The Murder Room: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery

Cover Her Face

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Daniel Weyman
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An Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Cover Her Face is P. D. James' debut novel, the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery, and a thrilling work of crime fiction set in the English countryside, from the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men. From P. D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Penelope Dellaporta

Handsome Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should. He was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude girl's picture nearby. The official verdict was suicide, but his aristocratic father suspects murder.

He hires Cordelia Gray, a fledgling detective, to investigate. And as she follows a trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, she concludes that the nicest people do the nastiest things!

Innocent Blood

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 55 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Penelope Dellaporta
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Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.

The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Jenny Agutter, Daniel Weyman
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Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time - swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment".

Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series Compilation (Cherringham 1 - 3)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Matthew Costello, Neil Richards
• Narrated By Neil Dudgeon
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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 find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 1 - 3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT.

A Man Lay Dead

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Ngaio Marsh
• Narrated By Philip Franks

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....

Death Comes to Pemberley

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By P. D. James
• Narrated By Rosalyn Landor
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It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth’s sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy’s sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.

The Crow Trap: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Ann Cleeves
• Narrated By Anne Dover
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Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal.... For team leader Rachael Lambert, the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide....

The Daughters of Cain

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Colin Dexter
• Narrated By Frederick Davidson
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Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. The police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive, but within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of the victim, Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford.

From Doon with Death: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 1  (Unabridged)

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Ruth Rendell
• Narrated By Terrence Hardiman
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The first case for DCI Reg Wexford. When Margaret Parsons disappears, it's assumed that she's run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found and a startling discovery is made when Mr. Parsons lets the police into his home...

A Quiet Life in the Country: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By T E Kinsey
• Narrated By Elizabeth Knowelden
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Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia: A Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Clara Benson
• Narrated By Gethyn Edwards
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It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone - or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous people with secrets to hide had every reason to wish him dead. But which of them murdered him? For Freddy Pilkington-Soames, newspaper reporter and man-about-town, the question hits a little too close to home.

The Jewel That Was Ours

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By Colin Dexter
• Narrated By Frederick Davidson

The case seems so simple that Inspector Morse deems it beneath his notice. A wealthy, elderly American tourist has a heart attack in her room at Oxford’s luxurious Randolph Hotel. Missing from the scene is the lady’s handbag, which contained the Wolvercote Tongue, a priceless jewel that her late husband had bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum just across the street. Morse proceeds to spend a great deal of time thinking—and drinking—in the hotel’s bar, certain the solution is close at hand, until conflicting stories, suspicious doings, and a real murder convince him otherwise.

The Cornish Coast Murder

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By John Bude
• Narrated By Ben Allen

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.

The Cambridge Murders

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Glyn Daniel
• Narrated By Peter Wickham
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Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John’s and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bed makers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing.

Murder of a Lady

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Anthony Wynne
• Narrated By James Bryce

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her locked bedroom. The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale, left on the floor next to Mary's body. Inspector Dundas is dispatched to investigate. The Gregor family and their servants are quick to explain that Mary was a kind and charitable woman, but Dundas uncovers a more complex truth.

The Man with a Load of Mischief: A Richard Jury Novel, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Martha Grimes
• Narrated By Steve West
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At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out on the beam of the pub’s sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer - except for one Melrose Plant....

A Test of Wills

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Charles Todd
• Narrated By Samuel Giles
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Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.