue
- De Justine en 05-14-25
De: Roy Vickers
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Death of Anton
- De: Alan Melville
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of Carey's Circus. Their trainer is the fearless Anton, whose work demands absolute fitness and the steadiest of nerves. When Anton is found lying dead in the tigers' cage, it seems that he has lost control and been mauled by the tigers - but Detective Inspector Minto of Scotland Yard is not convinced. Minto's investigations lead him deep into the circus world of tents and caravans, clowns and acrobats, human and animal performers. No one is above suspicion.
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The Spoilt Kill
- De: Mary Kelly
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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1950s Staffordshire. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector Hedley Nicholson. Kelly's mystery won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1961 for its impeccable sense of place and detail, and for the emotional weight of its central crime. The novel is part of a shift from the cosiness of crime novels before to mysteries characterised by their psychological interest and affecting realism. An influential classic.
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Felt like required reading
- De wisconsinclark en 04-09-22
De: Mary Kelly
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Big Ben Strikes Eleven
- De: David Magarshack
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and former stalwart of the British Cabinet, was shot in the head and left in the quiet Vale of Health. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now missing artist Matt Caldwell.
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Boring, meandering, story filled with unnecessary sentimental tosh
- De Raminak en 08-14-24
De: David Magarshack
A clever and amusing story
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Delightful story
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A mystery that is fun!
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Nice Cozy Read
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Perfect for Your Next Weekend, Wherever You Are
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Started out ok but dragged on
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Not much mystery to this mystery.
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